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China and Macau (Paperback)
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China and Macau (Paperback)
Series: Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries
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In 1513 the Portuguese became the first Europeans to establish a
maritime route to China. Their motives were a combination of a
quest for trade and territory, and a desire to promote Christianity
in the region. This anthology of translated extracts of first-hand
accounts by contemporary travellers, merchants, missionaries and
officials, includes writings by JoaA de Barros, one of the most
prominent chroniclers of the Portuguese overseas endeavours. The
importance of the Macau peninsula as a point of exchange in trade
between China and Japan is charted in extracts from, amongst
others, the journals of the Italian Jesuit Father Matteo Ricci. As
this collection of writings shows, the formation of the Dutch East
India Company in 1602 heralded the gradual erosion of Portuguese
influence in China. Their imprint on Macau was more long-lasting,
with their disengagement from the peninsula finally taking place in
1999.
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