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Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life - The Journal of Harriett Low, Travelling Spinster (Paperback)
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Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life - The Journal of Harriett Low, Travelling Spinster (Paperback)
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"Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life", the title chosen by Harriett
Low for her journal, aptly describes the conflicting emotions of
the first American woman to live in China. Making a rude transition
from the tranquility of Salem, Massachusetts into a world of
sampans and sedan chairs, women with bound feet and men with
queues, the lively young American records a detailed portrait of
her life in Macao from 1829-1834. The constricted lifestyle of
foreign merchants' wives, forced by the Chinese to live in Macao
while their husbands traded tea and opium in Canton; balls, operas
and picnics; Chinese customs and Catholic processions; true
friendship and false; romance or religion are all reflected in the
pages of her journal. Throughout nine volumes, Harriett Low
displays wit and courage as she metamorphoses from a socially naive
girl into a mature, independent woman. "Lights and Shadows of a
Macao Life" chronicles not only the impact of Western capitalism on
a declining Chinese Empire but also the importance of money in
affairs of the heart. Forced to reject her fiance because he lacked
prospects, Harriett Low survives by immersing herslf in the
literature and language she loves, as well as a re-examined
Unitarian faith. Independent in outlook, she is an obvious
antecedent of a contemporary American woman.
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