Author

Publication

2018 - BRILL

Language

English

Word Count

79,000 words, Guess

Page Count

316 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139789004369740
  • ISBN-109004369740
  • Library of Congress Control Number2018047594
  • OCLC Control Number1048934800
  • Better World Books9789004369740
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Classifications

  • LCCDS797.32.G836H45
  • LCCDS797.32.G836 H45 2019

Description

Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around - even whom they could interaction with - were all things strictly regulated by the Chinese authorities. The Europeans sometimes adapted to, and sometimes subverted, these rules.0Focusing on this conditional domesticity shows the importance of gender relations, especially the construction of masculinity. Using the Swedish East India Company, a minor European actor in an expanding Asian empire, as a point of entry highlights the multiplicity of actors taking part in local negotiations of power. The European attempts at making a home in China contributes to a global turn in everyday history, but also to an everyday turn in global history.

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