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This house is not a home : European everyday life in Canton and Macao, 1730-1830 /

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,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hellman, Lisa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Colección:Studies in global social history ; v. 34.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xviii, 316 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004384545
9004384545