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An East India company cemetery : protestant burials in Macao

Print Book, English, ©1996
Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong, ©1996
History
xviii, 304 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
9789622093843, 9622093841
35304904
1. Macao and the Setting. Macao. Politics. Climate. The season. Whampoa. Lintin and the outer anchorages
2. The Company and the China Trade. The Company. Supercargoes. East Indiamen. Cargoes and sycee. The country trade. Privilege trading. Opium. Procedure. Traders and the mandarins. The foreign factories at Canton. The Dutch. The Americans. Restriction and evasion. The Topaze incident
3. Trade after the Company. The Superintendent of Trade. The Innes incident. Britons and Dutch excluded. American windfall. The Daniell incident. The Stanton incident. The First Opium War. Hong Kong
4. At Sea. A pretty sight. Naval ships. The Lintin Fleet. Piracy. Some other hazards
5. Ashore
The Context. Spiritual arrangements. The chaplains. Learning Chinese. A health resort. Clinics. News. Personal mail. Movement
6. Life Ashore. Ease. Chinnery and portraiture. Other personages. Women and children. Food and drink. Leisure in Hong Kong. Talk and horses. Music, theatre and dancing. Sickness. Poison
7. Death. The 1813 review of the Company's charter. Foreign burial in China. Problems of formality and the law. The chapel and the Old Cemetery. The New Protestant Cemetery. The site. The courtyard. The burial ground
8. The Memorials. Memorial design and inscriptions. Memorial listings. Grouping of memorials
9. The Entries. Notes. The individual entries 1-166
10. The Stones in the Wall. A note. The entries 167-89