This House Is Not a Home : European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730-1830
Subtitle: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730-1830
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9789004369740
Subjects: Swedes, foreign countries; Merchants; Europeans, asia; China, social life and customs; Macau (china : special administrative region), history; China, commerce; China, foreign economic relations; Europe, foreign economic relations
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.