This House Is Not a Home : European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730-1830.

Intro -- This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730-1830 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations and Terminology -- 1 Entering Canton and Macao -- 1 Asian Power and European Compliance -- 2 The Daily Making of a Home -- 3 The Practices of Daily Life -- 4 Tactics In the Face of a Conditional Everyday Life -- 5 What Is Missing Is the Commonplace Abroad -- 6 The Remains of the Days -- 2 The Who's Who of Canton and Macao -- 1 The Foreign Trade Groups -- 1.1 Non-Chinese Traders and Masculinities -- 1.2 The Foreign Women -- 1.3 Sailors and Slaves -- 2 The People of Macao -- 3 The Local Trade Groups -- 3.1 The Merchants, the Officials - and 'the Mandarins' -- 3.2 The Labourers of the Pearl River Delta -- 3.3 The Prostitutes -- 4 The 'Chinese' -- 4.1 'The Chinese Men' -- 4.2 'The Chinese Women' -- 5 Conclusion -- Colin Campbell and the 1730s -- 3 A Space for Intersections -- 1 The City Space -- 1.1 Walking around the City -- 1.2 City of Women -- 2 The Factory Space -- 2.1 Inside the Factories -- 2.2 The Dining Space -- 3 Macao -- 4 The Harbour Space -- 5 The Water Space -- 6 Conclusion -- Michael Grubb and the 1750s and 1760s -- 4 The Communication Struggle -- 1 Separate Groups, Separate Languages? -- 1.1 Circumventing the Rules -- 1.2 Pidgin English -- 2 Local and Global Communication Channels -- 2.1 The Role of the Interpreters -- 2.2 Letters from Near and Far -- 2.3 Channels for Circulation of Knowledge -- 3 Conclusion -- Olof Lindahl and the 1770s and 1780s -- 5 Spending Time and Spending Money -- 1 Domestic Consumption -- 2 Food as Cultural Evaluation and Adaptation -- 3 Drinking Right and Drinking Wrong -- 4 Sharing a Cup of Tea and a Smoke -- 5 What You Get from Giving Away -- 6 Boredom and What to do about It -- 7 Going Outside -- 8 Conclusion.

Anders Ljungstedt and the Early Nineteenth Century -- 6 Finding and Becoming Trustworthy Men -- 1 Spaces for Trust -- 2 Finding a Language for Trust -- 2.1 Gossip and Secrets -- 2.2 The Myth of Special Friendship -- 3 How to Look Trustworthy -- 4 How to Act Trustworthy -- 4.1 Finding a Certainty of Response -- 4.2 Accepting Distrust -- 4.3 Adapting Masculinities -- 5 Conclusion -- 7 This House Is Not a Home -- 1 Multi-faceted Control and a Plurality of Responses -- 2 Everyday Relations of Ethnicity, Class and Gender -- 3 Globalisation, Not European Expansion -- Bibliography -- Index.

In This House is not a Home, Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. Using the Swedish East India Company as a focus, she explores how domesticity was conditioned by the Chinese authorities.

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