Author: Rogério Miguel Puga

Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

Publication Date: 2013-08

ISBN: 9789888139798

  The book traces Anglo-Portuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s through the establishment of factories at Canton and the beginnings of the opium trade to the Macartney Embassy of 1793. Longstanding allies in the west, British and Portuguese pursued more complex relations in the east, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power as “a community in search of a colony”. The Portuguese version A Presença Inglesa e as Relações Anglo-Portuguesas em Macau (1635-1794)was published by Centro de História de Além-Mar, and Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau in 2009.