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

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This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830 is written by Lisa Hellman and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004384545 (ISBN 10) and 9789004384545 (ISBN 13).

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. Focusing 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.