Americans and Macao：Trade, Smuggling, and Diplomacy on the South China Coast

　　The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics, and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The essays address topics such as the role of the China trade in US pacific expansion and exploration, US consuls, smuggling networks, American women's perceptions of China, and missionary and educational work. In all of the encounters, Macao emerges as a central player, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Sino-American relations.

作者簡介

Paul A. Van Dyke

　　Paul A. Van Dyke is professor of history at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou. He has spent many years researching various aspects of life, trade, and societies in the Pearl River Delta and Maritime Asia.

Contributors vii
Introduction
Americans, Macao and China 1
John E. Wills, Jr. and Paul A. Van Dyke

Chapter 1
Revolutions and Divergences: The Macao Vortex in a 7
Transforming World
John E. Wills, Jr.

Chapter 2
A Clash of Civilizations in the Pearl River Delta: 17
Stephen Girard’s Trade with China, 1787—1824
Jonathan Goldstein

Chapter 3
American Ships, Macao, and the Bombay Marine, 1806—1817: 33
Delicate Lines for a Junior Officer to Tread—the Role of Daniel
Ross in the Charting of the China Seas
Stephen Davies

Chapter 4
Smuggling Networks of the Pearl River Delta before 1842: 49
Implications for Macao and the American China Trade
Paul A, Van Dyke

Chapter 5
The April 1820 Debt Settlement between Conseequa and 73
Benjamin Chew Wilcocks
Frederic D. Grant, Jr.

Chapter 6
The importance of the China Trade in American Exploration 95
and Conquest in the Pacific, 1830—1850
Michael Block

Chapter 7
Henrietta Hall Shuck: Engendering Faith, Education, and 105
Culture in Nineteenth-Century Macao
Isabel Morals

Chapter 8
Five American Women’s Perceptions of China 1829—1941: 125
“A Yard-stick of Our Own Construction”
Susan E. Schopp

Chapter 9
Duties and Limitations: The Role of United States Consuls 143
in Macao, 1849—1869
Vincent Wai-kit Ho

Notes 153
Bibliography 213
Index 237