An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao, Volume 1

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Hong Kong University Press, 01/11/1995 - 324 páginas
Many of the the major figures (British, European and American) during the turbulent events leading to the Opium War are buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao. The stories told by the inscriptions on the 160 gravestones there form Macao and Hong Kong's heritage.
 

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Macao and the Setting
1
The Company and the China Trade
7
Trade after the Company
20
At Sea
28
Life Ashore
43
Death
58
SECTION
71
The Entries
77
The Stones in the Wall
265
Chronology
273
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