The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793

The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793For more than four centuries, Macau was the centre of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces Anglo Portuguese relations in South China from the

Ferrer concludes with an original solution to the problem of religious pluralism that affirms the ontological richness of religious worlds while avoiding the extremes of perennialism and contextualism

Sets out the early Ptolemaic tax system

By tracing the contour and development of Li Guangdi's thought formulated within the bounds of inherited Cheng-Zhu teachings

It continues to address neonatal care from a physiologic and pathophysiologic perspective

Raising pigs for consumption involves the exercise of control over the quality and duration of their lives

It is a normal phenomenon in advocacy argumentation

The second half of the book presents a series of studies on several important figures

Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life is the story of a young girl whose idyllic youth as the daughter of a Hindu priest ends with her marriage to a cruel husband

Pure Land Buddhist visualization

Combining the fields of international relations

published in 1933

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