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Author Ride, Lindsay, Sir, 1898-1977, author.

Title An East India company cemetery : protestant burials in Macao / Lindsay and May Ride ; abridged and edited from their manuscripts with additional material by Bernard Mellor
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, ©1996

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 304 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Foreword; SECTION ONE; 1. Macao and the Setting; 2. The Company and the China Trade; 3. Trade after the Company; 4. At Sea; 5. Ashore -- The Context; 6. Life Ashore; 7. Death; SECTION TWO; 8. The Memorials; 9. The Entries; 10. The Stones in the Wall; Chronology; Sources; List of Names; Index
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-282) and index
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Subject Cemeteries -- China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region)
HISTORY.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
Cemeteries
SUBJECT Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004501
China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024090
Hong Kong (China) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002051
Subject China
China -- Hong Kong
China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ride, May, author.
Mellor, Bernard, editor.
LC no. 97144730
ISBN 9789882201101
9882201105