Author: LJUNGSTEDT, ANDERS:
Title: An Historical Sketch of the Portuguese Settlements in China; and of the Roman Catholic Church and Mission in China ... A supplementary chapter, description of the city of Canton, Republished from the Chinese Repository. Boston, James Munroe & Co., 1836.
Description: . Pp. xvi, 196 + appendix pp. 199-323, one blank + xviii (index). Small upper marginal loss to the title page and the following three leaves. Some staining, mainly in the margins. With a folding engraved plate of "Praya Grande" at Macao, three folding lithographed maps (two of Macao and one Canton) and two lithographed plates of S. Francis Xavier's tombstone on one leaf. Contemporary blue silk-covered boards, somewhat stained and worn, spine faded with title label partly detached. Bookplate (Garland, James Albert). First edition as such. A revised and enlarged edition of Ljungstedt's "Contribution" and its continuation "Portuguese in China", published in 1832 and 1834 respectively, with an appendix comprising Elijah Coleman Bridgman's "Description of the city of Canton", first published in "The Chinese Repository" (1834). Anders Ljungstedt (1759-1835), a Swedish merchant and historian who was employed by the Swedish East India Company in 1797. The following year he moved to Guangzhou (Canton), which was then the centre of Chinese trade with the outside world. He was a successful businessman and made a great fortune. Later he moved to Macao and in 1820 he was appointed the first Swedish consul general for trade in China. The last twenty years of his life he devoted to study the history of Macao. Based on many old documents from the Macao Archives, other official works, and with the help of a Portuguese priest named Dom Joaquim de Sousa Saraiva, he wrote this comprehensive historical account of Macao. It was pioneering because he presented his work through the eyes of the Chinese. He claimed that, based on historical documents, Macao had always been Chinese territory and that the emperor had never given it to Portugal. In addition, his work comprises interesting information about foreign trade, commodities, customs and duties, and the Canton factories. Arne, Svenskarna och Österlandet (1952), pp. 184-187. Cordier BS 2310-11. Löwendahl 914. Lust 121.

Keywords: East Asia, macao, china, chine, kina, chinese, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, travel, exploration, commerce, canton,


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