This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830

Lisa Hellman, Ph.D,. is an award-winning historian who combines global, social, gender and maritime history with Asian studies to explore Europeans’ lives abroad. She has published in five languages on intercultural interactions in Asia during the early modern period.

"Hellman’s book provides an important basis for further research on Canton as the core of a multi-pole, multi-scale, multi-empire urban network established across the ports of the Pearl River Delta. It should be read by anyone interested in the social and urban processes of globalization of the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries". Regina Campinho, in Connections. A Journal for Historians and Area Specialists, October 2020. "The book provides many new insights into the daily activities of the European community in Canton and Macao. [...] Maritime historians who are theoretically oriented will likely find much of interest in this study". Paul A. Van Dyke, in The International Journal of Maritime History, 31(4).

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsAbbreviations and Terminology1 Entering Canton and Macao 1 Asian Power and European Compliance2 The Daily Making of a Home3 The Practices of Daily Life4 Tactics in the Face of a Conditional Everyday Life5 What is Missing is the Commonplace Abroad6 The Remains of the Days2 The Who’s Who of Canton and Macao1 The Foreign Trade Groups1.1 -Chinese Traders and Masculinities1.2 The Foreign Women1.3 Sailors and Slaves2 The People of Macao3 The Local Trade Groups3.1 The Merchants, the Officials – and ‘the mandarins’3.2 The Labourers of the Pearl River Delta3.3 The Prostitutes4 The ‘Chinese’4.1 ‘The Chinese men’4.2 ‘The Chinese women’5 ConclusionColin Campbell and the 1730s3 A Space for Intersections1 The City Space1.1 Walking Around the City1.2 City of Women2 The Factory Space2.1 nside the Factories2.2 The Dining Space3 Macao4 The Harbour Space5 The Water Space6 ConclusionMichael Grubb and the 1750s and 1760s4 The Communication Struggle1 Separate Groups, Separate Languages?1.1 Circumventing the Rules1.2 Pidgin English2 Local and Global Communication Channels2.1 The Role of the Interpreters2.2 Letters from Near and Far2.3 Channels for Circulation of Knowledge<3 ConclusionOlof Lindahl and the 1770s and 1780s5 Spending Time and Spending Money 1 Domestic Consumption 2 Food as Cultural Evaluation and Adaptation3 Drinking Right and Drinking Wrong4 Sharing a Cup of Tea and a Smoke5 What You Get from Giving Away6 Boredom and What to do about it7 Going Outside8 ConclusionAnders Ljungstedt and the Early Nineteenth Century6 Finding and Becoming Trustworthy Men1 Spaces for Trust2 Finding a Language for Trust2.1 Gossip and Secrets2.2 The Myth of Special Friendship3 How to Look Trustworthy4 How to Act Trustworthy4.1 Finding a Certainty of Response4.2 Accepting Distrust4.3 Adapting Masculinities5 Conclusion7 This House is Not a Home1 Multi-faceted Control and a Plurality of Responses2 Everyday Relations of Ethnicity, Class and Gender3 Globalisation, not European ExpansionBibliography