Americans and Macao：Trade, Smuggling, and Diplomacy on the South China Coast

Contributors vii
Introduction
Americans, Macao and China 1
John E. Wills, Jr. and Paul A. Van Dyke

Chapter 1
Revolutions and Divergences: The Macao Vortex in a 7
Transforming World
John E. Wills, Jr.

Chapter 2
A Clash of Civilizations in the Pearl River Delta: 17
Stephen Girard’s Trade with China, 1787—1824
Jonathan Goldstein

Chapter 3
American Ships, Macao, and the Bombay Marine, 1806—1817: 33
Delicate Lines for a Junior Officer to Tread—the Role of Daniel
Ross in the Charting of the China Seas
Stephen Davies

Chapter 4
Smuggling Networks of the Pearl River Delta before 1842: 49
Implications for Macao and the American China Trade
Paul A, Van Dyke

Chapter 5
The April 1820 Debt Settlement between Conseequa and 73
Benjamin Chew Wilcocks
Frederic D. Grant, Jr.

Chapter 6
The importance of the China Trade in American Exploration 95
and Conquest in the Pacific, 1830—1850
Michael Block

Chapter 7
Henrietta Hall Shuck: Engendering Faith, Education, and 105
Culture in Nineteenth-Century Macao
Isabel Morals

Chapter 8
Five American Women’s Perceptions of China 1829—1941: 125
“A Yard-stick of Our Own Construction”
Susan E. Schopp

Chapter 9
Duties and Limitations: The Role of United States Consuls 143
in Macao, 1849—1869
Vincent Wai-kit Ho

Notes 153
Bibliography 213
Index 237