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Title: Americans in eastern Asia; a critical study of the policy of the United States with reference to China, Japan and Korea in the 19th century
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Dennett, Tyler, 1883-1949
Subjects: Eastern question (Far East) United States -- Commerce East Asia East Asia -- Commerce United States United States -- Foreign relations
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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se; Whampoa, the anchorage in the Canton River,twelve miles below the city where foreign vessels were re-quired to anchor and from which they were not permittedto depart until the issuance of the final grand chop indi-cating that every requirement of the Chinese authoritieshad been complied with; and, the factories or hongs*outside the city wall at Canton. Macao had three functions in trade. It was the basefrom which the Portuguese conducted their commercialoperations, and also the base for a large part of the smug-gling operations in which all of the foreign merchants joinedimpartially. The city was an outpost of the Chinese Gov-ernment where, exclusively, the permits to the foreign shipsto go to Whampoa were issued. Every foreign vessel had toapproach Canton through Macao. The third function ofMacao was to afiord a resort to the foreigners from Chitonin the summer months, in times of illness, or whenever theirconduct at Canton was obnoxious to the Chinese. Macao EARLY CHINA TRADE 47
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48 AMERICANS IN EASTERN ASIA was, for example, the refuge, though by no means the soleresidence, of the foreign missionaries. Foreign women whocame to China were permitted to reside only at Macao.The colony was governed by Portugal much in the sameway that Manila was governed by Spain, or as Batavia orCalcutta, respectively, were governed except as modifiedby the tenacious jurisdiction insisted upon by the Chinesewho had never relinquished their sovereignty. During thesummer the foreigners from Canton sustained at Macao ahighly developed, ceremonious and luxuriant social lifedominated by the British and resembling the social life ofCalcutta and Madras. In 1832 Edmund Roberts reportedthat the city enjoyed the reputation of being - one of themost immoral places in the world—a statement not sup-ported by other testimony. The Americans entered uponthis social life in proportion as their means and mannersallowed. Until wealth crowned their labors their part init was small. Whampoa was th

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