A PROBE INTO MACAO’S POLITICAL ECONOMY AND TRADE RELATIONS DURING THE MID-QIANLONG / POMBALINE PERIOD初探亁隆／蓬巴爾時期的政治經濟與貿易關繫
The article examines the political economy and commercial relations of Macau during the transition period from the reign of Qianlong to the Pombaline era, situating the city within the broader process of reconfiguration of Luso-Portuguese trade in southern China and the dynamics of the Canton system...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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| Format: | Articles |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
October 2007
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40024/3684 |
| Summary: | The article examines the political economy and commercial relations of Macau during the transition period from the reign of Qianlong to the Pombaline era, situating the city within the broader process of reconfiguration of Luso-Portuguese trade in southern China and the dynamics of the Canton system. The central proposal is to relativize the historiographic tendency that privileges the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, arguing that an understanding of the “single port” and of the negotiations between European powers and Chinese commercial governance requires an analysis focused on the eighteenth century, when the dispute over foreign access to the coastline was still unfolding and reached peaks such as the Flint episode. Methodologically, the text undertakes an exercise in historiographic survey and analytical framing, comparing existing approaches to maritime trade, coastal mercantile networks, and the rise of the Cohong, as well as the Portuguese and Anglo-Saxon literature on the circulation of goods and societal structures. Among the conclusions, the article highlights that Macau operated as a decisive gateway vis-à-vis Canton in the eighteenth century, and that the integration of regional (Pearl River Delta) and global (Indian Ocean and Atlantic-Lusophone routes) scales can reveal continuities and institutional readjustments in the articulation between politics, regulation, and trade. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |