MACAO IN SAMUEL PURCHAS’S HAKLUYTUS POSTHUMUS, OR PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES (1625)珀切斯作《 哈克路特遺作，或珀切斯遊記》中的澳門
The article analyzes how Macao is represented in Samuel Purchas's compilation, *Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes* (1625), arguing that this "Macao" results less from direct observation than from an editorial process of translation, selection, and framing of Portuguese and European mater...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
October 2008
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40028/3634 |
| Summary: | The article analyzes how Macao is represented in Samuel Purchas's compilation, *Hakluytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes* (1625), arguing that this "Macao" results less from direct observation than from an editorial process of translation, selection, and framing of Portuguese and European materials. Proceeding from the centrality of travel collections to the circulation of Atlantic-Asian knowledge in the early seventeenth century, the study interprets Purchas's role within the informational ecosystem that fed English commercial and strategic interests, notably through the East India Company. Methodologically, the author confronts relevant passages of the text with the body of sources read and reused by Purchas (including manuscripts attributed to the legacy of Richard Hakluyt and earlier narratives by authors connected to the Portuguese empire), as well as with the composite logic of the "relations of the world" that characterize *Hakluytus Posthumus*. The main findings show that Macao is constructed through recurrent topoi (routes, commercial utility, religious circulation, and validation of accounts), in which the authority of print and Purchas's theological-historiographical framework reconfigure the city's place as a node between "discovery," cultural confrontation, and potential for expansion. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |