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Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life: The Journal of Harriett Low, Travelling Spinster (2 Volumes)
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Author
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Harriett Low. Nan P. Hodges & Arthur W. Hummel, eds.
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Publisher
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Peabody Essex Museum
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Format
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2 vols., pap
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Product Dimensions
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8.5
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5.5
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1.7
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ISBN
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9780938106296
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Pages/Publication Date
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833/2002
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Daedalus Item Code
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20955
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Description
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Traveling to Macao as a companion to her aunt from 1829 to 1834, Harriett Low was one of the first American women to live in China, and metamorphosed from a socially naive girl from Salem, Massachusetts, into a mature, independent woman of the world. Throughout her memoir, collected here in two volumes, she describes the constricted lifestyle of foreign merchants' wives in Macao, Chinese customs, attending operas and picnics, Catholic processions, true friendship, false friends, and romance. Low also chronicles the impact of Western capitalism on a declining Chinese Empire.
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