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Harriett Low Hillard (May 18, 1809 – 1877) was an American woman of letters and diarist. From 1829 to 1833 she lived in the Portuguese colony of Macau on the South China coast and she and her sickly aunt became the first American women to go to China. [1]
Harriet Low, a 21-year-old Puritan from Salem, Mass., tried to topple the barriers to American women in Canton, China. Canton, the epicenter of the China trade in 1830, barred all foreign women from the trading port. But Harriet and her aunt stole into the city dressed as boys.
Macau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China through the only permitted gateway of Canton. To this European enclave on the China coast in 1829 came Harriett Low, a young American accompanying her aunt and uncle, a trader from Salem, Massachusetts.
1 de jan. de 2006 · Macau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China through the only permitted gateway of Canton. To this European enclave on the China coast in 1829 came Harriett...
Harriet Low was born into a well-to-do Massachusetts family in 1809 and, in 1829, accompanied her aunt and uncle to Asia. The latter was to conduct business in Canton (off limits to foreign women at the time) and Low was to keep her aunt company in nearby Macao.
O mesmo remete para Harriet Low (1809-1877) norte-americana que viveu em Macau de 1829 a 1833 e dexou testemunho da sua vida num diário. O diário de Harriet Low começa em 24 de Maio de 1829, o dia em que deixou a casa dos pais em Salem (Massachusetts, EUA), com rumo a Macau, onde chegou a 29 de Setembro do mesmo ano.
1 de mai. de 2002 · Throughout nine volumes, Harriett Low displays wit and courage as she metamorphoses from a socially naive girl into a mature, independent woman. Published for the first time as a complete edition, Lights and Shadows of a Macao Life chronicles not only the impact of Western capitalism on a declining Chinese empire but also the ...
- Harriet Low Hillard, Nan Powell Hodges, Arthur William Hummel
