The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

lt;b>Jingzhen Xie is Research Librarian at the University of Macau. Her main research areas include Macao studies, history of translation from French to Chinese, and the relationship of information to culture. She has published on library and information science. She is a co-editor of Dictionnaire Français-Chinois (2014), the main co-editor of the book East Meets West: An Illustrated Catalogue of Some Rare Books in Western Languages in the University of Macau Library (2016), and a co-author of Transferring Information Literacy Practices (2019).

1 Introduction: History Is Made of Details.- 2 Historical Background.- 3 What Was Macao and Who Were the Macanese?.- 4 Views of Europeans Other Than French.-5 Theoretical Reference.-6 The Scope of the French Views.-7 French Views of Macao.-8 Macao's Status and Importance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.-9 Conclusion