"Taking Harriett Low's diaries as a prism though which to throw light on the lives of the early Anglo-American community in South China, Ms Lamas offers a fascinating glimpse into the lives of Western women in China before the age of imperialism. This boo

"One of the most engaging memoirs of nineteenth-century Macau from a foreign viewpoint is the journal of Harriett Low... This book is a fascinating and remarkably fresh view of foreigners and Chinese in the days of the Old China Trade that makes Low's jou

Rosmarie Wank-Nolasco Lamas is currently working for the Macau Tourism Promotion and Information Center in Lisbon, Portugal. A social anthropologist by training, she was an associate professor at the Institute for Tourism Studies (IFT) of Macau, and is the author of History of Macau A Student's Manual, 1998, and Mulheres para Al�m do seu Tempo [Women Ahead of Their Time], 1995.