Sumário:
A Coroa Portuguesa e a China (1508-1531) : do Sonho Manuelino ao Realismo Joanino / João Paulo Oliveira e Costa -- Liampó reexaminado à luz de fontes chinesas / Jin Guoping e Zhang Zhengchun -- A China de Fernão Mendes Pinto, entre a realidade e a imaginação / Rui Manuel Loureiro -- Natureza do primo ciclo de diplomacia Luso-Chinesa (séculos XVI-XVIII) / Jorge Manuel dos Santos Alves -- The "Macau Formula" at work: an 18th century Qing expert's view on Macau / Fok Kai Cheong -- A acção "concertada" das autoridades de Macau, China e Goa na luta contra os "piratas" dos Mares do Sul da China em finais do século XVIII / Vítor Luis Gaspar Rodrigues -- "Aproximar Portugal e a China num entendimento amistoso" : As ofensivas diplomáticas chinesas para a compra de Macau, contributo para o estudio das missões do Zongli Yamen ao Ocidente (1868-1891) / António Vasconcelos de Saldanha
Added Keywords: Fernão Mendes Pinto, d. 1583 ; pirates ; Zongli Yamen 總理衙門

Part I. Europe -- Captivity, redemption, and the birth of a Royal Council -- Kings, colonies, and councilors -- Part II. South America -- Centers and peripheries in the Luso-Brazilian world -- Gambling governors and gilded lead -- Part III. Asia -- One king, two crowns -- The case of the missing men.

Note: Part III (Asia) covers the history of Macau in the 17th-18th centuries, focusing on economic and social local networks in Macau & South China, and discussing the connection between Portuguese merchants and officials with the Guangdong & central Chinese imperial bureaucracy, while offering some references to the role of Jesuits and other missionaries.--Cf. Eugenio Menegon, EUCHINA