books.google.co.uk - From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds. Yet this surprising capacity for survival has resulted, ironically, form the very weakness of the Portuguese presence. In particular, since the...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Between_China_and_Europe.html?id=GglrUksvCUcC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareBetween China and Europe