An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao

The 160 gravestones in the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao read as pages of history from the Western world's encounter with China a century and a half ago. Many of the major figures of the time are buried here. The story of the lives and deaths of these British, European and American residents and visitors during the turbulent events that led to the Opium War and the founding of Hong Kong is not one that can be told in epitaphs alone, especially when many of the epitaphs are barely legible after more than 150 years of weathering. Lindsay and May Ride spent long hours deciphering the fading messages and investigating the backgrounds of the deceased. The result is not only an essential guide to the cemetery but a richly peopled account of a fascinating period of history.


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