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O próximo número do Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (vol 22, n. 3 e 4, 2012), publicado pela Cambridge University Press (Reino Unido), incluirá um artigo do investigador e professor Rogério Miguel Puga (membro do Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies, CETAPS) e colaborador do Centro de História de Além-Mar (CHAM), FCSH da Universidade Nova de Lisboa. O estudo revela que, ao contrário do que se pensava até agora, o primeiro museu (ocidental) na China abriu portas em Macau no ano de 1829 e não em Xangai em 1868. O 'Museu Britânico de Macau' foi inaugurado e mantido por sobrecargas da Companhia das Índias britânica e por agentes comerciais e missionários britânicos e norte-americanos, alguns dos quais eram naturalistas amadores e que muito contribuíram para o avanço do estudo da História Natural no Reino Unido através da recolha de plantas orientais e do seu envio para Londres. O estudo, fruto do cruzamento de fontes inglesas, norte-americanas e portuguesas, revela que o Zhendan Museum, fundado em 1868 em Xangai pelo missionário francês Pierre Marie Heude (1836-1902), não foi, como se julgava até agora, o primeiro a abrir portas na China, mas sim o chamado Museu Britânico de Macau, que se manteve aberto ao público até 1834, ano em que terminou o monopólio comercial da Companhia das Índias britânica na China.
The next joint issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (vol 22, no. 3 and 4, 2012), published by Cambridge University Press (UK), will include an article by the Portuguese researcher and professor Rogério Miguel Puga (Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies- CETAPS, collaborator at the Center for Portuguese Overseas History (CHAM), FCSH New University of Lisbon. The study rewrites the history of museums in China while revealing that, contrary to what was thought until now, the first western-styled museum in China was opened in Macau in 1829, and not in Shanghai in 1868, as Museum Studies advocated up to now. The British Museum of Macao was inaugurated and supported by supercargoes of the East Indian Company and by British and American traders and missionaries, some of whom were amateur naturalists who greatly contributed to advancing the study of Natural History in the UK through collection of oriental plants and its transport to London.
This study, based on the cross-reference of British, American and Portuguese sources, reveals that the Zhendan Museum, founded in 1868 in Shanghai by the French missionary Pierre MarieHeude (1836-1902), was not, as was thought until now, the first to open in China. The British Museum of Macau was therefore the first museum to open its doors in China and remained open to the public until 1834, the year that saw the end of the East India Company trade monopoly in China.
The next joint issue of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (vol 22, no. 3 and 4, 2012), published by Cambridge University Press (UK), will include an article by the Portuguese researcher and professor Rogério Miguel Puga (Centre for English Translation and Anglo-Portuguese Studies- CETAPS, collaborator at the Center for Portuguese Overseas History (CHAM), FCSH New University of Lisbon. The study rewrites the history of museums in China while revealing that, contrary to what was thought until now, the first western-styled museum in China was opened in Macau in 1829, and not in Shanghai in 1868, as Museum Studies advocated up to now. The British Museum of Macao was inaugurated and supported by supercargoes of the East Indian Company and by British and American traders and missionaries, some of whom were amateur naturalists who greatly contributed to advancing the study of Natural History in the UK through collection of oriental plants and its transport to London.
This study, based on the cross-reference of British, American and Portuguese sources, reveals that the Zhendan Museum, founded in 1868 in Shanghai by the French missionary Pierre MarieHeude (1836-1902), was not, as was thought until now, the first to open in China. The British Museum of Macau was therefore the first museum to open its doors in China and remained open to the public until 1834, the year that saw the end of the East India Company trade monopoly in China.
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