ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Macanese printers and compositors in a broader picture to reveal the Macanese diaspora on the China coast and interport printing enterprise in the second half of the nineteenth century. It discusses the neglect of this economically deprived, socially marginal, ethnically bound, and religiously exclusive community more widely. The chapter surveys the introduction of modern movable printing to Macao by Europeans and Americans and the engagement of Macanese with printing in Macao and Canton in the early nineteenth century. It also examines the Macanese printer diaspora in Hong Kong and the treaty ports. The chapter explores how the networks of Macanese interport printing enterprises facilitated the production and circulation of knowledge about China. It investigate the limitations of Macanese printing networks in comparison with other printing presses on the China coast. The presence of the Macanese in the Chinese treaty ports was a result of several generations of Portuguese migration and assimilation in Asia.
