A Study Of Portuguese Foreign Policy Towards China In Mid-17th Centurv

Chinese regime alternating in the middle of the seventeenth Century, large-scale war and social unrest, lead to the trade and economic depression,had a serious impact on the Portuguese living in the Macao.Under the late Ming and early Qing complicated society situation, as a heterogeneous of Chinese political system,the Portuguese who residence in Macao,facing enormous difficulties. This paper,based on previous research, integration of Portugal and late Ming,early Qing and Southern Ming historical facts,combined with The society of Jesus,try to sketch a picture of the policy change of Portugal in the middle of the seventeenth Century and attempts to summarize how the Portuguese survive in the Far East.