Lúcio de Sousa

Lúcio de Sousa is a Research Associate - University of Evora (Portugal) - NICPRI – Centre of Research in Political Science and International Relations and FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) Post-Doctoral Fellow. His primary field of research is the slave trade. The aim of his research is to shed light on the purchase and sale of Asian slaves and with all possible accuracy, to reconstruct the economic reality experienced by Europeans in the seas of China, as well as their networks of slaves from 1520 to 1620. He is the author of The Early European Presence in China, Japan, The Philippines and Southeast Asia, (1555-1590) - The Life of Bartolomeu Landeiro, Macao Foundation, Macao, December 2010. Instead of concentrating on the presence of the first Europeans in China placed against the background of the official trade regulated by the Portuguese Crown, his research is focused on the private trade undertaken by many unknown merchants who played a fundamental role in the European economic expansion of the sixteenth century in Asia/Southeast Asia. He is also the editor of The Portuguese and Japan (16th and 17th centuries), University of Tokyo, CEPESA, Lisbon, 2005.

Manuel Perez-Garcia

Manuel Perez-Garcia is postdoctoral fellow and assistant chair on trans-national and comparative History at the Department of History, Tsinghua University (Beijing, China). He graduated from the Universidad de Murcia, Spain, in History. He later obtained his doctorate degree on Economic History at the European University Institute (Florence, Italy) and was visiting scholar at UCBerkeley. His primary field of research is the history of consumption and trade relations between Europe and China during the early modern period. He also works on maritime history with a special focus on the Mediterranean and Asian trade networks, and is currently completing a project comparing the city ports of Macau and Marseille. He is the author of the book Armas, limpieza de sangre y linaje. Reproducción social de familias poderosas de Murcia (siglos XVI-XIX), and co-editor of Familia, valores y reprentaciones. His most recent work on changes on patterns of consumption and trade networks in Mediterranean Europe is Consumer Behaviour and International Trade in the Western Mediterranean: South-Eastern Spain in a Trans-National Perspective (1730/1808) (Ashgate, 2012). He has published several articles in outstanding international journals such as Journal of Family History or Histoire, Societe et Economie, among others.