Tang Kaijian was born in Hunan province, China. He is Professor of History at the University of Macau. His research focuses on the history of Macau, Chinese Catholic history, and the history of Chinese borders and ethnicities.

• List of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Origins and Development of Catholicism in Macau during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties2. Macau and the Spread of Catholicism in Mainland China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties3. Japanese Christians in Macau and the Guangdong Government’s Response4. The Rise and Fall of Catholicism in Hainan during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties5. Funding Jesuit Missionary Work in China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties6. Catholic Art in Macau and Mainland China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties7. Catholic Music in Macau and Mainland China during the Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties 8. Jesuit Clock Diplomacy and the Use of Western Clocks during the Late Ming and Early Qing DynastiesBibliographyIndex

“Setting Off from Macau is a good general introduction to the spread of Christianity in China, with Kaijian’s well-documented synthesis of all the improvements and missteps of the Society of Jesus, accompanied by brief mentions of the other religious orders (Dominicans, Augustinians etc.) as well. Some of the chapters of this book deal with art (music, painting, clock manufacturing) and can be inviting even for a non-historian audience.”Elisa Frei, University of Trieste/Udine. In: Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 21, No. 3 (2017), pp. 271-273.