Thanks for the appreciation guys but I didn't do much. Merely located the pics from Chinese language sources on the internet. Then organized them and posted a few comments of my own.
That battle was in 1647. Both were definitely around. China is one of them elf-like immortal civs that would be around in whatever scenario from the Egyptians' time to modern times.
Anyway, (the picture of the siege of Guilin got me thinking) how involved were the Portuguese during the Ming-Qing transition period? They're confined to Macao AFAIK.
Beats me. The Portuguese were in Macao much earlier than that but this business in Guilin could just be some adventurous commander trying their fortunes amid the chaos of the Ming collapse. I'll research more on this.
Manchu forces advance into Sichuan (Szechwan), attack and defeat the Chinese rebel leader Zhang Xianzhong (Chang Hsien-chung), and put him to death at Hsi-ch'ung January 2 at age 40. Known as the Yellow Tiger, Zhang has been ruthless in his efforts to establish military control of what he called his western kingdom.
Portuguese in Guilin:
Chinese source: "The first westerners ever to see Guilin were Portuguese sailors taken prisoner by the Ming government in 1550. In 1644. when the Manchus came to power, the retreating Ming made Guilin their capital."
Other sources:
Spoiler:
PORTUGUESE INFLUENCE
The arrival of the Portuguese in South East Asia in the early 16th Century led to the development of a post-Polo vision of the region based much less on theory or the tentative interpretation of early travelers' accounts but on first-hand experience & survey.
The Portuguese Jorge Alvarez arrived in the Pearl River delta about 1513/14. A reference to his voyage is found in the letter of Andrea Corsalis sent from India to Cosimo de Medici in January 1515. The earliest detailed Portuguese portolan charts to show China, appear around this date in a Book of manuscript sailing instructions, rutters, charts and drawings produced in Malacca by the Portuguese pilot Francisco Rodrigues. Amongst them is the first ever European chart of the Pearl River delta.
The Portuguese gradually extended their trading contacts beyond the Pearl River delta and along the coasts of Fujian & Zhejiang Provinces. From about 1554 they established an annual fair to exchange and trade goods on outer islands of the Pearl River delta. They established a permanent foothold when Macao was ceded by the Chinese in about 1557, by way of thanks for their assistance in expelling a local band of pirates who had made the place their stronghold.
The impact of the Portuguese presence in the region can be seen directly in the printed maps that began to appear in Europe in the second half of the 16th Century as represented on 3 maps in particular:
TERZA OSTRO TAVOLA
Engraved by Giacomo Gastaldi for Ramusio's Italian collection of early travel writings : Della Navigatione e Viaggi [Venice 1556]. Canton is named with Niampo (Ningbo) and Ainan (Hainan). Polo's Zaiton is still included.
INDIAE ORIENTALIS INSULARUMQUE ADIACENTIUM TYPUS
Map of South East Asia - Abraham Ortelius [Antwerp 1570]
Ortelius' map applies the term China , for possibly the first time, to the regions that more or less encompass the present-day territorial boundaries of the country. Polo's Southern Province of Mangi now becomes Mangi que et Cin et China
EXACTA ET ACCURATA DELINEATIO CUM ORARUM MARITINARUM TUM ETIAM LOCORUM TERRESTRIUM QUAE IN REGIONIBUS CHINA....
Sea chart of Far East by Arnold van Langren for Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Itinerario [Amsterdam 1596]. Clear influence of the charts of contemporary Portuguese portolan chartmakers of the 1560-1580 period. Distinctive curved shrimp-like (ebi) outline of the islands of Japan. Korea is shown as a curious circular island.
Cornelis de Jode's map CHINA REGNUM first published in Antwerp in his rare World Atlas Speculum Orbis Terrae 1593, was until now considered the first European map of China on a north-south orientation. It also draws from the 1584 Barbuda map and from contemporary Portuguese information. It is distinguished by the wonderfully embellished corner vignettes illustrating features of contemporary Chinese life - Chinese sampans, wheeled sail-carts and tame fishing cormorants. Friar Orderic of Pordenone, a contemporary of Marco Polo's, noted in the late 13th Century, that these birds were to be seen "catching large numbers of fish and, even as they caught them, putting them of their own accord into baskets". The sight is still familiar today to travelers along the river at Guilin in Guanxi Province.
Here´s a little history from the Macao Cultural Affairs Bureau:
Why were the Portuguese so effective in gaining temporary control of the silk trade? China was very important for the Portuguese trade due to the several kinds of merchandise produced, mainly silk and porcelain, and due to the large quantities of silver consumed. The regions best known to the Portuguese were the flourishing mercantile regions of "Liampspan lang="zh-tw">" (Ningbo in the province of Zhejiang), "Chincheo" [this name was used by the Portuguese to refer the traders of Zhangzhou and the Quanzhou (region of Amoy), in the province of Fujian], and particularly Macao (Aomen in the district of Xiang Shan) in the province of Guangdong (Canton).
In order to understand the Macao-Manila route, it will be necessary to bear in mind its place within a complex mercantile network of routes which linked those cities to the main ports of the Indian and Pacific oceans (from the coast of Malabar to the coasts of America). Macao was a field of confrontation for a great variety of interest groups involved in Chinese trade - not only Portuguese, but also other European (Spanish, Dutch, English), Japanese and Southeast Asian traders. We will try to answer the intriguing question of why the Chinese authorities allowed the Portuguese settlement in Macao and did not allow any other Europeans to settle permanently on the Chinese Coast.
Portuguese Soldier after running out of ammo, pulls out his toth and fires it at the enemy.
The Siege of Dio - 5 Portuguese Infantrymen holding back 500 Turks in Portuguese bloody victory.
The Portuguese Colonial Sword
The Portuguese "Petronel de Pedreneira" - must advanced rifle of the XVI century.
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The Portuguese Close Quarters Way Of Fighting
Dagger in left hand, Sword in the right hand, the left absorbs and deflects enemy weapons while the right kills with stabing blow. This is standard for every gun-armed infantry.
The Portuguese Empire, as you see only Macao is refered:
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