Editing Ningbo (section)

===Ming dynasty===

The city of Ningbo was known in Europe for a long time under the name of Liampó. This was the usual spelling used, for example in the standard Portuguese history, [[João de Barros]]'s ''Décadas da Ásia'', although Barros explained that Liampó was a Portuguese "corruption" of the more correct Nimpó.<ref name=barros1.9.7>[[João de Barros]], ''Décadas da Ásia''; 1st Decade, Book IX, Chapter VII. Lisbon, 1552 (e.g., pp. 336–337, in the 1988 reprint)</ref><ref>[[João de Barros]], ''Décadas da Ásia'', 3rd Decade, Book II, Chapter VII. Lisbon, 1563 (folio 44 in the original edition and the 1992 facsimile reprint)</ref> The spelling Liampó is also attested to in the ''Peregrination'' (''Peregrinação'') by [[Fernão Mendes Pinto]], a (so-called) autobiography written in Portuguese during the 16th century. For the mid-16th-century Portuguese, the nearby promontory, which they called the cape of Liampó after the nearby "illustrious city", was the easternmost known point of the mainland Asia.<ref name=barros1.9.7/> The Portuguese began trading in Ningbo around 1522. By 1542, the Portuguese had a sizable community in Ningbo (or, more likely, on nearby small islands such as [[Shuangyu]]). Portuguese activities from their Ningbo base included pillaging and attacking multiple Chinese port cities around Ningbo. They also enslaved people during their raids.<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sZdCAAAAYAAJ&q=1,200+portuguese+neighbouring+pillaging
|title=Modern history of China
|year=1983
|author=Sergeĭ Leonidovich Tikhvinskiĭ
|publisher=[[Progress Publishers]]
|page=57
|quote=Thereafter they made the factory near Ningbo their chief trading outlet. In the late 1540s, there were more than 3,000 people there, some 1,200 of them Portuguese. From this base, the latter raided neighboring coastal cities, pillaging and taking people into slavery. The Chinese authorities responded with armed expeditions against them and, finally, the Portuguese had to abandon the factory
}}</ref> The Portuguese were ousted from the Ningbo area in 1548.