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Encountering Macau
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Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
language : en
Publisher: Bookworld Services
Release Date : 2002-10-01
Encountering Macau written by Geoffrey C. Gunn and has been published by Bookworld Services this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-10-01 with History categories.
This is the only history of Macau from its settlement in 1557 until its return to China in December 1999. Professor Geoffrey Gunn brilliantly traces Macau's development from its obscure origins on the periphery of China through its glory days as a lucrative trading intermediary between China and Japan to its slow decline in the shadow of Hong Kong and, finally, its survival as renter state sustained by gambling. Macau's fascinating history elucidates the nature of European colonialism in Asia, yet speaks directly to the emerging shape of the East Asian world in the 21st century.
Encountering Macau
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Author : Geoffrey C Gunn
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1996-06-06
Encountering Macau written by Geoffrey C Gunn and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-06 with History categories.
Tracing the history of Macau, a tiny peninsula perched off the coast of China, this work charts 500 years of colonial encounter and economic relations with China, Japan and the Asia region and situates Macau in its Asian context since the 16th century
Encountering Macau
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Author : Geoffrey C Gunn
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1996-06-06
Encountering Macau written by Geoffrey C Gunn and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-06 with History categories.
Tracing the history of Macau, a tiny peninsula perched off the coast of China, this work charts 500 years of colonial encounter and economic relations with China, Japan and the Asia region and situates Macau in its Asian context since the 16th century
Macau History And Society
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Author : Zhidong Hao
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2011-01-01
Macau History And Society written by Zhidong Hao and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-01 with History categories.
Macau History and Society illuminates the early Portuguese maritime exploration along China's south coast, political and economic development in Macau, and current social problems. The book makes significant contributions to a political sociology of Macau, emphasizing how different civilizations and cultures interacted with one another, and explores how a new Macau identity can be constructed. Democratization has been a never-ending process in Macau since the 1500's. Macau's experience indicates that sovereignty has been shared rather than exclusive. Although civilizations and cultures do clash, they also cooperate. But the Macau model is deeply flawed - Hao contends that Macau needs to build a new multicultural identity, and a cosmopolitan political and economic identity.
Macau
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Author : Jonathan Porter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-23
Macau written by Jonathan Porter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-23 with Political Science categories.
"For many people who have encountered it, Macau makes a deep impression on the imagination, as if the city were not entirely real or, rather, not of the real world. Macau often seems dreamlike, as though it were sustained by the effort of some powerful imagination." In this evocative essay on the cultural and social history of a unique and fragile city, Jonathan Porter examines Macau as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between East and West. Founded by the Portuguese in 1557, Macau emerged as a vibrant commercial and cultural hub in the early seventeenth century. The city then gradually evolved, flourishing first as a Eurasian community in the eighteenth century and then as an increasingly Chinese city in the nineteenth century. Macau became a modern manufacturing center in the late twentieth century and is now destined for reversion to the People’s Republic of China in 1999. The city was the meeting ground for many cultures, but central to this fascinating story is the encounter between an expansive, seaborne Portuguese empire and the introspective, closed world of imperial China. Unlike the other great colonial port cities of Asia, Macau did not provide natural access to the hinterland, and this geographical and historical isolation has fostered a unique balance of cultural influences that survives to this day. Poised on the periphery of two worlds, an isolated but global crossroads, Macau is a unique cultural and social melange that illuminates crucial issues of cross-cultural exchange in world history. Establishing Portugal and China as distinct cultural archetypes, Porter then examines the subsequent encounters of East and West in Macau from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. Avoiding the traditional linear chronological approach, Porter instead looks at a series of images from the city’s history and culture, including its place in the geographical context of the South China coast; the architecture of Macau, which reflects the memories of its historical passages; the variety of people who crossed the threshold of Macau; the material culture of everyday life; and the spiritual topography resulting from the encounters of popular religious movements in Macau. Jonathan Porter concludes his literary journey by reflecting on the character and meaning of the many cultural and social influences that have met and mingled in Macau. His words and photographs eloquently capture the essence of a place that seems too ephemeral to be real, too captivating to be anything but an imaginary city.
Wartime Macau
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Author : Geoffrey C. Gunn
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-01
Wartime Macau written by Geoffrey C. Gunn and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-01 with History categories.
It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation albeit being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and an international group of contributors come together in Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow to investigate how Macau escaped the fate of direct Japanese invasion and occupation. Exploring the broader diplomatic and strategic issues during that era, this volume reveals that the occupation of Macau was not in Japan’s best interest because the Portuguese administration in Macau posed no threat to Japan’s control over the China coast and acted as a listening post to monitor Allied activities. Drawing upon archival materials in English, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages, the contributors explain how, under the high duress of Japanese military agencies, the Portuguese administration coped with a tripling of its population and issues such as currency, food supply, disease, and survival. This volume presents contrasting views on wartime governance and shows how the different levels of Macau society survived the war. “Wartime Macau deals with a fascinating and woefully understudied topic. The essays collected here show that there was no singular experience of World War II in Macau; how one experienced the war depended on a complex calculus of ethnicity, class, and connections. And yet, taken together, these experiences shaped the trajectory of the city’s political and social development for decades to come.” —Cathryn H. Clayton, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa “This book represents a real breakthrough. Previous English-language accounts of Macau during the World War II have focused largely on the activities of the British in this neutral ‘Casablanca’. Drawing extensively on Portuguese, Japanese, and local Macanese sources, Geoffrey Gunn and his team have assembled a far broader picture, revealing the dilemmas and choices of Portugal’s beleaguered colonial government and placing Macau in a geopolitical context that stretched from the Azores to Australia.” —Philip Snow, author of The Fall of Hong Kong
Macau
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Author : Jonathan Porter
language : en
Publisher: Westview Press
Release Date : 1996-06-20
Macau written by Jonathan Porter and has been published by Westview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-20 with History categories.
Establishing Portugal and China as distinct cultural archetypes, Porter then examines the subsequent encounters of East and West in Macau from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.
Catholics And Everyday Life In Macau
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Author : Chen Hon-Fai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-16
Catholics And Everyday Life In Macau written by Chen Hon-Fai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-16 with Social Science categories.
Catholicism has had an important place in Macau since the earliest days of Portuguese colonization in the sixteenth century. This book, based on extensive original research including in-depth interviews, examines in detail the everyday life of Catholics in Macau at present. It outlines the tremendous societal pressures which Macau is currently undergoing – sovereignty handover and its consequences, the growth of casinos and tourism and the transformation of a serene and somewhat obscure colony into a vibrantly developing city. It shows how, although the formal structures of Catholicism no longer share in rule by the colonial power, and although formal religious observance is declining, nevertheless the personal piety and ethical religious outlook of individual Catholics continue to be strong, and have a huge, and possibly increasing, impact on public life through the application of personal religious ethics to issues of human rights and social justice and in the fields of education and social services.
Crossing Borders In The Asia Pacific
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Author : James Cotton
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2002
Crossing Borders In The Asia Pacific written by James Cotton and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Business & Economics categories.
The impact across borders of transnational identities, business links and ideas has been on the international political agenda for a long time. These cross border phenomena have a steady and profound influence on domestic politics and international relations. However, they also represent a challenge because these factors can subvert accustomed views of sovereignty. The essays in this book stress the diversity and influence as well as the limitations of cross border phenomena in the Asia-Pacific, a region home to the principles of non-interference and respect for autonomy. Emerging from this collection is a picture of an area dynamically affected by the penetration of ideas, organised interests, and financial flows. Though national borders have become more porous, state power and local identities still resist, shape and modify cross border influences.
Macau 20 Years After The Handover
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Author : Meng U Ieong
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-25
Macau 20 Years After The Handover written by Meng U Ieong and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-25 with Political Science categories.
This book outlines the major social and political changes in the city of Macau during its first 20 years under the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement with Mainland China. Despite the long-standing image of Macau as Asia’s Las Vegas, it is a city that has changed a great deal since its return to China. Equally, despite this return, it retains a unique social, economic and political character, distinct both from the Mainland of China and from its larger neighbour, Hong Kong. The chapters in this book examine the detail of this uniqueness from a range of perspectives, including the gambling industry, police-society relations, media usage patterns and protest movements. Analysing the state of affairs 20 years after the city’s return to China, they also attempt to anticipate its future trajectory. This is a valuable guide for scholars of Asian, and particularly Chinese, urban politics that will be of interest to academics and students looking to better understand the particularities of Macau.