Download or read book Macau written by Christina Miu Bing Cheng and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macau, on the threshold of the twentieth-first century, is perhaps a harbinger of a new urban culture. Having been nurtured by the sharply constrasting legacies of China and Portugal, this unique city manages to meld cultural differences and avoid the destructiveness of ethnic clashes. It is thus likened here to the Roman deity Janus, who is usually depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions. By concentrating on the ambivalent history of Macau, the author reveals the historical reality of cultural vacillation between two political entities and the emergence of a creole minority - the Macanese. With a judicious use of English, Chinese, and Portuguese sources, she has provided a pathbreaking, multi-focal perspective of the last Portuguese outpost in Asia. In light of the 'decolonization' of Macau in December 1999, the author's analysis challenges the easy assumptions of the causal sequence: colonialism/postcolonialism, and opens up an interdisciplinary purview of a local instance in cross-cultural studies.

Download or read book Macau in Transition written by H. Yee and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-12 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyzes various aspects of the process of Macau's transition from a Portuguese autonomous territory to a Chinese special administrative region. It analyzes the role of those involved in the process building Beijing, Lisbon, the local Portuguese Macau administration, the Macau branch of the New China News Agency, the Luso-Chinese Joint Liaison Group and the local political and social groups. It stresses the dynamics of interactions between actors as well as the political, economic and social changes in the enclave that have direct or indirect impact on the transition.

Download or read book Macau written by Jonathan Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Download or read book Entrepreneurs and Enterprises in Macau written by V.F.S. Sit and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1991-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an investigation of Macau’s industrial fabric as well as its framework of economy. Particular attention has been given to the form and function of the small and medium industries in Macau’s economy. Topics coyered include the post Second World War industrialization process; characteristics of the entrepreneurs – their social origins, educational background, career patterns, management style, and self assessment; general business characteristics of the enterprises – their histories of establishment, size, financial and management control, technology employed, products, and marketing; subcontracting relationships between small and medium firms and larger firms; out-processing relationships with Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta; industrial policies of the Macau Government; and finally a summary of the main findings and suggestions of policies concerning the future development of the manufacturing industries.

Download or read book Encountering Macau written by Geoffrey C. Gunn and published by Bookworld Services. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

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Download or read book Macau written by 鄭妙冰 and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Macau: a Cultural Janus in Colonial Vicissitudes" by 鄭妙冰, Christina Miu Bing, Cheng, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. DOI: 10.5353/th_b3123469 Subjects: Portugual - Colony - China - Macau (Special Administrative Region) Macau (China: Special Administrative Region) - Civilization

Download or read book Everything in Style written by Rosmarie Wank-Nolasco Lamas and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China. Harriett Low, a young American, came here in 1829. She wrote a diary that shows her personality and a rich picture of life in Macau. This book focuses on that picture, with extracts from the diary, to create an account of the place and its society.

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Download or read book Macau in Brief written by Macau. Government Tourist Office. Research & Planning Department and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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