Between China and Europe : Person, Culture and Emotion in Macao
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology
ISBN-10
0826457495
ISBN-13
9780826457493
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint
Continuum Publishing Corporation
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 1st, 2005
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
356 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 14.30 x 2.00 cms
Product Classification:
Social & cultural historySocial & cultural anthropology, ethnography
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From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds.
From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds. Yet this surprising capacity for survival has resulted, ironically, form the very weakness of the Portuguese presence. In particular, since the foundation of Hong Kong (in 1840), Macao had depended on a creative use of its marginality - as a centre for gambling, for the coolie trade, the opium trade, the semi-clandestine gold trade and so on. As a rear window on China, Macao provides us with fascinating examples of marginality that allow us to study the limits of the systems that characterize the Chinese world.
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