Macao - The Formation of a Global City - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Macao - The Formation of a Global City write by C.X. George Wei. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Macao - The Formation of a Global City available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. Held by the Portuguese from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, Macao was up to the emergence of Hong Kong in the later nineteenth century the principal point of entry into China for all Westerners - Dutch, British and others, as well as Portuguese. The relatively relaxed nature of Portuguese colonial rule, intermarriage, the mixing of Chinese and Western cultures, and the fact that Macao served as a safe haven for many Chinese reformers at odds with the Chinese authorities, including Sun Yat-sen, all combined to make Macao a very different and special place. This book explores how Macao was formed over the centuries. It puts forward substantial new research findings and new thinking, and covers a wide range of issues. It is a companion volume to Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations.
Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations
Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations write by Katrine K. Wong. This book was released on 2013-10-15. Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural interaction between China and the West. As an entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development, the identity of Macao’s people is not only indicative of the legacy and influence of the region’s socio-historical factors and forces, but it has also been altered, transformed and maintained because of the input, action, interaction and stimulation of creative arts and literatures. Held together by racial accommodation and tolerance and active cultural interactions, Macao’s phenomenon can be characterized as hybridization. This book is a presentation of the ongoing hybridization of Macao and is in itself a hybrid, covering a wide range of issues. Putting forward substantial new research findings, the book explores the nature of cultural interaction in Macao, and how the city has been constructed and perceived through literature and other art forms. It is a companion volume to Macao – The Formation of a Global City .
Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, 1949–2017
Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, 1949–2017 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, 1949–2017 write by Lili Song. This book was released on 2020-03-26. Chinese Refugee Law and Policy, 1949–2017 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Systematic and critical examination of Chinese refugee law and policy including information acquired from interviews and field visits.
Catholics and Everyday Life in Macau
Catholics and Everyday Life in Macau - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Catholics and Everyday Life in Macau write by Chen Hon-Fai. This book was released on 2017-03-16. Catholics and Everyday Life in Macau available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830
This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830 write by Lisa Hellman. This book was released on 2018-10-16. This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. How foreigners could live, communicate, move around – even whom they could interaction with – were all things strictly regulated by the Chinese authorities. The Europeans sometimes adapted to, and sometimes subverted, these rules. Focusing on this conditional domesticity shows the importance of gender relations, especially the construction of masculinity. Using the Swedish East India Company, a minor European actor in an expanding Asian empire, as a point of entry highlights the multiplicity of actors taking part in local negotiations of power. The European attempts at making a home in China contributes to a global turn in everyday history, but also to an everyday turn in global history.
