From around the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the most longstanding site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and the European worlds. Since the foundation of Hong Kong (in 1840), Macao's survival has depended on a creative use of its marginality - as a centre for gambling, for the coolie trade, for opium trade and for semi-clandestine gold trade. As a rear window to China, Macao provides an example of marginality, that allows us to study the limits of the systems that characterise the Chinese world. These essays look at Macao's society in the 19th and 20th centuries from the perspective of an historically informed anthropology. They focus on paradoxical aspects of cultural confrontation, personal construction and ethnic differentiation, and on constructed amnesia, with a special focus on Macao's Eurasian population.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis INC International Concepts
ISBN-13
9780826457493
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88864722
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Biological Psychology
Author
Joao De Pina-Cabral
Publication Name
Between China and Europe: Person, Culture and Emotion in Macao
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Sciences
Publication Year
2005
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
138mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Joao De Pina-Cabral
Series Title
Lse Monographs on Social Anthropology
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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