An edition of Macau, the imaginary city (1996)

Macau, the imaginary city

culture and society, 1557 to the present

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An edition of Macau, the imaginary city (1996)

Macau, the imaginary city

culture and society, 1557 to the present

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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.

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.

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.

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Westview Press
Language
English
Pages
240

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Macau : The Imaginary City : Culture and Society, 1577 to Present (New Perspectives on Asian History)
November 19, 1999, Westview Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-232) and index.

Published in
Boulder, Colo
Series
New perspectives on Asian studies

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
951.26
Library of Congress
DS796.M2 P67 1996, DS796.M2P67 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 240 p. :
Number of pages
240

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL970791M
Internet Archive
macauimaginaryci0000port
ISBN 10
0813328365
LCCN
96007544
OCLC/WorldCat
604258284, 34475080
Library Thing
548101
Goodreads
3479635

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Almost seven thousand miles separate Cabo Sao Vicente, at the extreme southwestern rim of Europe, from the South China coast, but the distance was considerably greater-more than fifteen thousand miles-on a sea voyage between the two places in the sixteenth century.
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