Macao - The Formation of a Global City (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wei, C. X. George

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135119997
• Artikelnr.: 39992882

Autorenporträt

C.X. George Wei is Professor in the Department of History at the University of Macau, China.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Faith and the Formation of Macao: Religions and Urban
Development 1. Faith and Property: Pressures of Urban Development on
Worship in Macao, the Mou Tai -Tin Hau Temple in CheokKa Chun, Macao 2. The
Earth God Worship in Macao -- The Transformation of Communal Earth God
Worship in Urban Setting Part 2: Western Footprints: The Missionaries in
Macao and Their Contributions to the Formation of Macao 3. Darwinism,
Freemasonry and Print Culture: The Construction of Identity of the Macanese
Colonial Elites in the Late Nineteenth Century 4. The Holy House of Mercy
and Its Impact on Macao's Women Part 3: The Impact of Global Forces: The
Presence and Competition of Maritime Powers in and around Macao 5. Dutch
Attacks against the Goa-Macao-Japan Route, 1603-1618 6. Early British
Presence in China: The First Anglo-Portuguese Voyage to Macao 7. The
Cushing Mission to Macao and US Imperial Expansion in Nineteenth-Century
Asia Part 4: Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational and Transitional Politics,
Society and Identity of Macao 8. Macao: An Early Modern Cosmopolis 9.
Macao's Urban Identity Quest 1557-1999/2009: Spatialization of Territory
10. State, Market Force, and Building National Identity in China's Hong
Kong and Macao 11. The Implications of the Special Administrative Regions
for the International System: Macao as a Successful Case Study