Between China and Europe
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A01=Joao de Pina-Cabral
Author_Joao de Pina-Cabral
Camilo Pessanha
Category=JHMC
Category=NHTB
CCP
Chinese Catholics
Chinese Middle Class
Colonial Administration
colonial encounters
cultural hybridity
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eq_history
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eq_isMigrated=2
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eq_society-politics
ethnic identity studies
European Portuguese
Father's Surname
Father’s Surname
gambling
Gambling Contract
Gambling Monopolies
gender and kinship analysis
Leal Senado
Long Sword
Macao colonial society transformation
Macao Handovers
Macao's Casinos
Macao's History
Macao’s Casinos
Macao’s History
Military Junta
opium trade
organised crime research
Organized Amnesia
political contact
Portuguese presence
Portuguese Surname
PSP.
Santa Casa Da Misericordia
semi-clandestine gold trade
social marginality
Social Reproduction
Stanley Ho
Triad Wars
VIP Room
Yellow Back
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780826457493
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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. 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.
Joao de Pina-Cabral is Senior Research Fellow and Chairman of the Scientific Board at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
