A Macao Narrative

Auteur Austin Coates

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ISBN

9789622090774

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Austin Coates

Uitgeverij

Hong Kong University Press

Jaar van uitgifte

2009

Aantal pagina’s

160

Waar gaat het over?

Macao, 40 miles west of Hong Kong, became a place of Portuguese residence between 155557. In this short, lively and affectionate book, Austin Coates explains how and why the Portuguese came to the Far East, and how they peacefully settled in Macao with tacit Chinese goodwill. Macaos golden age, from 1557 to the disastrous collapse of 1641, is vividly reconstructed. There follows the cuckoo-in-the-nest situation of the late eighteenth century when the British in Macao were a law unto themselves, until the foundation of Hong Kong and the opening of Shanghai gave wider scope for their energies. Portugals subsequent struggle to obtain full sovereignty in Macao, and the extraordinary outcome in 1975, brings this account to a close. Special tribute is paid to the risks Macao gallantly undertook in harbouring Hong Kongs starving and destitute during World War II.

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