A Macao Narrative

A Macao Narrative
Author :
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Total Pages : 161
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9789622090774
ISBN-13 : 962209077X
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Macao Narrative by : Austin Coates

Download or read book A Macao Narrative written by Austin Coates and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macao, 40 miles west of Hong Kong, became a place of Portuguese residence between 1555–57. 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. Macao's 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. Portugal’s 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 Kong's starving and destitute during World War II.


A Macao Narrative Related Books

A Macao Narrative
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Austin Coates
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-07-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Macao, 40 miles west of Hong Kong, became a place of Portuguese residence between 1555–57. In this short, lively and affectionate book, Austin Coates explains
Macao - Cultural Interaction and Literary Representations
Language: en
Pages: 201
Authors: Katrine K. Wong
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-15 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of cultural int
Macau History and Society
Language: en
Pages: 329
Authors: Zhidong Hao
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-01-01 - Publisher: Hong Kong University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Macau History and Society illuminates the early Portuguese maritime exploration along China's south coast, political and economic development in Macau, and curr
The Boundless Sea
Language: en
Pages: 1115
Authors: David Abulafia
Categories: Navigation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are th
Narrative Mechanics
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Beat Suter
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-31 - Publisher: transcript Verlag

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What do stories in games have in common with political narratives? This book identifies narrative strategies as mechanisms for meaning and manipulation in games