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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.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Between China and Europe
• Author: Joao de Pina Cabral
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9780826457486
• ISBN: 0826457487
• ID: 01257379
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 138 × 25 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. June 2005

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