Jonathan Porter
Taylor & Francis
1e druk, 2019
9780367316747
Macau
The Imaginary City
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Taylor & Francis |
1e druk, 2019
ISBN13: 9780367316747
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In this evocative essay on the cultural and social history of a unique and fragile city, Jonathan Porter examines Macau as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between two worlds, the West and China. Founded by the Portuguese in 1557, Macau emerged as a vibrant commercial and cultural hub in the early seventeenth century. The city then gradually