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Routledge, Date: 1999-12-10. Paperback. Very Good. Very nice book. Minor wear to cover edges and corners. 1999. Routledge ISBN 0813337496 9780813337494 [US]
Routledge, Date: 1999. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed. 1999. Routledge ISBN 0813337496 9780813337494 [US]
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Routledge] Softcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8 [AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Routledge] Softcover Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.8 [Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Routledge] Softcover 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 evolved, flourishing first as a Eurasian community in the eighteenth century and then as an increasingly Chinese city in the nineteenth century. Poised on the periphery of two worlds, an isolated but global crossroads, Macau's unique cultural and social melange illuminates crucial issues of cross-cultural exchange in world history. Establishing Portugal and China as distinct cultural archetypes, Porter examines the subsequent encounters of East and West in Macau from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Avoiding a linear chronological approach, Porter instead looks at a series of images from the city's history and culture, including its place in the geographical context of the South China coast; the architecture of Macau, which reflects the memories of its historical passages; the variety of people who crossed the threshold of Macau; and the material culture of everyday life. The paperback edition of this acclaimed book includes a new epilogue by Porter addressing the return of Macau to Chinese control in late 1999. [Hous ...
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Westview Press., Boulder.] Hardcover Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xiv + 240pp. Very good hardback in like dustjacket. New Perspectives on Asian History Series. "In this evocative essay, Porter examines Macau as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between two worlds, the West and China.Porter looks at a series of images of Macau's history and reflects on the character and meaning of the multiple cultural and social influences that met and mingled there." Publisher's description. [Canberra, ACT, Australia] [Publication Year: 2000]
Boulder.: Westview Press.. Date: 2000.. Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xiv + 240pp. Very good hardback in like dustjacket. New Perspectives on Asian History Series. "In this evocative essay, Porter examines Macau as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between two worlds, the West and China.Porter looks at a series of images of Macau's history and reflects on the character and meaning of the multiple cultural and social influences that met and mingled there." Publisher's description. . 2000. Westview Press. ISBN 0813337496 9780813337494 [AU]
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Westview Press., Boulder.] Hardcover Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, xiv + 240pp. Very good hardback in like dustjacket. New Perspectives on Asian History Series. "In this evocative essay, Porter examines Macau as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between two worlds, the West and China.Porter looks at a series of images of Macau's history and reflects on the character and meaning of the multiple cultural and social influences that met and mingled there." Publisher's description. [Canberra, ACT, Australia] [Publication Year: 2000]
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 1999-12-10, Boulder, CO] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Taylor & Francis 1999-12-10, Boulder, CO] Softcover Language: ENG [London, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
Paperback / softback. New. A spellbinding history of a remarkable city poised on the intersection between East and West. ISBN 0813337496 9780813337494 [GB]
ISBN10: 0813337496, ISBN13: 9780813337494, [publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]
Paperback / softback. New. A spellbinding history of a remarkable city poised on the intersection between East and West. ISBN 0813337496 9780813337494 [GB]
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