Encountering Macau
Geoffrey C. GunnISBN: 962-8783-13-0
Dimensions: 234 pp (approx), 200 x 140 mm
Maps, Index, Bibliography
Price: HK$195/US$23
"An
excellent and authoritative book, for which there is no alternative.
It is a must-read for everybody with affection for this unique city."
R. D. Cremer,
International History Review
[Publication Forthcoming!]
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only history of Macau from its settlement in 1557 until its return to
China in December 1999. Professor Geoffrey Gunn brilliantly traces
Macau’s development from its obscure origins on the periphery of China
through its glory days as a lucrative trading intermediary between
China and Japan to its slow decline in the shadow of Hong Kong and
finally its survival as renter state sustained by gambling. Macau’s
fascinating history elucidates the nature of European colonialism in
Asia, yet speaks directly to the emerging shape of the East Asian
world in the 21st century. First published in the United States by
Westview Press in 1997, Encountering Macau is available in Asia for
the first time in this updated Asia2000 edition.
Geoffrey C. Gunn is a professor of International
Relations in the faculty of Economics at Nagasaki University, Japan. A
native of Australia, Gunn has taught political science in several
Asian countries, including Laos, Brunei, and Singapore. His interest
in Macau was stimulated by a fascination with the other important
former Portuguese colony in Asia, East Timor. He witnessed the
historic 1999 referendum that led to independence and wrote the first
detailed history of East Timor in English, Timor Loro Sae: 500
Years. He currently lives with his family in Nagasaki.
Critics Comments
"An
excellent and authoritative book, for which there is no alternative.
It is a must-read for everybody with affection for this unique city."
R. D. Cremer,
International History Review
Readers Comments
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