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In December 1999, Macau returned to China after 450
years of Portuguese rule. The oldest European enclave and most
important gambling center in East Asia, Macau now faces the challenge
of balancing its fascinating culture and history, part Christian, part
Confucian, part Monte Carlo, with its new status as a self-governing
autonomous region within the world’s most populous country. Nowhere is
Macau’s culture and history, and the challenge of its contemporary
life and future, more apparent than in its gardens and landscape art.
Diverse cultural influences interact to create an original aesthetic,
one that has played an important part in the evolution of how public
space is used in Asia. Lisbon’s Francisco Caldeira Cabral is one of
the world’s leading landscape architects; he has worked in Macau for
more than 20 years. Annabel Jackson is a much published writer on
Asian cultural themes and Leong Ka Tai a Hong Kong photographer
renowned for his landscape work. This book is a collaboration of
talent and insight, a beautiful memento of Macau as it was at the end
of the Portuguese era.
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Caldeira Cabral & Annabel Jackson
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