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The defences of Macau
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ISBN: 9789882205758 9882205755 9789622099937 9622099939 9789888028498 9888028499 9882206808 1283016842 9786613016843 Year: 2010 Publisher: Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press

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The forts built from the early seventeenth century onwards, the ships that defended Macau's waters, the weapons that armed the facilities and the soldiers and sailors who manned them all are carefully detailed in The Defences of Macau. These forts, cannon and small arms were a familiar part of society for hundreds of years, and a significant part of Macau's heritage. Macau is fortunate in having so many artifacts remaining, but very little research has been done on them.--Richard Garrett, a retired civil engineer and an expert in antique weapons, addresses this gap by identifying many rare and

Encountering Macau : Portugese city-state on the periphery of China, 1557-1999
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ISBN: 0813389704 Year: 1996 Volume: *3 Publisher: Boulder, Col. ; Oxford, UK WestviewPress


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Em busca das origens de Macau.
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ISBN: 9728186258 Year: 1996 Publisher: Lisboa Grupo de Trabalho do Ministerio da Educacao para as Comemoracoes dos Descobrimentos Portugueses.


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Neutrality and collaboration in South China : Macau during the Second World War
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ISBN: 9781009311816 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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The South China enclave of Macau was the first and last European colonial settlement in East Asia and a territory at the crossroads of different empires. In this highly original study, Helena F. S. Lopes analyses the layers of collaboration that developed from neutrality in Macau during the Second World War. Exploring the intersections of local, regional and global dynamics, she unpacks the connections between a plurality of actors with competing and collaborative interests, including Chinese Nationalists, Communists and collaborators with Japan, Portuguese colonial authorities and British and Japanese representatives. Lopes argues that neutrality eased the movement of refugees of different nationalities who sought shelter in Macau during the war and that it helped to guarantee the maintenance of two remnants of European colonialism - Macau and Hong Kong. Drawing on extensive research from multilingual archival material from Asia, Europe, Australasia and America, this book brings to light the multiple global connections framing the experiences of neutrality and collaboration in the Portuguese-administered enclave of Macau.


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Setting off from Macau : essays on Jesuit history during the Ming and Qing dynasties
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ISBN: 9789004305519 9789004305526 9004305513 Year: 2016 Volume: 5 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston Brill

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It is impossible to understand the early history of the Society of Jesus and the Catholic Church in China without understanding the preeminent role played by the island of Macau in the Jesuit missionary endeavor; indeed, it can even be said that Catholicism would not exist in China if there was no Macau. This book seeks to restore Macau to its proper place in the history of Catholicism and the Jesuit missions in China during the Ming and Qing dynasties by offering a unique insight into subjects ranging from the origins of Jesuit missionary work on the island to the history of Jesuit education and Catholic art and music on the Chinese mainland.


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The lone flag : memoir of the British Consul in Macao during World War II
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ISBN: 9888268619 9888268376 9789888268375 9789888268610 9789888208326 9888208322 Year: 2015 Publisher: [Hong Kong], Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press,

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When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China Coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being surrounded in all directions by his country's enemy. His main task was to provide relief to the 9,000 or more people who crossed the Pearl River from Hong Kong to take refuge in Macao and who had a claim for support from the British Consul. The core of this book is John Reeves' memoir of those extraordinary years and of his tireless efforts to provide food, shelter and medical care for the refugees. He coped with these challenges as Macao's own people faced starvation. Despite Macao's neutrality, it was thoroughly infiltrated by Japanese agents. Marked for assassination, he had to have armed guards as he went about his business. He also had to navigate the complexities of multiple intelligence agencies -- British, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese Nationalist -- in a place that was described as the Casablanca of the Far East.


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Wartime Macau : under the Japanese shadow
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ISBN: 9888390120 9789888390120 9888390511 9789888390519 Year: 2016 Publisher: Hong Kong, [China] : HKU Press,

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It has intrigued many that, unlike Hong Kong, Macau avoided direct Japanese wartime occupation despite being caught up in the vortex of the wider global conflict. Geoffrey Gunn and an international group of contributors come together to investigate how Macau escaped the fate of direct Japanese invasion and occupation. Exploring the broader diplomatic and strategic issues during that era, this volume reveals that the occupation of Macau was not in Japan's best interest because the Portuguese administration in Macau posed no threat to Japan's control over the China coast and acted as a listening post to monitor Allied activities. Drawing upon archival materials in English, Japanese, Portuguese, and other languages, the contributors explain how, under the high duress of Japanese military agencies, the Portuguese administration coped with a tripling of its population and issues such as currency, food supply, disease, and survival. This volume presents contrasting views on wartime governance and shows how the different levels of Macau society survived the war.

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