Macau

In this book on the cultural and social history of a unique and fragile city, Macau, Jonathan Porter examines it as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between East and West. He reflects on the character and meaning of the many cultural and social influences that have met and mingled in Macau.

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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