Americans And Macao

Author : Paul A. Van Dyke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888083923

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Americans and Macao by Paul A. Van Dyke Pdf

The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late 18th and 19th centuries. The essays address topics such as the role of the China trade in US pacific expansion and exploration, US consuls, smuggling networks, missionary and educational work, and American women's perceptions of China. In all of the encounters, Macao emerges as a central player, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Sino-American relations.

Author : Van Dyke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066451300

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Americans and Macao Trade, Smuggling, and Diplomacy on the South China Coast by Van Dyke Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : China
ISBN : 9993702390

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Macao in the Making of Early Sino-American Relations 1784-1844 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul A. Van Dyke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888028917

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Merchants of Canton and Macao by Paul A. Van Dyke Pdf

Paul Van Dyke works in many languages and archives to uncover the history of Peark River trade. This two-volume work is likely to be the most definitive reference work on the major trading families of Guangzhou. Organized as a series of family studies, this first volume includes exhaustive profiles of nine of the dominant hongs and their founding patriarchs for which good information survives: Tan Suqua, Tan Hunqua, Cai and Qiu, Beaukeequa, Yan, Mandarin Quiqua, Ye and Tacqua Amoy, Zhang, and Liang.

Author : Eilo W.Y.YU,Ming K.CHAN
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789629372071

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China's Macao Transformed by Eilo W.Y.YU,Ming K.CHAN Pdf

The return of Macao from the Portuguese administration to the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1999 marks the beginning of its transformation in the 21st century. Macao was confronted with various issues concerning then existing political system, economic downturn and gangland violence during the transition period. Beijing put Macao under the "One country, Two Systems" and implemented a wide variety of measures in order to restore its law and order as well as to recover its tourism dependent economy. Gradually, Macao transformed itself to "Las Vegas of the East". This volume of 18 essays highlights the key dimensions of Macao's remarkable "One country, Two Systems" actualisation experience in its first 15 years, and discusses how Macao transformed and what challenges it encountered during its post-handover transformation. The volume has several focuses. It first investigates the political and electoral issues in a critical manner─ post-handover Macao suffered from maladministration and limited democratization, and the chief executives selected lacked representativeness due to restricted public participation in the electoral process. Overall speaking, the government lacked legitimacy and popular support. From a socio-economic point of view, this book looks into the business model in running Macao's casinos and the emerging culture of mass participation and youth participation in political affairs. The education reformation and changes in civic identity of local Macao Chinese are also addressed. Finally, the volume looks into how post-handover Macao relates itself in the international politics affair.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Macau (China : Special Administrative Region)
ISBN : PURD:32754075499941

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Macau (Macao) Special Administrative Region by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Stacilee Ford
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888083114

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Troubling American Women by Stacilee Ford Pdf

American women have lived in Hong Kong, and in neighboring Macao, for nearly two centuries. Many were changed by their encounter with Chinese life and British colonialism. Their openness to new experiences set them apart, while their "pedagogical impulse" gave them a reputation for outspokenness that troubled others. Drawing on memoirs, diaries, newspapers, films, and other texts, Stacilee Ford tells the stories of several American women and explores how, through dramatically changing times, they communicated their notions of national identity and gender.Troubling American Womenis a lively and provocative study of cross-cultural encounters between the Hong Kong and the US and use of stereotypes of American womanhood in Hong Kong popular culture. Stacilee Fordhas lived in Hong Kong for 18 years. She teaches history and American studies at the University of Hong Kong.

Author : Lindsay Ride,May Ride,Bernard Mellor
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9622093841

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An East India Company Cemetery by Lindsay Ride,May Ride,Bernard Mellor Pdf

Many of the the major figures (British, European and American) during the turbulent events leading to the Opium War are buried in the Old Protestant Cemetery in Macao. The stories told by the inscriptions on the 160 gravestones there form Macao and Hong Kong's heritage.

Author : Abraham Conlon,Adrienne Lo
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781607748953

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The Adventures of Fat Rice by Abraham Conlon,Adrienne Lo Pdf

With 100 recipes, this is the first book to explore the vibrant food culture of Macau—an east-meets-west melting pot of Chinese, Portuguese, Malaysian, and Indian foodways—as seen through the lens of the cult favorite Chicago restaurant, Fat Rice. An hour’s ferry ride from Hong Kong, on the banks of the Pearl River in China, lies Macau—a modern, cosmopolitan city with an unexpected history. For centuries, Macau was one of the world’s greatest trading ports: a Portuguese outpost and crossroads along the spice route, where travelers from Europe, Southeast Asia, South Asia, and mainland China traded resources, culture, and food. The Adventures of Fat Rice is the story of how two Chicago chefs discovered and fell in love with this fascinating and, at least until now, unheralded cuisine. With dishes like Minchi (a classic Macanese meat hash), Po Kok Gai (a Portuguese-influenced chicken curry with chouriço and olives), and Arroz Gordo (if paella and fried rice had a baby), now you, too, can bring the eclectic and wonderfully unique—yet enticingly familiar—flavors of Macau into your own kitchen.

Author : Austin Coates
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789622090774

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A Macao Narrative by Austin Coates Pdf

Macao, 40 miles west of Hong Kong, became a place of Portuguese residence between 1555–57. In this short, lively and affectionate book, Austin Coates explains how and why the Portuguese came to the Far East, and how they peacefully settled in Macao with tacit Chinese goodwill. Macao's golden age, from 1557 to the disastrous collapse of 1641, is vividly reconstructed. There follows the cuckoo-in-the-nest situation of the late eighteenth century when the British in Macao were a law unto themselves, until the foundation of Hong Kong and the opening of Shanghai gave wider scope for their energies. Portugal’s subsequent struggle to obtain full sovereignty in Macao, and the extraordinary outcome in 1975, brings this account to a close. Special tribute is paid to the risks Macao gallantly undertook in harbouring Hong Kong's starving and destitute during World War II.

Author : Jacques M. Downs,Frederic D. Grant, Jr.
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888139095

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The Golden Ghetto by Jacques M. Downs,Frederic D. Grant, Jr. Pdf

Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city’s most important foreign communities—the Americans—during the decades between the American Revolution of 1776 and the signing of the Sino-US Treaty of Wanghia in 1844. American merchants lived in isolation from Chinese society in sybaritic, albeit usually celibate luxury. Making use of exhaustive research, Downs provides an especially clear explanation of the Canton commercial setting generally and of the role of American merchants. Many of these men made fortunes and returned home to become important figures in the rapidly developing United States. The book devotes particular attention to the biographical details of the principal American traders, the leading American firms, and their operations in Canton and the United States. Opium smuggling receives especial emphasis, as does the important topic of early diplomatic relations between the United States and China. Since its first publication in 1997, The Golden Ghettohas been recognized as the leading work on Americans trading at Canton. Long out of print, this new edition makes this key work again available, both to scholars and a wider readership. “The fullest exposition on the subject thus far and as the final word on extant, previously untapped, English-language sources.” — Eileen Scully, in The China Quarterly

Author : IBP. Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-03-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781433070228

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Macao Company Laws and Regulations Handbook - Practical Information and Basic Laws by IBP. Inc. Pdf

Sentenced to death in 1965 at age twenty for an unpremeditated murder during the bungled holdup of a convenience store, Billy Wayne spent his first seven prison years on death row. When the death penalty was abolished, his sentence was life. Three-and-a-half decades later, Billy Wayne is still behind bars—feared by many politicians and prison officials for his well-known incorruptibility and unrelenting crusade for prison reform. This is his memoir. A Life in the Balance begins with an almost unbearable account of his early years—when he was so abused by his father one wonders how he survived—and his “escape” into a crowd of hooligans, which led him to the fateful day in 1965 when he held up the convenience store. His story takes you behind the metal doors of the Angola State Penitentiary to reveal the brutal truth of life inside. Here you will meet Billy Ray, Billy Wayne’s blood brother; old Emmitt Henderson, who died of prison neglect; Jamie Parks, a seventeen-year-old kid whose fate was sealed the day he arrived in Angola; Big Mick, who ran drugs in the prison to earn money to put his handicapped sister through colle≥ Wilbert Rideau, Billy Wayne’s coeditor on The Angolite; the Dixie Mafia; and Richard Clark Hand, the young lawyer who took on Billy Wayne’s case and has been fighting for his release for thirty years.

Author : Steven Bailey,Steven K. Bailey
Publisher : ThingsAsian Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0971594090

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Strolling in Macau by Steven Bailey,Steven K. Bailey Pdf

This guidebook is designed to help visitors navigate Macaus maze of narrow streets as well as understand the striking contrasts that make this city such a fascinating place to visit. With its compact size, winding back streets, and pedestrian-only lanes and plazas, Macau is best explored on foot. Though geared to those who wish to experience Macau at a walking pace, Strolling in Macau will serve any visitor interested in the history and culture of one of Asias most unique cities.

Author : IBP. Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438777221

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Macao Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook Volume 3 Investment Opportunities, Projects, Contacts by IBP. Inc. Pdf

Macao Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook Volume 1 Strategic Information and Opportunities

Author : IBP. Inc.
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781577519751

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Macao Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook Volume 2 Gaming Industry: Strategic Information, Regulations, Opportunities by IBP. Inc. Pdf

Macao Business and Investment Opportunities Yearbook Volume 2 Leading Export-Import, Business, Investment Opportunities and Projects