Globalizing Macau : The emotional costs of modernity
Series
Routledge contemporary China series
ISBN
0-415-35199-5
Type
book section
Date Issued
2006
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Wu, Fulong
Abstract
This chapter deals with the ambiguity that political authorities feel toward culture and history when they are pressed to enlarge and modernize urban infrastructures. I will discuss the strategy followed by the Harbour Works Department of Macau as the city sought to reposition itself as an international trade centre. I examine Macau's spatial transformation between 1910, when a progressive regime came to power in Lisbon, and 1930, when the first extension phase of the Porto Exterior facilities was completed.
Language
English
Keywords
Macau (China)
Macao (Portugal)
history of Macau (1557-1910)
history of Macau (1910-1930)
Portuguese colonialism
urban planning
urban development
orientalism
cultural heritage
Praia Grande
landscape consumption
tourism industry
travel literature
colonial modernity
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
Refereed
No
Book title
Globalization and the Chinese City
Publisher
Routledge
Publisher place
London
Number
7
Start page
108
End page
124
Pages
17
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
215100