Macau through 500 years
Subtitle: emergence and development of an untypical Chinese city
By: Victor F.S. Sit
Edition: English ed.
Publisher: Silkroad Press; Enrich Professional Publishing (S) Private, Limited
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9789814298865
Subjects: Cities and towns; Growth; History; Social conditions; Politics and government; Economic conditions; Economic history; Political science; Social history
Other titles: Macau through five hundred years
Work titles: Aomen wu bai nian
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The changing perspectives of China and the west on power at sea; title: The golden century (1550-1643); title: Protracted decline : opium trafficking and an aggressive imperial outpost (1644-1844); title: Colonization : expansion and modernization (1845-1949); title: Contemporary Macau, a world-class gambling, tourist and exposition city (1950-2010).