Author: Philippe Pons
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Keywords: topographics, macao
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2002-11-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1861891369
ISBN-13: 9781861891365

A former Portuguese-administered enclave on the Chinese coast, Macao became a meeting point of cultures drawn from many parts of the world. A flourishing trade turned it into a rich warehouse, where more goods were traded than anywhere else. But Macao has also been a place of debauchery, with gambling dives, opium dens, pleasure houses, and an astonishingly successful smuggling industry. In this evocative text, Pons describes both Macao’s colorful past and the dramatic changes the 20th-century has seen, revealing its charms yet lamenting the passing of an era.Philippe Pons is the Tokyo corre

Author: Christopher Durang
Publisher: Samuel French, Inc.
Keywords: macao, adrift
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2009-03-26
List price: $8.95
ISBN-10: 0573663092
ISBN-13: 9780573663093

Full Length, Musical / 4m, 3f /Unit Sets Nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Music Set in 1952 in Macao, China, ADRIFT IN MACAO is a loving parody of film noir movies. Everyone that comes to Macao is waiting for something, and though none of them know exactly what that is, they hang around to find out. The characters include your film noir standards, like Laureena, the curvacious blonde, who luckily bumps into Rick Shaw, the cynical surf and turf casino owner her first night in town. She ends up getting a job singing in his night club - perhaps for no reason other than the fact that

Authors:Lindsay Ride, May Ride,
Publisher: Hong Kong Univ Pr
Keywords: stones, macao, voices
Number of Pages: 135
Published: 1999-08
List price: $43.50
ISBN-10: 9622094872
ISBN-13: 9789622094871

Hidden away in odd corners or standing incongruously surrounded by modern buildings and thronged with traffic, unnoticed by almost all who pass, are the treasure vaults of Macao’s rich and colorful history. These stones, statues and memorials found all over Macao trace its story from the days of the first Portuguese navigators in China in the 16th Century to the events of more recent times.

Author: Sonny Shiu-hing Lo
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Keywords: china, hong, kong, mainland, becoming, macao, studies, case, cross, border, crime, greater, politics
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 2008-12-30
List price: $76.95
ISBN-10: 0765612763
ISBN-13: 9780765612762