Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque
Publication Year: 2009
Published by: Hong Kong University Press, HKU
Walking Macao, Reading the Baroque
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
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pp. vi-vii
Preface
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pp. ix- x
This short study complete with new photographs of Macao does four things. It is a guide-book to parts of Macao, spelled here with the old Portuguese usage, rather than as ‘Macau’. It discusses Macao as a colonial city, as having...
Chapter 1. Learning from Macao: An Introduction
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pp. 2-19
The impression visitors who do not penetrate the city of Macao to its old heart will get is of a capital of consumption, full of high-rise buildings, brightly coloured neon lights, and casinos. It is hard to link the two: the older colonised space and this new reclaimed land...
Chapter 2. Seven Libraries
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pp. 20-37
The classic of Portuguese literature which celebrates Portuguese colonialism is Luís Vaz de Camões’ (1524–1580) The Lusiads (Os Lusíadas). It is both Renaissance and baroque...
Chapter 3. Igreja e Seminário São José (St Joseph’s Seminary and Church)
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pp. 38-59
Macao becomes a library of the baroque in St Joseph’s Seminary and Church, which is 22. Dome and skyline behind: the viewer will take in the elegant curve of ...
Chapter 4. Igreja de S�o Domingos (Church of St Dominic)
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pp. 60-79
After S�o Jos�, a different example of the baroque can be visited: the Igreja de S�o Domingos. This chapter approaches it from the Senado Square through a detour, to see how it relates to the city...
Chapter 5. Ruínas de São Paulo (Ruins of St Paul’s)
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pp. 80-97
The building discussed here is known worldwide, and is visited by every tourist to Macao. The Ruins of St Paul, on a hill twenty-six metres above sea level, must constitute one of the most famous baroque images: every...
Chapter 6. Neo-Classicism
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pp. 98-117
Portuguese colonisation has left traces everywhere in Macao, some of them Christian emblems, signs, which Chinese influences have made to ...
Chapter 7. Walling the City
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pp. 118-135
Beginning from the A-Ma temple, the Portuguese built forts along the Praya Grande, the Inner Harbour, and on the hills of Macao. The photograph shows walls and a bastion, and looks up beyond the old Bela Vista hotel towards the Penha Hill, site of a...
Chapter 8. Macao’s Chinese Architecture
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pp. 136-157
Nature and culture stand in nice relation to each other in Macao. These two photographs of Coloane bring out their integration. In photograph 75, corrugated iron has been cut to keep the trees in...
Chapter 9. Colonialism and Modernity
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pp. 158-179
The A-Ma temple was repeatedly painted by Western artists, for example by George Chinnery (1774–1852) and Auguste Borget (1808– 1877)....
Chapter 10. Cam�es and the Casa Garden
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pp. 180-197
This chapter looks at four sites associated with Portuguese and later colonialism. Three may be visited together: the Casa Garden, the Protestant cemetery and the Cam�es Garden; the fourth is on Coloane...
Chapter 11. Is Postmodern Macao’s Architecture Baroque?
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pp. 198-223
Like photograph 88, photograph 109 plays with illusions that are already there, looking out onto reclaimed land from inside Macao Cultural Centre (1999, architect Bruno Soares), with stairs mirrored in the glass, surveying illusionistic fl oorlevels, which though...
Chapter 12. Death in Macao
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pp. 224-233
It is a question how much analysis of baroque Macao applies to the new city-space, much of which has been created out of reclaiming land, threatening to make Taipa and Coloane disappear as separate islands...
Notes
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pp. 234-248
Glossary of Terms
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pp. 249-253
Index of Macao Places
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pp. 254-255
General Index
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pp. 256- 259
E-ISBN-13: 9789882205703
Print-ISBN-13: 9789622099371
Page Count: 272
Illustrations: 125 colour photos
Publication Year: 2009
