LEADER 03902oam 22005775 450 001 9910564688803321 005 20231030224821.0 010 $a9783030946654$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030946647 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-94665-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6961480 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6961480 035 $a(CKB)21605795100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-94665-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921605795100041 100 $a20220422d2022 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe French in Macao in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries $eliterary, cultural, and historical perspectives /$fJingzhen Xie 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (203 pages) $cillustrations (black and white, and color) 225 1 $aChinese Literature and Culture in the World,$x2945-7262 311 08$aPrint version: Xie, Jingzhen The French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030946647 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1 Introduction: History Is Made of Details -- 2 Historical Background -- 3 What Was Macao and Who Were the Macanese? -- 4 Views of Europeans Other Than French.-5 Theoretical Reference.-6 The Scope of the French Views.-7 French Views of Macao.-8 Macao?s Status and Importance in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.-9 Conclusion . 330 $aThe French in Macao in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Literary, Cultural, and Historical Perspectives investigates the role that Macao played as a meeting place of the East and the West during this period of time and its decline as a Portuguese colony in the eyes of the Europeans. The book provides a comprehensive view of representations of Macao as portrayed by the French. These texts in French have been studied less than Chinese or Portuguese texts on Macao. Overall, the book contributes to the study of colonial history, cultural studies, and China in the late Qing dynasty. Jingzhen Xie holds a Ph.D. in French from The Johns Hopkins University, USA and is Assistant Professor at the Department of History at the University of Macau, China. Her main research areas include Macao studies, history of translation from French to Chinese, and the relationship of information to culture. She has published on historical studies and library and information science. She is a co-editor of Dictionnaire français-chinois ??????? (2014), the main co-editor of East Meets West: An Illustrated Catalogue of Some Rare Books in Western Languages in the University of Macau Library (2016), and a co-author of Transferring Information Literacy Practices (2019). 410 0$aChinese Literature and Culture in the World,$x2945-7262 606 $aChinese$xPublic opinion 606 $aChinese in literature 606 $aEast and West in literature 606 $aFrench literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aFrench literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 607 $aMacau (China : Special Administrative Region)$xIn literature 615 0$aChinese$xPublic opinion. 615 0$aChinese in literature. 615 0$aEast and West in literature. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aFrench literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a840.9352995109034 676 $a840.9352995109034 700 $aXie$b Jingzhen$01431686 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910564688803321 996 $aThe French in Macao in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries$93574571 997 $aUNINA