Luso-Asians and the Origins of Macau’s Cultural Development

• Autor: Xavier, Roy Eric
• Assuntos: Biodiversity ; Chinese culture ; Colonization ; Cultural diversity ; East Asian culture ; Economic aspects ; Emigration and immigration ; Evaluation ; Indian culture ; International relations ; Merchants ; Popular culture ; Slaves ; Social aspects ; Sons ; South Asian culture ; Southeast Asian culture ; Trade
• É parte de: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 2017-01, Vol.57, p.187-205
• Notas: Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch, Vol. 57, 2017: 187-205
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• Descrição: The appearance of Luso-Asians in Macau was the result of political and religious policies introduced during the Portuguese colonisation of western India, and economic opportunities encountered during persistent eastward migrations of this group. Their Indian ancestors were often domestics, concubines, or slaves who were sometimes forced to adopt Portuguese culture and Roman Catholicism to escape persecutions by military authorities and the Inquisition. Many were born of liaisons between Portuguese colonists and indigenous women. This paper argues for a research programme that investigates how Macau was the beneficiary of diverse patterns of cultural development begun in Goa during the colonial occupation. As a result of multiple influences in language, religion, social outlook, fashion, and even culinary styles, Luso-Asians not only played key roles in the development of global commerce across Southeast Asia but, as of the late sixteenth century, were essential to Macau’s varied trading contacts, helping thereby to create a recognisably distinct Macanese society. Understanding this process will move us closer to answering a question traditionally raised by scholars: how did Macau survive and flourish on the fringes of Imperial China and at the nexus of European and Asian interaction for almost five centuries?
  
• Editor: Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Branch
  
• Idioma: Inglês