| Description |
187 pages : colour illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- In the Melbourne night / Edward Colless -- Five paintings / John Young -- Macau days: or six characters in search of a dish / Brian Castro -- Macau days: 29 drawings / John Young -- Species / Paul Carter -- I sailed with chinese pirates / Aleko E. Lilius, John Young -- Biographies |
| Summary |
This tri-lingual book (English, Portuguese, Chinese) includes a series of poetic texts by Brian Castro and artworks by John Young, which both engage their shared histories of Macau. It also offers an introductory letter by Edward Colless and a response from Paul Carter. Castro's text, titled Macau Days: Or Six Characters in Search of a Dish, is structured like a meal and traditional Macanese recipes accompany his texts. Young's artworks - paintings, chalk drawings and montages as well as stunning photographs of the Macanese dishes - are dispersed throughout the texts. Macau, as a place, has gone through fundamental metamorphosis over the course of half a millennium. Beginning as a merchant port of refuge and fisherman's haven, to a gateway for the Jesuit missionaries, and as the nineteenth an twentieth century Modernism of a Portuguese province; where poets and artists from the west and China traversed, and transformed their own orientation in becoming transcultural individuals. Now Macau is defined as a phantasmagoric site for gambling, housing more than 38 casinos, rivalling Las Vegas. These changes have been brought metaphorically into the conditions of the cultural world today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibligraphies |
| Notes |
Text and title page in English, Portuguese and Chinese |
| SUBJECT |
Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004501
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| Author |
Young, John, artist
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University of Adelaide. J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, supporting host
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University of Adelaide. EU Centre for Global Affairs, funding body
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| ISBN |
9780995392526 |
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