"Macao is a city of immense interest, having served for centuries as a major site for the encounter of Western and Asian culture, yet it has rarely before received the scholarly attention it deserves. In this mould-breaking study the accumulated traces of

"A book we have all been waiting for--I wish I could have written it. A magnificent evocation of historic Macao, the 'capital of the sixteenth century' in Asia, just as Paris was the capital of the nineteenth century in Europe. The authors are well versed

"This stimulating and visually stunning book can be read on a number of levels. It is at once a guide-book to Macao's architectural heritage, and it would be a wonderful resource for anyone walking through the city. But it is also a guide to a way of thin

"Verbal description and photographs conspire here to present the city of Macao in vignettes of its colonial, 'baroque' architecture reflected upon from a postcolonial and postmodern perspective. Rich in words and images, a delightful book!" --Zhang Longxi,

Jeremy Tambling is professor of literature at Manchester University, and author of several books, including Madmen and Other Survivors Reading Lu Xun's Fiction (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), and REVerse Turning Towards Poetry (Longman, 2007). Louis Lo is assistant professor in the Department of English Language and Literature at Shue Yan University, Hong Kong, and author of Male Jealousy Literature and Film (Continuum, 2008). He collaborated, with photographs, on Jeremy Tambling's Going Astray Dickens and London (Longman, 2008).