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Macau, Bali and the Malay World: A Gastronomic Perspective

open access: yesJurnal Kajian Bali (Journal of Bali Studies)
Macau’s location on the South China Sea suggests that any syncretic activity would have been of Sinitic-Portuguese variety. However, the situation is rather more nuanced, as the culture of the Macanese people, who consider themselves the ‘sons of the ...
Annabel Jackson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 79, Issue 1, Page 221-246, February 2026.
Abstract This study examines how historical rail stations condition long‐run development using Colonial Malaya as a laboratory. By constructing novel historical data on rail stations, agglomeration centres, tin mines, and rubber plantations dating back a century and matching contemporary data on economic activity at the 1‐km cell level, we find that ...
Yit Wey Liew   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Slavery, Family and Childhood in the Portuguese Diaspora in Southeast Asia, 16th-17th Centuries

open access: yesLer História
The Portuguese communities in Asia were mainly concerned with maritime commerce, which required long periods on board. The families of most of these merchants resided on land, in cities such as Goa, Cochin, Malacca and Macao, and included numerous slaves
Isabel dos Guimarães Sá
doaj   +1 more source

A Green Energy Frontier Long in the Making: From Tin to Solar Power in the Riau Islands, Indonesia

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 57, Issue 6, Page 2508-2532, November 2025.
Abstract The Riau Islands in Indonesia, Southeast Asia are an emerging green energy frontier. This paper shows the long‐term making of this frontier. Through qualitative research, I trace colonial machinations for the capture of agrarian and mineral resources, postcolonial Cold War manoeuvres for the procurement of oil, and the contemporary quest for ...
Nikita Sud
wiley   +1 more source

Labour Mobility and Colonial and Forced Labour Regimes in Indonesia: A Long‐Term View

open access: yesJournal of Agrarian Change, Volume 25, Issue 4, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Incorporated into the global economy to provide the commodities for core capitalist countries, Indonesia experienced a variety of predominantly unfree labour regimes that connected local societies to global markets. These regimes varied from slavery, coerced labour imposed by colonial authorities, to extensive patterns of leverage employers ...
Ulbe Bosma
wiley   +1 more source

Global Coastal Biogeographic Boundaries: Unveiling the Nature of Processes Shaping the Distribution of Marine Biodiversity

open access: yesDiversity and Distributions, Volume 31, Issue 9, September 2025.
ABSTRACT Aim Identify biogeographic boundaries that delineate the distribution of species assemblages along global non‐insular coastlines, characterise the potential barriers responsible for biogeographic boundaries and realign coastal biogeographic provinces. Location Global. Time Period Not applied. Major Taxa Studied Animalia.
Everton Giachini Tosetto   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 210-229, June 2025.
The marriage between a Christian and a non‐Christian has been a highly discussed topic in the history of the Catholic Church and canon law. This study aims to analyse the construction of knowledge concerning disparitas cultus by using a broad array of sources including moral theology, canon law, and missionaries' cases that circulated in different ...
Luisa Stella de Oliveira Coutinho Silva
wiley   +1 more source

Logo in Makista: irrealis and beyond

open access: yesJournal of Ibero-Romance Creoles, 2019
Makista is endogenous to Macau and belongs to the Asian group of Portuguese-lexified creoles. Academic works have highlighted several close similarities to the Malacca Portuguese Creole (Kristang), and Batavia and Tugu Portuguese Creole, as well as ...
Mário Pinharanda Nunes
doaj  

“With Delight and Desire”: Gender and Emotion in the Conversions of Japanese Women in Sixteenth‐Century Southern Japan

open access: yesJournal of Religious History, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 192-209, June 2025.
This article examines the interplay of gender, emotions, and material culture in Jesuit conversion accounts in sixteenth‐century Japan. I analyse the rhetorical strategies of missionaries like Luís Fróis to better understand how conversion narratives were crafted to advance the Jesuits' goal of propagating Christianity in Japan and beyond.
Jessica O'Leary
wiley   +1 more source

Portuguese History of Malacca

open access: yes, 1886
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
openaire   +1 more source

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