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Making Impressions: The adaptation of a Portuguese family to Hong Kong, 1700-1950 [PDF]
, 2012 Many Portuguese families who left Macau in the mid-nineteenth century attempted to establish a new identity in the nearby and far more successful British colony of Hong Kong. They succeeded in doing this to a limited degree, the limitations being imposed
Braga, Stuart
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Labour Mobility and Colonial and Forced Labour Regimes in Indonesia: A Long‐Term View
Journal 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
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Language maintenance and competing priorities at the Portuguese Settlement, Malacca [PDF]
, 2011 Papia Kristang or Malacca Creole Portuguese, is the „language‟ of the descendents of the Portuguese who conquered Malacca in 1511 and it has been spoken by the Kristang speech community at the Portuguese Settlement, Malacca for at least five centuries ...
Lee, Ei Leen *
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Diversity 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
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Marrying the Unbeliever: Gender, Law, and Disparitas Cultus in Early Modern Japan*
Journal 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
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'cultivated, / Wild, exotic': Nationalism and Internationalism in the Poetry of Shirley Geok-lin Lim [PDF]
, 2019 Born in multicultural Malacca during British rule, educated there and later in Kuala Lumpur and Boston, a long-time resident of the USA and a visiting professor to many countries, Shirley Geok-lin Lim seems a transnational writer par excellence.
Haskell, Dennis
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Journal 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
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Logo in Makista: irrealis and beyond
Journal 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
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The Straits of Malacca: Regional powers vis-a-vis littoral states in strategic and security issues and interests [PDF]
, 2010 This paper presents an overview of the strategic and security issues surrounding the Straits of Malacca. It begins by introducing the strategic nature of the Straits of Malacca and piracy threat in the busy sea lane. Subsequently this paper discusses the
Ismail, Siti Zubaidah +1 more
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Sobre arquiteturas suaves [PDF]
, 2015 This text explores relationships between political action and enunciation of rights over the use of spaces. The empirical context is directed towards practices of collective action in Malacca’s Portuguese Settlement (West Malaysia). Based on ethnographic
Pires, Ema
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