Betting on Macau

Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution, by Tim Simpson

Review (2023)

Authors

G. Bracken Spatial Planning and Strategy - Architecture and the Built Environment
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Spatial Planning and Strategy (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2023 G. Bracken
DOI
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https://doi.org/10.1163/15700615-02202007
China Macau Casino capitalism
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Architecture and the Built Environment

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Urbanism

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Spatial Planning and Strategy

Abstract

Macau was founded by the Portuguese in 1557 and was the West’s gateway to China before becoming a colonial backwater in the nineteenth century. It became a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of China in 1999, something that, according to Tim Simpson, augured ‘the embryonic stirring of a world-historical geopolitical realignment [with] the gradual geographical translocation of the axis of global capitalism from the once-dominant West to East Asia’ (pp. 4–5).