Books by Jonathan Porter

In this book on the cultural and social history of a unique and fragile city, Macau, Jonathan Porter examines it as an enduring but ever-changing threshold between East and West. He reflects on the character and meaning of the many cultural and social influences that have met and mingled in Macau.

This clear book provides an overview of Ming-Qing China (1368-1912), its last imperial age. As the climax of the traditional era and the harbinger of modern China, Porter argues that imperial China must be explored for its own sake as well as for the insights it provides in understanding contemporary China, and indeed world history writ large.

A spellbinding history of a remarkable city poised on the intersection between East and West.