HISTÓRIAS DE VIDA DE MULHERES E FAMÍLIAS ENTRE MACAU E TIMOR NA PRIMEIRA METADE DO SÉCULO XX二十世紀上半葉澳門及帝汶之間的婦女及家庭生活故事
This article analyzes the life stories of women and families between Macau and Timor in the first half of the twentieth century, arguing that the major political and military conflicts in China, although not directly involving the territory of Macau, profoundly reshaped ways of life, producing parti...
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| Published in: | Review of Culture |
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
April 2007
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| Online Access: | https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40022/3712 |
| Summary: | This article analyzes the life stories of women and families between Macau and Timor in the first half of the twentieth century, arguing that the major political and military conflicts in China, although not directly involving the territory of Macau, profoundly reshaped ways of life, producing particular vulnerabilities among women, children, and lower-resource households. The author mobilizes the methodology of life histories to articulate individual experiences with social and cultural projections and representations, situating family trajectories within a broad historical context marked by post-Qing imperial instability in China, the Republican revolution, the emergence and confrontation between nationalists (Kuomintang) and communists (CCP), and the subsequent Japanese aggression and World War II. Within this framework, the article reconstructs how affective trajectories, marital practices, and domestic dynamics articulate with displacements, economic insecurity, and political reorganizations, including the circulation of people and memories between colonial spaces. The main conclusions underscore that social suffering and precarity were not “side” effects, but rather constitutive elements of family relations, enabling an understanding of Macau and Timor as historical nodes connected by human flows, cultural transformations, and reconfigurations of gender and kinship. |
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| ISSN: | 1682-1106 |