The Echo Macaense Journey: A Newspaper Calling for Collaborative Action — An Introduction
The article introduces the trajectory "The Echo Macaense Journey" and argues that Macao's periodical press, since the nineteenth century, functioned as a technology of political and cultural mediation within a cosmopolitan, multilingual space. Drawing on historical evidence from newspapers such as *...
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Instituto Cultural de Macau
2024
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| description | The article introduces the trajectory "The Echo Macaense Journey" and argues that Macao's periodical press, since the nineteenth century, functioned as a technology of political and cultural mediation within a cosmopolitan, multilingual space. Drawing on historical evidence from newspapers such as *A Abelha da China* (1822) and the *Canton Register* (1827), the author contends that the press contributed simultaneously to the construction of a local perspective on governance and to the insertion of Macao into broader communicational spheres, including those of the Portuguese Empire and extra-imperial networks. Methodologically, the text organizes a contextual reading of the evolution of the periodical system in Portuguese, Chinese, and English, articulating it with demographic, economic, and geopolitical transformations—namely Macao's relative decline following the creation of Hong Kong, migratory flows to the British territory, and the circulation of mediating elites. The article concludes that, despite the vitality of publications in distinct languages, their communicational independence reveals tensions between local identities and imperial imaginaries, while the convergence of journalists, intellectuals, and elites reinforces the role of newspapers as instances of debate, pressure, and social coordination. |
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| spelling | The Echo Macaense Journey: A Newspaper Calling for Collaborative Action — An Introduction The article introduces the trajectory "The Echo Macaense Journey" and argues that Macao's periodical press, since the nineteenth century, functioned as a technology of political and cultural mediation within a cosmopolitan, multilingual space. Drawing on historical evidence from newspapers such as *A Abelha da China* (1822) and the *Canton Register* (1827), the author contends that the press contributed simultaneously to the construction of a local perspective on governance and to the insertion of Macao into broader communicational spheres, including those of the Portuguese Empire and extra-imperial networks. Methodologically, the text organizes a contextual reading of the evolution of the periodical system in Portuguese, Chinese, and English, articulating it with demographic, economic, and geopolitical transformations—namely Macao's relative decline following the creation of Hong Kong, migratory flows to the British territory, and the circulation of mediating elites. The article concludes that, despite the vitality of publications in distinct languages, their communicational independence reveals tensions between local identities and imperial imaginaries, while the convergence of journalists, intellectuals, and elites reinforces the role of newspapers as instances of debate, pressure, and social coordination. Instituto Cultural de Macau Macau Review of Culture Articles 2024 Catia Miriam Costa |
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