Neutrality and Collaboration in South China

Helena F. S. Lopes is Lecturer in Modern Asian History at Cardiff University. She held a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Bristol and lectureships at the University of Oxford and the University of Bristol.

• Introduction: An 'East Asian Casablanca'; 1. Caught in the middle: Macau between Chinese resistance and collaboration; 2. Old allies and new friends: the Macau Portuguese administration, Japan and Britain before the fall of Hong Kong; 3. Crisis and opportunity: refugees in wartime Macau; 4. The last 'lone island': pressure, profits and philanthropy; 5. Colonial transplantation: Hong Kong in Macau; 6. Seeking justice and recognition: dealing with neutrality and collaboration after the war; Epilogue: enduring legacies of a globally connected periphery.

'In this deeply researched account, Lopes illuminates how Macau became a refugee city, a cosmopolitan society, and a global wartime nexus. At once diplomatic and social history, this book challenges our understandings of neutrality and collaboration. This book puts Macau on the map of histories of empire, China, and the world.' Denise Ho, Yale University