Beyond the Wager: Urban Macau through the Lens of Animal Welfare
中國歷史及文化學系
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日期
2024年5月8日
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主辦單位
Department of Chinese History and Culture
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時間
10:30 - 12:00
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地點
DE302 & ZOOM 地圖
講者
Dr Catherine S. Chan
摘要
As a popular tourist destination, the Macau story is often told through exhilarating stories of gambling, glitz, and glamour. When greyhound racing operated, for a few years in the 1930s and for almost six decades until 2018, Macau’s reputation as a gaming city swelled beyond its borders, though not consistently for positive reasons: competition between gambling options was stiff, the careers of greyhound racers were impacted by the overall gaming economy, and by the second half of the twentieth century, the welfare of the animals within the canidrome came under international scrutiny. Using the sluggishness of social, legal, and institutional developments in animal protection as a point of access, this study digs into issues submerged in the broader picture of a successful gambling city to reconsider the incessant relationship between Macau’s gambling economy and its modern environment and urban culture.
講者
Dr Catherine S. Chan
Catherine S. Chan received her PhD from the University of Bristol and is currently a Research Assistant Professor at the department of history, Lingnan University. Her research interests include transimperial networks, global diasporas, and colonial cities. She has published on Luso-Asians, heritage issues, and animal welfare in East and Southeast Asia and is the author of The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong, A Century of Transimperial Drifting.