TY - JOUR
T1 - Rice scarcity in World War II Macao : The local experience revisited
AU - VIANA, Venus
AU - KIM, Kyung Yeob
N1 - We sincerely thank the two reviewers for their insightful comments. This research is partially funded by the following grants: ‘Reenacting “cultural China” in the twentieth century’ (RGC-GRF Ref. no.: 14617915) and ‘Recapture “endangering” social life’ (Research Committee, CUHK, Ref. no. 3132938).
PY - 2019/8
Y1 - 2019/8
N2 - After Hong Kong fell on Christmas Day 1941, the ongoing war threatened life in isolated, neutral Macao. While many scholars have attributed the local people's starvation and suffering to the war, others have highlighted Macao's economic prosperity. To explain the gap between these two narratives, this article explores how the locals dealt with rice scarcity and fared relatively well during the four years of Japanese occupation of the Pearl River Delta. Instead of blaming the shortage solely on the machinations of the Japanese and the rice merchants, we uncover the local people's actions in exacerbating the problem.
AB - After Hong Kong fell on Christmas Day 1941, the ongoing war threatened life in isolated, neutral Macao. While many scholars have attributed the local people's starvation and suffering to the war, others have highlighted Macao's economic prosperity. To explain the gap between these two narratives, this article explores how the locals dealt with rice scarcity and fared relatively well during the four years of Japanese occupation of the Pearl River Delta. Instead of blaming the shortage solely on the machinations of the Japanese and the rice merchants, we uncover the local people's actions in exacerbating the problem.
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UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/rice-scarcity-world-war-ii-macao-local-experience-revisited
U2 - 10.1017/S0963926818000548
DO - 10.1017/S0963926818000548
M3 - Journal Article (refereed)
SN - 1469-8706
VL - 46
SP - 518
EP - 541
JO - Urban History
JF - Urban History
IS - 3
ER -