Rice scarcity in World War II Macao : The local experience revisited

Venus VIANA; Kyung Yeob KIM

doi:10.1017/S0963926818000548

Rice scarcity in World War II Macao : The local experience revisited

Venus VIANA, Kyung Yeob KIM

Department of History

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	518-541
Number of pages	24
Journal	Urban History
Volume	46
Issue number	3
Early online date	13 Mar 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0963926818000548
Publication status	Published - Aug 2019

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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).

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