Wartime education at the crossroads of empires: the relocation of schools to Macao during the Second World War, 1937-1945

Lopes, Helena F. S. 2021. Wartime education at the crossroads of empires: the relocation of schools to Macao during the Second World War, 1937-1945. Twentieth-Century China 46 (2) , pp. 130-152. 10.1353/tcc.2021.0012

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Abstract

This article examines the relocation of schools from mainland China and Hong Kong to the neutral enclave of Macao during the Second World War in East Asia. It argues that the war brought to the Portuguese-administered territory a new cosmopolitanism that was especially noticeable in the enhancement of educational opportunities. Moving to Macao allowed for the resumption of educational activities interrupted elsewhere and for the linkage of teaching and learning with relief and resistance. The tens of thousands of student-refugees who ended up in Macao featured in different imperial and nationalist initiatives that coexisted in peculiar ways. On the basis of multilingual archival materials, newspapers, and memoirs, this study explores ambivalent experiences of refuge and exchange during the Second World War through the case study of the transfer of dozens of schools to a peripheral territory at the crossroads of several empires.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DS Asia
Publisher:	Maney Publishing
ISSN:	1521-5385
Funders:	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/ BD/93872/2013), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/K503198/1), Faculty of History, University of Oxford, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Taiwan Fellowship
Related URLs:	https://research-information.bris.ac.uk/...
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	20 February 2023
Date of Acceptance:	17 April 2020
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 02:42
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156860

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