The Red Cross in wartime Macau and its global connections

Lopes, Helena F. S. 2020. The Red Cross in wartime Macau and its global connections. Wylie, Neville, Oppenheimer, Melanie and Crossland, James, eds. The Red Cross Movement: Myths, Practices and Turning Points, Humanitarianism: Key Debates and New Approaches, Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 264-281. (10.7765/9781526133526.00024)

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Abstract

In 1943 the Macau delegation of the Portuguese Red Cross was established in the South China enclave at the height of the Second World War. Two years later its president was assassinated in the streets of Macau and the following year the delegation ended its activities. It was not the first time a Macau delegation had existed, nor would it be the last, but the brief period (1943–6) during which this Red Cross delegation operated reveals many important features of wartime Macau, the activities of a small Red Cross delegation under extreme circumstances and the challenges of neutrality during the same period. Surrounded by Japanese conquests, wartime Macau became a haven of neutrality and sanctuary, with a population swollen by refugees from across Asia. This chapter explores a range of issues and shows how the Red Cross in Macau was, simultaneously, a local creation, a delegation integrated into a national/colonial context, an inter-imperial structure and part of a transnational institution with global reach.

Item Type:	Book Section
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:	Manchester University Press
ISBN:	978-1-5261-3351-9
Funders:	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (SFRH/ BD/93872/2013), Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/K503198/1), St Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2023 12:57
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/156865

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