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Casino gaming in Macau
Manage episode 445297373 series 2949096
Identified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contemporary Macau has metamorphosed into a surreal, hypermodern urban landscape augmented by massive casino megaresorts, including two of the world’s largest buildings. In Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution, Tim Simpson uncovers various roots of the region’s radical transformation. Here, Simpson is joined in conversation with Cathryn H. Clayton.
Tim Simpson is associate professor of communication at the University of Macau.
Cathryn H. Clayton is associate professor and chair of the Asian studies program at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
WORKS REFERENCED:
David Schwartz / Suburban Xanadu
Natasha Dow Schüll / Addiction by Design
Susan Strange / Casino Capitalism
Cathryn H. Clayton / Sovereignty at the Edge
PEOPLE REFERENCED:
Sheldon Adelson
John Maynard Keynes
Deng Xiaoping
“A must-read for scholars and practitioners of urban planning and architecture, particularly those working in or studying urbanization in China.”
—Miodrag Mitrašinović
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution is available from University of Minnesota Press.
92 епізодів
Manage episode 445297373 series 2949096
Identified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, contemporary Macau has metamorphosed into a surreal, hypermodern urban landscape augmented by massive casino megaresorts, including two of the world’s largest buildings. In Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution, Tim Simpson uncovers various roots of the region’s radical transformation. Here, Simpson is joined in conversation with Cathryn H. Clayton.
Tim Simpson is associate professor of communication at the University of Macau.
Cathryn H. Clayton is associate professor and chair of the Asian studies program at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
WORKS REFERENCED:
David Schwartz / Suburban Xanadu
Natasha Dow Schüll / Addiction by Design
Susan Strange / Casino Capitalism
Cathryn H. Clayton / Sovereignty at the Edge
PEOPLE REFERENCED:
Sheldon Adelson
John Maynard Keynes
Deng Xiaoping
“A must-read for scholars and practitioners of urban planning and architecture, particularly those working in or studying urbanization in China.”
—Miodrag Mitrašinović
Betting on Macau: Casino Capitalism and China’s Consumer Revolution is available from University of Minnesota Press.
92 епізодів
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