Wartime Macau offered a slice of peace and safety.

Book review - Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow investigates the precarious freedom of a neutral enclave

Macau was never occupied by the imperial Japanese forces and remained a safe haven in a war-torn region, but information on this period has been hard to come by in English, making this volume all the more appreciated

Peter Gordon

Published: 8:31am, 21 Dec, 2016

Updated: 8:30am, 21 Dec, 2016

Wartime Macau offered a slice of peace and safety.

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Peter Gordon

Peter Gordon is editor of the Asian Review of Books. A publisher and entrepreneur, he has been active in technology, culture and international trade and investment. He is the co-author of “The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565–1815”. He has been a resident of Hong Kong since 1985.