Wartime Macau

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Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow is a 2016 non-fiction book edited by Geoffrey C Gunn, published by Hong Kong University Press.

Gunn wrote more than half of the articles, and Peter Gordon wrote in a review published in Asian Review of Books that Wartime Macau has "more coherence of style and focus" compared to other books made up of essays written by multiple people. [1]

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References

  1. Gordon, Peter (2016-12-16). ""Wartime Macau: Under the Japanese Shadow", edited by Geoffrey C Gunn". Asian Review of Books . Retrieved 2019-11-15.

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