Casino gaming in Macau

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.