Dog Racing in Macau: Commodification, Gambling Culture, and the Place of Non-human Animals in the City For a few years in the 1930s and then for another fifty-five years since 1963, greyhound racing was one of the attractions that helped boost Macau’s repertoire as the Monte Carlo of the East, the Las Vegas of Asia, Asia’s sin city, and the gambling capital of the Far East. Albeit short-lived, the city’s pioneering canidrome positioned the Portuguese colony at the centre of a global trend. The reopening and expansion of the dog-racing business in the 1960s brought not only new economic opportunities, but also triggered a series of crimes linked to the killing and abuse of greyhounds. While both experiences unfolded in […]