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Author Cheng, Christina Miu Bing

Title Macau : a Cultural Janus / Christina Miu Bing Cheng
Published Hong Kong : Hong Kong University, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations
Contents Plates; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 An Anomaly in Colonization and Decolonization; 3 'City of the Name of God of Macau in China, There Is None More Loyal'; 4 The Rendezvous of a Virgin Trio; 5 Colonial Stereotypes, Transgressive Punishment and Cultural Anthropophagy; 6 Midway Sojourners, Macanese Moments and Stoical Settlers; 7 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary "By concentrating on the ambivalent history of Macau, the author reveals the historical reality of cultural vacillation between two political entities and the emergence of a creole minority - the Macanese. With a judicious use of English, Chinese and Portuguese sources, she has provided a multi-focal perspective of the last Portuguese outpost in Asia. In light of the 'decolonization' of Macau in December 1999, the author's analysis challenges the easy assumptions of the causal sequence, colonialism/postcolonialism, and opens up an interdisciplinary purview of a local instance in cross-cultural studies."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index
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Subject HISTORY.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SUBJECT Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00004501
Subject China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789882202115
988220211X