Title Sovereignty at the edge : Macau & the question of Chineseness / Cathryn H. Clayton

Published Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Asia Center, [2009] Distributed by Harvard University Press ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 411 pages) : illustrations, maps Series Harvard East Asian monographs ; 324 Harvard East Asian monographs ; 324. Contents Sort-of sovereignties -- Outlaw tales -- The nonexistent Macanese -- Educating locals -- Culture in ruins -- The rubbish heap of history -- Outlawed tales Summary "How have conceptions and practices of sovereignty shaped how Chineseness is imagined? This ethnography addresses this question through the example of Macau, a southern Chinese city that was a Portuguese colony from the 1550s until 1999. As the Portuguese administration prepared to transfer Macau to Chinese control, it mounted a campaign to convince the city's residents, 95 percent of whom identified as Chinese, that they possessed a "unique cultural identity" that made them different from other Chinese, and that resulted from the existence of a Portuguese state on Chinese soil. This attempt sparked reflections on the meaning of Portuguese governance that challenged not only conventional definitions of sovereignty but also conventional notions of Chineseness as a subjectivity common to all Chinese people around the world. Various stories about sovereignty and Chineseness and their interrelationship were told in Macau in the 1990s. This book is about those stories and how they informed the lives of Macau residents in ways that allowed different relationships among sovereignty, subjectivity, and culture to become thinkable, while also providing a sense of why, at times, it may not be desirable to think them."--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-397) and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed March 24, 2021) Subject Chinese -- China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region) -- Ethnic identity Chinese -- China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region) -- Attitudes Ethnicity -- China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region) Group identity -- China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region) National characteristics, Chinese. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Chinese -- Attitudes Chinese -- Ethnic identity Ethnicity Group identity National characteristics, Chinese Social aspects Entkolonialisierung Kulturelle Identität Chinesen Identität -- China. Identität -- Macau. Etnicitet -- Macao. Självbestämmanderätt -- Macao. Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) -- History -- Transfer of Sovereignty from Portugal, 1999 -- Social aspects China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region) Macau Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Harvard University. Asia Center. ISBN 9781684174973 168417497X

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