Macau: a Cultural Janus
"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, colonia…
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- Full title :Macau : a Cultural Janus / Christina Miu Bing Cheng.
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"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.
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- Publication Date:1999.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Hong Kong University
- Place of Publication:Hong Kong
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1999.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9789882202115, 988220211X
- oclc:ocn642690006
- LC Classification:DS796.M2
- Dewey Decimal:951.26
Table of 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.
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