Macau : a Cultural Janus /

Macau : a Cultural Janus /

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Author / Creator:	Cheng, Christina Miu Bing.
Imprint:	Hong Kong : Hong Kong University, 1999.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) -- History. China -- Macau (Special Administrative Region) Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11215909

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ISBN:	9789882202115 988220211X 9622094864 9789622094864
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-231) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Cheng, Christina Miu Bing. Macau. Hong Kong : Hong Kong University, 1999 9789622094864

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.