TY  - GEN
T1  - Sovereignty at the edge : Macau & the question of Chineseness
T2  - Harvard East Asian monographs ;
A1  - Clayton, Cathryn H., 1966-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge, Mass
PB  - Harvard University Asia Center
YR  - 2009
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1012938471
AB  - "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.
OP  - 411
CN  - DS796.M29 C43 2009eb
SN  - 9781684174973
SN  - 168417497X
SN  - 0674035453
SN  - 9780674035454
KW  - Chinese : China : Macau (Special Administrative Region) : Ethnic identity.
KW  - Chinese : China : Macau (Special Administrative Region) : Attitudes.
KW  - Ethnicity : China : Macau (Special Administrative Region)
KW  - Group identity : China : Macau (Special Administrative Region)
KW  - National characteristics, Chinese.
KW  - Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) : History : Transfer of Sovereignty from Portugal, 1999 : Social aspects.
KW  - Ethnicité : Chine : Macao.
KW  - Chinois : Chine : Macao : Attitudes.
KW  - Chinois : Identité ethnique : Chine : Macao.
KW  - Identité collective : Chine : Macao.
KW  - Chinois.
KW  - Macao (Chine) : Histoire : 1999 (Rétrocession à la Chine) : Aspect social.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - Chinese : Attitudes
KW  - Chinese : Ethnic identity
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Group identity
KW  - National characteristics, Chinese
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - China : Macau (Special Administrative Region)
KW  - Entkolonialisierung
KW  - Kulturelle Identität
KW  - Chinesen
KW  - Macau
KW  - Identität : China.
KW  - Identität : Macau.
KW  - Etnicitet : Macao.
KW  - Självbestämmanderätt : Macao.
KW  - 1999
KW  - Geschichte 1995-1999
KW  - History
ER  -