Sovereignty at the edge : Macau & the question of Chineseness /
"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 Mac...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass :
Harvard University Asia Center,
[2009]
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| Series: | Harvard East Asian monographs ;
324. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3750759 |
Table of Contents:
- Sort-of sovereignties
- Outlaw tales
- The nonexistent Macanese
- Educating locals
- Culture in ruins
- The rubbish heap of history
- Outlawed tales.