Sovereignty at the Edge: Macau and the Question of Chineseness

by Cathryn H. Clayton

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674035453
• ISBN13: 9780674035454
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 420 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"