Macau. A Cultural Janus - Christina Miu Bing Cheng

By concentrating on the anbivalent history of Macau, the author reveals the historical reality of cultural vacillation between two political entities and emergence of creole minority - the Macanese. With a judicious use of English, Chinese and Portugese sources, she has provided a pathbreaking, multi-focal perspective of the last Portugese outpost in Asia. In light of the 'decolonization' of Macau in December 1999, the author's analysis challenges the easy assumptions of the casual sequence: colonialism / postcolonialism, and opens up an interdisciplinary purview of a local instance in cross-cultural studies.  

ISBN

962-209-486-4

język

angielski