Sovereignty at the Edge
Macau and the Question of Chineseness
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2010
Harvard University, Asia Center (Verlag)
978-0-674-03545-4 (ISBN)
Harvard University, Asia Center (Verlag)
978-0-674-03545-4 (ISBN)
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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.
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.
Cathryn H. Clayton is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii.
Maps and Figures Notes on Conventions Introduction 1. Sort-of Sovereignties 2. Outlaw Tales 3. The Nonexistent Macanese 4. Educating Locals 5. Culture in Ruins 6. The Rubbish Heap of History 7. Outlawed Tales Conclusion Notes Glossary of Cantonese Characters Works Cited Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.4.2010 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Harvard East Asian Monographs |
| Zusatzinfo | 9 halftones, 2 maps |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 771 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-03545-3 / 0674035453 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-03545-4 / 9780674035454 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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