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.
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