Macau, on the threshold of the 21st Century, is perhaps a harbinger of new urban culture. Having been nurtured by the sharply contrasting legacies of China and Portugal, this unique city manages to meld cultural differences and avoid the destructiveness of ethnic clashes. By contrasting on the ambivalent history of Macau, the author reveals the historical reality of cultural vacillation between two political entities and the emergency of a unique minority – the Macanese. With a judicious use of English, Chinese and Portuguese sources, she has provided a pathbreaking, multi-focal perspective of the last Portuguese outpost in Asia.
Anthropology
History