Heirs of the Bamboo - Identity and Ambivalence Among the Eurasian Macanese

In 1999 Macao, previously a territory under Portuguese rule, was handed over to the People's Republic of China and transformed into one of the gambling capitals of the world. These political and economic phenomena were accompanied by unprecedented social changes that, ultimately, have redefined the Macanese identity. This book is about the Macanese living in Portugal and their intimate social networks in loco and interactions with their counterparts in Macao and elsewhere in the diaspora, by the use of Internet. Memory and ambivalence, deeply associated with kinship, language, food and heritage, are the cornerstones of this research, which overturns colonial stereotypes and concepts of Macanese cultural purity.

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List of Illustrations

Foreword

Allen Chun

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

Chapter 1. The Eurasians of Macao: Celebrating the Macanese "Difference"

Chapter 2. Macanese Mnemonics: Genealogies and Palaces of Virtual Memory

Chapter 3. Eating the Past: Expressions of Nostalgia at PCB Events

Chapter 4. Our Cultural Heritage: Macanese Cuisine and the Patuá Theatre

Chapter 5. (De)Constructing the Macanese Self-Identity: A Strategic Ambivalence

Conclusion: Macao [Still] My Land?

References

Index

About the author

Marisa C. Gaspar is a postdoctoral fellow at SOCIUS/CSG - Lisbon School of Economics & Management (ISEG), Universidade de Lisboa, and a visiting researcher at the Institute of European Studies of Macao.

Product details

• Authors: Marisa C. Gaspar
• Assisted by: Roopanjali Roy (Translation)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9781789208917
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-891-7
• No. of pages: 228
• Series: European Anthropology in Trans; European Anthropology in Translation
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, Archaeology / Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social