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The Proceedings of the International Symposium on "The Culture of Metropolis in Macau" are presented in their English version in this publication. The .... Symposium, held in Macau in September 1998 addressed the issues of "Urbanism, Identity, Collective Heritage and Quotidian Culture--Strategies for the Twenty-First Century"...
Editor: Arthur H. Chen 陳惠民. Text coordination: Patricia Au, Michel Reis.
Abstracts in Portuguese and Chinese.

1 Introduction 1 -- 2 An Anomaly in Colonization and Decolonization 9 -- The Age of Discovery 9 -- The Encounter of Two Civilizations 17 -- Problematic Sovereignty and Colonial Ideology 22 -- The Assertion of 'Perpetual Occupation' 26 -- Opium-Trafficking and Slave Trade 30 -- A Poetic Desire for Decolonization 33 -- Anachronistic Decolonization and a 'Pre-Postcolonial' Era 35 -- A Resurgent Symbol: The Bank of China Building 38 -- An Unprecedented Nostalgia 39 -- A Punctum in History 41 -- 3 'City of the Name of God of Macau in China, There is -- None More Loyal' 47 -- The Toponymy of Macau 47 -- The Propagation of Christianity 50 -- The Partition of the World 53 -- Rites Controversy 54 -- Ancestor Worship and Chinese Reactions to Christianity 62 -- Christianity, Gunboats and Cannons 66 -- Autonomization of the Chinese Church 73 -- An Oasis of Catholicism 74 -- 4 The Rendezvous of a Virgin Trio 81 -- Religious Culture in Macau 81 -- The Facade of the Church of the Mother of God 83 -- Ma Zu Ge or the Temple of the Goddess of the Sea 100 -- Guan Yin Tang or the Temple of the Goddess of Mercy 116 -- Two 'Civilizing' Forces 121 -- 5 Colonial Stereotypes, Transgressive Punishment and Cultural -- Anthropophagy 127 -- The 'Twain' Meet 127 -- Western Literary Stereotypes of Macau 129 -- The Evocation of the Child/Mistress Imagery 142 -- The Punishment of the Western Intruder 144 -- Cannibalism, Carnivalism and the Mastication of the Barbarian Other 146 -- The Intrigue of Miscegenation and the Manipulation of -- Chinese Myths 149 -- The Monkey King's Ordeal 152 -- The Ultimate Victor 155 -- Satiric Elements and a Return to the Centre 156 -- A Field of 'Wheat' and 'Weeds' 157 -- 6 Midway Sojourners, Macanese Moments and Stoical Settlers 161 -- The River and the Sea 161 -- City of Threshold and Exile 163 -- Peninsular Affectivity 169 -- A Flaneur's Amor 173 -- A Macanese Dilemma 177 -- A Bohemian's Adventure 180 -- City of Anchorage and Endurance 182 -- A Return from Exile 190 -- Rootlessness and Rootedness 192 -- 7 Conclusion 197.

Contents: Introduction -- The Imaginary City - Departures; 1 -- Two Worlds - Origins: Portugal and China; 2 -- Boundaries - On the Periphery; 3 -- Memories - The Architecture of History; 4 -- Transitions - Crossing the Threshold; 5 -- Moments - The Culture of Everyday Life; 6 -- Images - Spiritual Topography; Conclusion -- Illusions - Epilogue