Macao, the former Portuguese colony in southeast China from the 1550s until its return to China in 1999, has a long and very interesting history of  cultural interaction between China and the West. As an Entity with independent political power and a unique social setting and cultural development, the identity of Macao's people is not indicative of the legacy and influence of the region's socio-historical factors and forces, but it has also been altered, transformed and maintained because of the input, action, interaction and stimulation of creative arts and literatures. Held together by racial accommodation and tolerance and active cultural interactions, Macao's phenomenon can be characterized as hybridization. This book is a presentation of the ongoing hybridization of Macao and is in itself a hybrid, covering a wide range of issues, Putting forward substantial new research findings, the book explores the nature of cultural interature in Macao, and the how the sity has been constructed and perceived through literature and other art forms. It is a companion volume to Macao -- The Formation of a Global City.

   List of figures                                                         xi
   List of tables                                                         xii
   List of contributors                                                  xiii
   Foreword by Yao Feng                                                  xvii
   Introduction                                                         xxiii
   KATRINE K. WONG

Part I 
Socio-cultural evolution: naming, reading and 
speaking in Macao                                                           1

 1 The evolution of spellings of ‘Macau’: an examination 
   of early Portuguese and Western archival materials                       3
   WU ZHILIANG, JIN GUOPING

 2 Temples and their gods in Macao before the 1990s                        12
   TAM SAI PO AND VU VAI MENG

 3 Socio-historical factors involved in the changes of the 
   creole matrix of Makista                                                25
   MÁRIO PINHARANDA     

Part II 
Intercultural representations: Macao in print                              43   

 4 Foundational fictions: the domestic romances of Macao 
   and Hong Kong                                                           45
   DAVID BROOKSHAW

 5 Austin Coates and Macao: the legacy of a special and 
   spontaneous friendship                                                  56
   IAN CHAPLIN

 6 Subtle messengers: literary myth and national identities in 
   the postage stamps of Macao                                             67
   DAMIAN SHAW

Part III 
Visual and aural representations: hybridized Macao                         89

 7 Representations of Macao in Portuguese fiction cinema                   91
   EMÍLIA PIEDADE

 8 Baroque Macao: the city, history and the dialectical
   image                                                                  106
   LOUIS LO

 9 Contemporary representations of Macao: taking off 
   the city                                                               121
   CAROL ARCHER

10 A survey of liturgical composition in Macao in the
   twentieth century: musical life with São José as its centre           136
   DAI DINGCHENG
   
   Glossary                                                              156
   Index                                                                 159