THE PORTUGUESE CHROMOSOME : REFLECTIONS ON THE FORMATION OF MACAO’S IDENTITY IN THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES

This article uses the metaphor of a “Portuguese chromosome” to rethink the formation of Macao’s identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that Macao cannot be read as a straightforward transplantation of Portuguese urban models but as a city produced at the crossroads of Western...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Jorge Manuel Flores
Format: Articles
Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau July 2002
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40003/2678

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