Research Catalog

Title

Portugal, China and the Macau negotiations, 1986-1999 / Carmen Amado Mendes.

Author

Mendes, Carmen Amado

Publication

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2013]

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Description

vi, 3 unnumbered leaves, 157 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

On December 20, 1999, the city of Macau became a Special Administrative Region of China after nearly four hundred and fifty years of Portuguese administration. Drawing extensively on Portuguese and other sources and on interviews with key participants, this book examines the strategies and policies adopted by the Portuguese government during the negotiations. The study sets these events within the larger context of Portugal's retreat from empire, the British experience with Hong Kong, and changing social and political conditions within Macau. A weak player on the international stage, Portugal was still able to obtain concessions during the negotiations, notably in the timing of the retrocession and continuing Portuguese nationality arrangements for some Macau citizens. Yet the tendency of Portuguese leaders to use the Macau question as a tool in their domestic political agendas hampered their ability to develop an effective strategy and left China with the freedom to control the process of negotiation.

Series Statement

Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong studies series.

Subject

Macau (China : Special Administrative Region) > History > Transfer of Sovereignty from Portugal, 1999

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-152) and index.

Contents

Introduction -- The ambiguity over the future of Macau -- Negotiations for the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on Macau -- The transition period and the problems of "localisation" -- Other delicate transition issues : covenants, construction and possible corruption -- A final assessment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

ISBN

• 9789888139002 (hbk.)
• 9888139002 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 841186593
• SCSB-13730232

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Harvard Library