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Title: Herbert S. Yee. Macau in Transition: From Colony to Autonomous Region.(Book Review)
Author: Jonathan Porter
Publication: China Review International (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2002
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Page: 294(4)Article Type: Book ReviewDistributed by Thompson Gale
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Houndmills and New York: Palgrave, 2001. xxiii, 208 pp. Hardcover $65. 00, ISBN 0-333-75009-8. China resumed its effective exercise of sovereignty over Macau on December 20, 1999, when the territory became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic. As with neighboring Hong Kong, which returned to Chinese control in 1997, a lengthy process of transition extending over almost thirteen years prepared Macau for its new status. Unlike Hong Kong, however, Macau had a much longer history of more than four centuries as the first permanent European settlement in China, which never surrendered sovereignty over the enclave to Portugal. Macau in Transition examines the process of transition from the signing of the Joint Declaration between Portugal and China...
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