we received editorial assistance from various sides, including Dr. Roger Greatrex; we greatly appreciate his corrections to the English language in this volume. Above all, our thanks go to Professor Dr. Carmen Amado Mendes for putting this work on the scholarly agenda of the CCCM. The concluding remarks will be left to the reader5s own opinion. To wrap up, Macau and the South China Sea are interviewed in an intricate web of histories and lieux de memoire that have reverberated not only at local but also at global scale for centuries. The essays in this volume, apparently scattered as "shells on the shore when the sea of living memory has receded^^ (Nora 1989, 12), are sewed together by an imaginary thread that connects diverse episodes to distant horizons far beyond the thalassographic world. Bibliography Nora, Pierre. 1989. “Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de MCmoire." Representations, no. 26: 7-24. https://doi.org/!0.2307/2928520. 14
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