Acknowledgments,Prologue: Between Empires,Drifting empires, Contesting the 'Macanese' identity, Cosmopolitan and transnational arenas, A kaleidoscope of Macanese experiences, 1 Crossing Imperial Borders, The tightknit oligarchy, A clerk, a businessman and a newspaper editor, Channeling Macau's woes into Hong Kong developments, 2 Sandwiched in the Workplace, The roots of the Macanese as 'middle' people, D'Almada's plight,Grand-pre's poor performance, Port wine and new opportunities, 3 Horseracing, Theater and Camões, Strictly male, strictly rich, strictly colored, Abraço fraternal (fraternal embrace) and Camoes,A stage for middle-class Macanese men, 4 Macanese Publics Fight for the 'Hongkong Man',From Hong Kong to Lisbon to Shanghai,Globalizing colonial Hong Kong, The 'Hongkong man', 5 Uniting to Divide, Dividing to Unite, 'Kowloon Macanese' vs. 'Hong Kong Macanese', Nationalizing the 'Portuguese of the East', Contesting Macanese patriotism, Por Deus e pela Pátria : Portuguese nationalism in Hong Kong, Printing and disseminating diasporic nationalism, Epilogue: A Place in the Sun, Being Macanese in wartime Hong Kong,Rethinking identity as response, Towards a world without labels, Appendix: Summary of Featured Macanese Individuals, Index.