Topics P-R
Patuá (Patois) of Macau
Pela Patria A monthly Magazine published in 1940-41 by the Portuguese community in Shanghai. About half of the articles are in Portuguese, the rest in English. It provides valuable insight into life in that city, four years after occupation by the Japanese in 1937, and contains many photos of Macanese. The community there, feeling under threat and obviously economically stressed and insecure, tried hard to maintain their Portuguese identity and cohesion with articles on Portuguese history and culture, through social events, and by promoting lessons on the Portuguese language. But it could not last: with the outbreak of World War II in the Pacific in December 1941 the whole community dispersed, never to reassemble.
Penha Church Delivered From The Jaws Of Death by Stuart Braga,- An article on Penha Church in Macau.
Portuguese History
Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770. Fact and Fancy in the History of Macao by CR Boxer. Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands, 1948 (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong)
Four Centuries of Portuguese Expansion, 1415-1825: a succinct survey by CR Boxer. University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969
Pêro Covilhã, The Spy Who Never Came Back by Frederic A. “Jim” da Silva – The story of a spy sent by the King of Portugal to Africa
Peter the Cruel The tragic love story of one of the ancestors of the Eça family of Macau
Portugal’s Flag– How the flag of Portugal evolved
The Portuguese – An Outline History of their Origin and their Voyages of Discovery Published by the author, San Rafael, CA, USA October 1996
The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415-1825 by CR Boxer. . The great scholar wrote many books bearing on the history of Macau. This one, republished as a Penguin, sets Macau into the context of the astonishing rise and slow decline of the Portuguese empire.
Portuguese Conquest and Commerce in Southern Asia: 1500-1750 by CR Boxer. Variorum Reprints, London, 1985
Portuguese Society in the Tropics by CR Boxer. University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee USA, 1965
Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415-1825 by CR Boxer. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963
Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas 1415 – 1815 by CR Boxer. Oxford University Press,New York, 1975
Seventeenth Century Macao in Contemporary Documents and Illustrations Ed. and translated by CR Boxer. Heinemann (Asia) Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore 1984 (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong)
Revisiting the Reed Brothers by Armando “Pinky” da Silva — Some notes on the Reed Brothers and their fate during the Battle of Hong Kong
Família Ribeiro by Peter Grills, Pirion Digital, Fyshwick, ACT ISBN 978 1 74027 488 3, 2008 -Biography of the Ribeiro and Nolasco da Silva families. In English
