History Books

History: Books

António de Andrade e Silva, Eu Estive em Macau Durante a Guerra. Instituto Cultural de Macau, Museu Centro de Estudos MarÃtimos de Macau 1934 – I was in Macau during the War (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong)

J Dyer Ball, Macao the Holy City, The Gem of the Orient Earth China Baptist Publication Service, 1905 – This is a brief, well-written account of Macau at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Augusto de Souza Barbeiro, Cadastro das Vias e Outros Lugares PÃºblicos de Cidade de Macau 1925 – Streets and other public places in Macau. In Portuguese; copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong

CR Boxer

Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770. Fact and Fancy in the History of Macao 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 University of California Press, Berkeley, 1969

Portuguese Conquest and Commerce in Southern Asia: 1500-1750 Variorum Reprints, London, 1985

The Portuguese seaborne empire, 1415-1825 -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 Society in the Tropics University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee USA, 1965

Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire 1415-1825 Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1963

Women in Iberian Expansion Overseas 1415 – 1815 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)

JP Braga The Portuguese in Hongkong and China: their beginning, settlement and progress during one hundred years Macau, FundaÃ§Ã£o Macau, 1998

First published 1944, revised by Barnabas HM Koo, University of Macau, 2013 ISBN 978-99965-1-037-3IMG.

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Melania Dawn Cannon Experience, Memory and the Construction of the Past: Remembering Macau 1941-1945 Master of Arts Thesis, Department of History, University of British Columbia, Aug 2001

Catherine S Chan ‘Empire’ Drifters: The Macanese in British Hong Kong, 1841-1941 PhD Thesis, University of Bristol, July 2019

The Chinese Repository Vol III (From May 1834 to April 1835) Canton, Printed for the Proprietors 1835

Austin Coates

Macao and the British

Oxford University Press, 1988, reprinted, Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

A Macao Narrative

Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd. Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur 1978, reprinted, Hong Kong University Press, 2009.

A short and very readable history. Coates retraces the discovery of the sea route to the Far East and the subsequent foundation of Macao as a Portuguese enclave in 1557. The last chapter, Macao’s finest hour, tells the story of Macao’s role in World War II as a haven of refuge for many thousands. Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong.

GB Endacott History of Hong Kong

This standard history was first published in 1958, and re-issued in 1995 with four new chapters. It is now very dated, but no other general history of Hong Kong has so far been written to supersede it. There is occasional reference to the Portuguese community.

Eddie Gosano(Publ. Greg England), Hong Kong Farewell Special Limited Edition 1977 (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong). Read Extract

Les Fisher I Will Remember – Recollections and Reflections on Hong Kong 1941 to 1945 – Internment and Freedom ISBN 1-85741-038-6, Hobbs the Printers, Hampshire, Great Britain, December 1996. Diary of a POW in the Shamshuipo Camp< ISBN 1-85741-038-6, Hobbs the Printers, Hampshire, Great Britain, December 1996. – Diary of a POW in the Shamshuipo Camp

Penelope Forster From Prison Camp to Priesthood Seaview Press –A biography of JosÃ© “Zinho” Gosano; copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong

António Pinto da Franca Portuguese Influence in Indonesia Gunung Agung 1970 Djakarta (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong)

A Guide to Catholic Shanghai Catholic Churches and Schools in Shanghai in 1937

Peter Grills FamÃlia Ribeiro

Pirion Digital, Fyshwick, ACT ISBN 978 1 74027 488 3, 2008

Biography of the Ribeiro and Nolasco da Silva families. In English

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Cesar Guillen-Nuñez Macau

Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1984.

A brief and well-illustrated introduction to the history of Macau in fewer than 70 pages.

José de Aquino Guimares e Freitas Memoria sobre Macao Coimbra, na Real Imprensa da Universidade, 1828. Memoirs of an Aritillery officer stationed in Macau between 1815 and 1822 (in Portuguese).

Susanna Hoe The Private Life of Old Hong Kong. Western Women in the British Colony 1841-1941 Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1995

Hong Kong Jurors 1855-1901: List of Portuguese with their address and occupation

Hongkong Almanack 1846 pp1-19; List of Portuguese residents, with their addresses and occupations.

M Huang Sons of La Salle Everyone : a History of La Salle College and Primary School, 1932-2007 Hong Kong, La Salle College Old Boys’ Association, 2007. – In its early years, La Salle’s students were mainly Macanese boys. This recent history is superbly illustrated and presented.

Harold Ingrams Who are the true citizens? Extract from Hong Kong, pp 249-251, London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1952

Cecília Jorge and Beltrão Coelho

Album Macau – People, Places and Experiences ISBN 972 9418 02 0, Livros do Oriente Macau, 1990 – A collection of historical photographs. In Portuguese and English

Album Macau 1844-1974 Fundacão Oriente, 1990 – A collection of historical photographs. Published in Portuguese and English versions

Album Macau – Memória da Cidade (Glimpses of the Past) Direcção dos Serviços de Turismo, Livros do Oriente, Macau – A collection of historical photographs. Published in Portuguese and English

Jorge da Silva, António Pacheco:

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 Community in Hong Kong: A Pictorial History : an illustrated history, volume 1: 2007, volume 2: 2010 Conselho das Comunidades Macaenses and Instituto Internacional de Macau, 2007 -A collection of photographs with historical notes. These important books do much to record and celebrate the people who over several generations came from Macau to make a new life in the nearby British colony.

The Portuguese Community in Shanghai : A Pictorial History 2010 Conselho das Comunidades Macaenses and Instituto Internacional de Macau, 2012 – A collection of photographs with historical notes.

Diaspora Macaense to California Associação Promotora da Instrução dos Macaenses, ISBN 978-99937-995-0-4, 2009

The Portuguese Community in Macau: A Pictorial History Instituto Internacional de Macau. ISBN 978-99965-59-29-7 A collection of photographs with historical notes.

Bernard Koo In search of a better world: a social history of the Macaenses in China MA Honours Thesis, University of Western Sydney, 2000

The Little Flower Club Diamond Jubilee 1927-1987

Andrew Ljungstedt An Historical Sketch of the Portuguese Settlements in China First published James Munroe & Co, Boston: 1836 – Ljungstedt, who had lived in Macau for several years, wrote with insight about this unique city, and was not blind to its faults.

Lusitano History – 150 years of the Lusitano Club in Hong Kong

The Macanese: Anthropology, History, Ethnology. Review of Culture No.20 (2nd Series) 1994 English Edition

An important work by eminent writers and thinkers about Macau, the Macanese and their heritage.

Leonor Machado Lesser Known Historical Stories of Macau Macau Style, 7 July 2020

CA Montalto de Jesus, Historic Macao Hong Kong, Kelly & Walsh, 1902; 2nd edn, Salesian Press, Macao, 1926, repr. Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, 1984. – A warmly sympathetic view of Macau. It still reads well after so many years.

Chozo Muto The Omura Manuscript

Maria Ng Pilgrimages: Memories of Colonial Macau and Hong Kong Hong Kong University Press, 2009. – A collection of essays on Portuguese Macau and British Hong Kong. It depicts many humorous and painful episodes navigating family politics and her inter cultural pilgrimages from adolescent romances to professional life.

Marcelo Nishiyama A study of the church of St. Paul in Macao and the transformation of Portuguese architecture Download

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.

Click to see an index of the contents of the magazine. Descendants of Macanese from Shanghai will enjoy browsing through the magazine and may even find mention of their relatives.

Jonathan Porter Macau: The Imaginary City–Culture and Society, 1557 to the Present 240 pp. Boulder CO, Westview Press, 1996

Alexandra Sofia Rangel Filhos da Terra – A comunidade Macaense, Ontem e Hoje (Sons of the land – The Macanese community, yesterday and today)

Vasco Rocha Vieira Todos os portos a que cheguei Dec 2010 Pedro Vieira/Grapa Publicações, S.A. – An important book by the last Portuguese Governor of Macau. There are several chapters on Macau

Luis Andrade de Sa, Portugueses em Hong Kong (The Portuguese in Hong Kong) Fundação Oriente : Instituto Cultural de Macau, 1999. In Portuguese. An English translation of this important book has been made by Alberto Guterres, but this remains unpublished.

Shanghai times 23 February 1931. The Portuguese Company of the Shanghai Volunteer Corps

Frederic A “Jim” da Silva

Portugal – Some Tales from her Past San Francisco, March 2003 (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong)

Todos os Nossos Passados (All Our Yesterdays) Collecção Extratextos, Livros do Oriente (undated) (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong)

The Macanese – A Legacy of Portugal – Our origins, our language, our food, our characteristics and our way of life

Padre Manuel Teixeira

Toponímia de Macau Vol I & II

Imprensa Nacional Macau, 1979. (History of place-names in Macau. In Portuguese)

Galeria de Macaenses Ilustres do Século XIX Imprensa Nacional Macau, 1942. (Gallery of Illustrious Macanese of the 19th Century. In Portuguese)

Templo Chinês da Barra MÃ¡-Kok-Miu Centro de Informação e Turismo, Macau, 1979 (The Barra Chinese Temple. In Portuguese.)

The Japanese in Macau ISBN 972-35-0095-7, Instituto Cultural de Macau, 1990 – In the 16th and 17th centuries, Christian Japanese found, in Macau, a home in exile and they left their mark on the architecture and art works of this city. It achieved an admirable fusion of two cultures – that of East and West. We are given details about these works and their history as well about the Japanese who lived and died in Macau. (Copy held in Library of Lusitano Club, Hong Kong. In English)

Jason Wordie Macao: People and Places, Past and Present Angsana Ltd, Hong Kong 2013

Wright, Arnold (Ed.), Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports in China Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, 1908 – A huge and magnificently illustrated book about Europeans on the China coast at the high point of imperialism, including a chapter on Macau.

Yvan, Melchior, Six Months among the Malays and a Year in China London: James Blackwood 1855 (a fascinating book which includes a chapter on Macau, digitised by Google)

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