Adeus Macau by Nuno Loureiro d’Eça This memoir was originally published in the UMA News Bulletin Nov-Dec 1998 The late Nuno Loureiro d’Eça lived in New Zealand after the war. The end of Macau as a Portuguese-administered territory is fast approaching and before that chapter closes I would like to express my sentiments and to relate […]
Marciano Baptista By Joe Baptista First published in UMA Bulletin Vol 29 No. 3 Jul-Sep 2006 My great-grandfather Marciano A. Baptista is considered Macao’s finest 19th Century painter, yet comparatively little is known about his life. He was born in Macau in 1826 and died in 1896 in Hongkong. In 1840s he began working for George Chinnery, the celebrated Irish painter
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My Wartime Experiences and subsequent imprisonment under the Japanese December 1941 to August This has been edited into a form suitable for website, with images and links to Personal Pages added — HdA (Ed.) As far as I can recall, this typescript came to me from my uncle, Tony Braga, who was also a member
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Biographies Here we list books and articles about the lives and works of Macanese and of others closely associated with Macau. José Luís de Selavisa Alves – Obituary in The Hongkong Telegraph. The life of an eminent Portuguese Marciano António Baptista – by Joe Baptista. Article on Macau’s famous painter Gloria Barretto‘s Hong Kong stories
Experiences of Frank Correa and Hetty Van Langenberg during World War II. FOREWORD It seems appropriate to mark our son Anthony’s fortieth Birthday with this document which relates to his father’s experiences during the turbulent years of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in the Second World War. We all recall Frank often reminiscing about
