For many years Macau dominated trade in the Far East but Macau was handicapped by its shallow port. When the British established a colony in Hong Kong, with its magnificent harbour, Macau lost trade to Hong Kong and many Portuguese sought careers there and in Shanghai.
When the Second World war broke out in the Pacific, large numbers sheltered in neutral Macau but men who had fought in the Battle of Hong Kong were incarcerated in Prisoner of War camps.
After the war there was mass migration from Hong Kong, Shanghai and Macau to other countries.
Obituary: Mr José Luíz de Selavisa Alves [known as “Jico” to his friends] The Hongkong Telegraph 11 July 1927 Counted amongst the earliest foreign settlers in the Colony, the late Mr Alves came over to Hongkong from Macao while yet a very young man and, because of his knowledge of the English language, soon found […]
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PORTUGUESE LISTED IN THE ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR OF 1845 PORTUGUESES LISTADOS NO ANGLO-CHINESE CALENDAR DE 1845 NAME AS RECORDED POSSIBLE ID(S) PROBABLE CORRECT NAME CITY COMMENTS Baptista João S João S Baptista Shanghai Barradas, Francisco C 35776 Hong Kong Barretto, CA & Family Macau Barretto, João A 24774 Hong Kong
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Aunty Albertina’s SchoolJorge RemediosOriginally published in the UMA News Bulletin Sep-Oct 1997, p14In the years preceding the Second World War, most of the filho de Macau children who lived in and around the Portuguese enclave of Homantin, in Kowloon (Hong Kong SAR), then a bucolic residential neighborhood roughly encompassed by Nathan, Waterloo, and Prince Edward Roads, attended Albertina
CHAPTER I Early Portuguese Voyages of Discovery of a Sea Route to China It is in no spirit of idle boastfulness that this modest volume is introduced to its readers with a quotation from the famous Portuguese poet Camoens: “E se mais mundo houvera, lá chegara.” (“If there had been more of the world, they
CHAPTER X Catholic Churches and Schools in Hongkong Among the forces which influence the lives of men one of the strongest is that of religion. Let me therefore devote a chapter to the religious activities of my compatriots in Hongkong, where complete toleration of creeds and customs has been such a marked feature of British
CHAPTER XI Early relations between Macao and Hongkong – Last Days of Portuguese Shipping in the East. In earlier chapters we have seen how cordial were the relations between the Portuguese and the British at Macao during the opening decades of the last century. This was specially in evidence shortly before the outbreak of the
CHAPTER XII Portuguese Interest in Land Development in Hongkong – Genesis of Kowloon – Some Interesting Personalities among the Portuguese of Old Hongkong Speaking generally, the Portuguese of Hongkong may be said to be the descendants of two elements of the people of Macao who emigrated to the British colony – the commercial element and
CHAPTER II The Portuguese impress the Chinese who desire Peace and Friendship with Portugal Raphael Perestrello, a factor, was sent in 1515 with orders to conduct trade in China. He travelled in a junk, and returned with a rich cargo and the news that the Chinese desired peace and friendship with Portugal and that they
CHAPTER 3 Ecclesiastical patronage Padroado and the Jesuits College at Macao From his eyrie at Sagres Prince Henry was ever looking with visionary eyes southward, seeing the cities of the unknown world opening before him, and travelling in his imagination along the coast of his dreams, voyaging in his mind to the uttermost limits of
CHAPTER IV Services of the Jesuits to China. Subordination of Portugal’s National Interests. The program of carrying out, with patience and fortitude, the Divine mission, not infrequently at the cost of physical suffering and even death, in pursuance of their task to win adherents to the Christian faith, constitutes a glorious chapter in the annals
