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.
Durante muitos anos, Macau dominou o comércio no Extremo Oriente, mas foi prejudicado pela pouca profundidade do seu porto. Quando os britânicos estabeleceram uma colónia em Hong Kong, com o seu magnífico porto, Macau perdeu comércio para Hong Kong e muitos portugueses procuraram oportunidades de carreira aí e em Xangai.
Quando a Segunda Guerra Mundial eclodiu no Pacífico, um grande número de pessoas refugiou-se na neutra Macau, mas os homens que combateram na Batalha de Hong Kong foram encarcerados em campos de prisioneiros de guerra.
Após a guerra, verificou-se uma migração em massa de Hong Kong, Xangai e Macau para outros países.
Talu Jorge Remedios .The basic requirements are just two sticks: a ‘bat’ about 18 inches long and a talu or peewee which is a wooden dowel about 1 inch in diameter and 3 to 5 inches long, sharpened at both ends. The batter begins by flicking the talu with the bat from a hole in […]
The Happy Valley Race Course Fire of 1918Roy Eric XavierApril 2012This article appears in the website Far East Currents, created by Dr Roy Eric Xavier of University of California Berkeley, who is devoted to research on the Portuguese community in Hong Kong. Dr Xavier has kindly given permission for it to be reproduced here.PreludeThe late winter
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Who are the true citizens? Quem são os verdadeiros cidadãos? Extract from Hong Kong by Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong Excerto de Hong Kong de Harold Ingrams London, Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1952, pp 249-251 We cannot however look in these communities for 100% citizens of Hong Kong, nor shall we find them among the British expatriates. There are