Incêndio no Hipódromo de Happy Valley em 1918Roy Eric XavierAbril 2012Este artigo foi publicado no site Far East Currents, criado pelo Dr. Roy Eric Xavier, da Universidade da Califórnia em Berkeley, que se dedica à investigação sobre a comunidade portuguesa em Hong Kong. O Dr. Xavier autorizou gentilmente a sua reprodução aqui.PrelúdioO final do inverno […]
Revisiting the Reed Brothers All posthumous war accounts have a Rashomon-like quality in their telling. The story of the four Reed brothers who died in the Battle of Hong Kong is no exception. Theirs is not only a distinctively proud Hong Kong story but also a tragic family story of brotherly bonding.
I reported, as instructed, to my department at the Bank building in . It dealt with Foreign Exchange, which covered all outward remittances. Apparently my other departmental colleagues had not heard the wireless announcement for I was the only soul present. My Wartime Experiences and subsequent imprisonment under the Japanese December 1941 to August Luíz
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Sir Albert Maria RodriguesOBE, CBE, MBE (Mil), ED, Chev. Legd’ Hon, KtGC (St. Sye), Ordem de Christo, LLD, JP1911 – 2006 This is a slightly edited version of an article published in the Bulletin of Club Lusitano of Hong Kong, 12 June 2017. Albert Maria Rodrigues was born on the 5th November 1911,
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Portuguese in Shanghai The Portuguese population of Shanghai was monitored by the Shanghai Municipal Government. It rose from 6 in 1850 to a peak of 2281 after World War II. Statistics are plotted in this graph. The book Portuguese in Shanghai by Wang Zhicheng (Fundação Macau, 1998 – which was apparently never published) records much valuable
Gil V. DaSilva – Autobiography From my birth in October, 1935 until we left Shanghai in June, 1950, we lived at the Emerald Apartments on Rue Ratard. All of the major events during that period occurred while living there: the U.S. declaration of war on Japan in December, 1941; the Japanese surrender in August, 1945;
Memories of World War IIBy Henry d’AssumpçãoIt was a great feast-day, celebrating the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary. For me, then seven years old in Hong Kong, it was a holiday from school, for my older brother a half-holiday. So breakfast was leisurely that morning when our father announced solemnly: “War can start any
Some war-time reminiscences by Frederic (Jim) Silva, 2012 I was in Macau for 3 years during World War II. I finished my high school education there under the tuition of Irish Jesuit priests from a very prestigious High School in HongKong. I was in HK after the Japanese invasion for nearly one year, aged 14;
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THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FATHER JOSÉ “ZINHO” GOSANO First published in the UMA Bulletin Apr-Jun 2011 Vol 34 No 2 [Editor’s Note: A number of years ago the late Fr Zinho Gosano’s friend in New Zealand, a Father John Griffin, sent the UMA News Bulletin editor a floppy diskette containing an autobiographical narrative