Shanghai

For hundreds of years Macau dominated trade with China and Japan but in time was overtaken by Hong Kong and Shanghai and many Portuguese sought better careers there. When the Japanese occupied Shanghai in 1941 they moved to Macau and Hong Kong for safety and never returned to Shanghai.

Braga_JP Intro

THE PORTUGUESE IN HONG KONG AND CHINA By J. P. Braga First published in 1944 and reprinted in 1978 and 1998; published on the internet circa 2009. Editorial Note: This is the 1944 version. J.P. Braga did not complete this booklet before his death. J.M. “Jack” Braga edited and published this work after his father’s […]

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CollacoOAuto

Autobiography   Oscar Jorge Collaço   I was baptized at St. Peter’s Church in Shanghai by Rev. Père R. de Chalain with godfather uncle Gilberto and godmother aunty Mary. At age 3 I was taken to Day Care at a Portuguese lady’s home at Park Apts. I was born on a cold clear Monday on March

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Frank Bio

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

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Koo Intro

In search of a better world:a social history of the Macaenses in ChinaCandidate: B. H. M. KooDegree: MA HonoursYear of Submission: 2000University of Western Sydney© Barney Koo, Sydney AustraliaBarney.Koo@Gmail.comContentsTitle pageContent pageSummaryAcknowledgementsAbbreviations used1     IntroductionThe Macaenses – Survival techniques and skills – The contributions of the communities – Literature Review – Aims and scope of the Thesis –

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Lubeck

  AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARLOS BORROMEU LUBECK   It is just over 20 years since we left China and came to this hospitable country, the United States of America.I do not have anything of value to leave behind, but there is one thing I can give you. It is the record of our family antecedents, which I have

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Shanghai Whos Who

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

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Silva Gil V

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;

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