History – Page 3 – Macao Magazine

A Macao monk’s role in women’s liberation

In the early 20th century, a devout Buddhist and his reformist friends ran a college for women. The archives amassed during this time – at Kong Tac Lam Temple – has just been awarded special new status by UNESCO.

August 2023

A photograph taken in the 1970s by Lei Chiu Vang depicts the Macao Gongbei Barrier Gate, which has gone through many changes over the past decades

The history keepers

Can you truly understand a place without knowing its past? Meet the people keeping Macao’s fascinating history alive.

April 2023

The Portuguese introduced matchlock-style firearms to Japan, which were adapted and reproduced as tanegashima

Portugal and Japan: 480 years of cooperation

Throughout these sometimes rocky centuries, Macao has provided a base for the two countries’ diplomatic and trade relations.

January 2023

A cosmopolitan past: Trade, travel and indulgence in 19th-century Macao

19th-century Macao was a heady destination for the international elite; a place where Chinese silks met French Champagne, Cantonese opera met Mozart, exotic creatures could be purchased as pets, and the vibrant sim-sungs offered daily music and opium-infused relaxation.

December 2022

Remembering the 1622 Battle of Macao

Historian Ivo Carneiro de Sousa recalls the Dutch East India Company’s attempts to conquer Macao and control trade routes in Southeast Asia, how the battle took place and how the event was recalled by the Dutch, the Jesuits and the Dominican Friars.

June 2022

Taipa’s living history

Five simple 100-year-old houses in Taipa tell a hugely important part of the Macao story. The daily way of life of previous generations is kept alive to enrich the knowledge of locals and visitors alike.

December 2021

The main open courtyard of the Mandarin’s House

An intellectual who helped rebuild a nation

Zheng Guanying was a remarkable entrepreneur, Chinese patriot, moderniser, writer – and his ancestral home, the Mandarin's House, is one of Macao's architectural jewels.

October 2021

Monument to João Rodrigues in Sernancelhe

The legendary interpreter

Question: how influential was Jesuit priest, traveller, trader, linguist and diplomat João Rodrigues ‘Tçuzu’ in the late 16th and early 17th centuries? Answer: extremely.

November 2020

Pirates of the Pearl

Did you know pirates once roamed the high seas around Macao? The organisers of a new piracy exhibition in the city did – and they answer buccaneering questions in this Q&A.

September 2020

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