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Bibliography
| Boxer, C. R., Fidalgos in the Far East, 1550-1770, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1968. A biographical approach to Macau’s history by the most prominent scholar of the Portuguese expansion in Asia. |
| Boxer, C. R., The Great Ship from Amacon: Annals of Japan and the Old Japan Trade, 1555-1640, Macau, Centro de Estudos Maritimos de Macau (reprint), 1988. Not a history, this is an important source of materials on the Macau-Japan trade during Macau’s golden age. |
| Eduardo Cabrita, “Limites de natureza internacional e constitucional à autonomia da RAEM”, Perspectivas do Direito, Volume 3, No. 5, December 1998. The prospects for autonomy after the handover. |
| Victor Calvete, “Lei Básica, questões básicas”, in O Ordenamento Jurídico de Macau no Contexto da Lei Básica, Macao, Associação dos Advogados de Macau (Macau Bar Association), 1991. An analysis of the Basic Law. |
| Vitalino Canas, Preliminares do Estudo da Ciência Política, Macao, Publicações O Direito, 1992. |
| Paulo Cardinal, “A transição e o sistema político de Macau : continuidade ou convergência?”, Revista Jurídica de Macau, Vol. 4, No. 3, September-December 1997. |
| Cremer R. D. ed., Macau: City of Commerce and Culture: Continuity and Change, 2nd edition, Hong Kong, Api Press, 1991. Dated, but long a standard text on Macau history, culture, economy and institutions, including external links, by a range of mostly Macau-based authorities. |
| Fei Chengkang, Aomen sibainian, Shanghai, Renmin chubanshe, 1988. English translation: Macao 400 Years, Shanghai, The Publishing House of Shanghai, Academy of Social Sciences, 1996. A recent Chinese comprehensive history of Macau. |
| Geoffrey C. Gunn, Encountering Macau: A Portuguese City-State on the Periphery of China, 1557-1999, Boulder, Westview Press, 1996. This is a comprehensive history covering the economic, social and political developments of the enclave since the Portuguese first settlement. The book, however, only uses English and Portuguese and makes no reference to Chinese sources of information. |
| Li Bingshi. Aomen zongdu yu lifahui (The Macau Governor and the Legislative Assembly), Macau, The Macau Foundation, 1994. An interesting account of the power struggle between Governor Vasco de Almeida Costa and the Macanese that eventually resulted in the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly in 1984. |
| Fernando Lima, Macau: As Duas Transições, Vol. I, Macau, Fundação Macau, 1999. |
| Liu Boleng, “International Organizations and Macau’s Development”, Journal of Macau Studies, Vol. I, September 1993. Now slightly dated but the first systematic research study on Macau’s international links. The study also offers certain prescriptions for the future. |
| Anders Ljungstedt, An Historical Sketch of the Portuguese Settlements in China and of the Roman Catholic Church and Missions in China. A Supplementary Chapter, Description of the City of Canton, Hong Kong, Viking Hong Kong Publications (reprint), 1992. Originally published in 1836, this is an important early Western source book on Macau. |
| Lo Shiu-hing, Political Development in Macau, Hong Kong, Chinese University Press, 1995. A superlative work of political science drawing on the author’s published articles on the government and politics of Macau from the 1970s. |
| Jill McGivering, Macao Remembers, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1999. A journalistic report of the culture and street life of Macau. |
| Montalto de Jesus, C. A., Historic Macao, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1984. The first comprehensive history of Macau, originally published in 1902. |
| Jorge Morbey, Macau 1999: O Desafio da Transição, Impressão e Acabento, Lisboa, 1990. A lucid explanation of the sovereignty question and political system in Macau by a former Portuguese cultural attaché in Peking. |
| César Guillén Nuñez and Leong Ka Tai, Macao Streets, Hong Kong, Oxford University Press, 1999. A voyage through the streets of Macau to discover the history and the cultural heritage of the Portuguese city. The short albeit dense texts of César Nuñez are not just a commentary to Leong Ka Tai’s photographs. Pictures of street plates are the guide of this book on the day and night life of Macau. |
| Noboro Asai, Macao Monogatari (Macau’s History), Tokyo, Shinchosha, 1997. The first book-length work in Japanese on Macau’s historical, economic and political development, written in a popular style. |
| Jorge Oliveira, “A Lei Básica e o princípio da continuidade do ordenamento jurídico vigente em Macau”, in O Ordenamento Jurídico de Macau no Contexto da Lei Básica, Macao, Associação dos Advogados de Macau (Macau Bar Association), 1991. An analysis of the impact of the Basic Law on the continuity of the legal system after the handover. |
| Paul Pelliot, “Un ouvrage des premiers temps de Macao”, To’ung Pao, Série II, No. 31, 1935. A not so well known study of the famous French archaeologist. |
| Francisco Gonçalves Pereira, Portugal a China e a “Questão de Macau”, Macau, Livros do Orient, 1995. A collection of the author’s published articles, along with key documents, touching upon legal aspects of Macau’s relations with China from the eighteenth century up to the promulgation of the Macau’s Basic Law. |
| Jonathan Porter, Macau: The Imaginary City, Boulder, Westview Press, 1996. A fluid literary exploration of Macau’s culture and society from the beginnings to the present, organised thematically rather than chronologically. |
| Lindsay and May Ride, The Voices of Macao Stones, Hong Kong, Hong Kong University Press, 1999, 135 pp. Superb edition of texts written by Sir Lindsay Ride who was, from 1949 to 1964, vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong. As much the work of an historian as an invitation to travel in the past, this book makes us discover the history of Macau through its “stones”: churches, fortifications, statues, steles, pavements and all sorts of masonry works. Beautiful photographs and excellent reproductions of George Smirnoff’s watercolours. Foreword by John K. Fairbank. |
| Rufino Ramos, D. Y. Yuan, John E. M. Barnes and Wong Hon Keong. Population and Development in Macau, Macau, University of Macau, 1994. A useful guide to demographic change and urban development, as well as economic, technological, political, legal, educational and social welfare developments in Macau. |
| Rufino Ramos, Jose Rocha Dinis, Rex Wilson and D. Y. Yuan. Macau and Its Neighbours Toward the 21st Century, Macau, University of Macau, 1998. A useful and updated guide to recent economic, social and political trends in Macau. |
| Steve Shipp, Macau, China: A Political History of the Portuguese Colony’s Transition to Chinese Rule, Jefferson (N.C.), McFarland and Company, 1997, 237 pp. Acceptable “general history” of Macau organised along a classical chronology. A kind of student’s manual by the author of a similar study on Hong Kong. |
| Jorge Silveira, Subsídios para a História do Direito Constitucional de Macau (1829-1974), Macao, Publicações O Direito, 1991. A history of Portuguese constitutional law in Macau. |
| George Bryan Souza, The Survival of Empire: Portuguese Trade and Society in China and the South China Sea, 1630-1754, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1986. A thorough commercial history that deals extensively with Macau in the period following its golden age. |
| Wong Hon-keng and Fung Sio-weng, Aomen yanjiu (Macau Studies), quarterly published by the Macau Foundation and the Centre of Macau Studies of the University of Macau ; last issue : September 1999, No. 12. “The” journal of Macau studies on politics, the economy and the transformation of society. Trilingual contents (Chinese, Portuguese and English). Some of the articles are published in English. |
| Wu Zhiliang, Aomen zhengzhi (The Political System of Macau), Macau, The Macau Foundation, 1995. A concise introduction to Macau’s pre-1999 political system. |
| Herbert S. Yee ed., Shuangchengji: Gang Ao de zhengzhi, jingji ji shehui fazhan (A Tale of Two Cities: Political, Economic and Social Developments in Hong Kong and Macau), Macau, The Macau Association of Social Sciences, 1998. This is a volume of 18 articles comparing various aspects of political, economic and social developments in the two colonies. |
| Yin Guangren and Zhang Rulin eds., Aomen jilue (Gazetteer of Macau), Taipei, Ch’eng-wen Publishing Co., 1968 (reprint). Originally published in 1751, this is the standard early Chinese account of Macau organised in the traditional local gazetteer format. |
| Zhonghua renmin gongheguo Aomen tebie xingzhengqu jiben fa (Basic Law of the Special Administrative Region of Macau of the People’s Republic of China), Peking, Falü chubanshe, 1999, 70 pp. |