Author: BRAZÃO, E.,
Title: Macau: Cidade do Nome de Deus na China Não Há outra mais Leal. [First edition].
Description: [Lisboa], Agencia Geral do Ultramar, 1957. Original coloured and illustrated limp wrappers. 267pp. 2 captioned coloured plates illustrating portuguese colonial furniture, 24 captioned monochrome facsim. plates after old engravings featuring topographical views of Macau through the ages, summaries in french and english, register, table of contents. Copy INSCRIBED by author on f.e.p., a few lines in ms. in ink, signed and dated. GOMES 274 Porguguese language history of the portuguese colonial settlement of Macau peninsula and city: arrival of the Portuguese, colonial administration and development, which includes i.a. notes on the activities and efforts of christianization of local Chinese and other non-portuguese minority groups. Good copy.

Keywords: macau china peninsula colonization imperialism history development culture heritage christianization religion trade topography monuments portugal portuguese mission conversion