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Why colourful, rackety Macau warranted its own chapter in old travel guides to Hong Kong




A common insertion into Hong Kong-related travel accounts, from the colony’s mid-19th-century beginnings until the 1980s, was a chapter on Macau; indeed, travel books without a section on “Portugal in China” are a matter for comment. Part of the reason was the striking contrast – socially, architecturally, administratively, ethnically – between the neighbouring British and Portuguese colonial territories; so close, so similar, and yet so beguilingly different.

This contrast became especially…



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