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This article problematizes the development of the urban fabric of the city of Macao from a conceptual standpoint: urbanism is not merely a technique nor simply a State policy, but an interdisciplinary practice that places humanity, well-being, and the relationship with the environment at the center of spatial organization. The author asserts that urbanism evolves under the influence of institutional powers — kings, popes, dictators — often without consulting the citizen; he highlights that, for Macao, as for other metropolises, spatial management must reconcile multiple decision-making powers, collective memory, and local identities, aiming at democratic, integrated, and sustainable urbanization. The methodology focuses on a theoretical reading articulated with empirical examples of building rehabilitation at Largo de S. Domingos, whose photographic documentation (1998–2000) illustrates operations of "recovery" and reactivation of urban heritage, exemplifying planning practices oriented toward daily life and public use. The text engages with references to global urban models (Versailles, Brasília, Barcelona, Rome, Istanbul, Berlin) to discuss the relationship between planning, power, and social practice, advocating a vision of urbanism that respects habits, traditions, and collective memory. It concludes by defending Macao as a space of humane, pedagogical, and democratic urbanism, capable of transforming memory into a driver of quality of life and social cohesion.

"Falar de Memória" é um programa de Hugo Pinto com a participação do jornalista e investigador João Guedes. Semanalmente, a revisitação do passado de Macau através das histórias que têm como protagonistas personagens e lugares que ainda perduram na memória. Esta edição foi para o ar na Rádio Macau no dia 14 de Dezembro de 2017.

The article analyzes the references to Chinese silk found in European printed documentation from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, discussing how this news coverage helped shape perceptions, desires, and commercial practices within the European sphere. Starting from the observation that silk frequently appears in works of the period and that, although trade involved it as a commodity, its value extended beyond a strictly economic logic, the author argues that the printed circulation of "news" about silk also functioned as a mechanism for producing imaginaries about the East, reinforcing the prestige of China as a region of wonders and artistic excellence. Methodologically, the work carries out a historiographic and documentary reading of European editorial production, organizing the contents into thematic nuclei to identify how the origin, material qualities, forms of circulation (including circuits and entrepôts), and social uses associated with the fabrics are described. As a result, it concludes that Chinese silk, even when compared with less expressive European textiles, was perceived as incomparable in lightness, resistance, color, and plasticity, fueling demand among civil and religious elites. Thus, printed documentation not only recorded the presence of the product but also intensified its capacity to impact European society, articulating consumption, status, and cultural fascination.

The article analyzes the Sino-Portuguese embroidered textiles from the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), proposing that this production, destined for the export market, constituted a cultural synthesis resulting from the reconfiguration of Luso-Chinese relations from the mid-sixteenth century onward, with particular emphasis on commercial communication and the establishment of Macau as an entrepôt. The author argues that, despite the centrality of Chinese silk in Asian economies and the Portuguese role in mediating trade routes (including Canton), these embroideries remain little studied as a corpus and, above all, lack an integrated historiographic reading. Methodologically, the text favors a systemic approach based on inventory and comparative analysis of over 150 specimens identified over approximately a decade in Portuguese private and public collections, articulating technical procedures, material solutions, iconography, plastic approaches, and functional dimensions. The main conclusions indicate the existence of a highly constant and coherent profile that goes beyond mere contextualization and purpose. Finally, the author distinguishes two functional universes: a religious production, associated with Catholic worship and the mission of the Padroado; and a secular production aimed at the European civil community, especially the Lusophone one, intended for decoration and civil clothing, reflecting the diversity of actors involved in the overseas enterprise.

The article asks "Macao, a multicultural city?" and seeks to answer this question through the literary analysis of the final (posthumous) novel by Henrique de Senna Fernandes, **Os Dores**, fictionally set in the 1940s and 1950s. The central thesis maintains that the city can be read as a space of encounter between **East and West** since Portuguese governance in the sixteenth century, and that this history materializes in the novel through "marks of multiculturality" expressed by characters, spaces, customs, and social relations. Methodologically, the work articulates a theoretical framework on multiculturalism with the interpretive reading of the literary text, conceiving the novel as a privileged source for the representation of diversity and alterity in concrete historical contexts. Subsequently, an analytical and practical approach is undertaken, aimed at identifying and discussing, within the narrative and descriptive configurations of **Os Dores**, the signs of cultural coexistence, its tensions, and forms of social negotiation. It is concluded that Macao, as staged by Senna Fernandes, is not a mere exotic setting, but a cultural device in which colonial continuities, the circulation of influences, and modes of coexistence are simultaneously recognized — allowing multiculturality to be characterized as a historical hallmark of the city.

Considered the most influential Western painter of the nineteenth century in the East, George Chinnery (1772–1852) lived in Macau for 27 years, a period during which he produced some of his most notable works. Through five testimonies from those who lived with him in Macau, from his arrival in 1825 until his death in 1852, a physical and psychological portrait of the English painter is traced.

This article explores the diary of an American merchant's wife written in 1853 during a voyage between the USA and China in 1853. Beyond the incidents of the long round trip, the diary also addresses the period of approximately two months that the couple spent in Macao. This type of intimate record was rare among women and was only made public some 200 years after it was written. The document provides not only information on the physical aspects of the cities of Canton and Macao, but also portrays the social fabric, including the interaction of the foreign community with the local population. As an unpublished manuscript, Sarah's Diary holds exceptional historical value. Being the only known account of its kind to date about life in Macao in the early years of the second half of the nineteenth century, it is an essential source of information for understanding the reality of the region during a period marked by multiple diplomatic initiatives and intense commercial exchanges between Asia and the West.

This work aims to provide a reading of Henrique de Senna Fernandes's *Os Dores* and, through his writing, to reveal a vision of the city of Macao and Macanese society at a time when personal and social relations were governed by social standing and stratification, as well as by the relations—or the lack thereof—between the Christian city and the Chinese city, which, side by side, teemed with life. Nevertheless, an individuality prevailed, interspersed here and there with cross-cultural relations that defied the dictates of the time and proved that such relations were possible, should one so wish. The richness of the author's writing is also highlighted, immersing us in the settings and moments of the characters' lives as though we too were part of the narrative.

This article analyzes the transition of the religious and geopolitical landscape in Japan at the turn of the seventeenth century, marked by the end of the Catholic monopoly and the arrival of the first Protestant Europeans. For fifty years, the Christian presence was perceived by the Japanese authorities as a unified bloc, despite tensions between the Iberian crowns. However, the arrival of the Dutch ship *Liefde* in 1600 and the subsequent protection granted by Tokugawa Ieyasu to its crew introduced a new variable into the European presence in the Far East. Drawing on documentary sources from the Society of Jesus—namely the correspondence of Alessandro Valignano and Bishop D. Luís Cerqueira—and on accounts by Portuguese contemporaries, the author examines the immediate reaction of the Jesuits and the agents of the Macau trade to the intrusion of the "red-haired men" (*kômôjin*). The study highlights the strategic importance of military technology, specifically the use of European artillery by Ieyasu at decisive moments such as the Battle of Sekigahara and the sieges of Osaka. It concludes that, although the immediate commercial threat posed by the newcomers was initially limited, their presence irreversibly altered the dynamics of influence, challenging Luso-Jesuit hegemony and laying the groundwork for new diplomatic and religious conflicts in the Japanese archipelago.

The article analyzes the representation of Macau in the novel/fictional work "As Dores" (《朵斯姑娘》) by Henrique de Senna Fernandes, understanding it as a literary device that stages the coexistence—and friction—between Portuguese and Chinese cultural matrices in the city. The authors argue that the narrative mobilizes characters and trajectories to reinscribe twentieth-century Macau into a space that is simultaneously geographic and sociocultural, marked by a symbolic division between "Chinese city" and "Christian city". Methodologically, the study proceeds with an interpretive reading of narrative and discursive elements (character configurations, settings, and cultural isotopies), articulating the textual analysis with a historical-cultural framework of Macau's unique status as Chinese territory under Portuguese administration. As results, the work reveals itself less as a mere panoramic representation of the city than as a discursive construction of intercultural relations: the circulation between spaces and identities highlights tensions, asymmetries, and persistent "distances" between communities that coexist without fully integrating their codes. It is concluded that "As Dores" transforms the urban experience of Macau into a cultural and aesthetic problem, offering a literary map of Western heritages and their local reconfigurations.

Este livro reúne contributos sobre o Padroado e sobre as missões, revisitando conceitos e perspectivas sobre o tema. Tratam-se aspectos tão diversificados como o culto e a religiosidade; a arte e a cultura; as missões e o império; a relação da monarquia com a Santa Sé e do Padroado com a De Propaganda Fide; a formação do clero nativo e a acção dos catequistas, a criação de seminários e o percurso atribulado das estratégias do Padroado; os caminhos do poder e os confrontos institucionais, os factos e as doutrinas.