Colonial Macau
A Bit of Old Portugal
In this time, before the great Chinese industrial buildup, Macau had just one casino. The rest of it, as shown here, was a picturesquely crumbling old Portugal.
R: Fisherman pull their boat up on shore
A neglected colony
Unlike nearby Hong Kong, colonial law in Macau never promoted the entrepreneurial spirit of Chinese defectors from the old Maoist “iron rice bowl.” Salvation for Macau came only after Portugal handed it back to a modernizing China.
