A Mirror of Grand History
Small as it is, Macau left its mark at pivotal moments in modern Chinese history. This series records, in a neutral historical register, several figures whose lives became entwined with the city.
On the eve of the Opium War, the imperial commissioner Lin Zexu inspected Macau in 1839, receiving Portuguese officials at the Lin Fung Temple — a moment remembered as "Lin Zexu's inspection of Macau"; the late-Qing reform thinker retired to the Mandarin's House in Macau, where he wrote his influential Words of Warning in Times of Prosperity; practised at Macau's Kiang Wu Hospital as the city's first Chinese Western-medicine doctor before turning to revolution; and the New Fourth Army commander once made his home in Macau, his former residence preserved today as a memorial.
City and Nation Interwoven
Grounded in the public historical record, this series presents each figure's concrete link to Macau and their place in history. Their footprints show that Macau was never just a dot on the map, but a window onto the upheavals of modern China.
