Series

Patriotic Gentry and Philanthropists

Through Macau's social development ran a current of patriotic gentry and philanthropists who gave back to the community and bridged it to the mainland. This series records figures such as Chui Tak Kei and Ke Lin, alongside community leaders like Ho Yin and Ma Man Kei, and their contributions to education, medicine, associations and patriotic causes.

Enterprise and Good Works

The development of modern Macau society owes much to a group of patriotic gentry and philanthropists who built businesses, gave back to the community, and bridged Macau to the mainland across the decades.

Chui Tak Kei was long active in Macau's associations and construction industry and supported charities such as the Tung Sin Tong; , a physician turned community organiser, ran the Kiang Wu Hospital for many years, serving Macau through both medicine and organisation. Together with community leaders and , they formed the backbone of Macau's patriotic commercial and philanthropic networks.

Giving Back and Bridging

Grounded in the public record, this series presents each figure's concrete contributions to education, medicine, associations and public welfare. Their philanthropy lay not only in donations but in years of sustained community service — a stabilising force in Macau's social development.

Gentry and Philanthropists

Legacy archive1912-2007

Chui Tak Kei: the man who made Tung Sin Tong Macau's civic conscience

Chui Tak Kei

Longtime chairman of Tung Sin Tong, the century-old Chinese charitable society. A construction-and-property businessman who also served as Vice-President of the Legislative Assembly and on the municipal executive, he placed charity at the centre of a civic life that bridged business and public affairs — and founded the Chui family's public lineage.

信任檔案慈善家愛國商人

Legacy archive1900-1991

Ke Lin: the doctor who carried Kiang Wu Hospital into the modern era

Ke Lin

First director of Macau's Kiang Wu Hospital. Arriving in 1935, he served Kiang Wu as a volunteer Western-medicine doctor and from 1946 as its first director, modernising a traditional charitable hospital. Across seventeen years of practice in Macau he became one of the most consequential physicians — and patriotic community figures — of the modern era.

信任檔案慈善家醫者仁心

Patriotic Business Leaders

Legacy archive1908-1983

Ho Yin: the broker of trust between business and civic life

Ho Yin

Founder of Tai Fung Bank and lifetime president of the Macau Chinese Chamber of Commerce. From the postwar era to the 1980s he was Macau's "uncrowned governor" — the indispensable broker between the Chinese community and Portuguese authorities.

信任檔案商會金融