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January 2013 Casa de Macau Inc. Australia January 2013 Volume 25 Issue 1 Inside this issue: President’s Report 1,2 Macau - struggle for 1-4 survival - Stuart Braga Around the States 5-6 President’s Report Sydney Ed Rozario Melbourne & Brisbane 7 Happy New Year! I trust you new year. The Christmas dinner will be held on have all had an enjoyable and Dia de Sao Joao lunches Sunday 17 February 2013. Brisbane - Photos 8 Christmas and holiday season. in all States have been well Please refer to the flyer On behalf of the all the supported thanks to the accompanying this Adelaide & Hobart 9 Committee I would like to hard work of all the State Newsletter for venue and wish you and your families, Reps. We have updated and menu details. There will be a good health and peace in the introduced some important $35 per head charge for Notice regarding Casa 9 New Year. changes to our Constitution members and $55 per head Bursary application 2012 was a busy year and we and our finances have been for non-members. accomplished much. We well controlled. The Sunday Lunches will Birth Announcements 9 obtained the desired outcome 2013 is shaping up to be an start again from 17 March from the Marrickville Council equally interesting and 2013. We thought it would to our application for activities packed year and we be fun if this was a “Pot A Bit of Nostalgia 10 increased hours and numbers hope you will continue to Luck” Sunday with members at the Casa Cultural Centre support the efforts of the bringing a dish to share if Nina Deacon in Sydenham. We have a small Committee and participate they wish. The coordinators modification to the rear in as many of events as you for this event will be Nina Filomac Band playing for 11 access to complete but can. The next major social Deacon (0412 692 252) and the Empress Dowager otherwise we are in full event will be the Chinese Marilia de Souza (0411 048 compliance. We have held New Year dinner in NSW 769) who will manage the several successful Sunday Macanese Patois 12 and in other States that have menu and contributions. lunch events at this venue and sufficient member support Please contact either of Endangered language plan to continue these in the to hold them. In Sydney the (Continued on page 2) Year of the Snake 12- 13 Chinese New Year Macau – struggle for survival Gerard Ozorio Jnr 13 Stuart Braga Book Sale and 14 This is the fifth in a series of Things did get better, but ports were to be opened to Youth Corner articles written at the request of only very slowly. The im- foreign shipping. This should President Ed Rozario. The provement could have been have been a golden oppor- series began by describing the much greater but for several tunity for Macau to recover great days of Macau in its first poor decisions. In the late much of its former status, Editor 75 years until 1640. It went on seventeenth century, Jesuit but the opportunity to take to recount aspects of the catastro- influence grew at the Emper- it up slipped through the Jorge A. Estorninho fingers of the Macau Senate, phe that befell Macau when its or’s court in Peking, chiefly Co-Ordinator through the outstanding which viewed the imperial trade with Japan then came to Jesuit astronomer, Fr Verbi- edict with resentment and Leonor (Nina) an abrupt end. There followed a est, who won the confidence suspicion. They saw it as Deacon long period of misery and of the Kangxi Emperor to depriving them of the mo- poverty. such an extent that in 1685, nopoly rights of trade with he decreed that Chinese (Continued on page 2) P a g e 2 Casa Down Under Newsletter Volume 25 Issue 1 (Continued from page 1) aside as a Ladies Night and scheduled for between the might provide but not for the Fourth Friday for the last week of November and any subsidy that our Casa President’s Report Guys. The coordinators for the first of December. As in may add to the Macau these events will be Marilia the past, those planning to subsidy. To qualify for our them if you would like to de Souza (0411 048 769) and attend must be registered Casa’s subsidy, members bring a dish. Meanwhile Belinda Rosario (0417 040 and financially paid up must be fully paid up for two bookings should be made 913 between 6-9pm) for the members of one of the Casa consecutive years. through Mary Rigby on 02 former and Marcus de Macau associations. The Looking well ahead, the 4733 3862 or rigbyfamily@ Gutierrez (0410 558 998) . Committee is planning to Committee would like to optusnet.com.au There will Please contact them for these dates and will advise begin planning for our be a $10 per head charge as details if you would like to firm information as it comes association’s 25 th before but this will be come along to these events. to hand. Meanwhile, if any of Anniversary which will fall in waived for those who bring a Many members have been your family members or September 2014. We will be dish. asking for details of the next Macaense friends, plan to contacting members on their The Committee hopes to Encontro in Macau. The only attend, it would be a good views of how best to hold casual social events on information we have is idea to sign up as members celebrate this wonderful the Second and Fourth unofficial. As we go to print, of the Casa as soon as milestone in our history. Fridays of each month I can only inform members possible. All new members commencing in March. The that we believe an Encontro will qualify for any financial Second Friday will be set is planned for 2013 and is subsidy the Macau organisers (Continued on page 4) ‘Macau – struggle for survival’ (Continued from page 1) by the Portuguese. Yet grad- thority of the Viceroy in regulations issued governing ually they changed their Goa. Meanwhile, British trade. As usual, the prohibi- Canton that Macau had un- view, but it was too late. In merchants were taking a tions these contained were der the Ming dynasty before 1732, thirteen years later, growing interest in trade negotiable by the time- it fell in the 1640s. the Yongzheng emperor with China. They dealt honoured means of The emperor under- renewed the proposal. This chiefly in tea, oriental curios ‘squeeze’. However, in one estimated the importance time the Senate was enthu- and porcelain, which be- case there was no room for that foreign trade would siastic. came known in Britain as compromise. No foreign come to have, but it began ‘china’. Opium came later. women were permitted in in a small way. Some control However, the Bishop of Their ships were larger, and Canton, and foreigners was needed, so in 1719 the Macau was not, as it would already it was clear that the were permitted to reside Kangxi emperor, towards bring English traders, shallow water around Ma- there only during the trad- the end of his reign, again Protestant heretics, into the cau was hazardous for navi- ing season, confined to a proposed to centre all the City of the Name of God. gation. Following the Vice- small area outside the foreign trade of China at Although foreigners were roy’s ban, the British went walled city. The reason was Macau. Incredibly, the impe- not permitted to reside in to the nearby island of Lintin obvious. The Chinese knew in the Pearl River estuary to that permanent residency of rial offer was once more Macau, several had slipped rejected, seen as a ‘Trojan in as ‘lodgers’. Most were bargain with Chinese mer- foreigners of both sexes horse’, giving the Chinese a bachelors, and the effect on chants instead of calling at would create another Euro- much larger presence in and Macau’s night life was pre- Macau. pean colony. control of Macau than they dictable; these men were already had. The Senate not monks. Fearful for the In the mid-eighteenth centu- This created an immediate baulked at the cost of having morals of his flock, the bish- ry, the steady growth of problem for nearby Macau, to provide fifty to sixty offi- op persuaded the Viceroy of foreign trade led to a Chi- which had not long before cials to administer the pro- India, Pedro Mascarenhas, to nese reconsideration of the banned foreign, i.e. posal. Perhaps the rejection over-ride the Senate’s wish- basis on which it was con- Protestant, residence. If was not as blinkered as it es. In vain the Senate pro- ducted. Only in Canton was Macau continued to exclude might have seemed. The tested. the administrative machin- foreign residents, they were Senate had seen too many ery sufficiently well devel- likely to force their way in. instances of local mandarins For the third time, Macau’s oped to regulate trade and If so, the Chinese were un- squeezing all the money chance of economic recov- traders on both sides. In likely to stop them, because they could from any profita- ery was pushed aside, this 1760, all ports were there- it was convenient to have (Continued on page 3) ble operations undertaken time by the overriding au- fore again closed except Canton, and a set of eight P a g e 3 Casa Down Under Newsletter Volume 25 Issue 1 ‘Macau – struggle for survival’ (Continued from page 2) than yet another opportunity Opium War broke out in it no longer and a riot is far them close at hand, but not for extracting ‘squeeze’ from 1839, and the Chinese were from improbable.’ (William within the camp.
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