The Portuguese in Hong Kong and China (1944), c.1930s-1940s

Component identifier:

Subseries 13-3

Content Summary:

Following his arrival in Macau as a refugee from Hong Kong in 1942, J.P. Braga began writing a history of the Portuguese in Hong Kong and China, with encouragement and assistance from his son J.M. Braga. When J.P. Braga died on 12 February 1944, 12 of the proposed 26 chapters had been completed. J.M. Braga edited these chapters, which he then privately published as The Portuguese in Hongkong and China: their beginning, settlement and progress during one hundred years (1944).

This subseries comprises draft and research material for the book, including incomplete chapters that were not published in the 1944 edition. There are chapter outlines, manuscript drafts, heavily annotated typescript drafts, notes and research material, including a set of notebooks compiled by J.M. Braga on various topics.

Copies of the 1944 edition are held in the National Library's print collection (BRA 2831, BRA 2832, BRA 2833 and BRA 3064), together with a 1998 reprint (YYq 951.26 B813).

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Immediate source of acquisition:

The bulk of the Braga Collection (including manuscripts, pictures, maps, newspapers, serials, periodicals, monographs and ephemera) was purchased from J.M. Braga in 1966. The component held in the Manuscript Collection at MS 4300 appears to have been formally accessioned as the J.M. Braga Papers in 1975. Several small additions have been made since the original instalment of papers was received. Most of these additions were transfers to the Manuscripts Collection from other collection areas, including a file of newspaper cuttings in May 1975, a set of microfilm reels in 1984, a file of manuscript material in 1985, lists of the Braga Collection in 1994, and two files of assorted printed material and other papers in 2009. As well, several small additions have been made by members of the Braga family. In 1992, various Braga family members donated a copy of the eulogy and order of service for Augusta Braga's memorial service, and in 2002 Angela Braga donated photographs of medals and decorations awarded to J.P. Braga, together with photocopies of early writings of J.M. Braga and eulogies for J.M. Braga and his grandson Michael Braga.

Subjects:

History

Names:

Braga, J.M. (José Maria)

Contents

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