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St. Paul's Cathedral in the 19th century by George Chinnery (1774–1852). Macau is a special administrative region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China.It was leased to Portugal in 1557 as a trading post in exchange for a symbolic annual rent of 500 tael.
Macau's history under Portugal can be broadly divided into three distinct political periods. [7] The first was the establishment of the Portuguese settlement in 1557 to 1849. [8] The Portuguese had jurisdiction over the Portuguese community and certain aspects of the territory's administration but no real sovereignty. [7]
The increasing development of tourism became a major factor in the rapid development of the economy of Macau. For Portugal, the handover of Macau to China marked the end of the Portuguese Empire and its decolonisation process and also the end of European imperialism in China and Asia. [27]
Macau [e] or Macao [f] is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). With a population of about 710,000 people [12] and a land area of 32.9 km 2 (12.7 sq mi), it is the most densely populated region in the world.
By the 17th century, Portugal had established colonial rule over Macau after gaining concessions from various Chinese governments. In 1887, Portugal and the Qing dynasty signed the Sino-Portuguese Draft Minutes and the Sino–Portuguese Treaty of Peking, in which China ceded to Portugal the right to "perpetual occupation and government of Macau"; conversely, Portugal pledged to seek China's ...
Macau had its first contact with the Portuguese language in 1557 when the territory was established as a trade center of Portugal to other parts of Asia. The language largely entered Macau in the 19th century when China ceded Macau to Portugal and Macau was declared a formal Portuguese province. At that time, it was made an official language ...
The expedition to Macau and the Pescadores was the brainchild of Dutch Governor-General Jan Pieterszoon Coen. At Batavia, headquarters of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), Coen organized an initial fleet of eight ships for the expedition to Macau, with orders that any Dutch vessel encountered along the way was to be incorporated into the invasion fleet.
Schools and education in Macau were divided along racial lines, with the Portuguese and Macanese sending their children to fully subsidized private schools while the Chinese had to send their children to either Catholic or communist schools. [11] The segregation of education in Macau was an area of great contention for the local populations. [11]