ChinaRhyming in Macao – March 25-30 2025

Posted: March 25th, 2025 | No Comments »

What am I up to in Macao? Well, talking to some schools, the University of Macao and, next weekend, the wonderful Macao Literary Festival.

Wallis in China of course is in demand, but it also happens that the third in my “Destination…” series of collected essays and articles has just been published by Hong Kong’s Blacksmith Books. Following “Destination Shanghai” and “Destination Peking”, “Destination Macao” is 15 tales of pirates, traders, smugglers, sojourners, rebels, moviemakers, writers, poets and many more who lived, visited or somehow interacted with the Portuguese colony.

Ranging from the epic poet Luis de Camões in the 1550s to Ian Fleming in the 1950s by way of, among others, Camilo Pessanha, George Chinnery, Fernando Pessoa, Josef von Sternberg, Maurice Dekobra, WH Auden, the Macanese writer Deolinda da Conceição, the Russian emigre painter George Smirnoff and Stanley Ho.

All three “Destination…” collections are available now from Blacksmith Books, Bookazine branches in Hong Kong, Livraria Portuguesa in Macao and soon everywhere online and bookshops worldwide (ships are sailing!)….

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