Citations:Dom João
English citations of Dom João
- [1897 April 22, “THE TERRITORIAL DISPUTE BETWEEN PORTUGAL AND CHINA. THE ISLAND OF DOM JOAO.”, in The Hongkong Weekly Press and China Overland Trade Report[1], volume XLV, number 16, sourced from Echo Macaense, →OCLC, page 306, column 1:
- The public of Macao was completely ignorant that such a grave question was pending between the two Government, and great was the surprise when the report spread that the Viceroy of Canton had officially announced to the Council of Government that he was about to establish a military occupation of the island of Dom Joao.]
- 1910, Francis J. Bacchus, “Macao”, in The Catholic Encyclopedia[2], volume IX, New York: Robert Appleton Company, →OCLC, page 482, column 1:
- The Catholic being the state religion of Portugal, the prisons and the five government hospitals at Macao and in Portuguese Timor are all open to the ministrations of Catholic priests and sisters; three of these hospitals have chaplains of their own. The government also maintains on the islands of Coloane and Dom João, near Macao, two leperhouses, which are frequently visited by missionaries and sisters.
- 1989, Richard Louis Edmonds, “Geography and Geology”, in Macau[3], volume 105, Clio Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:
- Today, Ilha Verde and Taipa are administered by Portugal whereas the other territories discussed in these papers are under Chinese administration. In the prologue to the paper concerning Dom João (Xiaohengqin Island), the author indicates that he was preparing similar papers concerning Coloane and Tai-Vong-Cam (Dahengqin) Islands.
- 2001, Gary M. C. Ngai [魏美昌], “Macau's Identity: The Need for its Preservation and Development into the Next Century”, in Arthur H. Chen, editor, Culture of Metropolis in Macau: An International Symposium on Cultural Heritage: Strategies for the Twenty-first Century[4], Cultural Affairs Bureau [文化局], →ISBN, →OCLC, page 142, columns 1, 2:
- Macau will never be able to overcome its limitation posed by its tiny size, unless after 1999 the Central Government in Beijing would be generous enough, to make the adjacent islands D. João and Montanha part of the Macau SAR, which would increase the territory’s area at least three times.
- 2019 June 14, “Portuguese, Japanese and Chinese”, in Macau Business[6], archived from the original on 16 September 2023[7]:
- Perhaps it would have been simpler if, like Taipa and Coloane, the Portuguese had physically merged Macau with two other islands: Montanha and Dom João (Xiao Hengqin and Da Hengqin, in Cantonese, with Montanha known as Tai Vong Cam). […]
The most curious thing: this small, economically more valuable part corresponds almost entirely to the landfill that in the 90’s linked the two islands, which means that the original land of Montanha and Dom João was mostly hilly and unsuitable for real estate development (as the images in these pages show). […]
For a short time, two years later, the Japanese expelled the Portuguese, and at the end of World War II, Montanha and Dom João passed definitively to the Chinese side (in 1938, a Portuguese-language newspaper published in Macau tells us that General Chiang-Kai Chek proposed a landfill connect the two islands . . .).
- 2021 November 21, “On Chinese islands next to Macau, great stories of pirates, typhoons and war played out”, in South China Morning Post[8], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 21 November 2021[9]:
- It’s hard to imagine now, but there were once three mountainous, verdant islands between Macau and mainland China. The Portuguese named them Dom João, Montanha and Lapa. Later the islands became known in Chinese as Xiao (Little) Hengqin, Da (Big) Hengqin and Wanzai, respectively.
The two Hengqins, which faced Coloane and Taipa, were eventually joined by land reclamation to form a single island while Wanzai, a mere few hundred metres from Macau’s Inner Harbour (Porto Interior), saw its inclines levelled enough to become a peninsula.