By Ken Chad Introduction: More Than Bricks and Mortar When the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation opened its new headquarters at 1 Queen’s Road Central on 10 October 1935, it was a statement of overwhelming confidence. Described as Hong Kong’s first skyscraper, the fourteen-storey, airconditioned behemoth dominated the colonial skyline, its entrance guarded by two famously snarling bronze lions. [15] For a century, the banks had been the powerhouse of the colony, and H

By Patrick A de Lemos Rozario I had long intended to write an article about my great‑granduncle, Januário Agostinho de Almeida, the brother of my maternal great‑grandmother, D. Ângela Regina de Almeida de Lemos. This intention took shape after I read The Macanese Diaspora in British Hong Kong by Catherine S. Chan in 2022, which discusses Januário’s advocacy of Portuguese culture in Hong Kong during the 1930s - an aspect of his life that had remained largely unknown to more re

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