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Camoes, China and Macau.
Portuguese Studies
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January 1, 2001|
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In Macau, on a wooded hill, overlooking the Old Protestant Cemetery and the offices of the Fundacao Oriente, lie gardens that from the nineteenth century have been known as the gruta de Camoes. Westward there are sweeping views across the Inner Harbour towards the Chinese mainland. The gardens are regularly filled on fine days with local inhabitants practising their tai chi, playing Chinese chess, reading their newspapers or just strolling in the sunshine. Framed within a pi-shaped structure of three huge Stonehenge-like granite rocks stands a plinth, two metres high, on ...
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The Thomas Paine Society. (Frontline).
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