BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Around 100 documents on the official correspondence between the Qing Dynasty officials governing Macao and the Office of the Procurator of the Loyal Senate of Macao, or the then Portuguese authorities in Macao, are going on display Monday.
They are part of more than 3,600 documents, which are known as "Official Records of Macao During the Qing Dynasty (1693-1886)" and were inscribed in the Memory of the World Register in 2017, according to a co-sponsor of the exhibition.
Consisting of records written in Chinese and their Portuguese translations, the documents reflect social conditions, people's life, urban construction and commercial trade of Macao at that time and are important historical records for studying the Macao region in the Qing Dynasty.
Entitled "Records written in Chinese -- story of Macao told by archives at Torre do Tombo National Archive," the exhibition is co-sponsored by the National Library of China (NLC) and the Torre do Tombo National Archive (National Archives of Portugal) and will be held at the NLC-based National Museum of Classic Books from June 10 to July 26, 2019.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the return of Macao, which had been under the colonial rule by Portugal for more than 300 years, to its motherland China.
