June 25, 2026

Far East Currents

The Center for Luso-Asian Diaspora Studies – U. C. Berkeley

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Dr. Roy Eric Xavier administers "Far East Currents", and is the Director of The Center for Luso-Asian Diaspora Studies (2025) and a Visiting Scholar at U.C. Berkeley's Asian American Research Center, and the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues. He focuses on the history of Luso-Asian and Macanese communities around the world, and cultural and economic diversity in modern day Macau.

The recent protests in Hong Kong were the latest among many that have occurred in the former British colony since...

Leonardo d’Almada e Castro, Jr., a young barrister in 1930s Hong Kong, is often credited with being a defender of...

Note: A different version of this article was written as an editorial for a newspaper in Macau, China, which publishes...