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.

In 2003 one of the first websites dedicated to the Macanese Diaspora was launched in California by a former Hong...

Readers will recall that earlier (JTM-June 2) we outlined the various elements of Macau’s culture: language and its origins, religion...

Dear Users, Recent security breaches have forced me to rebuild this site. Fortunately, all the content, including articles, images, videos, and...