The book, launched with the support of the Macao Institute of European Studies and edited by the Macau Tribuna Journal, came about through a research grant obtained in 2016 to understand the factors that explain the history of the Portuguese in Macau, from the its arrival in the sixteenth century, to the present day. The work, written in Portuguese and English, in order to reach a wider audience, also sought to understand what led the Portuguese to remain in the territory, even after the 1999 handover, and to prospect their stay in this special Chinese administrative region in the future.