Abstract:
Macao literature in the 1950s and 1960s contained the meaning of “starting point” or “starting afresh”. It is not blank or a part of Hong Kong literature, as some have claimed. Macao literature is different from both Hong Kong and Taiwan literature and Mainland literature in a special form. It is mobile and international. The writers were not included in the system, but wrote individually, without or with little of the common literature in Hong Kong and Taiwan literature in the 1950s and 1960s. The works of the 1950s and 1960s not only formed the preliminary pattern of Macao literature, but also provided rich resources for the development of Macao literature in the 1970s and 1980s. These resources consist of nonfiction literature dominated by literary newspapers, popular literature supported by commercial interests, and pluralistic literature written and spoken in Chinese (vernacular, classical and Cantonese), Portuguese and English. Together, they constitute the literary landscape of the “three pillars”of Macao literature.
