O jogo em Macau: a arrematação de duas lotarias no início do século XX

Abstract

At the beginning of the twentieth century gaming industry already held a prominent position in the Macao economy, with lotteries being one of its main forms. Their exploitation, especially in the form of monopoly, was held by the Chinese. They had means to spread lotteries within a very wide geographical radius. In this article I analyse the situation of two of these lotteries, looking for difficulties in the Portuguese administration and how it assumed different forms of vision between the authorities in Macau and those in Lisbon. Therefore, this matter, although associated with the colonial economy, shows how colonial governance presented itself in unequal forms depending on the proximity to the problems.

Keywords

• Portuguese empire
• colonial administration
• gaming industry
• colonial economy