ABSTRACT
Macau, a former Portuguese enclave and now a tiny special administrative region (SAR) on the western flank of the Pearl River Delta (PRD) across from Hong Kong, is a most unusual and intriguing city.1 Its checkered history as an early colonial trading post and center for religious proselytizing was followed by commercial stagnation once the port of Hong Kong captured much of the China trade in the mid-nineteenth century. Macau required new sources of revenue, and this led to more nefarious practices. These included expanding the crude gambling activities, prostitution, and the malevolent coolie trade, corralling human beings and shipping them abroad for indentured labor services (Veeck, Pannell, Smith, & Huang, 2011, pp. 328-341).
