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The company was oficially founded on May, 2, 1990. Livros do Oriente - the sole private book publishing company still operating in Macau has been reinforcing a publication project aiming to divulge Macau´s historical and cultural reality in order to safeguard the collective memory of the Macanese community.
The founders - journalists and authors Cecilia Jorge and Rogério Beltrão Coelho - have long dedicated their professional life to a wide research and collection of iconography and subjects pertaining to the Chinese and Portuguese cultures of Macau. Thus resulting the publication of books, articles in the press, presentation of papers and participation in seminars and conferences. Since the setting up of Livros do Oriente they have extended their work to include the promotion of local authors and those interested in the subject Macau.
Livros do Oriente has published mainly cultural issues whether historical, fiction, poetry or general.
As from early 1992 the company won a public tender to produce the monthly magazine MacaU - a publication owned by the Government Information Services (GCS) of Macau. Throughout eight-years of publication of the second series of revista MacaU that ended in December 1999, the Macaense theme of past and present, was presented on a regular basis to subscribers and other readers both in Macau and over the five continents. The magazine has since become the largest exclusive databank on the subject Macau. A third series of MacaU magazine followed from year 2000 till 2004. Livros do Oriente produced the magazine in two separate quarterly editions (in Portuguese and in English) for the Government Information Bureau of the MSAR.
Editora Livros do Oriente was distinguished in 1997 with the Cultural Merit Medal of the Government of Macau - the first of its kind ever awarded to a local private publisher.

 

Av. Amizade, 876, Edifício Marina Gardens, 15 E Macau
Tels: (853)700320-(853)700421 Fax: (853)700423
URL: http://www.loriente.com
http://www.booksmacau.com
E-mail: livros.macau@loriente.com
Please contact:
Rogério Beltrão Coelho (general manager)
Cecília Jorge (executive manager)
Portugal:
Chácara Lilau
Rua da Fonte Santa, 91 -2050-112 Aveiras de Cima
Fax: 351.263.476890
E-mail: chacara@mail.telepac.pt

R.BELTRÃO COELHO
Born in Lisbon in 1945. A professional journalist since 1968 and also a publisher from May 1990 on, he founded (with Cecilia Jorge) Livros do Oriente, the first private-owned book publishing company of Macau.
Besides other positions he was chief editor, in Lisbon, of the "Diário de Notícias" and "A Tarde" and in Luanda of the "Diário de Luanda", of the "Jornal de Angola" and the weekly "Notícia".
A frequent visitor on assignment to Macau since 1979, he published several articles in newspapers and magazines. Invited by the Governor to be his spokesman in 1981, he then set up the Government Information Bureau (GCS), which he also headed until January 1983.
From the latter half of 1987 until early 1990 he designed and assumed responsibility for a Special Projects Bureau (GPE) created within the Macau Cultural Institute (ICM) with the aim to give body to an editorial project that included research and record of Macanese themes (culture, heritage and iconography) and the production of originals in that area meant for large circulation and wider distribution.
He was publisher and senior editor of the MacaU magazine, produced by Livros do Oriente every month from 1992 till December 1999 (II series) and also a quarterly (III series) from 2000 till December 2004

Books published:

As author:

  • Selos, uma forma de expressão (Lisboa. Correios e Telecomunicações de Macau.1989)
  • Álbum/Macau: 1844-1974 (Fundação Oriente.1989)
  • Macau Retalhos: Passado, Presente e Futuro (Macau. Livros do Oriente.1990)
  • Casa Garden (Macau. Fundação Oriente.1991)
  • BNU Macau: Memórias de um Banco (Lisboa. Banco Nacional Ultramarino.1991)
  • Leal Senado de Macau: Esboço de um edifício (Macau.Leal Senado.1995)
  • Macau: Património e Filatelia (Macau. CTT. 1995)
Co-author, with Eduardo Tomé (photography):
  • Macau 1981 (Lisboa, 1982)
  • Macau: Crónica de hoje dos tempos de sempre (Macau. A-Má. 1982)
Co-author, with Cecília Jorge:
  • Medicina Chinesa - Em busca do equilíbrio perdido (Lisboa. ICM/Círculo de Leitores. 1988)
  • Fénix e o Dragão - O casamento chinês (Lisboa. ICM/ Editorial Publica. 1988)
  • Álbum Macau: Sítios, gentes e vivências (Macau. Livros do Oriente. 1990)
  • Álbum Macau 3: Sítios, gentes e vivências (Macau. Livros do Oriente. 1993)
  • Viagem por Macau: Comentários, Descrições e Relatos de Autores Estrangeiros - séculos XVII a XIX I Volume (Macau. Governo de Macau/Livros do Oriente. 1997) II Volume (Macau.Governo de Macau/Livros do Oriente.1999)
  • Álbum Macau – Memórias da Cidade / Album Macau – Glimpses of the Past (Macau. Livros do Oriente. 2005)

Co-author, with Sérgio Infante, Paula Alves and Cecília Jorge:

  • Cem Anos que Mudaram Macau (Governo de Macau, 1995)

CECÍLIA JORGE
Maria Cecília de Melo Jorge was born in Macau in 1950 and left for Portugal in January 1967. Graduated in Filologia Germânica studies by the Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa. Enrolled in the Portuguese news agency ANI in September 1973 and after the 1974 Revolution in Portugal stayed on as a professional journalist in the newly-formed ANOP-ep and then again in LUSA when the two existing Portuguese news agencies were merged. She finally resigned from LUSA in 1990.
First-placed among candidates selected from over a hundred Portuguese journalists in Lisbon in 1978, she received an intensive four-week training in the US newspaper Chicago Tribune, sponsored by the International Press Institute.
In 1979, requested from ANOP-ep she returned to Macau hired by the media department of the Direcção dos Serviços de Turismo e Comunicação Social (DSTCS). During 1979 and until the first half of 1981 she also worked as foreign correspondent for ANOP in Macau sending most of the news and features published in Portuguese newspapers and aired in TV and radio stations in Portugal.
As journalist and author she has dedicated a large part of her career doing research on themes related to Macau, the Macanese cultural identity and the Macanese diaspora. Traditions and habits of the local Chinese comunity, mainly Chinese traditional medicine, feng shui and gastronomy was also a constant subject of her research.
Most of her work is scattered in various newspapers and magazines. She collaborated in the setting up of exhibitions related to Macau, namely bibliographical and iconographical and Book Fairs.
Co-founded editora Livros do Oriente with Rogério Beltrão Coelho (May 1990).
Member of the staff of MacaU magazine since the first edition in May 1992 (II series). Also Chief editor of the magazine from May 1998 till December 1999, and stayed on in the III series produced by Livros do Oriente for the Government Information Bureau of the MSAR from 2000 till December 2004.

Books published:

As author:

  • Novo Ano Lunar: Festa de Cor e Fantasia em Macau (Macau, 1982)
  • Sabe Comer com Pauzinhos? - A Comida Chinesa possível em Portugal (Lisboa. ICM/Editorial Publica.1987)
  • Introduction for Imagens-Miragens, by Ricardo Fonseca (Macau.IPOR/Livros do Oriente. 1993)
  • Introduction for Poema na Lingú Maquísta, by José dos Santos Ferreira (Macau.Livros do Oriente. 1992. Poesia em Papel de Arroz collection)
  • Sabores de Macau (booklet, in Manual de Convivência. Macau. GCCT.1999)
  • Macanese Cooking (Macau. APIM. 2004)
  • Gods and Deities (Macau. Correios de Macau. 2005)

Co-author, with R. Beltrão Coelho:

  • Medicina Chinesa - Em busca do Equilíbrio perdido (Lisboa. ICM/Círculo de Leitores.1988)
  • Fénix e o Dragão - o casamento chinês (Lisboa. ICM/Editorial Publica.1988)
  • Álbum Macau: Sítios, gentes e vivências (Macau. Livros do Oriente. 1990)
  • Álbum Macau 3: Sítios, gentes e vivências (Macau. Livros do Oriente. 1993)
  • Viagem por Macau: Comentários, Descrições e Relatos de Autores Estrangeiros - séculos XVII a XIX, I Volume (Macau. Governo de
  • Macau/Livros do Oriente. 1997); and II Volume (Macau. Governo de Macau/Livros do Oriente.1999)
  • Álbum Macau – Memórias da Cidade / Album Macau – Glimpses of the Past (Macau. Livros do Oriente. 2005)

Co-author, with Sérgio Infante, Rogério Beltrão Coelho and Paula Alves:

  • Cem Anos que Mudaram Macau (Governo de Macau, 1995)





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