Abelha da China is not colonialist press
In an interview with PONTO FINAL, Cátia Miriam Costa, researcher at the Center for Studies at ISCTE and author of the essay A Abelha da China: a Macanese appropriation of political discourse, which is integrated in the book A Abelha da China nos 200: Casos, Characters and Confrontations in the Liberal Experience of Macau, explains that the publication of the periodical Abelha da China was “an important step in the democratization of access to the colonial administration”.
In this interview, the researcher elaborates on the historical context of the foundation of the newspaper Abelha da China, its impact on the metamorphosis of the media and political landscape in Macao society and on the role of the Portuguese-language periodical press in Macau today.