title: José dos Santos Ferreira
text: # José dos Santos Ferreira
  
  José dos Santos Ferreira, better known as Adé (28 July 1919, in Portuguese Macau – 24 March 1993, in Hong Kong), was a Hong Kong poet. He was a son of Portuguese father and a Cantonese mother. He was the last poet of distinction to write in Macanese (Patuá), the Portuguese-Cantonese creole.
  
  Adé lived all his life in Macau and left behind a great body of work consisting of 18 books of poetry, prose, plays, operettas, and radio shows in Patua. Adé wrote, directed, and acted in his own productions.
  
  ## Partial bibliography
  
  * Escandinávia, Região de Encantos Mil (1960).
  * Macau sa Assi (in patois) (1968).
  * Qui-nova chencho. Macau: Tipografia da Missão do Padroado (1974).
  * Papiá cristá di Macau: Epitome de gramática comparada e vocabulário : dialecto macaense. Macau: [s.n.] (1978).
  * Bilhar e Caridade (poetry) (1982)
  * Macau di tempo antigo: Poesia e prosa: dialecto macaense. Macau: author's edition (1985).
  * Poéma di Macau (poetry, em patois)(1983)
  * 'Nhum Vêlo' (in patois) (1986)
  * Poéma na língu maquista (Poesia em papel-de-arroz). Macau: Livros do Oriente (1992). ISBN 972-9418-10-1
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