Sir Robert Ho Tung Library

This guide to the Sir Robert Ho Tung Library in Macau follows the man who bought this garden villa on St. Augustine's Square in nineteen eighteen as a summer retreat, then fled here from Japanese-occupied Hong Kong in nineteen forty-one rather than collaborate. It traces his rise from a Eurasian upbringing in colonial Hong Kong to head compradore at Jardine Matheson and, by his mid-thirties, the city's richest man. It follows him back to Hong Kong once the war ended, and to a decision he made about this house in his final years. Stand in the courtyard and picture the retreat he kept returning to for nearly four decades.