Jingjing 31 2025 Publication Sales Ranking
The books sold in 2025 continue the previous years' trend of urban observation, but with increasingly diverse approaches, understanding the city's true face from different angles. Through history, art, wandering, and documentation, they capture the present and future, revealing a richer daily life amid movement and change. Various books invite us to ponder, and even act. The annual rankings are merely practical records; they don't chase trends but focus solely on the voices of concern.
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First Place
Publisher: Our City Community Planning Cooperative
Authors: somethingmoon,Our City Community Planning Cooperative
《The Modern Trace (Revised Edition)》
Publisher: Our City Community Planning Cooperative
Authors: somethingmoon,Our City Community Planning Cooperative
The Macau Protestant Cemetery, often called Morrison Cemetery, is one of the oldest existing cemeteries in Macau. This small plot of land witnessed the tumultuous colonial history of the 19th century and marked the first footprint of Christianity (Protestantism) in China. "The Garden of Heaven: Morrison Cemetery Cultural Map" is a cultural map publication focused on Morrison Cemetery. We hope to provide a three-dimensional interpretation of Morrison Cemetery through hand-drawn maps, exploring this silent realm from different perspectives.
Second Place
Publisher: AllAboutMacau Media
Author: AllAboutMacau Editorial Department
For Macau, urban problems are indeed problems. The government uses land scarcity as an excuse to delay the construction of public facilities and public housing. At the same time, the rapid deterioration of urban landscape and environment has led to the fast disappearance of familiar community homes and leisurely life for Macau people. Urban planning is not a technical issue; its most crucial characteristic is that it is a political process. If one thinks that a hastily drawn blueprint can fool people, then it is either underestimating the public's intelligence or the decision-makers are too naive.
《Macau is a Big Construction Site》
Publisher: Something Moon
Author: Something Moon
Macau is always like a big construction site. Excavators stand tall, land is dug up like rivers, strange spaces abruptly rise next to old buildings, vehicles are forced to detour, temporary roads drag on for over a decade, and dreams of urban development are buried in piles of sand and stone. The sunset glow reflects on the golden glass curtain walls, illuminating our mesmerized eyes. The author did not deliberately record; they simply snapped photos while living and walking, selecting some locations visited after 2021 to offer a partial glimpse of Macau from a certain angle – raw, chaotic, yet unexpectedly captivating. Opening this book is like quietly approaching a fence gap, peeking at the city's most real, noisy, and contradictory side. In this never-ending construction site, we are all still waiting for the next spring.
Third Place
《Macau Civilian Housing: Architecture and History (1900 - 1980)》
Publisher: Heritage Society
Authors: Lou Ka U,Chan Ka In
This book will introduce the development of early public housing in Macau – civilian housing – and the history of civilian housing in various districts of Macau, including Bairro Iao Hon in Ilha Verde, Bairro Fai Chi Kei, Edifício Jardins do Oceano, civilian buildings, and Coloane Civilian Village.
Fourth Place
《The Sick Clown》
Publisher: Our Own Theatre
Authors: Hao Yuan-chun,Wong Wing-chi
"The Sick Clown" is Macau's first picture book about child-friendly healthcare. Based on the true feelings of sick children, the book aims to encourage sick children, their relatives, and medical staff, and to bring warmth and strength to every reader. From a child's perspective, it describes what they encounter during medical procedures, allowing them to express their emotions and feelings during these moments.
Fifth Place
《Wandering Macau's Architectural Aesthetics》
Publisher: Joint Publishing
Author: Lui Chak Keong
Macau has a history of East-West trade and cultural exchange spanning over four centuries, preserving numerous Western and Chinese buildings. Among them, the most representative "Historic Centre of Macau" has been inscribed as a "World Heritage Site." Many books have already introduced the Chinese and Western buildings in Macau's Historic Centre, but beyond this area, Macau still has many buildings worth discovering. The purpose of this book is to allow readers to rediscover the hidden aesthetics of buildings of different periods and styles scattered throughout Macau, from Neo-classical in the late 19th century, Classical Eclecticism in the early 20th century to Art Deco starting in the 1930s, as well as the "Portuguese House" style, Modernism, Postmodernism... These are the architectural aesthetics of Macau before it welcomed the richer and more diverse design forms of the 21st century.
Sixth Place
Seventh Place
《Last Christmas》
Publisher: Wendy Wong
Author: Wendy Wong
I seem to have forgotten how I spent last Christmas until I searched for news from a year ago to jog my memory. During the long period when citizens were advised to stay home and "not go out unless necessary," I went out almost every day, taking photos of "closed" signs on shops, documenting the city's dormant state. Today, a year later, I don't feel it has woken up; it might be in a deep sleep, or perhaps it's gradually dying. Is "last Christmas" the previous Christmas, or the final Christmas?
Eighth Place
I Walked Here, Left a Piece.
Ninth Place
《All Is Well?》Publisher: Lighthouse Publishing
Author: Lee Yui-fan
Facing the various changes the small city is about to encounter, "change" or "no change" always leaves me with some contradiction.Everyone is waiting for change, waiting for that hope to truly materialize, hoping that all unreasonable, unequal, and unhealthy phenomena will disappear quickly, hoping that their true thoughts can be expressed confidently. In short, all these hopes are floating above the small city, whether a bit naive or wishful thinking, the point is that some change is needed.
Tenth Place
《Urban Walking Studies - Starting with Hong Kong》
Publisher: Breakthrough Publishing
Author: Wong Yu-hin
When the pandemic restricted movement and many questioned life, people began to seek new pleasures in their cities, and walking gradually became a trend. Then, some asked, what should one look for when walking? When walking in the city, there is more to see and more to enjoy than we imagine. Urban researcher Wong Yu-hin takes Hong Kong as a starting point, using architecture, paths, spaces, objects, information, and nature as entry points to guide us on how to observe in daily life, and through in-depth understanding, to then love a city.
Eleventh Place
《I Hate Cats》
Publisher: Greenland
Author: Yokota Daisuke
I hate cats, and I hate saying goodbye to cats even more. Fifteen years ago, my daughter brought home a small, ominous black cat. Although my dad strongly objected, he couldn't resist my daughter, so the kitten became a member of the family. The stern father said "I hate cats" every day, but unknowingly developed a deep affection for the cat. The unspoken love hidden behind "I hate cats" is the deepest confession of love for the cat.
Twelfth Place
《Pop-Up Macau》
Publisher: Cultural Affairs Bureau
Authors: Lau Sze Kit,Lam Fat Chin
"Pop-Up Macau" is a creative pop-up book that showcases Macau's World Heritage and historical heritage, co-published by the Cultural Affairs Bureau and Guangdong Education Publishing House. It was illustrated by renowned Hong Kong pop-up book designer Lau Sze Kit and written by Lam Fat Chin.
《Our Past: Lai Chi Vun Hand-Drawn Map》
Publisher: AllAboutMacau Media
Authors: Lam Ka Yi,Tam Chun Yip
On May 26, 2016, without warning, the Marine and Water Bureau suddenly cordoned off 11 plots of land in Lai Chi Vun, fragmenting this complete industrial heritage site.In late January 2017, the Marine Bureau announced that it would gradually dismantle the shipyards in March.Last week, on the morning of March 8, around 9 am, the Marine Bureau suddenly issued a press release, announcing the immediate demolition of two shipyards, X12 and X15.Everything is urgent. These precious cultural heritage sites are fast approaching disappearance as the demolition date nears, and everything on the map may soon cease to exist. Lai Chi Vun, a village, an industry, a community, a group of people... Our past is not distant; it carries the colorful journeys of generations.
《Recently》
Publisher: Sara Sou
Author: Sara Sou
This zine records some vague feelings I've had since returning to Macau recently. The source of these emotions is still unclear, but I've chosen to let them exist in a state of "I don't know what it is, but I'll try to express it first." Perhaps it's the unusually stuffy summer this year that makes one a bit disoriented, or perhaps it's the unnatural scent emanating from the overly neatly trimmed shrubs by the roadside, or perhaps it's that I left alone, but returned in a different identity – the end of one story often marks the beginning of another.
Thirteenth Place
Fourteenth Place
《This City is Called Hong Kong》Fifteenth Place
This is a love letter written to her eldest son, Jiang Quanyou, who has Asperger's syndrome. The author reflects on her period of depression, her son's developmental delay, and biting incidents, yet they heal each other through companionship. Now, as he pursues his dream of becoming a marine biologist, his mother dedicates this book with deep love and blessings: chase the sea, and there will always be a home to return to.
《I Don't Know What Else I Can Do for Hah Vaan Kai》
Publisher:Something Moon
Author: Something Moon
Childhood always felt slow, time lingering, making my youth a hazy and impatient wait to grow up. What others saw as an old and simple street was, to me, just an ordinary landscape. Hah Vaan Kai always seemed unremarkable; what I understood as a sense of history was a lack of excitement, and simplicity felt boring. "A bland statement can be transformed into nearly a hundred different versions." Before I learned Raymond Queneau's perspective from "Exercises in Style," I, like most people, paid no attention to the street I called home. Even as one constantly moves within a place, one can become too comfortable, submerged in the current. I carried the "Hah Vaan" baggage as I learned to live in new communities, make new friends, and enjoy exotic foods; I often calculated the time to return, to those few small streets, and then crossed their original breadth.Every day we start from here, and then we wait to return here.