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 Macanese 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).