This book explores the cultural, spatial, and social resilience of one of Macao’s oldest commercial districts: Rua dos Mercadores (Camp Street) through a unique integration of oral history and grounded theory methodology. Based on in-depth fieldwork and 61 semi-structured interviews with shop owners, residents, and new immigrants, this book presents how a traditional urban street negotiates between continuity and transformation in the context of globalization, tourism, and urban redevelopment.

This book adopts a qualitative, bottom-up approach to reconstruct the living memory of the street. Rather than treating oral history merely as a documentary record, it systematically analyzes narratives through the procedures of open, axial, and selective coding. From over one thousand initial codes, the author derives a conceptual framework of local commercial cultural resilience, illuminating how individual experiences, spatial cognition, and collective memory converge to sustain the identity of Camp Street.

Dr. Xin Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Innovation Design, City University of Macau. Her research focuses on user experience design and the sustainable preservation of Macao’s local cultural heritage through VR/AR/MR interaction. She has published multiple papers in international core journals, including Designing Sustainable Digital Platforms for Ageing Societies: A User-Centred Multi-Level Theoretical Framework. Dr. Hu leads grounded theory–based studies on Macao’s Camp Street, documenting oral histories and constructing models of local cultural resilience. Her interdisciplinary work bridges digital design, cultural memory, and sustainable urban development.