The 2013 Nobel for Literature was awarded to the Canadian author Alice Munro, a writer of short stories. One hundred years before, in Macao, was born Deolinda da Conceição – a woman writer who left us the book of short stories Cheong-Sam, a Cabaia. Those stories are a relevant testament to the way of life of women in China and Macao in the middle of last century, focusing namely the Japanese invasion of China in 1937 and its consequences on the Chinese population and on Macao itself. Can this Macanese writer be considered a feminist writer? Deolinda da Conceição centered her attention on the fate of women, showing their social, cultural and family situation, in an historical time that refused to extend the same rights enjoyed by men to the «other half of the sky. So, we can consider her work as a subtly assertive feminism, in accordance with the tenderness she used to describe women and their problems.