Research areas of excellence
  • Comparative Literature in Chinese, English and Portuguese
  • Studies of Translation of Chinese, English and Portuguese
  • Comparative Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
  • Comparative Studies of Chinese and Western Philosophies and Religions
  • Cultural Exchange between China and Foreign Countries, and the History and Culture of Macao

On-going research projects

University of Macau MYRG projects
First Name Surname Project Title (in English) Project Title (in Chinese) Project Start Date Project End Date
Yuqi Sun Pragmatic Strategies in Portuguese-Chinese Simultaneous Interpretation: a research based on the construction and analysis of a bilingual learner corpus. 中葡同聲傳譯中的语用策略:基於雙語學習者語料庫的建設與研究 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Victoria Harrison Sino-Muslim Philosophy in an Inter-Religious Perspective 跨宗教視角下的中國穆斯林哲學 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Joshua Ehrlich East-West Interactions in the Global History of Knowledge N/A 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Andrew Moody English in South East Asia 没有 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Mario Cams Ming-Qing Cartography and Geography in the Global History of Science 全球科技史中的明清時期地圖輿地理總志 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Yuhang Xu Dialects of South China in the Ming and Qing Dynasties: Research of Chinese History Based on Dicionário Português-Chinês and other Romanized Dialect Records in Hong Kong and Macao 明清時期華南地區的漢語方言:基於《葡漢辭典》及港澳等地其他羅馬字文獻的漢語史研究 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Gang Gong Chinese modern writers and English literature 中國現代作家與英國文學關係研究 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Bin Yang The Advance of the Gu (蛊):Disease, Witchcraft and Sorcery, Love Magic, and Chinese Empire Building 蛊毒魇魅:历史上的疾病、巫术、媚术与中国的形成 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Yue Zhang Reception Studies and Six Dynasties Poetry 接受美學與六朝詩歌研究 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Hongyong Liu Collation and Publication of a collection of Xiangxi Miao folk songs 湘西苗歌的整理与出版 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Qingjie Wang Problematizing Dao: Critical Access to the “Chinese Philosophy” 問道:關於「中國哲學」 的批判性研究 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Di Wang Secret Societies in Macau, 1840-1999: A Social and Cultural History 秘密社會與澳門,1840-1999——一個社會和文化史 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Younhee Kim Learning to Use Language: Bilingual Preschool Children’s Development of Interactional Competence 学习使用语言的情况研究:双语学龄前儿童的互动交际能力发展 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Jing Zhang Chinese Learner Corpus of Portuguese: Construction and Research (English)
Corpus de Português de Aprendentes Chineses: Construção e Pesquisa (Português)
中國葡語學習者語料庫的建設與研究 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Hans-Georg Moeller From Authentic Self to Profile: Identity in the Digital Age 從真實的自我到“人設”:數字時代的自我身份 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Nicholas Michael Parker-Groom Border Works: Cultures at the Edge 边境工程:边缘文化 01 January 2022 31 December 2023
Bin Yang Exodus to China: Nezha Reborn from the Lotus 出埃及入中国:跨文化交流中的莲花化身–哪吒 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Mario Wenning Philosophy of Gambling 賭博的哲學 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Hongyong Liu Syntax of Equative Constructions in Sino-Tibetan languages 漢藏語系語言中等比句的句法研究 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Nevia Dolcini SENSING WITHOUT PERCEIVING: ON THE METAPHYSICS OF HALLUCINATION 无感之看:幻觉的本质 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Andrew Moody The Evolution of British Pop Song Pronunciation 沒有中文標題 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Xian Wang Describing the meanings and the distribution of meaning of prefix de– using English-Chinese parallel corpora 通過中英翻譯平行語料庫描述前綴de-的語義及語義分佈 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Glen Timmermans Lessons for Humanity: Holocaust and Genocide Education in China 人類的教訓:中國大屠殺與種族滅絕教育 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Shan Wang The Syntax and Semantics of Chinese Polysemous Verbs 漢語多義動詞的句法語義研究 01 January 2020 31 December 2021
Victoria Harrison Conversations that Matter: Exploring Community Ideals in Macau through “Exemplar Reasoning” 探索澳門社區理想 01 May 2019 31 August 2020
ANTÓNIO MARIA DE SOUSA E VASCONCELOS SIMÃO DE SALDANHA Collation and Research on Macao Historical Data in Fujian and Guangdong’s Genealogies during Ming and Qing Dynasties 閩粵地方族譜中明清澳門史料整理與研究 01 January 2019 31 December 2021
Xian Wang Examining power and interpersonal rapport at work through contrastive discourse analysis and translation between English and Chinese 通過對比語篇分析與中英翻譯研究職業環境中的權力與人際關係 01 January 2019 31 December 2021
Matthew Gibson The Mysteries Series in Nineteenth Century Europe 十九世纪欧洲的奥秘系列 01 January 2019 31 August 2021
Mingyu Wang A Study on the Portuguese Glossary, the English Glossary and the Latin Glossary in Chinese-Foreign/Ethnic Language Glossaries (Huayi yiyu) in the Qing Dynasty’s Qianlong Reign (1736-1795) 清乾隆敕纂《華夷譯語》之《播都噶禮雅語》《口英口吉口利國譯語》和《拉氐諾語》研究 01 January 2019 31 December 2021
See Kam Tan THE NANJING MASSACRE IN LITERATURE AND FILM 文學與電影l里的南京大屠殺 01 January 2019 31 December 2021
Katrine Wong Creative Writing: Pedagogy and Practices 創意寫作: 教學法與實踐 01 January 2019 31 December 2021
Ana Leal AuTema–PINeAPPLE- – Plataforma INteractiva de APrendizagem do Português como Língua Estrangeira AuTema.-PINeAPPLE – Interactive Platform to Learning Portuguese as a Foreign Language AuTema.-PINeAPPLE – 葡萄牙語(作為外語)學習互動平台 01 January 2019 31 December 2021
Fangze Chen Textual and Comparative Studies on the Recreation Tendency in China and Japan Regarding the Four Masterpieces in Ming and Qing Dynasties 關於明清四大名著的中日再創作傾向考述與比較研究 01 September 2018 28 February 2021
Ana Nunes Attitudes towards L2 learning: L2 acquisition and intentional bilingualism in two different cultures (Poland and Macao). Second Language Acquisition and the Impact of articulatory and perceptual training on the perception and production of European Portuguese Language by Chinese and Polish speakers. Attitudes towards L2 learning: L2 acquisition and intentional bilingualism in two different cultures (Poland and Macao). Second Language Acquisition and the Impact of articulatory and perceptual training on the perception and production of European Portuguese Language by Chinese and Polish speakers. 01 September 2018 31 August 2021
Jingming Yao Chinese Literature in Portuguese: Research, Translation and Anthology 葡語中的中國文學:研究、翻譯與選集 01 September 2018 31 August 2021
Jie Xu Grammatical Violations in Chinese Slogans and Titles and Their Linguistic Implications 漢語標題口號語料所見之語法創新及其語言學意義 01 September 2018 31 August 2021
Haijian Mao The Zongfan System of Qing China and Its Transformation toward Modern Diplomacy, 1636–1912 清代中国的宗藩体系及其向近代外交的转变,1636年–1912年 01 September 2018 31 August 2021
Mario Wenning Nature, Time, Responsibility 自然,時間 ,責任 01 September 2018 31 August 2021
Matthew Wallace Cognitive Processing and Eye Movement: An L2 Empirical Study on Lexical and Syntactic Processes 认知处理与眼动研究:关于二语词汇及句法加工的实证研究 01 September 2018 31 August 2021
Roberval Teixeira e Silva Language, Cultura and Interaction: Traits of the Portuguese Classroom in Macau and China N/A 01 February 2018 31 January 2020
Mingyu Wang The Catholic Mission to China under the Controversy of Royal Patronage (1576-1858) 保教權争议下的天主教在華传教史研究(1576-1858) 01 January 2018 31 December 2020
Victoria Lei Modelling Parametres of Cognitive Efforts in Translation Production in Relation to Translation Universals 翻譯共性與翻譯認知負荷模型的構建 01 January 2018 31 December 2020
Di Wang Gowned Brothers: The History and Culture of a Chinese Secret Society, 1650-1950 袍哥:一個中國秘密會社的歷史和文化,1650-1950 01 January 2018 31 December 2020
Mario Cams Qing Imperial Cartography: A Pivot in 18th Century East-West Scientific Interaction and Progress 大清帝國地圖測繪:18世紀東西科學交流與進展中的樞紐 01 January 2018 31 December 2020
Beatriz Puente Ballesteros Translating Western Anatomy to Late Ming China: The “Great Divergence” in the Light of the Taixi renshuo shuogai 泰西人身說概 (An Outline of the Human Body from the Occident; 1643) 晚明之際西方解剖學的翻譯:從《泰西人身說概》(1643)看“大分流” 01 January 2018 31 December 2020
Hongyong Liu A linguistic documentation and analysis of Xiangxi Miao songs 湘西苗歌的記錄與語言分析 01 January 2018 31 December 2020
Roberval Teixeira e Silva INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN SINO-BRAZILIAN INTERACTION: FROM THE CLASSROOM TO THE SOCIOCULTURAL ENVIRONMENT OF CHINESE IMMIGRATION IN BRAZIL N/A 01 September 2017 31 December 2020
Matthew Gibson Literary Analysis, Analytical Philosophy, and the Historical Novel 文学分析,分析哲学和历史小说 01 September 2017 31 August 2020
Chon Chit Tang A collation and analysis of Manuscript of Jin Hui Yao 《稿本晉會要》整理與研究 01 September 2017 31 August 2020
Man Yin Chiu The Development of a Video Archive of Contemporary Writers 當代作家視頻資料庫建設 20 February 2017 19 February 2019
ANTÓNIO MARIA DE SOUSA E VASCONCELOS SIMÃO DE SALDANHA In the Light and Shadow of Emperors. The Place and Role of the Jesuits in the Imperal Court of China XVII-XVIII 皇帝的光影之下:17-18世紀耶穌會士在中國宮廷的位置和角色 01 January 2017 31 December 2019
Defeng Li L2 Linguistic Competence vs. Interpreting Competence: A Bidirectional Empirical Study 外語語言能力與傳譯能力: 一項雙向傳譯之實證研究 01 September 2016 31 December 2019
Research projects with external funding
First Name Surname Project Title (in English) Project Title (in Chinese) Project Start Date Project End Date
Ricardo MOUTINHO Investigating guided-tour interactions in astronomical observatories 研究天文館之天文導賞互動 17/09/2019 16/09/2022
Katherine CHEN A Discourse Analysis of Mindfulness-based Intervention in the Treatment and Prevention of Clinical Depression 以話語分析正念認知療法如何有效治療和預防臨床抑鬱症 24 July 2020 23 July 2022
Vincent  WANG HOPE and PAIN in the Time of a Pandemic: A corpus-based study of metaphor and synaesthesia in Macau 瘟疫期間的希望與痛楚-基於澳門語料的隱喻和通感研究 24 July 2020 23 July 2022
Mario CAMS QingMaps.org 2.0 N/A 24 July 2020 23 July 2022
Nevia DOLCINI The Moral Roots of Quarantine: East and the West 隔離的道德根源:在肆虐東西方的大流行病下對於隔離的道德維度比較研究 31/08/2020 30/08/2022