UM professor discovers letters that provide new evidence for studies of British India history
Joshua Ehrlich, an assistant professor from the University of Macau (UM) Department of History, recently discovered three historically important letters in a London archive. The letters provide new evidence that in 18th century British India, politics and scholarship were intertwined. The author of t ...
UM professor’s new book receives Academic Excellence Award and Best Book Award
A book written by Distinguished Professor Wang Di from the University of Macau (UM) Department of History, namely Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949, recently received the Academic Excellence Award from the Chinese Historians in the Un ...
UM scholar receives first prize from Xiling Seal Art Society
A paper on art history, written by Associate Professor Yang Bin from the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), received the first prize at an international forum on images, seals, and sealings organised by the Xiling Seal Art Society. This is the third consecuti ...
UM scholar’s history book awarded publication grant by Harvard-Yenching Institute
Associate Professor Yang Bin from the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), received a publication grant from the Harvard Yenching Institute for his book titled ‘Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History’. The book will be published this December by the a ...
UM houses complete edition of Twenty-four Histories published by five provincial publishing houses
The University of Macau (UM) Wu Yee Sun Library currently houses a copy of the Twenty-four Histories published around the time of Tongzhi Emperor and Guangxu Emperor during Qing dynasty, by the five provincial publishing houses in Nanjing, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangsu, and Huainan. The copy was discovere ...
UM offers course to enhance secondary school students’ history knowledge
The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Chinese History and Culture recently launched a course in Chinese history and culture for secondary school students. Students in the course not only learned more about the histories of China and Macao, but also had the opportunity to exchange ideas with UM facu ...
UM professor’s new books published by authoritative US publishing houses
Two books written by Wang Di, head of University of Macau (UM) Department of History, namely Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949 and The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000, have been p ...
UM scholar discovers 800-year-old top-quality hand-made paper from Song dynasty
Li Ping, a professor from the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Macau (UM), who is also a visiting professor at UM’s Centre for Chinese History and Culture, recently participated in field trips with his students to the National University of Singapore (NUS) Chinese Libr ...
Prof Li Ping elected vice president of Cantonese Culture Research Association of Guangdong Province
Prof Li Ping, a professor from the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences, and a visiting professor at UM’s Centre for Chinese History and Culture, has been elected vice president of the Cantonese Culture Research Association of Guangdong Province (CCRA). Prof Li plans to further promote t ...
UM professor discovers historical material on early modern history of Sino-Western relations
Prof Antonio de Saldanha from the Department of History, Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS), University of Macau (UM), recently presented the latest finding of his research project developed at UM, a hitherto unknown historical document that is considered a major contribution to the study of the early ...