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 students participate in ‘History Meets Heritage’ at Tai Fung Tong Art House
The Department of History of the University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Social Sciences recently organised an extracurricular activity titled ‘History Meets Heritage’. The event attracted many UM students. To celebrate the centennial anniversary of the Tai Fung Tong Art House, the students visited the a ...
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 ...
UM professor’s book on Macaology wins 2 national awards
University of Macau (UM) Department of History professor Tang Kaijian recently received two national awards—the “Three One Hundred” Original Book Publishing Project Award, and the Nomination Award of the Chinese Government Award for Publishing—for his new book on Macaology, Essays on the History of M ...