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UM holds groundbreaking ceremony for ‘Suao Pavilion’
Guests officiate at the groundbreaking ceremony for ‘Suao Pavilion’ To promote outstanding traditional Chinese culture and strengthen the cultural connections between Jiangsu province, particularly Suzhou, and Macao, including the University of Macau (UM), the Suzhou Overseas Friendship Association and the Jiangsu Overseas Friendship Association have donated to UM for the construction of ‘Suao Pavilion’ and the groundbreaking ceremony for the pavilion was recently held on the campus. Yonghua Son ...
UM sweeps top three prizes at Portuguese Speech Contest
Three students from the University of Macau (UM) recently won the first prize, second prize, and third prize respectively at the 20th Portuguese Speech Contest after competing with students from different higher education institutions in Macao. UM holds the Portuguese Speech Contest The topic of this year’s competition was ‘Man is the Master of What He Thinks and Slave of What He Says’. A total of 11 students from UM, Macao Polytechnic University, the Macau University of Science and Technology, ...
UM holds Macao Humanities Forum on cross-gender theatrical performance
The University of Macau (UM) Faculty of Arts and Humanities (FAH) recently held the Macao Humanities Forum. The event featured Sun Mei, professor of the Department of Chinese Literature at Taiwan Central University, who delivered a lecture titled ‘On Cross-gender Performance’. Involving both in-person and virtual elements, the lecture attracted nearly 200 participants, including faculty members and students of UM. At the forum, Joaquim Kuong, assistant dean of the FAH, introduced the different ...
UM Commemorates The Centenary Of José Saramago
https://youtu.be/xvPx4n7Qf-Y This year marks the centenary of the Portuguese writer José Saramago, born on November 16th, 1922 in Portugal, and passed away on June 18th, 2010 in Spain. José Saramago is considered to be one of the most prominent figures in Portuguese literature. In 1995, José Saramago received the Camões Prize that was considered as the premier literary prize in the Portuguese-speaking world. In 1998, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. To date, José Saramago is the first and ...
UM kicks off 1st Festival of Chinese Culture
The Centre for Chinese History and Culture of the University of Macau (UM) held a ceremony to officially launch its first Festival of Chinese Culture, which features nearly a hundred online and face-to-face activities from October to December. During the ceremony, which was attended by guests from around the world, UM Vice Rector Mok Kai Meng said the festival exemplified the university’s firm commitment to promoting traditional Chinese culture among students and the local community. Further act ...
UM Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching And Training Centre Organizes a Book Launch Ceremony For “Confúcio, O Fundador Da Tradição”
On October 21st, 2022, the Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC) of the University of Macau (UM) organized a book launch ceremony for “CONFÚCIO, O FUNDADOR DA TRADIÇÃO”, written by Giorgio Sinedino, a Brazilian sinologist and translator, at the Rui Cunha Foundation. Professor João Veloso, Head of the Department of Portuguese, Professor Yao Jing Ming, Director of the CPC and Dr. Rui Cunha, President and Founder of the Rui Cunha Foundation were present at the event. For ...
“Shennong Tasting Hundreds Of Herbs” Of The Chinese History And Culture Comic Book Series
In August 2022, two centres of the University of Macau (UM), namely the Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC), and the Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC), have published the fourth book of the Chinese History and Culture Comic Book Series, named “Shennong Tasting Hundreds of Herbs”. The series of books illustrate the traditional Chinese myths, legends, and historical stories. “Shennong Tasting Hundreds of Herbs” illustrates the story of the chief of the Yan ...
Centre for Japanese Studies hosts Guest Lecture on linguistic differences between Japanese and Chinese
The Centre for Japanese Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Macau invited Prof. Guanglu Peng from Department of Japanese, School of Foreign Languages, Beijing Institute of Technology to deliver a zoom lecture entitled “How Japanese and Chinese languages differ: From the perspective of Chinese learners of Japanese” on 19 October 2022. All of the academic staff and over 130 students of the Centre for Japanese Studies attended the lecture. The lecture began with Prof. Peng outli ...
UM kicks off first Festival of Chinese Culture
The University of Macau (UM) has kicked off the first Festival of Chinese Culture to promote traditional Chinese culture and create an atmosphere for learning about the culture on campus and in the local community. With a series of creative activities from October to December, the festival aims to enhance students’ interest in Chinese history and culture and increase their understanding of the culture. To learn more about the festival, please visit https://bit.ly/3Ta3zD2. ...
UM sign agreements with two local secondary schools on establishing base for promotion of Chinese history and culture
(From right) Xu Jie and Wong Kin Man sign an agreement on the establishment of a base for the promotion of Chinese history and culture The Centre for Chinese History and Culture (CCHC) of the University of Macau (UM) recently signed agreements with two more secondary schools in Macao on the establishment of a base for the promotion of Chinese history and culture. The two schools are Sao Jose Diocesan College, Fifth School, and Kao Yip Middle School and they became the tenth and eleventh school ...