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IPIM and UM co-organize a Sharing Session on Doing Business in Portuguese-speaking Countries
IPIM and UM co-organize a sharing session on doing business in Portuguese-speaking countries Interaction between staff and invited guests during the event Interaction between students and invited guests during the event Many students were interested in The Economic & Trade Co-operation and Human Resources Portal between China and Portuguese-Speaking Countries and in products from Portuguese-speaking Countries. The Macau Trade and Investment Promotion Institute (IPIM) and the Chinese-Portugu ...
Academic Conversation with Professor Martin Kern of Princeton University Successfully Held at UM
The Department of Chinese Language and Literature organized an academic conversation entitled “Cultural Memory and Early Chinese Civilization” at 8:30 pm on March 1, 2022. Professor Martin Kern of Princeton University and Professor Zhang Yue of University of Macau held a fruitful and constructive academic conversation. Faculty members and students from UM, such as Professor Tang Chon Chit of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and Professor Yeung Siu Kwai of Faculty of Education, ...
UM Professor wins Prestigious Essay Award
Joshua Ehrlich, Assistant Professor of History (FAH), has been awarded the 2021 Library History Essay Award by the Library and Information History Group. The LIHG is a UK-based organization devoted to the history of information, libraries, and librarianship, and is a part of CILIP, a professional body for knowledge professionals with some 10,000 members. The award is described on the LIHG’s website as “an annual prize for the best article or chapter on library history published in, or pertainin ...
To Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of UM: Remarkable Academic Achievements of the Department of History
Being a young member of UM, the Department of History has paid a glorious tribute to the 40th anniversary of UM by its remarkable academic achievements in the year of 2021. In the past year, staff of the Department have cultivated deeply in different fields and achieved a great deal including publishing monographs and papers, constructing databases, and being awarded various prestigious academic prizes. In April, Chair Professor Mao Haijian released a new book The Thoughts of Kang Youwei and Li ...
Announcement of Results for the “Short Video Shooting Contest of Higher Education Institutions in Macao”
The Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre (CPC) of the Department of Portuguese of Faculty of Arts and Humanities organized the “Short Video Shooting Contest for Higher Education Institutions in Macao” to enhance the interest of the Macao higher education students in media production. The theme of the Contest is “Paixão” and the CPC started accepting applications since the beginning of the 1st semester of Academic Year 2021/2022 until 19 November 2021. CPC is honored to hav ...
UM holds opening ceremony for selection of winners of Luxun Teenagers Literature Award
UM holds an opening ceremony for the selection of winners of the Luxun Teenagers Literature Award Zhu Shoutong receives the certificate of appointment The University of Macau (UM) Centre for Chinese History and Culture held an opening ceremony and a press conference for the selection of winners of the Luxun Teenagers Literature Award. The event collects outstanding entries from college and secondary students from Macao, and a panel of judges comprised of leading literary scholars from Macao and ...
Prof Yang Bin discovered 18th Century Long Scroll on Macao Landscape
Cultural Review (Chinese Version) in its recent issue highlights the paper by Professor Yang Bin at the Department of History, University of Macau on a long scroll on Macao landscape dated the Qianlong Reign (1736-1796). Currently in Museum of the National University of Singapore, Singapore, this scroll, with a length of 318 cm and height of 30 cm, has never been mentioned in any publication or record, and thus is a major discovery for Macao’s history and culture. Combined with contemporary tex ...
Prof Yang Bin’s book listed among top ten in 2021
Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History The Chinese version of Cowrie Shells and Cowrie Money: A Global History, written by Prof Yang Bin in the University of Macau (UM) Department of History and published by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China), has been selected as one of the top ten books in 2021 by the Social Sciences Academic Press (China). The book also entered the December list of both China Reading Weekly and the United Book List of Humanities & Social Science. In add ...
Chinese-Portuguese Bilingual Teaching and Training Centre Organized Activities at Jardim De Infância D. José Da Costa Nunes
Professor Ana Nunes, Deputy Director of the CPC, on behalf of the University of Macau presents the three comic books to Dr. Marisa Peixoto, Principal of the Jardim de Infância D. José da Costa Nunes. 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 edited and published the Chinese History and Culture Comic Book Series, a series of books that present traditional Chin ...
Exhibition of works of father of modern design in China opens at UM
Guests attend the opening ceremony The University of Macau’s (UM) Centre for Chinese History and Culture held an opening ceremony, a book donation ceremony, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony for an exhibition of the works of Pang Xunqin, who is hailed as the ‘father of modern design’ in China. Held in the UM Cultural Building until 24 December, the exhibition will showcase over 50 works by Pang, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to fine arts development in China and his profound love ...