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 |