“Why and How We Write about Macau” – A Panel Discussion with American and Chinese University Professors, jointly organized by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of the Macao S.A.R. Government, Sun Yat-Sen University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, will be held in the Cultural Affair Bureau Auditorium (Edifício do Instituto Cultural, Tap Seac Square, Macao) on Wednesday June 17 at 6:30pm.
This panel discussion with university professors in the departments of History and Literature is designed to involve the audience in a conversation about why and how scholars pursue their research topics. The round table will begin with 8 participants each giving a short (5 minute) summary of his or her work. Participants may also explain why they see Macau as important to their research. The panelists may also tell the story of how and why they first became interested in Macao and China more generally.
This should be an excellent event for anyone in Macau who is interested in the global context of the city's cultural heritage and/or in how academics pursue their research in ways that inspire new ways of teaching and understanding the past. Those interested might include area teachers, scholars, researchers, readers and students of the secondary, collegiate and graduate levels.
Panel Participants:
Glenn Shive (Moderator)
Hong Kong-America Center
· Paul Bové
University of Pittsburg; editor of boundary2
“To Make a Way: Telling a Story of US / China Union”
· May Bo Ching
Sun Yat-sen University
“Chopsticks or Cutlery?: How Canton Hong Merchants Entertained Their Foreign Guests in the 18th and 19th Centuries”
· Paul Van Dyke
University of Macau
“Were All of Those Books Necessary?: Bookkeeping Practices of American and European China Traders Compared"
· John Haddad
Pennsylvania State University
"China of the American Imagination: The Influence of Trade on U.S. Portrayals of China, 1820 to 1860"
· Sibing He
Independent Scholar (PhD, Miami University)
"Russell and Company and the Imperialism of Free Trade"
· Vincent Ho
Chinese University of Hong Kong
"Compradors, Co-hongs and the American: A Study of Trading Networks of Early Sino-American Commerce"
· Kendall Johnson
Swarthmore College
“The Speculative Romance of Early Sino-American Commerce in The Journals of Major Samuel Shaw, the First American Consul at Canton (1847)”
· Joseph Abraham Levi
University of Hong Kong
"America, China, and Macanese Identity in the Works of Felipe B. Nery (1920-)"
The panel will be conducted in English, with Mandarin, Cantonese and Portuguese simultaneous interpretation, Entrance is free. For details, please visit the conference website http://websites.swarthmore.edu/kendalljohnson/freetrade.html. For inquiries, please call 85986537 Miss Yao.
