Four Projects Selected for Cultural Affairs Bureau Academic Research Grants

Four projects have been selected for the Cultural Affairs Bureau Academic Research Grants supported by the Macao Special Administrative Region aimed at fostering academic research on Macao-related fields.
With more specific criteria, greater openness and enhanced conditions, the Cultural Affairs Bureau Academic Research Grant is aimed at supporting academic research projects in the Humanities that make a significant original contribution to the understanding of Macao, and of Macao's relationship with China and other countries.
The regulations provide a flexible scheme for application and for the payment of grants. Applications may be submitted at any time throughout the year. The Evaluation Panel meets twice annually and applicants will be informed of the Panel's decision in March or August, depending when the application is received. The year-round application scheme allows a convenient and prompt application procedure.
This semester, the following projects were chosen out of twelve applications received between December 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007:
Qi Yin Ping will focus on “New Research on St. Joseph’s Seminary in Macao”. Qi obtained a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Zhejiang University in 1999 and is currently a professor in the university’s Philosophy Department.
Lúcio Manuel Rocha de Sousa will analyse “Macao: Trading Law in the 16th and 17th Century (1557-1614)”. Rocha de Sousa received a Ph.D. in Literature from the University of Porto in 2007.
Zhang Ting Mao will prepare “A Study on Macao and Shanghai Trade during the Late Qing Dynasty”. Zhang obtained his Ph.D. in History from Jinan University in 1997 and is now an assistant professor in the Department of History at the university.
Tan Shu Lin will be investigating “The East India Company and Macao”. Tan received a Ph.D. in History from Zhejiang University in 1999 and is currently a professor at the History Department of Nanjing University.
Each grantee must submit, within the research period, a monograph of 120,000 words minimum and the Cultural Affairs Bureau reserves the exclusive right to publish all or part of the grantee's original monograph, for example, in the Bureau’s publication Review of Culture. For more information on the Cultural Affairs Bureau Academic Research Grants, please visit the Cultural Affairs Bureau’s website: www.icm.gov.mo.