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UM professor’s new books published by authoritative US publishing houses
Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949
Two books written by Wang Di, head of University of Macau (UM) Department of History, namely Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939-1949 and The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000,have been published by the Stanford University Press and Cornell University Press, respectively. The books have made very valuable contributions to the studies of China’s contemporary history and microhistory. According to Prof Wang, based on a large amount of documents, sociological surveys, as well as official and unofficial records, the books provide a thorough illustration of a secret society and teahouses in Chengdu. It is very rare for a scholar to have two monographs about history published at the same time by two of the most prestigious university presses in the West.
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MAM participates in 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia with exhibition themed “Unintended Architecture”
Organised by the Macao Museum of Art (MAM) of the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), in co-operation with the Architects Association of Macau (AAM), the exhibition of “Unintended Architecture – Exhibits from Macao, China” will be inaugurated at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia in Venice, Italy, at 6pm (local time) on 25 May.
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