澳門利氏通訊 18

No. 18 － December 2011

"Matteo Ricci in Memoriam" Workshop and Concert

On 10 November, the Macau Ricci Institute held its second workshop of the year. It was entitled “Matteo Ricci in Memoriam (1611–2011): History, Analysis, Commemoration”. This scholarly gathering was to commemorate the funeral of Fr Matteo Ricci in the Zhalan Cemetery on All Saints’ Day in 1611. The workshop took place at the Institute for Tourism Studies. It was attended by a good number of MRI friends coming from Hong Kong, including a delegation of twelve persons from the Hong Kong Heritage Society, organized by Fr Fred Deignan, SJ, who unfortunately could not join the delegation himself because of surgery. They were joined by participants from the UK, Sweden, Australia, and a delegation from the British Royal Society of Hong Kong. Altogether there were around 70 participants.

Fr Artur K. Wardega, Director of the MRI, first gave a welcome speech. He recalled the place of Macau in Ricci’s itinerary, as well as the series of commemorations of Ricci’s life and achievements] held by the Institute and other interested parties during the past couple of years. Four papers were presented by the invited speakers, namely Fr Gianni Criveller, Dr David Francis Urrows, Prof. Yu Sanle, and Dr Liu Jingjing, and the panel was chaired by Dr César Guillén Nuñez. The titles of the presentations were, respectively, “Matteo Ricci’s Demise as Narrated in his First Chinese Biography (1630)”, “The Music of Matteo Ricci’s Funeral: History, Context, and Meaning”, “Four Hundred years History of the Zhalan Cemetery: The Resting Place of Matteo Ricci”, and “Preaching The Afterlife to the Chinese: From Matteo Ricci’s Chinese Writings”, all of them were very well received and applauded by the audience. A group photo was taken at the end of the workshop.

After the workshop followed an evening concert at the Saint Joseph’s Seminary Church which was related to the funeral ceremony of Matteo Ricci. The programme was comprised of Spanish and Portuguese music from Ricci’s lifetime and was performed by Dr Urrows who played the organ. The sacred songs were performed by Die Konzertisten choir from Hong Kong, conducted by Dr Michael Ryan. The concert was highly appreciated by the audience. At the end Dr Ryan and Dr Urrows received bouquets of flowers from the organizers, and a group photo was taken together with the MRI staff and organizers.

A full-page coverage of the workshop appeared in the “Sunday Examiner”, Hong Kong (20 November 2011), entitled “Father Ricci’s funeral acknowledged in highest possible style 400 years later” (http://www.riccimac.org/eng/workshops/2011/inmemoriam/Sunday-
Examiner.jpg) with a quite detailed report on the papers presented by the four speakers. News of the workshop also appeared in the Chinese Province News of the Society of Jesus (November 2011), as well as in the Chinese “Kung Kao Po” (18 December 2011), including summaries of the three papers presented by the invited speakers Dr Urrows, Prof. Yu and Fr Criveller.

For more information on the composers and performers, see the following web pages:

Presentation and Concert program
http://www.riccimac.org/eng/workshops/2011/inmemoriam/index.htm
About the Composers
http://www.riccimac.org/eng/workshops/2011/inmemoriam/composers.htm
About the Performers
http://www.riccimac.org/eng/workshops/2011/inmemoriam/profiles.htm

Forums

On 31 October, our Institute held another bimonthly Forum. This time we had invited Prof. Ann Waltner, professor of History and director of the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, as our speaker, and the Forum was chaired by Dr César Guillén Nuñez. The James Ford Bell Library at the University of Minnesota has recently acquired a copy of the 1602 map of the world by Matteo Ricci which was the main topic of the talk. Prof. Waltner discussed the map and its production, calling attention to some particular characteristics of this copy of the map. The Forum was followed by a cocktail party accompanied by pleasant and soft music performed by the group “Velhos Amigos”. Listen to a recording of the forum on our website at:
http://www.riccimac.org/eng/mriforum/64.htm.

神州交流 — Chinese Cross Currents (CCC)

As the Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait were celebrating the 100th anniversary of the (Republican (Xinhai) Revolution, the World Section in the two issues of the Chinese Cross Currents of the second half of 2011 was dedicated to this historical event. In issue 8.4 Dr Paul B. Spooner explores the activities of Dr Sun Yat-sen during his trip in Europe in winter and spring 1905. Through his many contacts with other world-known revolutionaries, Sun obtained the support of other parties in the socialist context of the Second International. This broadened the geopolitical background of the Wuchang uprising. In issue 8.3 Dr 白莉民 Bai Limin examines “The 1911 Revolution and the Early-Republican Textbooks: a Historical Perspective”. Her research shows that the publishing houses of these textbooks were not only engaged in some commercial concurrence but also in part submitted to ideological political pressures. In addition to these contributions, issue 8.4 also has one by Wei Chuxiong, who uses a wide-angle lens to offer “A Survey of the Studies on the 1911 Revolution—in China and Abroad”. Thanks to this encompassing yet detailed study of a growing body of scholarship, one realizes how slow its growth has been but also the undeniable width and depth of what was initiated then, and on which later generations and numerous personalities of various political affiliations have grafted their own contributions.

The subject of poetry has received more attention in the pages of the CCC, and the essay by 杨敏 Yang Min in issue 8.3 discusses an important albeit controversial current of twentieth-century Chinese poetry. She captivates readers from the first with her lively account of the roots and her reading of menglong poetry, a kind of poetry developed by the group popularly known as the “Misty Poets”. It is a post-revolutionary genre that emerged in the late 1970s under the influence of Western modernism and other literary currents and it has been hailed by some as a literary innovation, with the main propagators being the poets 顾城 Gu Cheng (1956–93) and 北岛 Bei Dao (b.1949), whose works are also mentioned in the essay.

Launching Playing Bach

In the evening of 8 September, our Institute held our bimonthly forum, which was also the launch of our new book Playing Bach in France and in China: An Encounter of Musicians in Macau. We invited Mr Yuan Sheng (one of the authors of the book) from Beijing, and Prof. David Francis Urrows, associate professor in the Department of Music of Hong Kong Baptist University, musicologist and expert on pipe organ history. Both the guests, together with Fr Artur Wardega, the editor of the book, and Fr Luís Sequeira, discussed and reflected on the installation and use of the French-made organ for St Joseph’s Seminary Church in Macau, the Macau Ricci Concerts and the reception of Bach's music in China and in France. The audience was very satisfied and impressed with the whole event. Free copies of the book were offered to the attendants.

On 18 September, Fr Wardega and his Academic Assistant Mr Albert Wong went to Paris for the promotion and launch of Playing Bach in France and in China. They were warmly received by Fr Philippe Charru, organ player and co-author of the book, at the Jesuit Residence in Rue Blomet. On 20 September they were received by the President of the Centre Sèvres, Prof. Henri Laux, SJ, and invited for a business lunch together with Fr Charru, the Director of Faculty of Aesthetics, and Fr Michel Masson, SJ, the President of the Paris Ricci Institute. Fr Laux thanked the MRI for the new Bach book and for the impressive result of the collaboration between our institutions. Hundreds of copies of the book were offered to the Centre Sèvres-Mediatec and the Paris Ricci Institute.

Mr Wong later visited Oxford and London. He first met with Fr Gerard Hughes, SJ, at Campion Hall, the Jesuit community of the University of Oxford, and had talks with interested parties over there. In London, he met with Mr Patrick Conner, owner of the Martyn Gregory Gallery, who showed him his gallery collection and informed him about the forthcoming exhibition in late October at The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong.

Reception of Playing Bach

Fr Michel Masson, the President of Paris Ricci Institute, has written a review of our latest publication Playing Bach in France and in China and it has been posted on the website of the French Province of the Society of Jesus.

On 26 October, Fr Artur Wardega received an important and very meaningful letter from the Superior General of the Society of Jesus, Fr Adolfo Nicolás, SJ, who personally acknowledged receipt of the book and congratulated Fr Wardega on this achievement. He wrote, among other things, the following words:


The work, which you too modestly name a booklet, is a sensitive composition of several dimensions.

We meet with a man, Matteo Ricci, who is respectful of cultures by his loyalty to the Gospel, and with a land, Macao, which is a traditional place of exchanges between civilizations.

Noting the architectural beauty of the city, your initial project was to provide one of the baroque churches with an organ worthy of its acoustic quality; the choice fell on St Joseph's Seminary Church, whose history is linked with that of the Society of Jesus. Donors and the work of a master organ builder, Mr Yves Koenig, made the realization of this project possible. Then, with the support of Fr Luís Sequeira and his assistant, you organized annual events of organ music, the Ricci Concerts, highlighting the instrument’s capabilities, shown here by a selection of drawings and photos. The latest concert, included in the 2010 celebration of the 400th anniversary of the death of Fr Matteo Ricci, brought together two specialists and interpreters of Johann Sebastian Bach: Yuan Sheng from Beijing and Philippe Charru, SJ, from Paris.


According to an email message to Fr Wardega of 24 November, Fr Philippe Charru has had a message from Mr Rudolf Klemm, representative in France of the famous Neue Bachgesellschaft (New Bach Society). In this message Mr Klemm offers high praise for the book and writes that he will let his headquarters in Leipzig and other institutions, such as the Bach-Archiv, know about it. He also intends to introduce the book in the next newsletter of the Neue Bachgesellschaft. Fr Charru felt much honoured to share the recognition for the book among Bach experts as it is publicized in prestigious publications on Bach. For over a hundred years the Neue Bachgesellschaft has been selecting and collecting everything related to Bach worldwide.

Researchers’ activities

In the afternoon of 28 October, Dr César Guillén Nuñez and Dr Liu Jingjing went to the University of Macau to attend a lecture given by Prof. Eugenio Menegon of Boston University at the Ho Yin Conference Centre. The lecture was the first one of the Macaology Lecture Series, organized by the Department of History of the University, which focused on Prof. Menegon's book Ancestors, Virgins and Friars: Christianity as a Local Religion in Late Imperial China, published by Harvard University Press.

On 3 November, Fr Artur Wardega attended the opening ceremony of a two-day international conference entitled “Macao and China Foreign Maritime Trade”, organized by the Macao Polytechnic Institute and held in the auditorium of its Wui Chi Building. Keynote speeches were given by such well-known scholars as Prof. Roderich Ptak from Ludwig-Maximilian University of Munich, Prof. Zhang Xiping from the BFSU Research Centre of Overseas Sinology, Dr Jean-Pierre Charbonnier from the Missions Étrangères de Paris, Prof. Xu Kai from Peking University and Prof. Paul A. Van Dyke. Dr César Guillén Nuñez and Dr Anders Hansson also attended this conference in which a good number of internationally known scholars participated in quite tightly scheduled sessions.

On 9 November, Fr Wardega was invited by the University of Macau to give one of the welcome speeches at the opening ceremony of the International Academic Conference on Jin Yong and Modern Chinese Literature, held at the University. Speeches were also given by Prof. Zhu Shoutong, director of the Chinese Department, Prof. Paul Pang Chap Chong, the registrar of the University, Prof. Li Siqi from Hong Kong, Prof. Wang Jingsan from Haining-Zhejiang, and Mr Lee Yee Kin from the Dunhuang Culture Promotion Foundation. Prof. Wolfgang Kubin was one of several well-known international scholars present.

On 23 November Fr Artur Wardega was invited by the Instituto para os Assuntos Cívicos e Municipais (IACM; Civic and Municipal Affairs Bureau) to attend the opening ceremony of the Platinum Photography Exhibition organized by the Macau Art Museum and entitled “A Century of the Imperial Palace”. The exhibition featured photographs by the famous Chinese photographer Mr Hou Yuanchao 侯元超 and was held at the Gallery of the Museum. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was presided over by Ms Isabel Jorge, member of the IACM Administration Committee, together with Fr Wardega, Prof. Johnny Lam Fat Iam, Director of the Macau Polytechnic Institute Centre of Continuing Education and Special Projects, Mr Yen Kuacfu, President of the Macao Digital Photography Association, and Mr Hou Yuanchao. There were 70 photographic exhibits in the gallery and Mr Hou offered five of them for the collection of Macau Art Museum. The exhibition will last until 11 March 2012.

On 12 December, Dr Hansson went to Hong Kong to attend a poetry reading paying tribute to the 2011 Nobel Prize Laureate, Swedish poet Prof. Tomas Tranströmer. The event was organized by the Consulate General of Sweden in Hong Kong, the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics and the Department of English of City University of Hong Kong.

From 12 to 14 December 2011, Mr Albert Wong attended the first South South Forum on Sustainability (SSFS), held at Lingnan University in Hong Kong and organized by the Institute of Advanced Studies for Sustainability of Renmin University of China, the Kwan Fong Cultural Research and Development Programme and the Master of Cultural Studies Programme of Lingnan University, and the United Nations Development Programme (China). Around seventy-five participants from Mainland China and another twenty-six countries attended the conference. Mr Wong met and talked to a number of scholars and activists from different parts of the world, including Prof. Wen Tiejun, Dean of the School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of Renmin University, Prof. Zhou Li, School of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of Renmin University, Prof. Valentin Yakushik, University of Live-Mohlya Academy in Ukraine, Prof. Lau Kin-chi, Lingnan University, and Prof. Chan Shun-hing, Lingnan University. Both Prof. Lau and Prof. Chan have made documentaries on "Peace Women in China and Hong Kong" and Mr Wong invited them to share their experience in making peace through ecological reconstruction in the coming forums of our Institute.

Visits

On 29 June, Mr Richard Allan Spahr, a scholar from Taiwan, came to visit our Library. Mr Spahr has been in South Asia for research, and this was his second visit to our Institute and to Macau which he described as one of the best and most inspirational places to stay in. He also found valuable material for his research in our Library.

On the same day, Ms Wang Mingyu, a Mainland postgraduate student at the University of Macau, came to visit our Library. Her research field is linguistics and lexicography. Ms Wang found several linguistics books in our Library which were quite useful for her own research.

On 11 July, Mr Rogério Ferreira da Silva Monteiro, who did the illustrations and captions for his father José Joaquim Monteiro’s book Meio Século em Macau, came to visit our Library. Mr Monteiro is doing research for his new project which involves the works of the late Fr Joaquim Angélico de Jesus Guerra, SJ, such as Quadrivolume de Confúcio, As obras de Mâncio, which are held in our Institute library.

On 12 July, Mr Law Lok Yin, a third-year student in History and Liberal Studies Teaching from Hong Kong Baptist University, came to visit our Institute. Mr Law is doing a project about the Korean emissary to Beijing during the early eighteenth century and his research field is the interaction between missionaries and Korea in the Qing Dynasty. He is focusing on two Jesuit missionaries, Fr Augustin von Hallerstein (1703–74) and Fr Anton Gogeisl (1701–71) who both came to Macau in the eighteenth century and died in Beijing.

On 20 July, Prof. Kid Lam from the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taipei, came to visit our Library. Prof. Lam had been invited by the Macau Polytechnic Institute for a brief research stay of two weeks. His research field is “Missionary Sinology especially Jesuit Studies”. He was delighted to find some books in our Library that were useful for his research.

On 24 August, Mr Lionel Li-Xing Hong, assistant research fellow at Fu Jen Academia Catholica, and his wife Mrs Janet Lin came to visit our Institute. Fr Wardega and Mr Jerónimo Hung gave them a warm reception. Mr Hong’s research topic is sacred music and his wife does research in American literature. He presented a copy of his article 錢德明的《聖樂經譜》：本地化策略下的明清天主教聖樂 "Qian Deming de Shengyue jingpu: Bendihua celüe xia de Ming-Qing Tianzhujiao shengyue" (Joseph-Marie Amiot’s Shengyue Jingpu: The transformation of Catholic sacred music under inculturation policy in Ming and Qing dynasties) to our Library, which was extracted from the 中央大學人文學報 Zhongyang daxue renwen xuebao (National Central University Journal of Humanities), no. 45. In return Fr Wardega offered Mr Hong several publications of our Institute. Afterwards, Mr Jerónimo Hung showed them round our Institute library where they found some useful material for their research.

On 14 September, Ms Susana Pereira from Universidade Nova Lisboa, came to visit our library. She was in Macau on the scholarship from the Fundação de Macau for a one-month research project. Her research field is international relations and she found good materials for her research in our book Macau on the Threshold of the Third Millennium (Macau Ricci Institute Studies Series 1).

On the afternoon of the same day, Prof. Sun Lam from University of Minho in Portugal came to visit our Institute. She is director of the Department of Asian Studies, director of the Centre of Oriental Studies, director of the Master’s Degree in Sino-Portuguese Intercultural Studies, all of them at the University of Minho. The objective of her visit was to learn more about our Institute and to seek cooperation on Chinese history related topics as well as on cultural and literary interexchange between Portugal and Macau/China. All the members of the MRI Management Committee were present to give Ms Lam a warm reception, including a PowerPoint presentation by Fr Wardega to introduce the activities and publications of our Institute during the past eleven years. After an interesting conversation with the MRI Management Committee, the parties laid the foundation for forthcoming exchange and collaboration between our Institute and University of Minho.

On 26 September, Mr James Gray from the University of Saint Joseph in Macau came to visit our Library. His research field is Mainland China education and Mr Gray was delighted to find a book entitled “Education in China since 1976” in our Library which is very useful for his research.

On 7 October, Fr Giuseppe Bellucci, SJ, from the Office of Communications and Public Relations of the Curia Generalizia of the Society of Jesus came to visit our Institute. Fr Wardega gave him a warm welcome and introduced him the orientations, activities, publications and achievements of our Institute during the past eleven years with a PowerPoint presentation.

On 14 October, Mr Daniel Ho Sin Hang, a master’s degree student from Macau University, came to visit our Library. His research field is “Jesuits in Macau”. He found a good number of books suitable and useful for his research in our Jesuits Historical Section Library. On the same day, Mr José Simões Morais, a resident scholar in Macau, came once again to visit our Library. This time he was looking for materials from the journal Religião e Pátria from the years of 1914–16, as well as a book entitled Efemérides da história de Macau by Luís Gonzaga Gomes. He visited again on 24 November and found good material in the four volumes of Francis Xavier: His Life, His Times by Georg Schurhammer, SJ, as well as Oriente conquistado a Jesus Cristo by Francisco de Sousa, SJ.

On 18 October, Prof. Wang Mingyu, a lecturer at the Chinese Department of Macau University came again to visit our Library. She found much good material, including the book Chinese Books and Documents in the Jesuit Archives in Rome: A Descriptive Catalogue, Japonica-Sinica I–IV by Albert Chan, SJ, and the five volumes of 徐家匯藏書樓明清天主教文獻 Xujiahui cangshulou Ming-Qing Tianzhujiao wenxian (Chinese Christian texts from the Zikawei Library), edited by Nicolas Standaert, Adrian Dudink et al. She came again on 24 November and found useful materials from the collections of Chinese Christian texts from the National Library of France and Chinese Christian texts from the Roman Archives of the Society of Jesus, also edited by Standaert and Dudink.

On 26 October, Prof. Carmen Amado Mendes, Professor at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra and associate researcher of the Centre of Social Studies of the University of Coimbra, came to visit our Institute. She was in Macau to develop fieldwork for the research project “Assessing the ‘One Country, Two Systems’ formula: The role of Macau in China’s relations with the EU and the Portuguese Speaking Countries”. Fr Wardega, Mr Hung and Mr Albert Wong gave her a warm reception and Fr Wardega made a PowerPoint presentation of our Institute to Prof. Mendes who was very impressive with our development and achievements during the past eleven years. She interviewed the three of them on topics related to her research. The possibility of MRI participation in the Cultural Week organized by University of Coimbra and to be held 27 February–6 March 2012 was also discussed during her visit.

On 28 October, Prof. Eugenio Menegon, associate professor at the Department of History, Boston University, came to visit our Institute. He is the winner of the 2011 Joseph Levenson Prize in Chinese Studies, and he was invited by the University of Macau to give a lecture related to his book. Dr César Guillén Nuñez, Mr Hung and Mr Wong gave him a warm welcome and later on Prof. Menegon found some good material for his own research in our Library.

On 9 November, Mr Mark O’Neill from Macaulink Corporate came to visit our Institute. Mr O’Neill is a writer for the official quarterly Macao Magazine (English version) and is preparing an article about the life of the Jesuit Fr Wu Li. Mr Hung received him and provided eight books from the MRI Library related to his research. He was very satisfied with the material obtained, especially from the proceedings of our 2003 Symposium Culture, Art, Religion: Wu Li (1632–1718) and His Inner Journey (Macau Ricci Institute Studies Series 3), as well as Wu Li (1632–1718): His Life, His Paintings by Xiaoping Lin, Singing of the Source: Nature and God in the Poetry of the Chinese Painter Wu Li by Jonathan Chaves, and Six Masters of Early Qing and Wu Li, by Laurence C.S. Tam.

On 24 November, Ms Giordana Staniszewska, an independent scholar from Paris, came to visit our Library. Her research field is the history of China in the nineteenth century. She was very satisfied to have found good material in the two volumes of Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644–1912), edited by Arthur W. Hummel. On 30 November, she came again and found more material in the book The Canton Trade: Life and Enterprise on the China Coast, 1700–1845 by Paul A. Van Dyke.

On 6 December, Mr Jonathan Gebhardt, a postgraduate student from Yale University, came to visit our Library. His research field is cross-cultural interaction in Macau and Manila, sixteenth to early eighteenth centuries. He found some useful material in the work Macau e a sua Diocese, vol. I, by the late Fr Manuel Teixeira, SJ. He was introduced to us by Prof. Paul Van Dyke of the University of Macau.

On 7 December, Prof. William Franke from the University of Macau came to visit our Library. His research field is philosophy, religion and literature, and he was looking for the works of the French philosopher François Jullien in its original French language. He found more than twenty French books in our Library for his research.

Seven students from the History and Geography Society of St Joseph’s Diocesan College, led by their instructor Ms Vong Vai Leng, visited our Institute in the afternoon of 16 December. Our academic assistant Mr Wong gave them a warm welcome. He spoke to them on the life of Matteo Ricci and the activities of the Institute and replied to their questions. They were later led to appreciate the Institute’s library collection, including the Chinese-Portuguese Dictionary compiled by Matteo Ricci and Michele Ruggieri. Mr Wong encouraged the students to make good use of the information in their future studies.

On 19 December, three representatives from the University of La Rochelle in France, Mme Martine Raibaud, maître de conférences, Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines, Prof. Charles Illouz, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and Mr Eric Monteiro, délégué régional-adjoint, Institut des Amériques came to visit our Institute. The objective of their visit was to learn about the history and the activities of the Macau Ricci Institute and to explore cooperation with us on academic issues. After a detailed introduction to our Institute by Fr Wardega, who also showed them around the MRI facilities, the representatives were impressed with our achievements during the past eleven years.

On 23 December, Dr Matthius Arie Weststeijn from the University of Amsterdam visited our Library. His research field is history. He was pleased to have found good material in the books of our Library such as L’Europe chinoise: De l’Empire romain à Leibniz by Étiemble, Bibliography of the Jesuit Mission in China edited by Erik Zürcher et al., Preaching Christ in Late Ming China by Gianni Criveller, Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters by Mordechai Feingold, The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures by Jeannette Shambaugh Elliott, which were very useful for his research.

On 29 December, Ms Monica Ching from the Literación literary agency visited our Library again. She was delighted to find useful books on modern Chinese literature, including Five Historical Plays by Guo Moruo, Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry by Michelle Yeh, Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet by Arthur Waley, The Lyrical Resonance between Chinese Poets and Painters by Daan Pan, The Chan interpretation of Wang Wei’s Poetry by Yang Jingqing, and The Problematic of Self in Modern Chinese Literature by Kirk A. Denton, which were quite useful for her own research project.

Father Luís Sequeira Receives Honorary Doctorate

Fr Luís Sequeira was awarded a Doctorate in Religious Studies Honoris Causa by the University of Saint Joseph. The ceremony was held on 7 October at the St Joseph Seminary Chapel and was presided over by the Most Reverend Bishop of Macau D. José Lai and by the Rector Magnificus of the Catholic University of Portugal, Prof. Dr Manuel Braga da Cruz.

A Symposium to Come…

Fr A. Wardega has already started to prepare for the three-day international symposium to be held around November 2014, jointly organized by Boston College, University of Warsaw and the Macau Ricci Institute. The provisional title is “Jesuit Survival and Restoration (1773-–1814)”. Potential participants are being approached with some of them already having confirmed their attendance.

An Intern from Boston

On 20 July Ms Marye Moran from Boston College arrived for an internship at our Institute. During her stay in Macau she was involved in the research work of Dr César Guillén Nuñez on China trade and was supervised by him. Mr Albert Wong also helped her to improve her spoken Chinese. On 16 August, she left for Guangzhou to work with Fr Thierry Meynard for one week at Sun Yat-Sen University before returning to the United States.

Diary of St. Sister Faustina Kowalska

The Diary of St. Sister Faustina Kowalska, translated from Polish into Chinese and edited by MRI Director Fr Artur Wardega, was successfully published in September 2011, by the Catholic Truth Society, Hong Kong.

Media Coverage

An interview by Mr Helder Fernando with Fr Luís Sequeira, the founder and current Vice-Director of the Macau Ricci Institute, was appeared in the local newspaper Hoje Macau on 21 December. Entitled “Não atirem pedras à China” (Don’t throw stones at China), it was concerned with the Catholic Church in Asia. In this interview Fr Sequeira offered adequate and detailed responses for the knowledge of the local community.

Update on our Library Collection

According to Jerónimo Hung, the Librarian of our Institute, by the end of year 2011 our Library comprised 11,341 books in Chinese, 8,296 books in Western languages, and 355 periodicals, among which 201 in Chinese and 154 in Western languages.