CURRICULUM VITAE

RUI D'ÁVILA DE FONTES ALFERES LOURIDO

Rua de Xabregas, lote - E, 13º, D, 1900-Lisboa, Portugal

Mob.: (+351) 966 887 126

Phone: (+351) 21 384 56 23

Fax: (+351) 21 385 25 96

E-mail: ruilourido@gmail.com, ruilourido@uccla.pt

PROFESSIONAL SITUATION:
Historian and Senior Researcher (City Council of Lisbon)
President of the Observatory for China (www.observatoriodachina.org)
Cultural Director of UCCLA (Union of the Cities Capitals of Portuguese Language - Luso-Afro-American-Asian), based in Lisbon, www.uccla.pt

1. ACADEMIC DEGREES

2001 - Conclusion of the Ph.D. research Programme on History of the Europeans in China. “The Europeans in South Coast of China: Trade and Pragmatic policy in Macau, during late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties” is the title of the thesis, that will be defended at the European University Institute, Florence.

1996 - Master on History of Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, during the 15th to 18th centuries, - “A rota marítima da seda e da prata: Macau- Manila desde as origens a 1640” (The Silk and Silver Maritime Route of Macao - Manila, from the beginning to 1640), Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa", 1995. Classification vote: Very Good with Unanimity.

1988- Graduated in History by the "Faculdade de Letras", University of Lisbon, Portugal, with the final classification of Very Good with Distinction.

2. COMPLEMENTARY STUDIES

1988 - Political Science and European International Relations at the "Facoltá di Scienze Politiche, Universitá Degli Studi di Pisa" (ITALY). These studies consisted of “Storia e Istituzione dei Paesi Afro-Asiatici” (Institutions of the African and Asiatic Countries), “Storia Contemporanea” (Contemporary History), “Sociologia dello Sviluppo” (Sociology of the development), “Storia Economica” (Economic History). The classification got in each subject was Very Good.

1990-1992 - Course on Chinese Language and Culture, at "Faculdade de Letras", University of Lisbon (with a Chinese professor and two years and two different levels), and with the final classification of Very Good.

1996-1999 – Attended English and Italian courses language specifically created to Historians and Political science researchers, at the European University Institute.

1997 - Attended Dutch course language (beginner) specifically created to researchers, at the European University Institute.

1997-1998 - Attended a course on computers programme especially targeted to History and to Political – Science researchers, at the European University Institute. This is of significant importance, as the computer are obviously a major instrument for our professional and academic life.

2005-6 – Attending a Chinese Course language at the Representation of the Government of Macau in Lisbon, Portugal. For actualisation of his skills in Chinese.

LANGUAGES:
• Portuguese (mother language)
• Italian (Oral and Writing)
• English (Oral and Writing)
• French (Oral and Writing)
• Spanish (Oral and reading)
• Chinese (only reading some characters, continue studding)

3. MAJOR PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES DEVELOPED

1990-1996: Adviser and organizer of both cultural and academic events in Portugal and abroad (some as executive secretary). Namely as member of the Working Group for The Silk Roads UNESCO’s Project of the Portuguese Commission for UNESCO, from its beginning (1990) until went to Italy (1996):

• Scientific activities such as research missions, lecture several courses, and being young scholar in the international scientific team of the major UNESCO Project - The Integral Study of the Silk Roads - Roads of Dialog. Hall that activities enabled me to deepen my knowledge, to improve my capability to work with an multicultural and interdisciplinary group of scholars, and to develop activities in several countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Borneo, Philippines, Thailand, Russia, Hungary, France, Italy, Vatican, Spain, Brazil and Portugal.

1991: UNESCO Maritime Silk Road Expedition merit to be emphasized by its interdisciplinary perspective and activities. Gave me the marvellous opportunity to work during three uninterrupted months, with other young and senior scholars (40) from all over the world, and from so different scientific fields, such as: political-scientists, experts on international relations, sociologists, underwater archaeologists, botanists, engineers, historians of art, musicians, and even a silk industrial (from the ancient French centre of silk - Lion). With the members of the Scientific team travelled also a permanent group of journalists, from radios, televisions (Italian, Chinese, Japanese, South Korean) and journals from many countries, what training our skills in dealing with the world media journalists.

1992 – Executive Secretary for UNESCO Silk Road Project- Roads of Dialogue the Simposyum “Maritime Routes and Associated Networks”, in Sagres and Lagos, Portugal, from 28th April to 1st May. Co-organizers: National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries and the Portuguese National UNESCO Commission. Attended and gave papers 40 scholars from all over the World.

1996, 1997: organized for the Ècole Française de Rome a project on “The French in the East Asia during the modern period”, research undertaken namely in the Vatican’s Secret Archive and Jesuit Archive in Rome.

2000: for the UNESCO: "The impact of the Silk trade: Macau - Manila, from the beginning to 1640", in The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce, New York – Oxford, ed. UNESCO and Berghahn Books, 2000. With introduction by the sinologist Vadime Elissieeff.

2001: Conclusion of the Research Programme for his Ph.D. in History of the Europeans in China at the European University Institute in Florence (Institute of European Union), the Dissertation will be present.

2001, Budapest: lectures and a course on History of European Expansion in Asia at the Central European University, 2001, April. And at the Karoli Gaspar Reformatus University, 2001, April/ May.

2002-2006, For the Brazilian University of Bahia (Brazil) and the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Bahia: organized several courses on the “European - Brazilian Relations with Asia”.

• Was invited to write for the commemorative book of the 50 years of foundation of that University: “A Princesa do Sertão: Documentos para a História do Recôncavo Bahiano e de Feira de Santana” in Edição comemorativa do Jubileu de prata da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana, to be published.

Some of the research projects implemented were organised for, and sponsored by, several institutions such as, UNESCO (1990-1996, 2000), CNCDP. (Portuguese Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Discoveries), 1989-91; Fundação Oriente (Orient Foundation), 1991-93 (Portugal); Salvador de Madariaga Programme - 1996 (Spanish State); Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), 1998-02.

4. SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES (RESEARCH, CONFERENCES, AND LECTURES AT UNIVERSITY COURSES) 

ON HISTORICAL ASIAN SPACE:
Thailand (Bangkok):
• "Ancient trades and cultural contacts in South-East Asia", 1991, January, 18/23.
• 14th Conference of International Association of Historians of Asia in the Chulalongkorn University 1996, May 20/24. Paper on "European trade between Macao and Siam, from the beginning to 1663".

Brunei:
• Brunei City: "The Brunei and the Silk Roads", 1991, January 30.

Philippines: (Manila):
• "Regional Conference on the Silk Roads: Maritime Silk Trade with Manila as an emporium in the Trans-pacific Commerce", 1991, February 5-6.

China:
• Guangzhou: "Guangzhou and the Silk Roads", 1991, February 12.
• Quanzhou: "Marine Silk Route Comprehensive investigation", 1991, February 17-20.
• Hong kong: "34th International Congress of Asian and North African Studies", presented the paper "Silk and Silver Throughout the Chinese Sea (1580 -1640), 1993, August, 23-28.
• Kunming (Yunnan), The Portuguese and the Maritime Silk Road: Macao-Manila, during the late Ming Peril. Paper presented at “International Conference on Comparative studies on Silk Roads”, 2001, October 29 to 2 November.
• Beijing: research mission, October 2001.
• Macao: Research at the Historical Archive of Macau, on documentation related with Europeans presence in China during the 16th and 17th centuries, in 1993.
• Macao: Lecture at University of Macau on “The Portuguese temporary control of the Silk Road during the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries”, 2001, November, 7.
• Macao: Lecture at Institute Cultural of Macau on “Macau, Europa e Brasil: a influência Chinesa através dos seus produtos preciosos” (the Chinese precious products and its influence in Macao, Europe and Brazil), 2005, September 1.
• Shanghai: lecture on “Lisbon-Macau-Canton relationship: European rivalry for the control of the Chinese precious trade, during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties”, at the International Convention of Asia Scholars 4, organized by the International Institute for Asian Studies (Leiden University - Holland) and the Academy of Social science of Shanghai (China), 2005 August 19-24.

South Korea
• Pusan and Kiongju: "Korean Culture and the Silk Roads" 1991, February 22-26.

Japan (Nara, Osaka, and Tokyo):
• Nara: "Unesco Maritime Route of Silk Roads - Nara Symposium' 91", 1991
• Osaka: Osaka and the Silk Road, UNESCO conference, 1991, March
• Tokyo: Research mission in 1991, March
• Tokyo: 12 Conference of International Association of the Historians of Asia, 1994.

ON AMERICA:
United Estates of America:
• Santa Barbara, California: International Colloquium "Portuguese Discoveries in the Pacific", organised by the Centre for Portuguese Studies of University of California, 16 to 18 October of 1993. Paper: "Sources from Ming and Qing Dynasties for the History of the Presence of the Portuguese in China".
• Charleston: The Evolution of the Portuguese Atlantic and the Sea Route to India: Quintecentenary Reflections, 1498-1998, conference organized by the College of Charleston, March 18-20, 1999, I present the paper: "The Europeans and the fair of Canton during the late Ming Dynasty".

Brazil:
• Bahia: S. Salvador, Universidade Federal da Bahia, "China-Brasil Relations, Main vectors from the beguining to the 19th, Century”, paper presented at Crossing Boundaries Europe Arrives in the New World: An International Conference in Celebration of the Quincentenary of Cabral's Voyage to Brasil", 22-27 May 2000.
• Rio de Janeiro: Research at the Historical Archive of Rio de Janeiro and at the National Library of Rio, 2000, June-July.
• Bahia: Universidade Federal de Feira de Santana, lecture a 15 days seminar on Europe and Brazilian relations with Asia, specifically with China during the 17th to the 19th century, 2002, February – March.
• Bahia: Universidade Federal de Feira de Santana, lecture a week seminar on The Portuguese Cartography of Brasil, 2003, February - March.
• Bahia: S. Salvador, lecture 15 days seminar on “European - Brasilian Relations with Asia” at the Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Feira de Santana., 2004, November 11-30.
•Bahia: Lecture on Chinese Influence on European and Brasilian Art trade, at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade da Bahia, Bahia, Brasil, 2004-11-30.

ON EUROPE:

España: Research on documentation related with Portuguese and Spanish presence in China, during the 16th and 17th centuries, in different missions, 1993-99.

• Seville: at Archivo General de Indias and Biblioteca de Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos, 1993-1999.

• Simancas: at Archivo General de Simancas, 1999.

• Madrid: Biblioteca Nacional, and Archivo Historico Nacional, 1993-1999.

France

• Paris: Research in the Bibliothèque National de Paris, in different missions, 1995-1999.

Italy:

• Florence: researcher at the European University Institute, 1995-2001. Research at the Biblioteca Centrale de Firenze and at the Historical Archive.

• Roma: research at the Archivio Segreto Vaticano, and at the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, at the Archivum Romanum Societtatis Iesu, and at the Archivio della Congregatione per la Propaganda Fide, in different missions, 1996-1998.

Hungria:

• Budapest: Lecture on the History of European Expansion in Asia at the Central European University, 2001, April.

• Budapest: Lectured a course on History of European Expansion at the Karoli Gaspar Reformatus University, 2001, April/ May.

Russia:

• Moscow: International Congress of ICANAS organized by the Russian Academy of Science: paper on Portuguese mercantile network with China in the XVI Centuries, 2004 August 16-21.

Portugal:

1989: Organized a program on the History of the Portuguese Expansion in Asia for the National Portuguese Television and participated also in the Jury as the guest historian of the same programme, 1989 December.

1990: For the University of Lisbon and Museu de Arte Antiga (the most important Museum for historical art in Portugal), Organize a exhibition and lecture on "An other interpretation of the Portuguese presence in China (Macao) during the 16th century", December 12.

1992: For the Portuguese Commission for UNESCO organized the International Symposium "Maritimes Roads and Networks", with 40 scholars from all over the world and from several different scientific fields, held in Sagres (Portugal), 28 April - 1 May 1992, as Executive Secretary. On which presented a paper on "A Portuguese Seventeenth Century Map of the South China Coast". Organized also a variety of cultural events for these scholars.

1992: Organized for the Portuguese Commission of UNESCO a research project on “The Ming Qing Historical Documentation on the History of the Portuguese in China”, in the frame work of the Major UNESCO project for the Integral Study of the Silk Road (from 1990 October 26), with the support of the Portuguese Scientific Research Institute (Instituto de Investigação Científicae e Tropical). Presented at a Bilateral Commission Portuguese-Chinese by the Portuguese Foreign Office.

1992-1994: For the "Missão de Macau" (Representative Commission of the Portuguese Government of Macau in Lisbon) participated in the organization (with the Historical Archive of Macau) of the Historic-Document Exhibition entitled: "The Relationship of Portugal with India and the Far East". At the inauguration of that exhibition in 1992, December 16, presented a lecture on "The Ming and Qing Documentation about the Portuguese presence in China". This exhibition with my lecture was presented also in two others regions, in the North and in the South of Portugal:

• 1993: that exibition and lecture were presented at University Institute of Leiria ("Escola Superior de Educação do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria"), 1993 March 10.

• 1994: and for the third time these exhibition and lecture were presented, now in the South, in Évora, at Escola Secundária Gabriel Pereira, 1994 February.

1993: Organized a research project in the Library of Ajuda, Lisbon, that enable us to studied a water colour painted map of Canton (Guangdong) Province and published it: "A Portuguese Seventeen Century Map of the South China Coast", in Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, (Journal of the Centre of Portuguese studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A), Vol. I, 1994, pp. 240-271. This was the first study of that map and this is possibly the first Portuguese-Chinese map of Macau (first half of 17th century). We discover that, in the ancient times, 980 reis (old Portuguese gold money) was the price of that map paid by that Royal Portuguese Library.

2001, Lisbon: lecture “The Portuguese impact on the Silk Road during the 16th and the 17th Centuries” presented at the Universidade Lusófona, 2001, December 20.

2002, Lisbon: lecture “The Asiatic and Chinese impact on Brasil and America until the 19th century” presented at the High Institute for Political and Social Sciences of Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa), in the context of the 5 Chinese Cultural Week (“V Semana Cultural da China”) de 2002, January 21 – 26

2002, Lisbon: Professor at Jean Monet University Institute, in Portugal 2002

2004, Lisbon: lecture “Europe and Portugal through the Silk Roads, breaking myths and searching for China and wealth” presented at the High Institute for Political and Social Sciences of Technical University of Lisbon Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, during the 7 Chinese Cultural Week, Lisbon: de 2004, January 19 – 26

2005, Lisbon: Lecture on “The Maritime Silk Road: a comparative study on the Chinese and European expansion”, Universidade Lusiada, 12 Maio de 2005.

2005, Lisbon: Lecture on “As relações entre Macau e o Brasil, dos inícios até ao século XIX” (Macao-Brazilian relationship from the beginning until the XIX century), at the international congress: “O espaço atlântico de Antigo Regime: poderes e sociedades” (The Atlantic space in the Ancient Regime: power and societies) at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, New University of Lisbon, 2005 November 2-5.

5. MAJOR PROJECTS AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES IN DEVELOPMENT

President of Observatório da China (science and cultural centre for studies on China).

As historian of the City Council of Lisbon organized the research project “Contribution for the History of the Urban Policy of Lisbon”, that began in 2003 May and finished in March of 2004. Now is developing a research project on: “The Lisbon’s Over Seas Historical Relationship with Asia, particularly with China”.

For the Library-Museum on the Republic and Resistance, of the City Council of Lisbon (Biblioteca-Museu da República e Resistência), Lisbon, Portugal:

• The edition of the proceedings of the interdisciplinary cycle of Conferences on the Relations Portugal-China De Portugal à China, Ciclo de Conferências, (From Portugal to China, Cycle of Conferences), Direction and two text of Rui Lourido, ed. of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Observatório da China, Lisboa, December of 2009. The papers on different fields such as: Political Science, International Relation, Economics, History of Art and History, were to be print 2006.

As researcher of the European University Institute in Florence:

• Will present his Ph.D. dissertation – The Europeans in South Coast of China: Trade and Pragmatic policy in Macau, during late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties

For the Portuguese National Commission for the Commemoration of the Portuguese Expansion:

• Organized a Cd-rom intituled “Iberians Descriptions on China” to be edited in the Ofir collection.

For the Scientific and Cultural Centre of Macau (Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau) in Lisbon:

• Organized the project for the edition of the 19th Century Chinese Chronicle Hai-Lu Zhu- Chronicle of the Seas: Hai-lu was one of the first long descriptions of Portugal and others Europeans Countries. The author was the Chinese Xie Qing Gao (1765-1822) who became blind and told his adventures to other Chinese Yang Bing Nan who finally wrote it.

For the University of Macau:

• Wrote several articles for the Historical Dictionary of Macau to be published.

6. RESEARCH WORKS PUBLISHED OR UNDER PUBLICATION:

Already published:
• 2013: Literatura e Lusofonia: Anais do II Encontro de Escritores de Língua Portuguesa, em Natal, 2011, Organized and Coordenated by Rui Lourido, ed UCCLA, 2013.

• 2013: “A Viagem – Paradigma do Encontro: Percepções Portuguesas e Chinesas sobre Macau/ China e o Brasil” (The Voyage as a Utopy of Meeting People: Portuguese and Chinese Perceptions on Macau, Brasil and Portugal), Rui Lourido and Jin Guo Ping and Wu Zhiliang, in Literatura e Lusofonia: Anais do II Encontro de Escritores de Língua Portuguesa, em Natal, 2011, ed UCCLA, 2013. This article publish for the first time the chapter on Brasil of the Chinese Chronicle of the Sea – HAILU.

• 2012: Diccionário Temático da História de Macau - DITEMA, [Macao Thematic and Historical Dictionary] 4 vols, Universidade de Macau, Lisboa, 2012 (with several Lourido´s articles on Macao).

• 2011: “Ideas, Commodities and Ships”, in «Studies of Maritime History», vol. 2, Social Science Academic Press (of China), 2011.   

• 2009: De Portugal à China, Ciclo de Conferências, (From Portugal to China, Cycle of Conferences), Direction and two text of Rui Lourido, ed. of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Observatório da China, Lisboa, December of 2009.

• 2008: “Macau-Europa: a influência chinesa através dos seus produtos preciosos”, in “Revista de Estudos Chineses” nº 3, pp. 335-356, Instituto Português de Sinologia, Lisboa, 2008.

• 2008: The New History of Macau, (is a Chinese edition) with 2 texts: “The Macau trade between the 16th to the 18th centuries”, in pp. 395-407; and “Macau and Brazil”, in pp. 613-625, Chinese edition, published in 4 Volumesby the Macau Foundation, Macau, 2008.

• 2007: “As relações entre a China e o Brasil, do princípio ao século XIX” (China-Brazil Relationship, from the beginnings to the 19th Century), in Antologia da História de Macau (Anthology of Macau's History), Macau, Macau Foundation, 2007.

• 2007: “Macau, Pólo fundamental para a difusão do gosto e estética chineses na Europa e Brasil” (The trade of Chinese Precious Products during the Ming-Qing Dynasties) in Cultural Review, International Edition, nº 24, pp. 52-70, ed. Cultural Institute of the R.A.E.M.”, Macau, 2007.

• 2006: “O comércio de Macau com Cantão e seu impacto nas relações de Lisboa com a China no século XVII” (Macau's trade with Canton and their consequence on the Lisbon-China relationship), in Cultural Review, Macau, International Edition, ed. of Cultural Institute of the Government of R.A.E. of Macau, 2006.

• 2006: “Do Ocidente à China pelas Rotas da Seda”, in “Revista Administração”, n°.73, Macau, 2006.

• 2005: “In silk waves vanished the American ethereal Silver and gold: Macau-Manila trade during the late Ming and early Qing period”, in Macao - Philippines, Historical Relation, Macau, University of Macau, 2005.

• 2005: “Macau e o comércio asiático na visão setecentista de Francisco Inocêncio de Sousa Coutinho” (Macau and the Asiatic Trade in the perspective of Francisco Inocêncio de Sousa Coutinho, in the Seventeen Century), in Cultural Review, Macau, International Edition, ed. of the Cultural Institute of the Government of R.A.E. of Macau, June of 2005.

• 2005: "Portugal e a Europa nas Rotas da Seda, quebrando mitos na demanda de Fortuna e da China", in Estudos sobre a China VII, pp. 179-208, Lisbon, ISCSP-UTL, 2005.

• 2003: “Convergência entre Macau e o Brasil: A influência chinesa e asiática no Brasil, até ao século XIX” in Estudos sobre a China V, pp. 415- 428, Lisboa, Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas (UTL), 2003.

• 2003: “Portuguese and Spanish men in Philippines with the eyes over China” in Cultural Review, Macau, International Edition – 6, pp. 23-45, ed. Instituto Cultural do Governo da R.A.E. de Macau, 2003.

• 2002: “The Portuguese, the Maritime Silk Road and Macao’s Connection with the Philippines in the Late Ming Dynasty” in Revista de Cultura, Edição Internacional – 2, pp. 24-46, ed. Instituto Cultural do G. da R.A.E. de Macau, Abril de 2002. Publicado igualmente na versão chinesa desta mesma revista em Agosto de 2002, pp. 91-121.

• 2001: "Os europeus e a feira de Cantão durante os finais da dinastia Ming", (The Europeans and the fair of Canton during the late Ming Dynasty), in Portuguese Studies Review, University of New Hampshire (USA), vol. 9, números 1 e 2, pp. 140-169, Durham, 2001.

• 2000: "The impact of the Silk trade: Macau - Manila, from the beginning to 1640", in The Silk Roads: Highways of Culture and Commerce, Edition by UNESCO and Berghahn Books, New York – Oxford, Paris, 2000 - It is a summary of his master thesis, it was quoted by some renamed scholars, as the sinologist Vadime Elissieeff (2000) or the economic historian Andre Gunder Frank (ReOrientet: Global Economy in the Asian Age, 1998).

• 1997: "Velas portuguesas no mar da China", in Vértice nº 77, Lisboa, 1997.

• 1996: Trade Between Macao and Siam, from Its Beginnings to 1663, in Journal of the Siam Society, Vol. 84.2, Bangkok, Thailand, 1996.

• 1994: "A Portuguese Seventeen Century Map of the South China Coast", in Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies, (Journal of the Center of Portuguese studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A), Vol. I, 1994, pp. 240-271.

To be printed:
• Literatura e Lusofonia: Anais do III Encontro de Escritores de Língua Portuguesa, em Natal, 2012, Organized and Coordenated by Rui Lourido, ed UCCLA.