Summary CURRICULUM VITAE

RUI D'ÁVILA DE FONTES ALFERES LOURIDO

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Historian and Senior Researcher [City Council of Lisbon (from 1996), and Centre of Portuguese Language Countries Studies of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (UIBE, from 2012)]. Degree in History from the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon (1988); Master on History of Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal - 1996); Researcher of European University Institute, Florence (1996-2002). All but dissertation (ABD), writing his Ph.D. thesis “The Europeans in South Coast of China: Trade and Pragmatic policy in Macau, during late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties”.

President of the Observatory for China (www.observatoriodachina.org) e Cultural Director of UCCLA (Union of the Cities Capitals of Portuguese Language - Luso-Afro-American-Asian), based in Lisbon, www.uccla.pt.

He was scholar of the international scientific team of the major UNESCO Project - The Integral Study of the Silk Roads - Roads of Dialog. He was also a member of the Working Group of the Portuguese Commission for UNESCO, for that project from its beginning (1990) until he went to Italy (1995).

He is invited professor and developed several research projects, conferences, lectures and university programmes on the historical Asian Space, special China and Macau, in Portugal and in several countries: China, Japan, South Korea, Borneo, Philippines, Thailand, Russia, Hungary, France, Italy, Vatican, Spain, Brazil, USA, and Portugal.

He published (in Portuguese, English and Chinese, from scientific publishers of Europe, America, and China) several scientific works on the History of the Europe and Brazil relationship with China.

We may underline:

• 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: Dicionário 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, 2009.

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

• 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

• 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, CEPESA, 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.

• 2001: “Os europeus e a feira de Cantão durante os finais da dinastia Ming”, 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).

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

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