The Centre for Chinese History and Culture of the University of Macau Visits Ten Schools to Build a New Platform for Chinese Historical and Cultural Education in May 2025

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From May 19 to 29, 2025, Prof. Zhang Yan, Director of the Centre for Chinese History and Culture at the University of Macau, and Dr. Cheang Neng Ian, Deputy Director, led teams to visit ten schools, including Saint John de Brito School, Escola de Sainta Teresa Macau, Saint Paul School Macau, Colégio de Santa Rosa de Lima, Sheng Kung Hui Escola Choi Kou Macau, Hou Kong Middle School, Lou Hau High School, Escola Secundaria Pui Va, Escola Sun Wah, and Macau Baptist College. The discussions focused on topics such as the inheritance of Chinese culture, patriotic education practices, and collaborative teaching resources, injecting new momentum into the cultural literacy enhancement of Macao’s youth.

1. Focus on Multidimensional Cooperation Highlights

Sheng Kung Hui Escola Choi Kou Macau

The Centre invited various secondary schools to participate in the “Red Culture Investigation” activity, combining the 80th anniversary of the victory in the War of Resistance to deepen patriotic education. A multi-school cooperative investigation model was proposed to promote inter-school interaction and exchange. All ten schools actively responded, expressing their commitment to participate in the work of inheriting Chinese culture.

Saint John de Brito School

2. Support for Teacher Professional Development

The Centre proposed to establish a shared platform for historical teaching resources, committing to provide educational resources and teaching support. It will regularly organize teaching training and case-sharing workshops.

Escola de Sainta Teresa Macau

3. Innovative Cross-School Collaboration

The Centre will continue to launch cultural lectures and invite students from various schools to participate. Representatives believe that these activities can stimulate students’ critical thinking through historical hot topics, gaining recognition and planning support from all ten schools.

Saint Paul School Macau

4. Outlook for Future Collaborative Development

This series of visits aims to build a cultural education network characterized by “one school, one feature.” The future will focus on “resource sinking and dual empowerment” as the core concept to promote deep collaboration between universities and primary and secondary schools. Representatives from the ten schools unanimously agreed that through joint curriculum development, shared teacher training, and co-hosted activities, they can effectively consolidate the cultural educational synergy in Macau, laying a solid foundation for nurturing a new generation with both an international perspective and cultural confidence.

Escola Secundaria Pui Va

Hou Kong Middle School

The expansion of this cooperative framework marks a shift from isolated breakthroughs in Chinese cultural education in Macau to systematic collaboration, providing a vibrant model for building a humanities bay area in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Lou Hau High School

Colégio de Santa Rosa de Lima

Escola Sun Wah

Macau Baptist College

 

 

The Centre for Chinese History and Culture of FAH of UM organizes the “Red Culture of Hunan: Journey of Dreams Together” Study Trip

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From May 23 to 27, 2025, the Centre for Chinese History and Culture of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Macau organized a study trip titled the “Red Culture of Hunan: Journey of Dreams Together.” A total of thirty professors and students from the university participated in this event, which aimed to strengthen the foundation of youthful beliefs, and allow participants to enhance their patriotic feelings and cultural confidence.

On the first day of the tour, the group led by Prof. Zhang Yan and Dr. Cheang Neng Ian arrived at Hunan University, located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain and by the banks of the Xiang River. Renowned as a “thousand-year-old institution and a century-old famous school,” it is not only an academic sanctuary but also an important source of revolutionary thought and an early activity base for the Party. Revolutionary pioneers, including Mao Zedong.

On May 24, faculty and students visited the Hunan Martyrs’ Memorial Tower and the History Museum of the Communist Party of China in Changsha. They also admired the statue of young Mao Zedong at Orange Isle, embracing the revolutionary spirit of “striking the water in midstream.”

 

On May 25, faculty and students visited the former residence and memorial of Mao Zedong in Shaoshan, where they held a flower-laying ceremony at the statue square.

On May 26, the itinerary extended to Ningxiang’s Tanhe Ancient City, where participants explored Chinese civilization through bronze artifacts and the performance of “Tanhe’s Eternal Love.” Afterwards, they experienced the fusion of modern revolution and contemporary urban life at Huangxing Road Pedestrian Street.

On May 27, professors and students ascended to Du Fu Pavilion to gaze at Orange Isle, concluding their five-day cultural journey with a dialogue between the patriotic sentiments of the Poet Sage and the revolutionary aspirations of great leaders.

This event, combining visits to red sacred sites with experiences of Huxiang culture, allowed faculty and students to deepen their recognition of Chinese culture and their mission of cultural inheritance amidst the intertwining of history and the present.