Rui Lourido

Historian and Senior Researcher [City Council of Lisbon and Centre of Portuguese Language Countries Studies of the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing]. President of the Observatory for China e Cultural Director of UCCLA.

Degree in History from the Faculty of Arts, University of Lisbon (1988); Master on History of Portuguese Discoveries and Expansion, New University of Lisbon (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”.

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 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.

• 2012: Dicionário Temático da História de Macau - DITEMA, [Macao Thematic and Historical Dictionary] 4 vols, Universidade de Macau, Lisboa, 2012.

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

• 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, International Edition, ed. of the Cultural Institute of the Government of R.A.E. of Macau, 2005.