A workshop on Global Archives on Macau was held at City University of Macau on Friday, 1 June 2018, 9.00 a.m.-1.00 p.m., in Room HG01, Taipa Campus, City University of Macau. This event was organized by the Asia Pacific Business Research Centre of City University of Macau, with financial support from the Macau Foundation.

This workshop was intended to highlight and give a preliminary survey of the wealth of information on Macau that is available in archives around the world. Some years ago, Macau University of Science and Technology established a project on Global Archives on Macau, that has collected and made available online a wide range of documents from archives in Britain, the United States, and Hong Kong.  These materials have now been supplemented by a further 4,000 files and documents relating to Macau, drawn from archives and online sources in Britain, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

The workshop sought to explore the best ways in which these documents can be made more widely accessible to scholars, students, and the general public. It also discussed what further materials are available, where they are located, and how these too might be gathered together in one consolidated database.

Participants and speakers included Prof. Zhang Shu Guang, Rector of the City University of Macau; Dr. Deng Xiao Yan of Macau University of Science and Technology; Dr. Zang Xiaohua of Macao Polytechnic Institute; Prof. Geoffrey Gunn of Nagasaki University and the University of Macau; Dr. Stacilee Ford of the University of Hong Kong; Ms. Stacy Belcher Lee, Archivist of the University of Hong Kong; Mr. Jason Wordie, an independent scholar and historian based in Hong Kong; and Prof. Priscilla Roberts of City University of Macau.  Prof. Ip Kuai Peng, Vice-Rector of City University of Macau; Prof. Eva Khong, executive associate dean of the Faculty of Business, City University of Macau; Prof. Peng Chao, director of the One Belt One Road Research Centre of City University of Macau; and academics from the Faculty of Business of City University of Macau attended this event. Outside guests included Mr. Alberto Bettancourt, a businessman with twenty years of experience in Macau; Dr. Paul Spooner, an independent scholar resident in Macau; Dr. Timothy Summers of Chatham House and the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Mr. Laurens Hemminga, a graduate student at City University of Hong Kong.

The workshop proved extremely fruitful, in allowing participants to make plans as to how best to develop and build on this project, to make these materials available to a wider audience in future.