On January 16, FOB invited the famed Historian and writer, Mr. Jason Wordie,  to hold a seminar at City University of Macau, HG03 (Ho Yin Convention Centre). Professor Priscilla Roberts, the IBC Coordinator and professors from Faculty of Business attended the seminar. On behalf of the City University of Macau and FOB, Professor Roberts presented a souvenir to Mr. Jason Wordie.

A History graduate from the University of Hong Kong, Jason was a Council Member of the Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong Branch for some years. He also served in the Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) from 1990-1992. A keen recreational hiker, and an enthusiastic gardener, Jason is an active member of the Hong Kong Gardening Society. He has written several books on Hong Kong’s history, as well as the massive book Macau—People and Places, Past and Present (2013), a volume that took him six years to write, and that brings together 25 years of his studies of Macau.

To many in Hong Kong, Macau immediately represents a hectic destination – a gambling hub, with few other reasons to visit beyond an easy weekend get-away. Inevitably, the extraordinary underlying richness and diversity that Macau contains in such astonishing abundance gets overlooked by the more tinsel and obvious "attractions", which pass most visitors by. By sharing the old photos of Macau, Jason Wordie talked about Macau's compelling, multi-layered social history, some of the people who made Macau what it is today, and reveal the many dimensions that make Macau uniquely special in the contemporary world. The unexpected connections between Europe, China and Japan, South East Asia and beyond are all interwoven in Macau's richly-brocaded social and urban fabric.

At the end of the lecture, Mr. Jason Wordie discussed with the students since most of them are interested in the stories in Macau, as well as Jason’s exploration, both teachers and students found remarkable and informative.