On September 19, the Special Lectures on Macao's Historical Heritage and Chinese and Western Culture jointly organized by CityU Library and the General Education Department of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences was held at HG02, Ho Yin Convention Centre. Dr. Helen Ieong, an expert on Macao’s historical documents, was invited as the keynote speaker. In the lecture, Dr. Ieong explained three major parts about Macao: World Heritage, Memory of the World Register and Intangible Cultural Heritage in plain language.
The Historic Centre of Macao was included in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 2015. The Historic Centre of Macao is centered on the old districts of Macao and consists of 22 buildings and 8 squares. In addition to the Western-style buildings such as the Ruins of St. Paul, Senado Square and the St. Joseph's Seminary and Church, Chinese-style buildings such as A-Ma Temple, Mandarin's House and Pagode Sam Cai Vu Cun are also included in the Historic Centre of Macao, reflecting the integration of Chinese and Western cultures in Macao. As for the historical records and documents of Macao, the Local Official Archives of Macao in the Qing Dynasty, the Archives and Materials of the Macao Diocese and the Archives and Manuscripts of Macau Kong Tac Lam Temple are listed on the Memory of the World Register. As for intangible cultural heritage, Macao's Drunken Dragon Festival of Fish Industry, Cantonese Naamyam, Cantonese Opera and Macanese Gastronomy are included in the list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. Dr. Ieong elaborated on the history and literature of Macao to the students, who benefited a lot.
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Dr. Helen Ieong is currently Director of the Macau Documentation and Information Society, Chair of the Committee of the Memory of the World Knowledge Centre-Macau, Consultant of the Memory of World Knowledge Centre-Macau to CityU, lecturer of the course "Macao historical heritage research" of master's program for Macao studies at the University of Macau and Principal Assessor Superior Technician at the Research Institute of Macao Foundation. She mainly studies Macao's historical heritage, culture, literature and archives, information resources networking, memory engineering and so on. Her works include "Study on Macao's Characteristic Literature Resources", "Study on Macau Library System ", "Study on Macau Literature Information Service ", "Macau Kong Tac Lam Temple", and Prose Collection "Library People's Loneliness." She has published more than 200 papers at home and abroad. Her books and papers won the third prize of the Outstanding Achievement Awards for the second and third Macao Research in Humanities and Social Sciences. In 2010 and 2016, she participated in and organized the Archives and Materials of the Macao Diocese and the Archives and Manuscripts of Macau Kong Tac Lam Temple to apply for the Memory of the World Register of UNESCO in the Asia-Pacific region. Dr. Ieong wrote his proses in the column "Heart-sea Fish Book" in Macao Daily News with the pen name "Ou Kiu" (遨翹). She currently works for the Research Institute of Macao Foundation and is mainly engaged in the project called “Macau Memory.”
