Keynote address: Macau still exists, but will it survive? / Jean-Pierre Cabestan.
Macau's historical meaning:
I. The existence of Macau: a Chinese perspective / Fok Kai Chong -- The Portuguese chromosome: reflections on the formation of Macau's identity (16th-18th centuries) / Jorge Manuel Flores -- "Xiang (ambergris)", "yan (opium)" and Macau: the sigficance of xiang and yan in Macau history / Wu Zhiliang -- Macau: a tale of many cities / Antonio Vasconcelos de Saldanha.
II. Macau's political and legal systems and international relations:
Constitutional conventions and political development in Macau / Lo Shiuhing -- Accomodating diversity: Macau under China's Constitution / Francisco Goncalves Pereira -- Mass political culture and politcal development in post-1999 Macau / Herbert S. Yee -- Macau and Europe: the challenges of the paradiplomacy game / Miguel Santos Neves --Macau's international relations / Jose Duarte de Jesus.
III. Macau's geography, economy and society: Macau in the Zhu (Pearl) River Delta and beyond / Richard Edmonds -- Macau mixed architecture and urbanisation / Carlos Marreiros -- Macau: a multi-community society / Jean Berlie -- Education and change in Macau's Portuguese community / Rui Simoes -- Towards an educational agenda for Macau / Keith Morrison -- A project of identity: Macau in the world unity / Luis Sa Cunha -- A Church in search of new ways / Luis Sequeira -- Religious syncretism: the harmonization of Buddhism & Daoism in Macau's Lian Fen Miao / Christina Cheng.

Foreword / Yves Camus -- Welcome Address / D. Domingos Lam -- Keynote Presentation: Charles R. Boxer, Macau, and the Jesuits / Dauril Alden.
I. The European Renaissance Mind in the Encounter with Asia
Decoding the European Renaissance Mind: The Jesuit Missionaries' View of Cultural Encounter in Asia / Philippe Lécrivain -- Reading Indian Pluralism: A Paradigm for Multi-cultural / Religious Development Délio de Mendonça ; Discussion, Glenn Timmermans.
Maritime Southeast Asia in the World: Map of Ferdinand Verbiest and its Korean Version / Roderich Ptak -- The Korean World Map in St. Ottilien: A Note on Verbiest's Cartographical Work / Soon Mi Hong-Schunka -- Christianity's Dual Meaning in the Modernisation of China: In Commemoration of the 450th Anniversary of the Death of St. Francis Xavier / You Xilin -– Discussion, César Guillén-Nuñez.
II. Experiences
Missionaries and Globalisation of Culture: An Indian Experience / Jose Kalapura -- The Malaccan Portuguese Community and its Relevance to the Macanese in Contemporary Macau / Barney Koo -- A Multi-cultural Case of Macau: The Thesis of "Maximisation of Difference" in a Globalised World / Chan Chi-hou -- World Religions and Asian Culture: The Singapore Experience / Jean Charbonnier -– Discussion, Choong Cheepang. -- The Building of the Cathedral of Canton: Political, Cultural and Religious Clashes / Jean-Paul Wiest -– Discussion, Dominique Tyl.
III. Religious traditions in Modern China (1)
Islam's Adaptation in China: Present Realities / Elisabeth Allès - Chinese Buddhism Revival and Inter-religious Dialogue / Christian Cochini -- What to Preach? Christian Witness in China, with Reference to the Party's Policy of Mutual Accommodation / Kung Lap Yan – Discussion, Thomas Michel. -- The Body at the Junction of Religion and Scientism: Modernisation of Meditative Traditions in Contemporary China / David Palmer -- Daoist Traditions in Modern China: Observations and Reflections / Pierre-Henry de Bruyn -– Discussion, Michael Saso.
IV. Religious traditions in Modern China (2)
Chinese Religious Women in the Modernisation Era: Problems and Contributions / Beatrice Leung Kit Fun -- Rooting the Christian Church in Chinese Soil: Christian Universities Settle Down in China / Zhang Kaiyuan -- Discussion, Yu Sanle - From Tradition to Modernity: Chinese Intellectuals and Western Missions / Liu Ping -- Raising Civic Morality Among Chinese Citizens in the New Century. The Role of Christian Values / Wang Xiaochao -- Discussion, Gianni Criveller.