The Proceedings of the International Symposium on "The Culture of Metropolis in Macau" are presented in their English version in this publication. The .... Symposium, held in Macau in September 1998 addressed the issues of "Urbanism, Identity, Collective Heritage and Quotidian Culture--Strategies for the Twenty-First Century"...
Editor: Arthur H. Chen 陳惠民. Text coordination: Patricia Au, Michel Reis.
Abstracts in Portuguese and Chinese.

Papers:
The antecedents and context of the University College of St. Paul / Bejamim Videira Pires -- St. Paul's University College: academy of religion and culture / Edward J. Malatesta -- With a view towards Japan: Alessandro Valignano and the opening of the college in Macau / John W. Witek; commentary: Juan Gil --The missions of Portuguese typography in the south of China in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Manuel Cadafaz de Matos -- Father Duarte de Sande, S.J., genuine author of De Missione Legatorum Iaponensium ad Romanam Curiam...Dialogus / Américo da Costa Ramalho; commentary: Mark K. Chang -- The influence of the Chinese pharmacopeia in the prescriptions of the Jesuit dispensaries / Ana Maria Amaro -- A study on Wu Yushan's poetry of Celestial Learning / Zhang Wenqin; commentary: Beatriz Basto da Silva -- The Church of the College of Madre de Deus / Gonçalo Couceiro; commentary: César Guillén-Nuñez -- A conjectural reconstruction of the Church of the College of Mater Dei / Fernando António Baptista Pereira; commentary: César Guillén-Nuñez -- The first university in Macau: the Colégio de São Paolo / Huang Qichen; commentary: Fei Chengkang -- The College of St. Paul of Macau and the church of Japan / Diego Yuuki; commentary: Sanji Yamaoka -- Korean Catholics as seen from Macau, 1566-1784 / Juan Ruiz de Medina; commentary: Albert Chan -- Services provided to the residents of Macau by St. Paul's College / António Lopes; commentary: Juan Ruiz de Medina -- The concept of China in sixteenth-century Europe and how it evolved: textual comparison of the works of Gaspar da Cruz and González de Mendoza / Hino Hiroshi -- The true significance of the College of St. Paul / Aloysius B. Chang.
Added keywords: Medicine, pharmacy, prescriptions -- printing technology -- Japan mission -- Wu Li 吳歷, 1632-1718 -- Tianxue 天學 -- Korean Catholic Church -- 16th century European views of China.