Across seven decades since its founding in 1953, the Yu Un Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association of Macao has held many salons and exhibitions. Their work has allowed Chinese calligraphy, painting and seal carving to be passed on and promoted today. The association has significantly united many veteran and emerging artists. It has been bringing together local calligraphy, painting and seal carving enthusiasts and promoting cultural exchange at home and abroad. It has achieved fruitful results and left a lasting and profound influence. The hardcover catalogue of A Gathering of Treasures - The 70th Anniversary of the Yu Un Chinese Calligraphers and Painters Association of Macao contains images of all 200 pieces exhibited in the exhibition, including paintings, calligraphy works and seal carvings by seven Yu Un veteran artists: Chui Tak Kei, Deng Fen, Luo Shuzhong, Situ Qi, Gan Heng, Lin Jin and U Kuan Wai.

See Table of Contents in the publication

Issue no. 71 features a dossier of five articles on the theory, principle and philosophy of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a set of works from the Spring Conferences 2022 in partnership with the Macau Scientific and Cultural Centre in Lisbon.

Fang Lijun is an emblematic figure of China’s Post-1989 New Art Movement. This exhibition catalogue features images of all the artworks in Fang Lijun: The Light of Dust shown at the Macao Museum of Art, accompanied by research information on each exhibit and several articles on Fang’s oeuvre. Based on the theme ‘Human & Figures’, which examines Fang’s signature, fresh perspectives – particularly his new experiments with different media in the last ten years, the catalogue charts the artist’s portfolio spanning four decades in four main sections: ‘Passage: The Process of Growing Up’, ‘Introspection: Self-Portraits’, ‘Mutual Reflections: Friends’, and ‘The Light of Dust: Human’. The exhibition displays 190 artworks.

See Table of Contents in the publication

Issue no. 70 celebrates the bicentenary of A Abelha da China, the first Portuguese-language newspaper in Macao and the first foreign-language newspaper in China.

Spring Festival is the most important and grandest traditional festival in China, embodying the Chinese people’s yearning for a better life. The exhibition Auspicious Beginning: Spring Festival Traditions in the Forbidden City features cultural relics related to Spring Festival culture in the Qing court from the Palace Museum’s collection. This is the exhibition catalogue that includes images of nearly all the 120 pieces/sets of exhibits, supplemented by research materials and papers. The catalogue has four sections: ‘Auspicious Invocation’, ‘Filial Sacrifice and Imperial Kinship’, ‘Family, Country and the World’, and ‘Winter Recreation’.