Dr. Vénus Viana
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+853 8822 9508
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Ma Man Kei and Lo Pak Sam College (W33),
Avenida da Universidade
Taipa, Macau, China
Ma Man Kei and Lo Pak Sam College (W33),
Avenida da Universidade
Taipa, Macau, China
Dr. Vénus Viana
Resident Fellow, Ma Man Kei and Lo Pak Sam College, University of Macau
Research Interests
Her research interest is the history of the common or ordinary people in relations to their social and political environment with special reference to Guangdong and Macau in the early twentieth century. She has published several articles on various social and political aspects all focusing on the lives of the ordinary people in Republican Guangdong. An edited volume titled: The strenuous Decades: Global Crisis and the Transformation of Chinese Society in Modern Asia is forthcoming. She is also preparing a monography titled: “The People and Society of Republican Zhongshan”.
Teaching Areas
East Asian History
Modern Chinese History
History of South China
Modern Chinese History
History of South China
Working Experiences
Before joining University of Macau, she has been post-doctoral fellow at Nanyang Technological University and research fellow at Chinese University of Hong Kong.
She is currently serving as “The Expert” for the Expert-Team Study Tours to Zhongshan and Zhuhai, organized by Hong Kong and South China Historical Research Program, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
“Citizenship in Times of Hyperinflation: Republican Zhongshan during the Chinese Civil War, 1945-49,” presented in AAS Annual Conference, Seattle, USA, March 14-17, 2024.
“The Procession of the Passion of Christ in Macao: Memory, Preservation and Documentation,” presented in AAS-in-Asia, Daegu, Korea, June 24-27, 2023.
“The neglected Mass: Everyday life in Wartime Macau, 1938-1945”, presented in Recapture ‘Endangering social life’ conference, CUHK, Hong Kong, 12-14, June, 2017.
“Good Girls and Bad Girls: Marriage System in Republican Guangdong”, presented in AAS- in-Asia, Kyoto, 23-26 June, 2016.
“The Overlooked Complications Behind the Chinese Prison Reform in the Early 20th Century”, presented at the 9th ICAS, Adelaide, 6-10 July 2015.
“Good Girls and Bad Girls: Marriage System in Republican Guangdong”, presented in AAS- in-Asia, Kyoto, 23-26 June, 2016.
“The Overlooked Complications Behind the Chinese Prison Reform in the Early 20th Century”, presented at the 9th ICAS, Adelaide, 6-10 July 2015.
Choi Chi-Cheung, Tomoko Shiroyama, Venus Viana (eds). The Strenuous Decades: Global Crisis and the Transformation of Chinese Society in Modern Asia. Berlin: De Gruyter Press, 2022.
Viana, Venus and Kyung Yeob Kim, “Rice Scarcity in WWII Macao: The Local Experience Revisited,” Urban History, 46, 3 (2019): 518-541.
Viana, Venus, “The Making of Modern Public Health System in Some Smaller Chinese Towns, 1929-1949,” Urban History, 45, 2 (2018): 331-350.
Viana, Venus, “The Making of Modern Public Health System in Some Smaller Chinese Towns, 1929-1949,” Urban History, 45, 2 (2018): 331-350.