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PhD in Chinese History (SOAS, University of London), MAs in South Asian Area Studies (SOAS, University of London), Japanese Language and Society (University of Sheffield), Asian History (SOAS, University of London) and Asian Studies (University of Hong Kong), Master of Laws, L.L.M. (University of Hong Kong), Master of Advanced European Studies (College of Europe, Bruges), Law Degree (Portuguese Catholic University of Lisbon), Postgraduate Certificate in Asian Art, Islamic Art Module (SOAS, University of London), DC Islamologie (INALCO, Paris), Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (FLUL), research in the areas of Asian History and the History of Tourism.
Identification

Personal identification

Full name
António Eduardo Hawthorne Barrento

Citation names

  • Barrento, António

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
811F-32F7-F0F8
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1044-0953
Education
Degree Classification
2022
Concluded
Asian Art - Islamic Art Module (Postgraduate Certificate)
SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
2018
Concluded
South Asian Area Studies (Master)
SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
2012
Concluded
Chinese History (Doctor of Philosophy)
SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
2008
Concluded
Japanese Language and Society (Master)
The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
2002
Concluded
Asian History (Master)
SOAS University of London, United Kingdom
2000
Concluded
Asian Studies (Master)
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
1996
Concluded
L.L.M. (Master)
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China
1992
Concluded
Advanced European Studies (Master)
College of Europe, Belgium
1990
Concluded
Direito (Licenciatura)
Universidade Católica Portuguesa Faculdade de Direito, Portugal
Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution
Employer
2017 - Current Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Barrento, António. Kenji Miyazawa. Noite no Caminho-de- Ferro da Via Láctea e A Vida de Budori Gusko [Japanese-Portuguese translation, introduction and final notes]. Lisboa: E-Primatur. 2021.
Book chapter
  1. Barrento, António. "The Legal Translation Department of the Government of Macau, 1988-2000". In China-Macau, Translation and Interpretation (Past and Present), 235-264. Lisboa: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, 2025.
    Under revision
  2. Barrento, António. "Festas e Rituais e Religião no Japão". In Japão: Festas e Rituais, 17-20. Lisboa: Museu do Oriente, 2024.
  3. Barrento, António. "Towards Recovered Territory: The Chinese Tourist Rush to Taiwan, 1946-1949". In Colonialism, Tourism and Place: Transformations in Global Destinations, 28-43. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2020.
  4. Barrento, A.. "The nationalization of the hardship of travel in China, 1895-1949: Progress, hygiene and national concern". In Routledge Handbook of Revolutionary Chinese History, 302-317. London, New York: Routledge, 2019.
  5. Barrento, António. "Geschichte im Entstehen: Reisen zu Stätten der Revolution im republikanischen China". In Reisen in die Vergangenheit. Geschichtstourismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, 285-316. Wien, Köln, Weimar: Böhlau, 2019.
  6. Barrento, António. "From Republican China to the Nanyang: the Nation on Tour". In China-Macau and Globalizations: Past and Present, 147-166. Lisboa: Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, 2016.
  7. Barrento, António. "Invencibilidade e Subitismo vs. Ciência: O Grande Salto para Dentro". In Estudos sobre a China VIII. Volume II., 703-725. Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2006.
  8. Barrento, António. "Yan Xishan e o Estado Fragmentado: Pluralidade e Unidade Política e Ideológica". In Estudos sobre a China VII., ´265-290. Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2005.
  9. Barrento, António. "Confucionismo e Convergência Ideológica durante a Guerra Taiping". In Estudos sobre a China VI., 165-190. Lisboa: Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, 2004.
Journal article
  1. Barrento, A.E.H.. "The Discourse of Travel, Society and Nation in Republican China". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (2025):
    Accepted
  2. Barrento, A.E.H.. "Going Modern: The tourist experience at the seaside and hill resorts in late Qing and Republican China". Modern Asian Studies 52 4 (2018): 1089-1133. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85034576316&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    10.1017/S0026749X17000476
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/02 Microcosmos ocidentais: as estâncias de praia e de montanha na China, 1860-1949. Eurasia Crossings: Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Encounters between East and West
Eurasia Foundation (from Asia), FLUL, CH-UL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/10 In a Context of National Urgency: the Experience of Children Summer Health Camps in China, 1934-1937. The 2023 Global Mobility Humanities Conference (GMHC) and 21st Annual Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M). “Mobilities, Aesthetics and Ethics”,
Konkuk University (Seoul, South Korea)
2023/08 Pilgrimage in The Japan Times, 1897-1933: Superstition, Rationality, and Morality. 17th EAJS International Conference 2023
European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS), Universidade de Ghent (Ghent, Belgium)
2023/07 A Statement of Identity? The Rise of Mongol Features in Late Ilkhanid Tiles. Material Cultures and Iconography in Flux: Naples, Lisbon and Asia through the Sixteenth Century and Beyond
FLUL (Lisbon, Portugal)
2023/05 A Not So Exotic Ideal: Wenceslau de Moraes's Discourse on Religion in Japan. The Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2023)
(Tokyo, Japan)
2022/08 Striding for the Nation: The Stepping-up of Long-distance Walking Projects during the Nanjing Decade. The 24th Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS)
Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
2022/07 Political Indoctrination? Eastern Europe in the China Traveler, 1949-1954. Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Conference 2022
Monash University (Melbourne, Australia)
2022/06 Thomas Cook & Son, Burma and Colonialism, 1886-1948. The Asian Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS2022)
(Tokyo, Japan)
2022/04 Not Only an Agent of the Empire: Thomas Cook & Son and Colonialism in India, 1873-1947. Fifth Annual Conference on South Asia
The Ireland India Institute at Dublin City University (Dublin, Ireland)
2021/07 Travel as Education: The Emergence of the Study Tour in Republican China. British Association for Chinese Studies Conference 2021
British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS) (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
2021/04 Towards Recovered Territory: The Chinese Tourist Rush to Taiwan, 1946-1949. Narrating Taiwan: Re-imagining, re-writing, and re-connecting Taiwan. The 17th and 18th Annual Conference of the European Association of Taiwan Studies
Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Bruxelas; Masaryk University, Brno (Brno, Czech Republic)
2021/02 Novo Turismo, Velha Participação Cultural: As Estâncias de Praia e de Montanha na China, 1860-1949.
Centro de Estudos Asiáticos, Universidade Federal Fluminense (CEA-UFF) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
2020/06 Between Attraction and Reluctance: The Introduction of Camping in Republican China. Fifth International Conference on Tourism and Leisure Studies
University of Dubrovnik (Dubrovnik, Croatia)
2018/12 Nation-Building Holidays: Children Summer Camps in Republican China. 1.º Seminário de História e Género. China, Children and Gender
Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2018/05 Visiting Nantong, Beibei, Canton and Nanjing: Ideal Urban Tourism in Republican China. The 14th Biennial Conference of Asian Studies in Israel (ASI18)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2017/12 On the Margins of the Inconsequential? The Wider Relevance of the History of Tourism in Late Qing and Republican China. Conference "Current Issues in Contemporary Chinese and Oriental Studies"
"St. Kliment Ohridski" Sofia University (Sófia, Bulgaria)
2017/11 Towards Nation-Building: Zhu Liren's 1945 Tourism Plan for Post-War China. 14th Annual Conference: Mobile Utopias
International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (Lancaster, United Kingdom)
2017/10 New Directions: Communist Propaganda in the China Traveler, 1949-1954. 11th Annual Conference on Asian Studies Commemorating October 1917: Re-thinking Marxism and the Russian Revolution in East and Southeast Asia
Palacký University (Olomouc, Czech Republic)
2017/09 Perceptions of Travel: Advertising in the China Traveler, 1927-1954. New York Conference on Asian Studies 2017: Consuming Asia
Hobart and William Smith Colleges (New York (State), United States)
2017/09 Novelty, Nationalism and Modernity: the Post-War Tourist Rush to Taiwan, 1946-1949. Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs (MCAA)
Notre Dame University (Indiana (State), United States)
2017/09 Passive Promotion: the China Travel Service and Tourism to Japan, 1931-1937. 15th EAJS International Conference 2017, European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Lisboa, Portugal)
2017/06 To an Ideal Place: Journeys to the West in the China Traveler, 1927-1937. Nordic Association of China Studies, Aarhus University
(Aarhus, Denmark)
2017/05 For an Affluent Few: Touring the Nanyang during Republican China. Southeast Asia: Past and Present. Luxury and Leisure on the Move. Workshop
Museu do Oriente, Fundação Oriente (Lisbon, Portugal)
2017/04 Going East: Socialist Destinations in the China Traveler, 1949-1954. Conference Crossing the Iron Curtain: Tourism and Travelling in the Cold War.
University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
2016/12 Foot Tours: Walking for the Nation during the Nanjing Decade Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, 65th Annual Meeting
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (Illinois (State), United States)
2016/10 "One Thousand Days at Home is Good, Half a Day Out is Difficult": The Hardship of Travel in Early Twentieth-Century China. 14th Annual Conference: Mobilities: Space of Flows and Friction
International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (Mexico City, Mexico)
2016/09 "To Make Ourselves Stronger": the 1933 Anti-Imperialist Tour of the Xin'an Children Travel Party New York Conference on Asian Studies 2016: Building Asia
Utica College (New York (State), United States)
2016/07 Nationalist Journeys: Touring the Nanyang Chinese Communities during the Republican Period International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas, 9th International Conference: Emerging Identities: Contemporary and Historical Chinese Migrations
The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)
2016/01 To an Idealized Chinese Modernity: Touring 'Model Places' in Republican China Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, 55th Annual Meeting
James Madison University (Virginia (State), United States)
2015/10 Tourism Abroad during the Nanjing Decade: the Perspective of the China Traveler New York Conference on Asian Studies 2015: Global Asia: Social, Cultural, and Political Spaces
Vassar College (New York (State), United States)
2015/10 Two Languages, Four Systems: The Legal Translation Department of the Government of Macau, 1988-2000. Colóquio Internacional ‘China/Macau: Tradução e Interpretação – Passado e Presente.
Centro Científico e Cultural de Macau, Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal)
2015/07 Touring the Modernscape: Discourse and Practice in Republican China ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) 9
(Adelaide, Australia)
2014/11 History in the Making: Visiting Revolutionary Sites in Republican China (1912-1949). Conference Journeys into the Past: History as a Tourist Attraction in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Universität Siegen (Siegen, Germany)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2022/11 - Current Aconselhamento científico relativamente à exposição "Japão: Festas e Rituais" e ao catálogo respectivo Fundação Oriente, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/10 - 2022/11 História e Antropologia do Turismo na China Fundação Oriente, Portugal
2020/10 - 2020/11 Religiões no Japão Fundação Oriente, Portugal
2018/10 - 2018/11 História do Japão, 1868-1945 Fundação Oriente, Portugal