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Professor Cheng Siwei, Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, visited CityU on 20 April with a delegation from six mainland universities. The purpose was to establish relationships with CityU.
More than 30 civilizations history scholars take part in the “International Conference on Teaching and Learning of World Civilizations” from April 6 to 10 to develop the curriculum of a general education course titled “A History of Civilizations”.
The Run Run Shaw Library of CityU has recently acquired two collections of significant Korean works written in Chinese which contribute to the studies of cultural exchange between China and Korea, as well as the development of the general education curriculum.
Gao Xingjian's City University of Hong Kong Lecture (Note: This is an excerpt from a lecture delivered on 31 January, 2001 at City University of Hong Kong by Mr Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature. The sub-headings were added by the editor.)
Although his novel Soul Mountain is all about questioning -- of literature, Chinese history and even language -- Gao Xingjian, the first Chinese writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, says he has no desire to overturn anything. "There's no need to overturn the tradition. It is there and no one can deny it," said Gao at his public lecture on 31 January at CityU, where the celebrated author talked to a large and enthusiastic audience about his views on literature and writing.
Many Chinese readers have felt disappointed in the past that no Chinese writer has ever been awarded the Nobel Prize. Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the new millennium, the Nobel Prize in Literature travelled across languages and cultures from distant Sweden to arrive, for the first time, in the hands of a Chinese writer--Gao Xingjian.