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Over 1,000 colleagues celebrated the Year of the Dragon at the Chinese New Year Staff Party at CityU on 31 January.
Professor Lu Jian, Dean of the College of Science and Engineering and Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering at CityU, has been elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Technologies of France.
Dr Peter Staecker, President-Elect of IEEE, was warmly welcomed by the College of Science and Engineering when he visited CityU on 10 January.
The Run Run Shaw Library at CityU is hosting an exhibition of more than 40 artworks of calligraphy, paintings and seal carvings by three acclaimed Chinese artists.
Professor Way Kuo was awarded an honorary doctorate by Beijing Institute of Technology on 11 January, and gave a talk on reliability and future energy development after the conferment ceremony.
Ceremonies were held on 6 January to welcome the fourth batch of Chinese judges taking the LLM programme and to congratulate the third batch that has just completed the one-year programme at CityU.
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.)
Professor Zhang Longxi of CityU responded to the SCMP article on Gao's visit to Hong Kong (2 February 2001) Nobel Prize winner GAO used to fewer restrictions in his adopted home of France (1 February 2001, SCMP)
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.