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A HK$100-million donation from BOCHK Charitable Foundation to CityU will support the development of veterinary medicine and students’ overseas exchanges and internships.
The Leaders Circle explored collaboration opportunities between CityU and industries at a luncheon seminar on 21 July.
CityU will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Professor Serge Haroche, Dr Joseph Lee, GBS, OStJ, JP and Professor Wendelin Werner in recognition of their significant contributions to education and the well-being of society.
CityU Press showcases more than 40 new titles and prize-winning books, seals a strategic collaboration agreement with Guangxi Normal University Press at the annual Hong Kong Book Fair.
Classroom B5-207 in the Yeung Kin Man Academic Building of CityU has been named the “Ti Lun Classroom” in appreciation of the support of Venerable Ti Lun to the University.
A number of members of the CityU community have been named in the 2017 Honours List.
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.