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CityU Press participated in the 30th Hong Kong Book Fair. Mr Lester Garson Huang, CityU Council Chairman, and Professor Way Kuo, CityU President, visited the CityU Press booth to show their support.
A donation of HK$2 million from Mapletree will be used to set up an endowment fund for students of CityU.
More than 200 top university leaders from over 30 countries and regions shared their insights at CityU during the "Leadership and Management Summit" jointly presented by CityU and Times Higher Education.
Professor Way Kuo, President of CityU, joined a panel discussion at THE Young Universities Summit in Surrey. He also led a delegation to Berlin for a talent search in late June.
Members of CityU community were included in this year’s HKSAR Chief Executive Honours List in recognition of their significant contributions to Hong Kong.
Professor István T. Horváth of the Department of Chemistry has been elected External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary.
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.