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The HK$15 million gift from the late Dr Chung Sze-yuen will be used to establish the Sze-Yuen Chung Fund in support of HKIAS of CityU.
CityU remains committed to maintaining online teaching and services and responding to the needs of employees and the disadvantaged in society.
CityU received the Gold Campus Award under the Medicine® On Campus programme run by the American College of Sports Medicine and the American Medical Association.
Students at CityU have been continuing their studies during the coronavirus epidemic thanks to CityU’s online learning platform, called CityU-Learning.
Five students under mandatory quarantine received online visits from Professor Way Kuo, CityU President; Chief-of-Staff and Dean of Students.
A pilot programme called the CityU-Learning taster courses developed by CityU has been well received by secondary school students.
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.