The Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies (AIGCS)
Launch Ceremony
May 31, 2022, 9-10 AM Hong Kong Time
May 30, 2022, 9-10 PM Boston Time
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WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
ZONG-QI CAI, Director of The Advanced Institute for Global Chinese Studies
LEONARD KWOK-HON CHENG, President of Lingnan University
CONGRATULATORY SPEECHES
MICHAEL A. SZONYI, Director of the the Fairbank Center
Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University
XUAN XINGPEI
Director of the International Academy for Chinese Studies, Peking University
LIU Yucai, Peking University
DAVID DER-WEI WANG
Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University
JENNIFER CREWE
Associate Provost and Director of Columbia University Press
ROBERT DILWORTH
Director of Journalism Department, Duke University Press
CARLSON TONG
Chairman of the University Grants Committee, Hong Kong, SAR
CONCLUDING REMARKS
JOSHUA KA-HO MOK
Vice President of Lingan University
LIST OF OTHER DISTINGUISHED ATTENDEES
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Harvard-Lingnan Symposium Series Launch: Public Forum
Classicism Now: Why and How?
May 31, 2022 10:15 AM –12:15 PM Hong Kong Time
May 30, 2022 10:15 PM –12:15 AM Boston Time
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Primarily in Chinese
Chair: EMILIE YUEH YU YEH, Dean of the Arts Faculty, Lingnan University
The Rise and Decline of Humanities: Academic Discipline and Talents Development
Speaker: CHEN PINGYUAN, Peking University
Discussants: ZHANG LIHUA, Peking University; LI YUYANG, Beijing Normal University
Poetics of Light and Shadows: Chinese Lyrical Traditions and Modern Media Culture
Speaker: SHENGQING WU, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Discussant: YIP CHEUK WAI, Hong Kong Education University
Obsession of China: Discourses on Chinese Lyrical Tradition and Literary Historiography
Speaker: LEONARD K.K. CHAN, National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan
Discussant: KIN YIP HUI, Hong Kong Shue Yan University
Limited Views on the Arts: Chinese Modern Literary Theory and World Literature
Speaker: DAVID DER-WEI WANG, Harvard University
Discussant: LING CHAO, City University of Hong Kong