Lingnan University e-News

Campus news

• Lingnan Arts Festival opens with gem of Cantonese opera
• Prof Peng Lin and Justice Geoffrey Ma address Lingnan University Assemblies
• President Leonard K Cheng speaks on liberal arts education in RTHK’s programme “Smile Family”
• President Leonard K Cheng attends “Hogwarts Night” of The Jockey Club Hall E
• Music on the Grass Concert at Lingnan
• Lingnan delegates visit Mainland enterprises of “Shanghai-Hong Kong Future Leaders (Lingnan Elites) Internship Programme”
• Over 200 Lingnan students participate in Alumni Career Advising Night
• 17th Project X Commissioning Ceremony for Volunteers at Lingnan

Research and academic activities

• Lingnan writer-in-residence Su Tong gives public lecture on “Literature, in Small Times, in Great Times”
• World-renowned economist Prof Avinash Dixit speaks on demand-side and supply-side solutions for corruption at Lingnan
• Ann Hui talks about her Hong Kong at Lingnan University
• Lingnan University Conference on the Study of Confucian Classics and Chinese Poetic Arts
• Recital for Nobel-nominated Polish poet Adam Zagajewski

Awards and people

• Lingnan student wins award in International New York Times writing competition
• Four Lingnan students awarded The Hong Kong Jockey Club Scholarship 2013
• Lingnan graduate pursues PhD to become counselling psychologist after MA studies at Columbia University

Publications

• The 39th Volume of Cultural Studies@Lingnan

Upcoming events

• Postgraduate Salon of Arts Series on "Urban Struggles in the Early Spring of 2014: A Case Study on the 'Taxi Apps' Dispute in Shanghai" (2 April 2014)
• Public lecture on “From Utopia to Uchronia” by Chan Koon-chung (3 April 2014)
• CGCC Business Forum: Challenges of Modernisation in Service Industries (3 April 2014)
• Seminar on “Multiproduct Firms, Export Product Scope, and Trade Liberalization: The Role of Managerial Efficiency” (3 April 2014)
• Seminar on “The Tangled Web of Desire, Politics and Humanity: The Past and Present of the White Snake” (4 April 2014)
• Seminar on “Financial Regulation in a Globalized World” (4 April 2014)
• Seminar on “Municipal Waste Management in Hong Kong” (4 April 2014)
• Seminar on “Effect of Dual Institutions on Foreign Market Entry Mode: A Multi-level Analysis of Chinese Multinationals” (7 April 2014)
• Seminar by Writer-in-Residence 2014 on “From Raise the Red Lantern to The Oriole” (10 April 2014)
• Film and Philosophy Series: "Vanilla Sky: On Pleasure and Happiness & Issues and Problems of Self-Understanding in Villain" (26 April 2014)
• Seminar on “Art Education and Social Transformation” (27 April 2014)
• Seminar on “New Venture Internationalization, Organizational Readiness, and Performance” (28 April 2014)
• Seminar on "A Comparison Study of Differences between Local Hong Kong Students and Foreign Exchange Students over their Learning Beliefs, Behaviors and Performance for Team-based Projects" (19 May 2014)