Lingnan University e-News

Campus news

• Generous donations from late alumnus Lee Yuk-wang
• Lingnan University and Guangzhou Lingnan (University) College Student Exchange Activities 2014
• Culture Service-Learning ambassadors share achievements from Cultural Sustainable Project
• Lingnan delegation visits liberal arts colleges in US
• Take action for disabled children on Mainland China
• Alumni Homecoming 2014
• Closing Ceremony of the Shanghai-Hongkong Future Leaders (Lingnan Elites) Internship Programme

Research and academic activities

• Prof Sophia Law tells forgotten history of Vietnamese boatpeople in Hong Kong
• Lingnan University urges establishment of joint clinic of traditional Chinese and Western medicine
• Prof Lau Chi-pang shares history behind street names in Hong Kong
• Sixth Forum on Contemporary Poetics by Centre for Humanities Research
• Visual Studies connects local communities through art
• Collaborative picture postcards by Lingnan Visual Studies students and artist-collaborators exhibited in Norway and Sweden
• Prof Mary Wong participates in academic conference in Korea with postgraduate students

Awards and people

• New appointments and re-appointments to the Council and the Court
• Research Excellence Awards 2014
• "Ye Si’s 1950s: Criticisms on Hong Kong Literature and Culture" selected for 7th Hong Kong Book Prize
• Lingnan students awarded HSBC Scholarships
• Lingnan business students win HSBC Hong Kong Business Case Competition 2014
• Lingnan Dragon Boat Team achieves excellent result in open competition

Publications

• New book by Prof Lisa Leung enables in-depth understanding of South Asian ethnic minorities in Hong Kong
• Prof Alfred Chan calls for legislation on maintenance of parents in new book
• The 41st Volume of Cultural Studies@Lingnan
• The 40th Volume of Cultural Studies@Lingnan

Upcoming events

• Detention – non-verbal physical comedy (30 August 2014)
• “Walking with Lingnanians”Fundraising Walkathon 2014 (19 October 2014)