Events

13 Dec 2018

5:30p.m. – 6:30p.m.

Room 201, 2/F Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK

Please visit http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/adm/lecture for details and registration.

Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, CUHK
Telephone: 3943 8947 / 3943 8951
Fax: 2603 5184
Email: admtalk@cuhk.edu.hk

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is presenting a series of Public Lectures for secondary school students, teachers and parents. The lectures aim to help students explore the 4 new undergraduate programmes offered by CUHK in 2019 entry, namely Chinese Studies (JS4136); BEd in Early Childhood Education (JS4372); BEng in Artificial Intelligence: Systems and Technologies (JS4468); and Data Science and Policy Studies (JS4893).

During the lectures, participants will have a chance to learn from our professors and to discover their own aspirations. Light refreshments will be served after each lecture during which students can interact with the speaker, programme representatives and CUHK students.

The first lecture “The China Puzzle” presented by the Chinese Studies programme is on 13 December 2018 (Thursday).

The China Puzzle

Speaker: Professor John Lagerwey, Research Professor of Chinese Studies

Abstract:
Every nation wants its citizens to be patriotic, and every nation uses its public school system to teach an ideal version of national history designed to awaken pride. But how close to reality is that ideal? And who decides? In reality, China is a great puzzle: a vast space with more languages and more regional cultures than Europe, and a long history during which its boundaries never stop changing. Will the “real China” please stand up? There is a relationship between its past and its present, but what is it? There are great differences between North and South, East and West, but what are they? This talk will show why these are all urgent questions that require professional answers from specialists in history, law, economy, and society. It will do so by looking at a series of “China puzzles”.

– This lecture is conducted in English;
– As seats are limited, please register at your earliest convenience.