Events

21 Mar 2012

7:30pm – 9:30pm

LT6, Lee Shau Kee Building

Prof. Pai Hsien-yung, Kenneth

Acclaimed Taiwan-American writer. Pai Hsien-yung has lived in Chongqing, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan. After graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages of the National Taiwan University in 1961, he went to the United States for further studies. After graduation, he taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Retired in 1994, Pai has been actively promoting Kunqu culture in recent years.

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What is a youth? The bygone years engraved? The dream of the floral peony pavilion? The lonely 17-year-old revisited?

Pai Hsien-yung’s father is Pai Chongxi, a General of the Republic of China. With such a mighty father, Pai was nonetheless diagnosed with lung disease when he was young, living a segregated and drifty life. “I write to transform the unspeakable pain of the human soul into words”, he says. His works, “Crystal Boys” and “Lonely Seventeen”, leave with us the eternity and resilience of youth. At this night, Pai travels from the lakeside of Michigan Lake to the hills of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, to dream with us.

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“CUHK Floral Festival 2012″ comprises a series of three University Lectures on Civility and a Floral Festival on 29 March 2012 as highlights. Details as follows:

Lecture Series:
(1) The Nobility of Failure
(2) The Humility of success
(3) The Resilience of Youth

Floral Festival:
Blossoms of Life Floral Festival