CREATIVE INSPIRATION
In Fall 2013, the Division of Humanities launched
the Chinese Creative Writing Program, directed by
world-renowned literary critic, writer, and IAS Senior
Visiting Fellow Zaifu Liu. In October and November
2013, leading Chinese authors Lianke Yan and Hua Yu
visited the University as HKUST writers-in-residence.
An international forum entitled “What Can a Writer
Do While Facing the Absurd Reality?” was held. The
conference was attended by Leo Ou-fan Lee, Pingyuan
Chen, Ziping Huang, and Carlos Rojas, among others.
The fourth season of The Intimacy of Creativity (IC) saw a
record 199 submissions from over 40 countries following
its call for scores. The internationally acclaimed workshop
combining a dialogue between emerging composers
and established musicians, public performance, and the
process of composition, was led by Founder and Artistic
Director Prof Bright Sheng, YK Pao Distinguished Visiting
Professor of Cultural Studies and IAS Visiting Fellow.
One work by an IC Composer Fellow was also selected
by audience vote to be featured at the Banff Arts Centre
in Canada. The Intimacy of Creativity formed part of
the HKUST Music Alive! 2013-14 season of musical
performances, with a total of 5,480 HKUST students
and staff attending these events.
academic community for advanced undergraduates
and beginning postgraduate students. The collaborative
program was organized by the School together with the
University of Virginia and university exchange partners
in the Mainland and Taiwan, with seminars embracing
a diversity of disciplines and thematic emphases. More
than 70 students enrolled overall.
An interdisciplinary conference on Wealth Accumulation
and Inequality of Opportunities was co-organized with
the HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies, French
Centre for Research on Contemporary China, and the
Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique (GATE
Lyon Saint-Etienne). The event looked at comparative
and historical perspectives to investigate the dynamics
of inequality in China, with keynotes from Prof Thomas
Piketty, Prof François Bourguignon, Prof Jérôme Bourdieu
(all Paris School of Economics), and Prof Philip T Hoffman
(California Institute of Technology).
A workshop with the University of California, Los
Angeles, on Rewriting the Past: Historical Big Data and
a Scholarship of Discovery brought together major
researchers from Mainland China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan,
and the United States.
Prof Wenkai He (Social Science) won the Barrington
Moore Book Award for his work, Paths Toward the
Modern Fiscal State, England, Japan, and China (Harvard
University Press). He is the first scholar from a non-
American university to have won this prestigious award.
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