Arts & Culture

CUHK 60th Anniversary cum The 35th Ch’ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture - Professor Martin Kern on “The Shijing in the Warring States: Evidence from Newly Discovered Manuscripts”

CUHK 60th Anniversary cum The 35th Ch’ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture - Professor Martin Kern on “The Voice of the Historian in Early China”

CUHK 60th Anniversary cum The 35th Ch’ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture - Professor Martin Kern on “Rethinking Authorship in Early China”

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2023-2024 second Lecture – Prof. LEE Ho Man Jimmy on " A.I. Meeting Sci-Fi "

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2023-2024 First Lecture – Prof. SIU Kwok Kin on "Historical Development of Hong Kong over Two Millennia"

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2023/24 - Prof. Michael Puett on “Culture and History: Yu Ying-shih, Weber, and Approaches to Comparative History”

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2023/24 - Prof. Michael Puett on “Comparative Approaches to the Study of Chinese Intellectual History: Reflections on the Work of Yu Ying-shih”  

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2023: Professor YU Wanli on “Stone Classics in Han and Wei Dynasties: Similarities and Differences between New Text School and Old Text School”

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2023: Professor YU Wanli on “Confucius's Joy and Concern: Seen from Confucian Classics”

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2023: Professor YU Wanli on “Tracing the Source: Confucian Classics the Book of Poetry and the Analects”

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2022/23 - Prof. Xu Guoqi on “Sports as American ‘New Frontier’”

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2022/23 - Prof. Xu Guoqi on “Sports and the Idea of China”

The 34th Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture - Professor Nicolas Standaert on “Sino-European In-Betweenness and Displacements: The Circulation of Prints between Europe and China in the Seventeenth Century”

The 34th Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture - Professor Nicolas Standaert on “The Art of In-Betweenness: Cultural Contacts between China and Europe in the Seventeenth Century as an Example “

The 34th Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture - Professor Nicolas Standaert on “The Art of In-Betweenness: Cultural Contacts between China and Europe in the Seventeenth Century as an Example“

The 34th Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture - Professor Nicolas Standaert on “Joining the Global Public in the Early Qing Dynasty: The Chinese “Gazette” in European Sources”

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2022-2023 Third Lecture – Mr. YUEN Siu Fai, BBS, BH " Chinese Culture in the Cantonese Opera (Yueju)"

Pandemic Press Conference - Trials and Triumphs of Interpretation

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2022-2023 Second Lecture – Dr. NG Chi Sun on " Chinese Medicine: From the perspective of Chinese philosophy and culture"

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2022: Professor CHENG Kat Hung Dennis on “The Differences between Dai Zhen’s Conception of the Psycho-Physical Force (Qi) and the Han Scholars’ Discourse on the Emanating Material Force (Yuanqi)”

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2022: Professor CHENG Kat Hung Dennis on “Construing the Relationship between Yijing Studies and Confucian Studies from a Philosophic Point of View”

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2022: Professor CHENG Kat Hung Dennis on “Shifting Discourses on the “Ru” (儒) in Modern China”

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2022-2023 First Lecture – Prof. TSUI Kwok Wing Stephen on "A Passionate Genome: Progress to Maturity of a Scientist "

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2021/22 – Prof. David Faure on “The Ideal and Practice of Lineage: A Perspective from Historical Anthropology”

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2021/22 – Prof. David Faure on “Company Law, Legal Standards of Accounting and the History of Business Enterprise in China: Viewpoints of Max Weber and Yu Ying-shih”

Game Localization - What is it, how do you get in, and what's in it for you

One book, many covers: A diachronic, social-semiotic approach to the study of translated book

The 33rd Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture – Prof. Leung Yuen Sang on “Islands and Continents: The Political and Cultural Orientations of Chinese Intellectuals in Hong Kong and Singapore in the Early 20th Century”

New Asia Chinese Cultural Talks 2021/22 Second Lecture – Prof. LAI Chi Tim on “Temple tradition in Hong Kong and its relationship with popular customs of China”

The 33rd Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture – Prof. Leung Yuen Sang on “Beyond China: The Impact of Confucian Culture in the Modern World”

The 33rd Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture – Prof. Leung Yuen Sang on “The Confucian Revival Movement in Hong Kong and Singapore in the Early 20th Century”

Interpreting the Security Council

New Asia Chinese Cultural Talks 2021/22 – Historical, Cultural and Scientific Importance of Soybean

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2021: Chinese Confucian Exegesis, Western Hermeneutic theory, and the Discontent of Comparative Thought

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2021: A Synthetic Representation of Confucian Thought: Existential Concerns and Conceptual Vocabularies

New Asia Chinese Cultural Talks 2021/22 – Prof. Chan Sun On, Hector on " The Silent Teachers"

A professional talk by Prof. Chikako Tsuruta on “Passion for Being There: Thoughts on News Interpreting”.

Peng Hsiao-yen on "Transculturality in Translation: Paradox of Self and Other＂

Cultural Seminar: Lantern Festival Poetry Night by Prof. Fan Sin Piu

Prof. Laura Burian on "Interpreting into B: how to train for it and how to improve performance "

Mr. Zhao Junxiang on "Simultaneous interpreting at the United Nations: challenges and gratifications"

Hope Springs Eternal: States of Mind of the Painter

Liquid Gold: Bittersweet for the Coffee Shop Owner

HEART to HEART Talks Episode 6

“HEART to HEART Talks” EP5: "Money Matters: Writing Etiquette for the Students"

HEART to HEART Talks Episode 4

“HEART to HEART Talks” 3rd episode "Domestic Muses: Classic Crockery for the Working Mum"

“HEART to HEART Talks” 2nd episode "Moral and Ritual Duty: the Doctor’s Touch"

“HEART to HEART Talks” EP 1 - Art of Zen: Soul-searching with the Abbot

Prof. Ian Morley on "City Development and Urban History"

'Class Acts' Online Talk Series by Prof. Alan Kam Leung Chan on "Higher Learning in the Era of Industry 4.0"

Prof. Edward Ng on “We work to give life back its dignity”

Prof. He Jun on “Reshaping the doctrine and Shelving the Classic — Dan Zhu’s studies of the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu) as an example”

Prof. Yang Rur-Bin on “Conflict and Development of Confucian Dao-orthodoxy in Ming Dynasty”

Prof. Yang Rur-Bin on “How did the May-Fourth Movement Lead to the Revolution of 1949: The Dynamics of Mythology”

Prof. Josh Yiu on “Art and Life in Pre-modern China”

Prof. Yang Rur-Bin on “The First Type of May-Fourth Movement: The Role of Confucianism in the New Culture Movement of Modern China”

Prof. David Faure on “Filial Piety and Business Enterprise: Why is Filial Piety Good for Business”

Experiencing life at the United Nations: a student interpreter's perspective

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2018-2019 3rd Talk - Prof. Fan Sin Piu on “Re-reading Canonized Prose Writings of the May Fourth Era”

Professor Ambrose Y.C. King on “Changes in China’s Culture of Learning since Late 19th Century”

Professor Li Wai-yee on "Inconvenient or Unnecessary Details in Zuozhuan"

Professor Li Wai-yee on "Elegance and Vulgarity: Ming Qing Literature and Material Culture"

Professor Li Wai-yee on "Objectifying People and Humanizing Things in the Chinese Tradition"

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2018/19 2nd Talk by Prof. Lee Yun Woon on “The ultimate story between Wang Xichi and Lanting Xu”

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2018: Professor Michael Nylan on “Yu Ying-shih the Sage”

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2018: Professor Michael Nylan on “Yu Ying-shih the Historian”

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2018: Prof. Yang Guorong on "The Spiritual Dimension of Confucianism and Its Implication"

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2018: Prof. Yang Guorong on "What is Confucianism - Its Kernel and Multiple Dimensions"

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2018: Prof. Yang Guorong on "Confucianism and Pragmatism"

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2018-2019 1st Talk: “Marco History of China from a Macro Geographical perspective - Starting from Mongolia Plateau”

Experiencing Conference Interpreting at the United Nations

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2017/18 by Dr. Louis Ng “Palace Museum: Untold Stories“

Prof. Nicholas Cook on “Music as Creative Practice”

Prof. Nicholas Cook on “The Other Classics: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven”

Prof. Liu Xiaogan on “Repaying resentment by Virtue or Straightforwardness? Confucianism and Daoism”

Prof. Liu Xiaogan on “Is there such a thing called Human Nature? Normative and Empirical Approaches”

Prof. Nicholas Cook on “Anatomy of the Encounter: Debussy and the Gamelan”

Prof. Nicholas Cook on “Socialities of Music”

New Asia Lectures on Contemporary China 2017/18 by Mr. Savio Kwan “DREAM”: The Alibaba Story

Ms. Lee Mei Yin on “Dunhuang Art and Culture - An Overview”

Prof. Pai Hsien-yung on Dream of the Red Chamber

Professor Kayoko Takeda on "Interpreters at the British war crimes trials against the Japanese in Hong Kong"

Prof. Peter Frankopan on “Plotting the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative: Connections, Opportunities and Challenges”: Q&A

Prof. Peter Frankopan on “Plotting the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative: Connections, Opportunities and Challenges”: Dialogue with Prof. David Faure

Prof. Peter Frankopan on “Plotting the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative: Connections, Opportunities and Challenges”: Keynote Speech

Prof. Wang Gungwu on “Silk Roads and the Centrality of Old World Eurasia”: Q&A

Prof. Wang Gungwu on “Silk Roads and the Centrality of Old World Eurasia”: Dialogue with Prof. Leung Yuen-sang

Prof. Wang Gungwu on “Silk Roads and the Centrality of Old World Eurasia”: Keynote Speech

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2017 by Professor Jo-shui Chen "Yi 義 in Traditional Chinese Culture and Thought: With Comments on Yi and Justice"

Prof. Chen Lai on "One Hundred Years of Confucianism"

Prof. Chen Lai on "Liang Shuming on Confucian Ethics"

Prof. Chen Lai on "A New Study of Xunzi's Political Philosophy"

New Asia Lectures on Contemporary China 2017/18 by Mr. Qian Gang "What Is 2 Plus 2? My Footprint in Contemporary Media History of China"

Lung Yingtai on "The 13 Things Learnt from the Adventure of a Perplexing Youth"

Prof. Lee Ou-fan on ‘A Profile of the Literary Intellectuals of the Early Republican Period’

New Asia College Cultural Talks 2016/17 3rd Talk by Mr. Heung Shu Fai on ‘My Perception of New Asia’

Swedish Society in the Eyes of a Swede and a Hongkonger

Prof. Pai Hsien-yung on "My Story, from Literature to Culture"

The Finnish-style Success – How Sisu Has Helped Establish A Model Nation

Pai Hsien-yung on Dream of the Red Chamber

Nordic Imageries – Dialogue between Prof. Joseph Sung and Mr. Patrik Lindvall

New Asia Lectures on Contemporary China 2016/17 by Mr. Lau Siu-ying, Steve "Striving 30 Years for My Business in Hong Kong and China: A New Angel for 1000 Dreams"

Prof. Benjamin A. Elman on “The Restoration of Huang Kan's Lunyu yishu in Eighteenth Century Japan and China”

Prof. Benjamin A. Elman on “The Great Reversal: China, Korea, and Japan in the Early Modern World, 1590s to 1890s”

Prof. Benjamin A. Elman on “A Late Chosŏn Korean Polymath -- Kim Chŏng-hŭi (1786-1856) and Qing Dynasty Qianlong – Jiaqing Era Scholarship”

Professor Kwong Kin Hung on ‘Hong Kong New-style Wuxia Novels’

The Eighth Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History by Professor Prof. Hoyt Cleveland Tillman "Conflicts between Filial Piety and Loyalty in Chinese Culture History"

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2016 by Professor Hoyt Cleveland Tillman "Evolving Unitary Executive Power in Response to Crises: A Post-9/11 America Reflection on China’s Imperial System"

Distinguished Lecture and Demonstration by Professor Au Ho-nien (Full version)

Distinguished Lecture and Demonstration by Professor Au Ho-nien (Highlight version)

I.CARE University Lecture on Civility 2016 by Chiang Hsun

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2016 by Prof. Tsing-song Vincent Shen

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2016 by Prof. Tsing-song Vincent Shen

New Asia Lectures on Confucianism 2016 by Prof. Tsing-song Vincent Shen

Talk of the Islamic Cultural Festival: Islamic Law and Its Characteristics

Talk of the Islamic Cultural Festival: Islam is not ISIS

Prof. Ho Puay-peng on ‘Appreciating Dunhuang- An Aesthetic Journey in 6th Century’

New Asia Lectures on Contemporary China 2016/17 by Professor Zheng Yongnian "The China Model and Its Future if Democratization"

I.CARE University Lecture on Civility 2016 - The Journey to Joy

Prof. Xu Xiaodong on "Emperor Qianlong and the Jades of His Reign"

Dancing Lines: An Encounter of East and West Calligraphy with Dance at CUHK (Full version)

Dancing Lines: An Encounter of East and West Calligraphy with Dance at CUHK (Highlight version)

Prof. Cheung Hung-nin on "Words and Beyond --- Who is Crying Wolf?"

Prof. Cheung Hung-nin on "What a Map Tells: Language of the 19th Century Hong Kong"

Prof. Cheung Hung-nin on "Reconstructing Cantonese: Grammatical Changes as Recorded in Early Missionary Texts"

Pai Hsien-yung: From Literature to Kunqu

Reading a Book Unrelated to Your Subject

Prof. Chow Po-chung on “The Little Prince”

Prof. Joseph Sung on "The Beauty of Life and Death"

Prof. Cheung Chan-fai on "The Third Age"

I•CARE Book Festival: "Talks of Three Cities. Finding Home in Books"

John Sham on "Hong Kong Film Industry and Its Role in China"

Prof. Richard Ho on "The Book of Changes"

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2015/16 - Prof. Yeh Wen-hsin on “Shipwrecked: the Rover and Late Qing Taiwan”

Prof. Guo Qiyong on ‘A Philosophical Interpretation of the Book of Rites: Four Dimensions’

Prof. Guo Qiyong on ‘Three Modern Sages: Liang Shuming, Xiong Shili, Ma Yifu’

Prof. Guo Qiyong on ‘ “Mutual Non-disclosure of Wrongdoings Among Family Members” and “Execution of Family Members with the Great Righteousness": Their Ethical and Legal Dimensions’

Conversation with Chau Pakho

Prof. Ting Sun-pao on “Hong Kong during the early years of New Asia College”

I·CARE Floral Festival 2015 — A sharing by Liu Ka-shiang

Prof. Yu Kwang Chung on ‘Poetry Recital, with a Brief Introduction to the Art of Poetry Reading'

Prof. Yu Kwang Chung on ‘A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Pastoral Poetry'

Prof. Yu Kwang Chung on ‘Gong Zi-zhen and Shelley'

Introduction of Coursera Course 'The Beauty of Kunqu Opera'

I‧CARE University Lecture on Civility by Mr Kris Yao (Full Version)

I‧CARE University Lecture on Civility by Mr. Kris Yao (Highlight Version)

Arts and Life - Dialogue between Dr. Gao Xingjian and Prof. FONG Chee Fun

Sylvia Chang on ‘Failure is the Nutrient of Success’ (Highlight Version)

Sylvia Chang on ‘Failure is the Nutrient of Success’ (Full Version)

Jin Xing on 'Life, Dance and Choice'

Conversing About Xiao Hong (Full version)

Conversing About Xiao Hong (Highlight version)

‘New Asia College and Chinese Humanities Studies’ by Prof. Yu Ying-shih (Full Version)

‘The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Calligraphy’ Exhibition

Vice-Chancellor Prof. Joseph Sung shares his passion for Chinese calligraphy

Mr. Jimmy Liao on "Creation through illustration; my passion"(Full Version)

Mr. Jimmy Liao on "Creation through illustration; my passion" (Highlight Version)

Colloquium on the Arts and Humanities in Civic Society (session 1)

Colloquium on the Arts and Humanities in Civic Society (session 4)

Colloquium on the Arts and Humanities in Civic Society (session 3)

Colloquium on the Arts and Humanities in Civic Society (session 2)

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2013/14 - Prof. Luo Zhitian on “From Reform to Revolution: Rethinking the Last Ten Years of the Qing Dynasty”

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2013/14 - Prof. Luo Zhitian on “ A different Modern China: Rethinking the “Greatest Cataclysm in the Last Five Thousand Years””

Prof. Tu Wei-ming on ‘The Significance of the Confucian Humanistic Spirit’

Prof. Tu Wei-ming on ‘My Embodied Understanding of the New Asia Spirit’

Dr. Lam Bun-ching on “River Flows, Moon Moves Stone: Poetry – Images – Music” (Highlight Version)

Dr. Lam Bun-ching on “River Flows, Moon Moves Stone: Poetry – Images – Music” (Full Version)

Lin Xi on "The Booklist of a Lyricist"

An Operatic Journey of Cultural Heritage through Peking, Kunqu and Cantonese Traditions - Cantonese Opera (Part B)

An Operatic Journey of Cultural Heritage through Peking, Kunqu and Cantonese Traditions - Cantonese Opera (Part A)

An Operatic Journey of Cultural Heritage through Peking, Kunqu and Cantonese Traditions-Peking/Kunqu opera (Part B)

An Operatic Journey of Cultural Heritage through Peking, Kunqu and Cantonese Traditions (Highlight Version)

An Operatic Journey of Cultural Heritage through Peking, Kunqu and Cantonese Traditions-Peking/Kunqu opera (Part A)

Professor Wu Weishan on 'A Cultural Perspective on My Sculpture' (Highlight Version)

Professor Wu Weishan on 'A Cultural Perspective on My Sculpture' (Full Version)

Professor Pai Hsien-yung Kenneth on "New Aesthetics of Kunqu: Tradition in the Modern Era"(Highlight Version)

Professor Pai Hsien-yung Kenneth on "New Aesthetics of Kunqu: Tradition in the Modern Era" (Full Version)

Wu Nien-jen on "A Storied Life"

Prof. Lee Ou Fan and Prof. Kwan Tze Wan on "The Ideal and Reality of University Education" (Highlight Version)

Prof. Lee Ou Fan and Prof. Kwan Tze Wan on "The Ideal and Reality of University Education" (Full Version)

Professor Tu Weiming on 'A Truly Meaningful “We” in Cultural China: How Is It Possible?' (Highlight Version)

Professor Tu Weiming on 'A Truly Meaningful “We” in Cultural China: How Is It Possible?' (Full Version)

Forum - Contemplating Death

Xiao Si on "Setting Sail"

冼為堅中國文化講座教授李歐梵教授就職演講 「尋夢與招魂: 我對於中國文化傳統的求索」

Yu Ying-shih Lecture in History 2011/12 - Prof. Wang Fan-sen on " The Politicization of Private Self – Some Observations on Moral Diaries and Other Matters "

Prof. Pai Hsien-yung on "The Resilience of Youth"

Ms. Hui On Wah on "The Humility of Success"

Professor Leo Ou-fan Lee on "The Nobility of Failure"

Dr Ju Ming on "Art as Practice"

博群論壇 錢永祥教授及梁文道先生主講「動物倫理與道德進步」

Mr Lin Hwai-min on "在水泥地上種花"

Professor Mu-chou Poo on "千年榮華今何在－古埃及文明探幽”

Lecture by Professor Bei Dao

Public Lecture by Professor Pai Hsien-yung

河南省徐光春書記主講: 「從中原興衰圓夢的歷史和現實看文化在經濟發展中的地位和作用」

A Public Lecture by Professor Leo Lee

Public Lecture by Dr Yuan Boping on "What Hinders the Success of Adult Second Language Acquisition: An Interface Problem"

Conversation with Dr Gao Xingjian

Dr Gao Xingjian on "The Finite and the Infinite: the Aesthetics of Creation"