SHI is very honoured to invite Prof. Lin Yu-sheng to speak for the Lecture Series by Distinguished Scholars of Sinology at HKBU. The lecture attracted more than a hundred students, scholars and members from the public to participate. Date: 20 March 2014 Topic: Rethinking Utopianism in the Confucian Tradition (Click […]
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The Institute was very honoured to invite Prof. David R. Knechtges to speak at HKBU for the Lecture Series by Distinguished Scholars of Sinology, co-organised by SHI and Department of Chinese Language and Literature, HKBU. Prof. Knechtges is Professor of Chinese Literature at the University of Washington. He also has […]
SHI invited Prof. Wang Hui from the Shaanxi Academy of Archaeology, China to visit HKBU and share his research findings with faculties and students in the following events of the Lecture Series by Distinguished Scholars of Sinology. Postgraduate Seminar Date: 5 November 2013 Topic: The Past and the Future of Philology […]
SHI was very honoured, together with the HKBU Department of Chinese Language and Literature, to invite Professor Yuan Xingpei, a renowned expert on classical Chinese literature, to conduct a public lecture at HKBU for the Lecture Series by Distinguished Scholars of Sinology. Date: 22 January 2013 Speaker: Professor Yuan Xingpei (Professor, Department of Chinese […]
SHI and the HKBU Department of Chinese Language and Literature were very honoured to invite American Sinologist Prof. William H. Nienhauser, Jr., to deliver two public lectures for the Lecture Series by Distinguished Scholars of Sinology at HKBU. Speaker: Prof. William H. Nienhauser, Jr. (Halls-Bascom Professor of Classical Chinese Literature, Department of Asian Languages […]
In 2012, the Institute invited Prof. Michael Loewe, Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall of University of Cambridge and renowned British Sinologist and Historian to visit HKBU for two weeks. Prof. Loewe has made tredendous contributions to the study of history of early imperial China, and is an eminent expert on early […]
Professor Li Xueqin was a renowned and revered Chinese historian, paleographer and a preeminent authority on the origins of Chinese civilisation, as well as Doctor of Letters, honoris causa of HKBU (2012). He served as Senior Professor in Humanities and Director of the Unearthed Research and Protection Center of Tsinghua University. As […]
SHI was very honoured to invite Professor Qiu Xigui, renowned philologist and Professor at the Center for Research on Chinese Excavated Classics and Paleography, Fudan University, China to visit HKBU and deliver a open lecture of the Lecture Series by Distinguished Scholars of Sinology. Date: 9 December 2011 Time: 10:30-12:00 Venue: […]