Department & Centre Highlights 12 epartment of Literature and Cultural Studies 文學及文化學系 D Message from the Head In the Strategic Plan 2009-12 and Beyond released in 2009, our Institute put forth the idea of "Education-plus" for developing key discipline areas complementary to education studies. The Department of Literature and Cultural Studies (LCS) follows the "Education-plus" vision in its development of research activities and course offerings in the fields of literary and cultural studies. Currently, the Department is concentrating its research efforts on such areas as Chinese literature, intellectual history, children's literature, Hong Kong literature, and new English literatures. To strengthen the broad domain of culture, we have recruited academic staff specialising in modern Chinese and Hong Kong history. In the wake of the Programme Area Accreditation (PAA) exercise, we have also been further developing our English literature and cultural studies. In the near future, LCS will launch new elective courses, GE courses, and new minors such as "Film and Popular Culture" and "Chinese Religions and Culture" to enhance our students' literary and cultural knowledge as well as to broaden their intellectual horizons. Professor Yu Kwan Wai, Eric ( 余君偉教授) Head, Department of Literature and Cultural Studies Academic Activities Date Topic Speaker 19/7/2013 Reading Club Guest Speech: "The Text and the City: Nanjing and Hong Kong from Ge Liang's Pen" Dr. Zhanglin ( 張霖博士) (The School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University) 23/7/2013 Lecture: "The Transformation of Urban Popular Literature and Art in 1950s Beijing" Dr. Zhanglin ( 張霖博士) (The School of Chinese Language and Literature, Beijing Foreign Studies University) 15/10/2013 Xinchuan Literary Club Lectures in Creative Writing Dr. Chan Tak Kam ( 陳德錦博士) (Hong Kong-based writer) Presentation Topic: The Birth of a Poem Dr. Wong Leung Wo ( 王良和博士) Presentation Topic: From Inspiration to Art 17/10/2013 LCS Lecture Series: "The Moral Education for Chinese Women" Dr. Hau Lai Ying ( 侯勵英博士) 25-26/10/2013 "Literature in Circulation: The 10th East Asian Conference on Modern Literature in Chinese" Organised by the Department of Literature and Cultural Studies and the Research Centre for Chinese Literature and Literary Culture; co-organised by the Centre for Humanities Research, Lingnan University 7/11/2013 The 26th Reading Club in Chinese Literary Classics meeting: "Allegories about the Body in Detective Novels of the Late Qing Dynasty: A Case Study of Shouzhen" Dr. Wei Yan ( 魏艷博士) (The Department of Chinese, Lingnan University) Professor Park Jae Woo from Hankuk University of Foreign Studies talking about the late Hong Kong writer Leung Ping-kwan.
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