Events

8 Mar 2012

4:30pm – 6:30pm

LT6, Lee Shau Kee Building

Prof. Lee Ou Fan, Sin Wai Kin, Professor of Chinese Culture

Professor Leo Lee Ou-fan, whose works range from literature, movie, music, history and urban culture, is the honorary director and Professor of Humanities of the Centre for East Asian Studies. He is also Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture and a fellow of Morningside College. He has offered courses on a variety of topics at the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Department of Chinese Language and Literature, and the Department of History at CUHK. Professor Lee graduated from the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures of National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1961. After graduating from NTU, he went to Harvard University to study Chinese intellectual history under the tutorship of great sinologists like Benjamin Schwartz, John Fairbank, Yang Lien-sheng. He obtained his master and doctoral degrees from Harvard and taught in many different American universities. From 1970 to 1972, he joined CUHK as an instructor in the Department of History. He retired from Harvard to join CUHK again in 2004.

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這無疑是一張亮麗的履歷表：進過的大學都赫赫有名；著作不設限，學術與創作，相得益彰；興趣廣泛，談電影，評音樂，說藝術，信手拈來，頭頭是道。生於音樂家庭，大學讀外文，成長階段深受藝術文化薰陶。哈佛教授稱他為「放蕩不羈者」，他以狐狸自居，抱著懷疑心態在多個文化領域縱橫馳騁。

誰知道，這個完美學人的前半生，原來由挫敗鋪路，跌跌撞撞，來到如今。失意是良師，挫折為益友，虛心領受，不是為了金光照人的履歷表，而是為了過好自己的人生。

挫而彌堅，飛躍之前，讓我們先跟李歐梵教授上一課，隨他回到失意的日子，細味「失敗的高雅」。(Chinese Version Only)

More:

“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