UIC will confer Honorary Fellowships on four prominent individuals this year.
They will be Mr Hwang Chun-ming, a renowned Taiwanese writer of “homeland literature”; Dr Lam Lee Kiu Yue Alice Piera, a prominent community leader and the former Chairperson of the Hong Kong University Grants Committee; Prof So Kwok-Fai, Chair of Anatomy in the Department of Ophthalmology of The University of Hong Kong and a member of the Chinese National Academy of Science; and Mr Zhao Lihong, a well-known contemporary prose writer and poet and Vice-Chairman of the Shanghai Writers’ Association.
The Honorary Fellowship is an honour bestowed on distinguished contributors to the mission of UIC for their sustained commitment to the development of education and society.
UIC conferred its Honorary Fellowships last year
Presided over by Prof Jialu Xu, Chairman of the UIC Council and Former Vice-Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the 6th Graduation Ceremony and Honorary Fellowship Conferment will be held on 21 June at UIC.
Hong Kong Baptist University started granting Honorary University Fellowships at its 50th anniversary in 2006, and UIC conferred its first Honorary Fellowships in 2012 in keeping with the tradition.
This year UIC recognises, as Honorary Fellows, these four persons who over a period of many years have rendered extraordinary support for the College and exceptional service for the public.
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Mr Hwang Chun-ming
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Mr Hwang Chun-ming’s works are key representations of Taiwanese Literature. They embrace an intense feeling of care for his hometown while expressing an engagement with the transformations that Taiwan has been undergoing as a modern society.
The merit of his works has been amply demonstrated by the number of prestigious honours and awards that they have received.
Mr Hwang has twice visited UIC, in 2009 and 2014, where he has given lectures respectively on “Literature and the Growth of a Delinquent Juvenile” and on “What Life Teaches Us.” The lectures contemplated life and wisdom from a perspective rooted in the here and now, thereby, enlightening the faculty and students.
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Dr Lam Lee Kiu Yue Alice Piera has spared no effort in the development of Hong Kong’s higher education since the 1970s. She served as member and chairperson of many universities’ advisory boards and councils in Hong Kong.
In the eight years as the Chairperson of the Hong Kong University Grants Committee, Dr Lam spearheaded landmark reviews and policies which are now implemented far and wide.
Moreover, she displayed a keen interest in the UIC model of a deep collaboration between a Hong Kong university and a Mainland university in the offering of the first international liberal arts college in the Mainland.
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Dr Lam Lee Kiu Yue Alice Piera
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Prof So Kwok-Fai
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As one of the pioneers in the field of neural regeneration, Prof So Kwok-Fai has received the National Award in Natural Science from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
He is one of the founding members of the China Spinal Cord Injury Network. This Network links up physicians from several hospitals in mainland China and Hong Kong to conduct clinical trials on the latest and most promising protocols to treat spinal cord injury.
At a High Table Dinner in 2012, Prof So delivered a speech to a UIC audience on Nanomedicine and Brain Repair.
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Mr Zhao Lihong has written more than 70 books in a variety of genres, including poetry, prose and “literary reportage” (“baogao wenxue”). A dozen of his proses have been included in the primary, secondary and tertiary textbooks in mainland China, and some are part of secondary school Chinese textbooks in Hong Kong and Singapore.
His works have been translated and published in many languages, resulting in a diverse influence both globally and domestically. He was widely praised for his new novel published at the end of 2013, Childhood River, which was hailed as an unexpected discovery of Chinese children’s literature.
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Mr Zhao Lihong
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Editor: Deen He
(from MPRO, with special thanks to the ELC)
