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1 Jun 2021

Works of OU students receive recognition

Jointly organized by the Faculty of Arts and the Language Centre of the Hong Kong Baptist University, the 11th Intervarsity Creative Writing Competition Award aims to cultivate students' interest in writing, encourage them to engage in creative writing, and enhance their writing ability. With the outstanding creativity and writing skills, four OU students won awards under different categories in the competition. It has demonstrated the literary talent of OU students....

21 May 2021

First International Conference on Chinese Creative Writing and Cross-Media Practices

The OUHK Department of Creative Arts has been active in the education and research of Chinese Creative Writing, and is in constant dialogue with educational institutions...

14 May 2021

Chinese Literature student's work gets published in Hong Kong Literary

Founded in January 1985 by the renowned writer Liu Yichang, Hong Kong Literary is a prestigious literary magazine in Hong Kong. It is an important platform for Hong Kong writers to promote literature in Hong Kong. Student ZHANG Yuan of the Master of Arts in Chinese Literature programme wrote a short story titled "開往霧都的火車", which pictures two journeys in between the real and the surreal, and explores the theme of "searching". With his outstanding writing skills, the short story got published in Hong Kong Literary....

29 Apr 2021

Animation and Visual Effects graduates win second award

Hereafter, an animation produced by graduates LUI Wai-hang and WONG Wun-ki from the Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Animation and Visual Effects programme, has again won the Hong Kong Merit Award at the 22nd DigiCon6 ASIA Awards. The work received an honorable mention in the Taiwan International Student Design Competition earlier....

23 Apr 2021

Creative writing graduate's final year project gets published in Hong Kong Literary

Supervised by Dr Rebecca Leung Mo-ling of the School of Arts and Social Science, graduate TAM Ka-wai from the Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Creative Writing and Film Arts programme composed a fiction titled “三國狂想曲—黃月英攻略傳：後設×穿越”, as his final year project. It is a metafiction about reflections on time-travel. With Ka-wai's outstanding writing skills, the piece is published in Hong Kong Literary, one of the prestigious literary magazines in Hong Kong....

19 Apr 2021

A Master's student in Chinese Literature receives an award in Literary Competition

The Annual Literary Award of Mountain Gongga was launched by the Federation of Literary and Art Circles of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture and literary magazine Mountain Gongga. Student ZHANG Yuan of the Master of Arts in Chinese Literature programme was awarded the Annual Literary Award in the category of poetry with his work “張元的詩”....

1 Mar 2021

Well-known writer DUNG Kai-cheung serves as OU's Writer in Residence

Scheme: “Writer-In-Residence” Scheme Writer: Mr DUNG Kai-cheung...

23 Feb 2021

OU scholar receives funding to examine quality of life among South Asian elderly in Hong Kong

Scheme: The Public Policy Research Funding Scheme managed by the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office Scholar:...

23 Feb 2021

OU scholar receives research funding for Intangible Cultural Heritage project

Scheme: The Intangible Cultural Heritage Funding Scheme launched by Intangible Cultural Heritage Office Scholar:...

19 Feb 2021

Animation and Visual Effects graduates win international award

Graduates LUI Wai-hang and WONG Wun-ki from the Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours in Animation and Visual Effects programme participated in the Taiwan International Student Design Competition earlier. The theme of the competition was 'Action', which associated with the Sustainable Development Goals advocated by the United Nations. It is hoped that concepts such as respect between people, and between people and the environment, as well as the introspection and listening to justice, fairness and empathy can all be demonstrated in the designs....