On May 12, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) at BNU-HKBU United International College (UIC) invited Prof. Paul A. Van Dyke, a renowned scholar and retired professor from Sun Yat-sen University, to deliver a lecture on “Chinese Seamen and Passengers and their Global Adventures-1780s onwards”. The lecture was hosted by Dr. Wei Chin Wong, Associate Professor of Chinese Culture...

The first session of the lecture series “Studies of Cantonese Opera” was successfully held by the “Branding the Greater Bay Area” Research Centre in the afternoon of May 18, in room T2-301. Dr. Jianing Chen, one of the speakers gave a fascinating introduction on the history of the development of Cantonese Opera in the Greater Bay Area. Then Dr. Andy Shui-lung Fung talked about A Case Study ...

“Ōbaku Zen in Japan” Tea Event was organized by the CCGC program on April 07, 2022. During the tea, Dr. Xiaolong (Naga) Diao gave an introduction to the brief history of Ōbaku-shu—a Zen school in Japan. Given the idiosyncrasy and the historical backdrop of the formation of Ōbaku-shu, the Zen School has heavily influenced Japanese cultures even till these days. Following Dr. Diao’s introd...

“Branding the Great Bay Area (GBA)”, a “Key Subject Construction Project” of UIC in “Provincial High-Level University Construction Project of Guangdong”, has been approved in early March, 2022. Organized by Prof. Tzi-Ki Hon, the Principal Investigator, this project will integrate the Communication-related programmes in DHSS, UIC and will extensively research the history, status quo, and f...

CCGC faculty members and all the students of grade 2021 had a “Shogi Morning" tea event on March 26th morning in T2-301. Participators include Prof. Tzi-Ki Hon, Dr. Xiaolong Diao, Ms. Jingli Lai, Dr. Yi Ding, Dr. Zhixiang Yang, Dr. Yegor Grebnev, Dr. Bo Yan, as well as all the students and peer mentors. As the primary speaker, Dr. Jianing Chen introduced the evolution, diffusion, and classific...

On 16-30 October 2021, the Research Centre for History and Culture of BNU (Zhuhai) has conducted an online lecture series "Origins of Chinese and Mesopotamian History-Writing" (historywriting.org/). The event, hosted by Dr. Yegor Grebnev, and jointly organized with SUSTech (Shenzhen) and SISU (Shanghai), was focused on the early historiographic practices in ancient China and Mesopotamia. Most l...

From November 2020 to January 2021, Zhuhai Gree Real Estates launched the "Unbounded Literature Season" with the theme of "Standing at the Entrance of the World", inviting writers, scholars and musicians to attend the festival, and creating an artistic and cultural feast facing the sea through salon dialogue, creation and sharing, film exhibition, poetry singing, literature night and other acti...

On June 26th, the undergraduate recruitment promotion of UIC was held in the lecture hall of Shangri-La Hotel, Tianjin. More than 100 attendants including candidates and their parents were present. In his lecture, Provost Prof. Chen Zhi gave a detailed introduction of the information and enrollment policy of UIC. During the Q&A session after the lecture, Dr. Jianing Chen, together with other te...