On March 31, 2025, Dr. Jianing Chen and Ms. Claire Cui led 16 students from "Religion and Arts: Eastern Traditions" class and 5 students from DCom - CCGC program to observe and participate in the birthday celebration of Pak Tai on Wailingding Island and conduct related research activities. The Pak Tai Birthday Celebration is the most representative traditional festival on Wailingding Island. The deity ...

On the afternoon of March 23, a team of DCom - CCGC students from the Class of 2022 held a Spring Equinox Activity at Zhan Garden in Zhongshan. The activity was co-organized by the staff of Zhan Garden and supported by Ms. Qiao Yi, a musician from the Zhongshan Guqin Association, some students from BNBU and Dr. Chen Jianing.The event consisted of three main sections: garden tour, handicraft experience ...

On the afternoon of 21 March, Prof. Ming-tung Lo from Hong Kong Baptist University gave a talk entitled "Family Instructions Study of Jeong Yak-yong, a Confucian Scholar in Joseon." The lecture was co-organized by FHSS and the Institute for Communication Studies of Chinese Culture (ICSCC) as a prelude to the Symposium on Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC, DCom (22 March), and was held ...

On the afternoon of March 19, a team of students from the 2022 cohort of the CCGC program (DCom visited Bo’ai (Caritas) Primary School in Zhongshan. They conducted a poetry workshop for 112 sixth-graders across three classes, themed “Poetry Blossoms in Spring.” As the course instructor of “Special Topics in Communication and Chinese Culture,” Dr. Jianing Chen participated and audited the event....

On February 13, 2025, Dr. Yue Zhang, Associate Professor of the University of Macau, was invited to give an academic lecture entitled "Reassessing Literary Production in the Context of the Jin-Song Transition (420-479 CE)" at UIC. The event, moderated by Dr. Jianing Chen, Assistant Professor of CCGC, was attended by Dr. Vivien Wai Wan Chan, Dr. Yegor Grebnev of UIC, and Dr. Zhitian Wang of Sun Yat-...

The multi-act drama script “The Way Back” written by the “Luyu Team” of UIC has won awards in many competitions. In September 2024, the work won the gold medal (Comprehensive Category) in the Second Zhuhai-Macao Student Anti-Smuggling Creative Competition organized by Zhuhai Anti-Smuggling Office, which was praised by the judges and selected to participate in the Third National Student Anti-Smuggling ...

On December 21-22 2024, UIC organized an international symposium “In Search of the Early Chinese Empires: the Dynamics between Excavated Manuscripts and Transmitted Texts” jointly with the University of Notre Dame. The event featured contributions by scholars from top domestic and international universities and institutions. The symposium, co-organized by UIC, the University of Notre Dame, and Hong ...

        On December 13, 2024, Dr. Pak-Hang Wong, Assistant Professor of the Department of Religion and Philosophy of Hong Kong Baptist University, was invited to visit the UIC campus and gave a lecture in the afternoon, entitled “Epistemic Rights as Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Confucian Perspective”. The lecture was hosted by Prof. Li Jianhui, Academic Registrar of U...