"I am like a ranger, wandering around all my life," said Prof Tze-ki Hon, Dean of UIC's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS).Before coming to UIC, he had worked and lived worldwide for nearly 30 years. He went to the University of Michigan, US, for his MA in Asian Studies after receiving a BA in history from the University of Hong Kong, and later gained a PhD in History from the Uni...

Prof. Daya Thussu, a globally renowned scholar from Hong Kong Baptist University and President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), gave two lectures titled “Changing Geopolitics of Global Communication” and “Contrived and conformist? Rethinking global communication in the AI age” in Beijing Normal Hong Kong Baptist University during Oct. 28 and 29. These ...

October 28, 2025 – Professor Karl-Heinz POHL, Honorary Professor of Sinology at Trier University, Germany, delivered an insightful lecture titled “Basics of Chinese Aesthetics – Its Philosophical and Cross-Cultural Frame of Reference” to faculty and students from the Department of Communication. The event was hosted by Dr. Markus Georg Thomas HEIDINGSFELDER.Prof. Karl-Heinz POHL was sharing insights ...

The Buddhist Academy of China (中国佛学院) recently featured a 10,000-word book review by Professor Wang Xiang (Shawn Wang) from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program at Department of Communication in the summer 2025 issue of Fayuan (法源), its prestigious academic journal. Titled “A New Paradigm for Monastic Studies—A Review of Prof. Zhanru’s Ximing Dongxia: The Ximing Monastery ...

You are cordially invited to a Conference organized by The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FHSS) at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University. Details of the Conference are as follows: Conference Committee• Chair: Dr. Richard Xiaying XU• Co-Chairs: Dr. Serene Runping Zhu, Dr. Ada Luyang LiI. Conference ThemeThe Literary World in Chinese Tourism: Landscapes, Narratives, and Cultural ImaginationII....

On October 26, 2025, a team of 25 students, led by Dr. Jianing CHEN and Dr. Sara Kar Bo WONG from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication program, along with Teaching Assistant Miss Claire Mianqu CUI, all from the Department of Communication, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, travelled to Outer Lingding Island in Zhuhai to conduct in-depth field research for the “Pak Tai Temple Park Photo ...

The Fifth International Symposium on Chinese Phonology and Semantics was held in Shanghai on October 18-19, organized by the Center for Research on Excavated Classics and Paleography (CRECP) at Fudan University. Dr. Jianing Chen from CCGC, DCom attended it and presented a paper.On the morning of the 18th, Prof. Zhang Xiaoyan of the CRECP presided over the opening ceremony, after which Prof. Liu Zhao,...

On October 11–12, the “Classics and East Asian Civilization” Sino-Korean Academic Conference on Classical Studies, jointly organized by the Institute of Chinese Classics (Jingxue) at Fujian Normal University and the Academy of Confucian Studies at Sungkyunkwan University in Korea, was successfully held at Fujian Normal University. The event brought together numerous young and mid-career scholars ...