As debates over artificial intelligence reshape the future of higher education, Prof Tang Beibei steps into her new role as Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU).A sociologist and leading scholar in China Studies, she brings an international academic background spanning China, the UK, and Australia. Now, as a dean at BNBU, at a time ...

July 2026 —What does it mean to truly understand a region? For two BNBU students, it meant leaving the classroom behind and tracing the histories, borders, and everyday lives of Southeast Asia through direct engagement. Inspired by a foundational General Education course on Southeast Asian history, two junior students majoring in the Public Relations and Advertising (PRA) program at BNBU’s Department ...

Throughout the summer of 2026, three Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) juniors—Sylvia Liu Yihong，Cecilia Zhao Minxi and Ray Wang Tianrui—embarked on three distinct yet equally illuminating paths of experiential learning. Sylvia Liu joined the Thessaloniki International Media Summer Academy (THISAM) in Greece, engaging with global peers on the challenges and ethics of contemporary journalism....

Group photograph of all symposium participantsScenes from the international symposium “Between Intersect and Interconnect: The Evolving Encounters of South China and Southeast Asia”On May 30, 2026, the international symposium “Between Intersect and Interconnect: The Evolving Encounters of South China and Southeast Asia” was held at Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University. The symposium was ...

When Wang Yi realised her growing interest in sociology, it was her second year, during an exchange programme in Hong Kong.Just three months in, she made a bold decision: she wrote to the Academic Registry to withdraw from the year-long exchange and return to Beijing Normal–Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU) to transfer into the Digital Social Science Programme.Wang YiClass of 2026, first batch of ...

On March 18 and 20, 2026, BNBU and HKBU jointly organized the “3rd International Symposium on Humanities and Culture: Strategies and Impact of a Digital Future.” The conference began in Hong Kong on the 18th and continued in Zhuhai on the 20th. On both days, staff, faculty, and students from both universities came together.In his opening speech, Prof. Patrick Chau, Provost of BNBU, elaborated on ...

On December 6, 2025, Associate Professor Dr. Wei Chin Wong and Instructor II Miss Connie Li Tian from the Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University (BNBU), led a group of students from the Chinese Culture and Global Communication (CCGC) program on an in-depth study tour to Macau. Designed to move beyond classroom ...