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The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to
welcome<br><br>
</font><font size=7 color="#000080"><b>LEUNG PING-KWAN<br><br>
</font><font size=5><i>Poet and Chair Professor of Comparative
Literature<br>
Lingnan University, Hong Kong<br><br>
</i></font><font size=5 color="#800000">for a LECTURE and SPECIAL POETRY
READING<br><br>
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</font><font size=5><u>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2006<br><br>
</u></b></font><font size=4>The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale
University is pleased to present a<br><br>
</font><font size=5 color="#000080"><b>SPECIAL BILINGUAL POETRY READING
BY LEUNG PING-KWAN<br><br>
</b></font><font size=5>4:00 PM, Room 117, William L. Harkness Hall, 100
Wall Street<br><br>
</font><font color="#FF0000"><b><i>Please note the reading will be <u>in
both Chinese and English</u>.<br><br>
</i></font>Leung Ping-kwan</b> is a poet born and raised in Hong Kong. He
received his Ph.D. degree in comparative literature at the University of
California in San Diego. Leung taught comparative literature at the
University of Hong Kong for 12 years. He is now Chair Professor of
Comparative Literature and director of Centre for Humanities Research at
Lingnan University. Leung has published numerous books in different
disciplines, including volumes of poems such as East West Matters and
Museum Pieces; volumes of fiction such as Postcards from Prague, Paper
Cut-outs, and Cities of Memory, Cities of Fabrication; volumes of essays
such as Sketches and Portraits and Moon Across Borders; critical writings
such as Poetry and Cultural Studies and Ten Lectures on Hong Kong
Culture.<br><br>
Leung has collaborated with photographers, installation artists, dancers,
composers and fashion designers in various mixed media art projects.
Among them is the “Foodscape” series exploring the theme on food and
culture with Lee Ka-sing. He holds his own poetry and photography solo
exhibition “Food and the City” at F.C.C. in 2003, and another exhibition
“East West Matters” at Frankfurt and Bern in 2004. Leung received the
Hong Kong Urban Council’s Biennial Award for Literature in Poetry and
Fiction categories in 1997 and 1991 respectively.<br><br>
Following the tradition of classical Chinese poetry on objects, Leung’s
poems are lyrical, sensitive and expressive. But while ancient poetry
depicted flowers and bamboos as symbols of exalted virtues and ideal
moral, Leung shows his delicate feeling towards ordinary objects such as
bitter melon, pickles and balsam pears, and subtly meditates upon his
encounters with various cultural and social contexts.<br><br>
<font size=4>For more information please visit
<a href="http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies" eudora="autourl">
http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies</a><br><br>
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Nancy Kuhl<br>
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature<br>
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library<br>
Yale University<br>
121 Wall Street<br>
P.O. Box 208240<br>
New Haven, CT 06520-8240<br>
Phone: 203.432.2966 <br>
Fax: 203.432.4047</body>
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