[Yale-readings] Special Reading by Hong Kong Poet Leung Ping-Kwan (02/23 and 02/24)

[Nancy Kuhl]

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>The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to welcome
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>LEUNG PING-KWAN
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>Poet and Chair Professor of Comparative Literature
>Lingnan University, Hong Kong
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>for a LECTURE and SPECIAL POETRY READING
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>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2006
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>The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to present a
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>SPECIAL BILINGUAL POETRY READING BY LEUNG PING-KWAN
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>4:00 PM, Room 117, William L. Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street
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>Please note the reading will be in both Chinese and English.
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>Leung Ping-kwan 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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>For more information please visit http://research.yale.edu/eastasianstudies
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Nancy Kuhl
Assistant Curator, The Yale Collection of American Literature
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale University
121 Wall Street
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Phone: 203.432.2966
Fax: 203.432.4047 
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