Lecture Series for Young Leaders

Lecture Series for Youth Leaders (VII)

Guest Speaker:
Professor Kenneth PAI Hsien-yung

World-renowned Novelist, Emeritus Professor of the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Guest Moderator:
Professor CHANG Hsin-kang

Director, The Dragon Foundation,
President, City University of Hong Kong

Date:
13 December 2004

Venue:
Room 301, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre

 

The Dragon Foundation invited Professor Kenneth Pai Hsien-yung to be the Guest Speaker at the ˇ§Lecture Series for Youth Leadersˇ¨. Over 700 local youth had the opportunity to meet with this world-renowned novelist.

 
   


   
  Professor Kenneth Paiˇ¦s Background
   

 

Professor Pai was born in Guangxi, China in 1937. He had resided in Guailin, Nanking & Shanghai during his childhood. Professor Pai moved to Hong Kong in 1949 and studied there for 3 years. In 1952, he moved to Taiwan and studied at Taiwan University where he later gradated from the College of Foreign Languages. Professor Pai has published a number of novels and collections of short stories such as Wandering in the Garden, Waking from a Dream: Tales of Taipei Characters. His stories have been translated into different varieties of languages and attracted readers of different origin.

   
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