Bulletin No. 2, 2009

52   Chinese University Bulletin No. 2, 2009 Intellectual Cross-currents Prof. Pai Hsien-yung on Tradition and Modernity P rof. Pai Hsien-yung, renowned writer and Kunqu producer, delivered a lecture entitled ‘Tradition and Modernity— A Review of the May Fourth Movement on Its 90th Anniversary’. The lecture was attended by 550 CUHK staff and students, alumni, the literary and publishing circles, and the public. Professor Pai is closely associated with CUHK. A bilingual version of his famous novel co llec tion Taipe i People was published by the Chinese University Press New Asia College 60th Anniversary Lecture P rof. James C.Y. Watt, Brooke Russell Astor Chairman of the Department of Asian Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and an honorary fellow of CUHK, visited New Asia College in late March. He hosted the College’s 60th Anniversar y Lec ture and the 2009 Ch’ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture. During his visit, Professor Watt delivered three lectures with the titles ‘Art History and History’, ‘On Chinese Art History’ and ‘The “Golden Age” Revisited’. Using as reference the exhibition ‘China—Dawn of a Golden Age, AD200–750’, held in the Metropolitan Museum in 2004, Professor Watt discussed the aspects of history and art history the exhibition attempted to illustrate.