Bulletin No. 2, 2013

Engaging the World 17  Prof. Mayching Kao Former chairperson of the Department of Fine Arts and director of the Art Gallery of the Institute of Chinese Studies Prof. Mayching Kao received the Yale-in-China Scholarship in 1967 to further her studies in the US. She returned to CUHK in 1972 and served until her retirement in 1999. With an aim of providing more overseas learning experiences for students, she donated HK$1 million in 2012 to establish the Professor Mayching Kao Fine Arts Fund. Martin Kwok MPhil student in Physics, 2012 Wong Ka-ying Fine Arts, 2013 graduate ‘I worked as an intern at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing from July to September 2012. In the first month of my internship, I was responsible for transcribing an interview with young Chinese artists and preparing for their exhibition in January 2013. In the second month, I worked as an assistant to the Japanese artist Kaneuji Teppei. This task enabled me to have a better understanding of the production of large-scale artworks and preparations for a big exhibition.’ ‘I was lucky to go to CERN as an intern for two months. I saw the large haldron collider (LHC) –the largest experiment facility in the world, the birth place of the Internet, attended physics lectures, and took part in experiments. If I hadn’t gone out and explored, I wouldn’t have known the world to be so big.’