The Institute of Chinese Studies (ICS) just launched the very first research repository focusing on Guangdong literati and gentry, namely the Digital Repository of Rare Books, Calligraphy, and Paintings of Guangdong Literati and Gentry from the Ming Dynasty to the Republican Era. This Repository collects and showcases valuable collections of Guangdong cultural legacies in the Art Museum, CUHK and the CUHK library. It also compiles and presents the profiles of 100 significant personalities by encapsulating studies of a wide range of textual and visual materials. Though digitization and visualization of collected data, the Repository introduces a new perspective to the study of Guangdong literati and gentry from the Ming to the Republican times, serving as an incentive for interdisciplinary research and an important educational platform for promoting the culture of Guangdong to the global audience. To celebrate such remarkable milestone of Chinese studies, the ICS hosted the three-day international conference on Lingnan Culture and the World in hybrid mode on 23–25 November, 2023.

Organized by the Research Programme for Lingnan Culture, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

The Competition aims to promote international academic research on Lingnan culture, as well as to encourage local and overseas doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows who are aspiring to conduct in-depth research in the field.