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Why Hong Kong Is Down On Creative Writing Programs

WORDS Posted: May 19, 2015 1:29 pm

“In its abrupt closure of a small programme, City University has chosen to make the act of writing a political battle. For five years, we occupied a small and unique place: a learning environment in which there were no hard and fast dicta, but in which we cultivated the awareness that language is thinking. Language can diminish and language can enlarge. For our young people, to read and to be read matters.”

WORDS Published: 05.18.15

Read the story in The Guardian (UK) Published: 05.18.15

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