YAN Lian Ke Writer-In-Residence 2012 YAN Lian Ke @ Public Literary Theatre 香港浸會大學知識轉移處 Knowledge Transfer Office Hong Kong Baptist University.

Writer-In-Residence 2012 YAN Lian Ke@ Public Literary Theatre

香港浸會大學知識轉移處Knowledge Transfer OfficeHong Kong Baptist University

Project Leader

External PartnersOn and On Theatre Workshop

Hong Kong Literary Museum Workshop

Project Summary

Yan Lian Ke's works often describe the lives of people of the working classes and the social problems of the contemporary Chinese society.  His novel Dream of Ding Village depicts people and lives in the "plasma economy" of the 1990s.  It tells stories about the spreading of AIDS in China, and about the rapid growth of the Chinese economy.  In this project, the novel will be adapted for the stage, allowing the stage audience access to the Chinese society Yan has depicted in his novel.  A major target audience group is secondary school students.  They will be introduced to Yan's approaches and skills in writing about social problems.  In the second part of the project, the documentation of the performance will be edited into suitable form to be used as teaching material for secondary schools.  A teaching kit will be produced to be used together with the edited documentation.  This material aims at providing suitable materials for the Liberal Studies syllabus of the new Secondary School Curriculum.

Prof. CHUNG LingFaculty of Arts

Dr. Jessica YEUNG Wai YeeFaculty of Arts

YAN Lian Ke

Expected Benefits for Academics

To establish collaborative relations between the International Writers Workshop (IWW), creative writers and theatre workers

To enhance the publicity of IWW, and finding new groups of participants for its activities

To help intern students to develop knowledge and skills of theatre production and event management

To encourage secondary students to learn about Chinese literature, and to cultivate their interest in reading and art literacy

To hold a special performance for senior secondary school students accommodating approximately 100 secondary students with their teachers

To edit documentation of the project in the form of teaching materials that are matching with the content of the Liberal Studies syllabus for the new senior secondary curriculum: distributed to be used in 30-50 secondary schools for approximately 900-1500 secondary students

YAN Lian Ke

Expected Benefits for Non-academic Partners To work together with the Hong Kong Literary Museum Workshop and On

and On Theatre Workshop in the promotion of literature and to broaden the audience base of the theatre

To enhance exchange between local and mainland writers To preserve the artistic value of Dream of Ding Village in another art form To allow performances of the script in future and to encourage other

performing groups to use it

Expected Benefits for Community To promote understanding of Yan's works to the public To promote understanding of the contemporary Chinese society To promote the awareness of the diverse range of literary works and ways

of appreciation to the public To hold a public performance for the general audience: approximately 100

members of the public, university teachers and students, theatre and literary workers

YAN Lian Ke