Obituary

Subject:	The Faculty of Arts mourns the loss of Professor Leung Ping Kwan (梁秉鈞教授)
Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2013 13:14:20 +0800

Dear colleagues, students and alumni,

It is with great sadness that I share with you the passing of Professor Leung Ping Kwan (梁秉鈞教授) last Saturday, January 5, 2013, after a courageous battle against cancer.

Professor Leung was a beloved member of the Faculty from 1985 to 1999, where he taught in the Department of English Studies and Comparative Literature and greatly contributed to the setting up of Comparative Literature as an independent department in September 1989. Though he moved to Lingnan University to join the Department of Chinese in 1997, he maintained close ties with our Faculty. 

Professor Leung returned on many occasions to share his poems, experiences, views on culture, and passion for life with us, most recently last November for the launch of a new edition of "City at the End of Time," edited and introduced by Dr Esther Cheung of our Department of Comparative Literature. 

His poems, with their gentle humour and preoccupation with everyday objects, capture the very essence of Hong Kong and what it means to live in this city. He is truly Hong Kong's poet and he will be very much missed, as a writer, a critic, and a teacher, by all those who have had the opportunity and joy to meet him and know him through his writings.

Our thoughts are now with Professor Leung's family, and I am sure you will join me in offering them my deepest condolences.

Professor Kam Louie
Dean
Faculty of Arts