BU History Newsletter (Sep 2020) - with my article for alumni-sharing session
I graduated from HKBU with a Minor in History from the Bachelor level and a Master of Social Science in Contemporary China Studies (History Concentration) from the postgraduate level. In early 2018, BU History Department invited me to write a piece of alumnus sharing for its newsletter editorial. It could be about any topics. I then wrote something about my passion in being an elementary Portuguese learner when travelling to Macau and paying extra attentions on the Sino-Portuguese bilingual signboards from different shops on the streets. From the article, I also explained that my grandparents and relatives from my dad's clan are all from Macau, whereas my dad felt regretted for his inability in entering a Portuguese school for studying one more European language apart from English. Everybody interrogates that why I, as a general university student, have to rely on physical strength to feed up myself. These Hong Kong people only focus on the point that I couldn't enter CUHK Fine Arts and assume that my oppressed academic performance at BUVA can hardly deserve good career rewards. But they use to neglect a point that a very great part of my HKBU life has been put onto her History Department instead. For example, I can maintain a very good relationship with no matter Western-history scholars like Prof. Ricardo Mak or Chinese-history scholars like Prof. Lee Kam-keung inside BU History Department, except for the loophole that I am a swimmer and I cannot join Dr. Fan Wing-chung to play football with the History boys. I obtained a Distinction in my Master's Degree Graduation Dissertation on the 9000-word research of Xu Beihong. My overall GPA for my Master's Degree studies was 3.40, with a Merit honour. This academic excellence is irrelevant to whether Prof. Ng Ching Fai, Prof. Albert Chan Sun-chi or Prof. Roland Chin Tai-hong from the presidential strata hates me or not. For those people who superficially think that a BU-based Vincent can be easily bullied and insulted, please have a look at this newsletter: I am sheltered by lots of authoritative BU History scholars and do not judge that I am incapable. Even for Hong Kong Society of Humanities, it honours me as a speaker graduated from HKBU Master of Social Science in Contemporary China Studies when the notices and videos of my academic talks are released.
