Morningside Magazine No07

晨興書院

雜誌

MAGAZINE NO.7 JUN 2021

FEATURING Searching for Meaning Amidst Chaos College Photography Competition The Start of Infinite Possibilities

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CONTENTS

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD

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MC MEETS

Meet the Newcomers

晨興新生亮相！

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FEATURE

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Kate Samworth: Artist and Illustrator of Why Fish Don’t Exist

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MC SPACE

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Searching for Meaning Amidst Chaos

藝術家凱特•薩姆沃斯：《魚兒何故不存在》的插畫家

College Photography Competition

晨興書院攝影比賽

MC VIEW

The Start of Infinite Possibilities

回首漫爛時光

Holding Together

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在混亂中追尋意義

四海一家

MC NEWS

晨興書院

雜誌 MAGAZINE NO.7

JUNE 2021

Dear Reader, In this issue, we share perspectives from our newest students, wisdom from the author and illustrator of our One Book Programme selection, the winning photos of the Morningside College Photography Competition, and inspiration from two of our recent graduates.

親愛的讀者： 本期雜誌分享了部分新生對大學生活的想法、書院 「一本書計劃」的作者與插畫家帶來的啟發、晨興攝 影比賽的獲獎作品，以及兩位晨興畢業生的睿智。 我們去年承諾努力保持書院作為一個充滿活力、多

Last year, we promised to work hard to maintain the College’s reputation as a vibrant, diverse and resilient intellectual community. This year has been a testament to Morningsiders’ creativity, motivation, and care for one another. We look forward to seeing what new opportunities the next year will bring for our community.

元包容和堅韌不拔的知識社群。過去一年的經歷亦

We thank you for your continued support.

晨興書院雜誌編輯部

是對晨興學生創造力、動力和對彼此關心的有力證 明。我們期待下學年晨興大家庭即將迎來的各種新 機會。 我們感謝各位持續支持。

Morningside Magazine Editorial Board

MORNINGSIDE MAGAZINE. Published annually by Morningside College. Editorial Office: Morningside College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong.

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MEETS

Faiyaz Hossain Aryan ফাইয়াজ োহােসন আিরয়ান Dhaka, Bangladesh 孟加拉達卡

MEET THE NEWCOMERS 晨興新生亮相！

In 2020, Morningside welcomed 74 new students from 14 countries and regions. Although not all of them could come to campus in the past year, we are thrilled to present what some of them have to tell us about their experiences so far at Morningside and CUHK! 晨興書院 2020 年迎來 74 名來自 14 個國家和地區的新生。儘管部分新 生在過去一年未能親身體驗校園的 學習生活，但是我們很高興能夠在 此向大家介紹晨興大家庭的部分新 成員！

Economics 經濟學

My first year at CUHK and Morningside has been full of pleasant surprises. I started off the fall semester thinking I would be stuck at home, and I did not expect to make a lot of friends. I was not sure about my ability to take in information through online classes. However, all of my worries eventually dissipated. Online classes were not as bad as I thought. I was actually learning a lot, and the professors were really helpful (tutorials were an added bonus!). The first-years were also extremely friendly, and I ended up making more friends than I had anticipated. Of course, moving into Morningside was the icing on the cake. Living on campus, making new friends and doing (a few) face-to-face classes has made my first year extremely enjoyable. Amidst a pandemic, I think that it could not have been any better.

CUHK এ বং Morningside এ আমার পথম বছরিট আমার পতযাশার েচেযও ভােলা িছল। আিম এই েভেব এই semester শর কেরিছলাম েয পুেরা সময বাসাই বেশ কাটােবা, এবং এই কারেন েভেবিছলাম েয েবশী coursemate েদর েচনা হেবনা। Online class িনেয আমার আশা ও েবশী িছল না। তেব, আমার সমস উেদগ অবেশেষ ভু ল পমািনত হল। অনলাইন কাস েযমন েভেবিছলাম েতমন খারাপ িছল না, কারন িশককরা সিতয সহাযক িছেলন (িটউেটািরযালগিলও অেনক সাহাযয কেরিছল!)। Coursemate রা অতযন িমশক িছল, এবং আিম আমার পতযাশার েচেয আরও েবিশ বনু বািনেযিছ। অবশযই, Morningside েজেত পারা িছল icing on the cake। কযামােস থাকা, নতু ন বনু বানােনা এবং কেযকিট face to face কাস করা আমার পথম বছরিটেক অতযন আননময কের তু েলেছ। পযাঁেনিমেকর মেধযও, আিম মেন কির আমার পথম বছর CUHK েত এরেচ ভােলা হেত পারত না।

我在中大和晨興的第一年充滿驚喜。我在秋季入學，原以 為要獨自關在房裡，卻想不到能認識許多新朋友。最初 我不敢肯定自己是否可以通過網課學到知識，但我的疑 慮很快就一掃而空。網課沒有想像中差，事實上我從中學 到了很多。教授給予我們很多協助（導修課更是額外的得 益！）。一年級的同學都很友善，結果我認識了比想像中 更多的新朋友。當然，能搬進晨興住宿更是錦上添花。住 在校園裡，結織新朋友，還有間中舉行的面授課堂，都令 我的第一年學習生活非常愉快。疫情期間能夠這樣，已讓 我相當滿足。

Favourite meal at Morningside 最愛的晨興餐點 Japanese fish curry

日式咖喱魚

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Govini Elvitigala ෙගාවිනි ඇල්විටිගල Kandy, Sri Lanka 斯里蘭卡康提

Chemistry 化學

I have seen so many breathtaking photos of CUHK (and a stunning video of a Morningside sunrise) so the first thing I want to do after arriving in Hong Kong is just walk around campus and feel those sensations a camera could not possibly capture.

මං ආසයි කැම්පස් එක පුරාම ඇවිදින්න. ෙෆාෙටෝස් වලින් දැක්කාට වඩා ලස්සනක් හැබැහින් මට අත්විදින්න පුළුවන් ෙවයි කියල මං හිතනවා.

Maṁ aāsayi campus ēka purāma aævidinna. Photos valin dækkāṭa vaḍā lassanak hæbæhin maṭa athvidinna puḷuuvan veayi kiyala maṁ hithanavā.

我看過許多中大校園的絕美照片（以及晨興日出美景的 短片），所以來港第一件事將會是在校園四處遊逛，親 歷攝影機無法捕捉的感受。

Favourite hobby 喜愛的活動 Reading—fantasy, historical fiction, novels

閱讀奇幻和歷史小說

New hobby during the pandemic 疫情期間的新喜好 Learning High Valyrian. Rytsas!

學習高等瓦雷利亞語。Rytsas ( 你好 )！

Connecting with Morningside 聯繫晨興 Instagram, WhatsApp, and Outlook. They give those glimpses of peoples’ lives, the closest to knowing them in person one can get for now. The amazing dog blog, of course, transcends that simple relationship and is the Cuba and Tycho portal to feeling like a Morningsider.

透過 Instagram、WhatsApp 和 Outlook，我對大 家的生活略知一二，這亦算是目前最貼近親身認 識其他人的方法。當然，院長家 Cuba 和 Tycho 兩 隻小狗的網誌，使大家的關係更為緊密，也讓人 感到真正成為晨興大家庭的一員。

Helen Han 한유정 Seoul, South Korea 韓國首爾

Medicine 醫學

When I first arrived at Morningside, I was nervous about the prospect of entering this new place and meeting new people, but now I am so grateful and happy that I’m here. For me, the most important thing has been the communal dinners that happen three times a week. Although we cannot eat in the dining hall, the dinners still gave me a chance to meet with my fellow Morningsiders and talk about our day and how everything is going. I’ve learnt the value and importance of kindness and friendship from this community, where everyone is so welcoming and supportive. This has truly been a remarkable school year and Morningside has really become a home away from home for me. I very much look forward to my next few years here. 처음에 Morningside 에 왔을 때 새로운 환경에서 오랜 대학

생활을 해야 된다는 생각에 긴장이 많이 됐었습니다. 하지만

걱정했던 것과는 달리 친구들과 교수님들 모두 친절하셔서 너무 만족스러운 학교 생활을 하고 있습니다. 기숙사 생활을 하면서 제일 기억에 남는 경험은 일주일에 3번 있는 communal dinners

입니다. 비록 이번 학기에는 모두와 함께 식당에서 같이 식사를 할 수 없지만 같은 층 친구들과 저녁을 함께 먹으면서 일상의 소소한 대화를 자주 나누곤 합니다. 힘이 되고 따뜻한 사람들에 둘러 쌓여

있으면서 신뢰와 배려의 덕목을 배울 수 있었습니다. 이러한 경험 덕분에 1학년 학교 생활이 더 풍요롭고 즐거운 것 같습니다. 이제

Morningside는 저에게 제 2의 집과 같습니다. 앞으로 남은 시간 동안 좋은 사람들과 좋은 추억을 많이 쌓고 싶습니다.

初來晨興時，面對陌生的人和環境，心情難免緊張；現 在，我卻十分慶幸能加入晨興。對我來說，每周三次的書 院晚膳是頭等大事。雖然我們不能在食堂裡一同進餐，但 卻讓我有機會跟其他同學見面，並談論在校園的日常生 活。在晨興的生活讓我懂得友善和友誼的價值與重要性， 因為這裡每個人都很熱情，也願意幫助別人。這個學年是 不平凡的一年，而晨興讓我有如在家的感覺，我十分嚮往 未來幾年在這裡的生活。

Favourite place on campus 最愛的校園景點 Pavilion of Harmony. When I first visited this place, I was astounded by the amazing view. The atmosphere is peaceful yet mysterious thanks to the water’s reflections.

合一亭：我初次到合一亭時，那優美的景色令我著 迷。亭前水池的倒影，令周遭的氣氛平靜而略帶神 秘。

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MC MEETS

Yerke Kairat Ерке Қайрат Almaty, Kazakhstan 哈薩克阿拉木圖

Alex Lau 劉柏轁 Integrated BBA 工商管理學士 綜合課程

The first time I visited Hong Kong, I fell in love with it immediately. A magnificent combination of breathtaking nature with enormous skyscrapers and a megapolis’s spirit makes me attached to this city. I am sure that my career and personal paths have just started in Hong Kong, and this fantastic city has prepared many opportunities that are yet to come. Гонконгқа келген сәттен бастап, бұл қаланы бірден жақсы көріп кеттім. Тамаша табиғаттың керемет зәулім ғимараттармен және мегаполис рухымен үйлесімі менің осы қалаға деген сүйіспеншілігімді арттыра түсті. Сондықтан, менің жеке жолым дәл қазір Гонконгта басталып жатқанына, және бұл ғажайып қала алда талай мүмкіндіктер дайындап қойғанына нық сенімдімін.

初次來到香港，就立即愛上這城市。香港既有美麗動人 的大自然風景，又有四處林立的摩天大樓，加上大都市 的氣派，均深深吸引著我。我相信自己的事業和個人發 展只是剛剛在香港起步，而這迷人的城市將為我提供更 多機遇。

Favourite place on campus 最愛的校園景點 Pavilion of Harmony

合一亭

Favourite hobbies 喜愛的活動 Ice skating, watching sci-fi movies, reading historical fiction

溜冰、看科幻電影、閱讀歷史小說

New hobby during the pandemic 疫情期間的新喜好 Baking cakes

烘焙蛋糕

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Hong Kong 香港

Sociology 社會學

To be honest, because of the pandemic, I do not have many feelings as a first-year student. However, I am grateful that I met a lot of interesting people after I moved into Morningside, which really broadened my horizons. It is my first time meeting peers from so many different continents, and having conversations with them about language, culture, politics, and our everyday life is an exciting and enriching experience!

晨興照耀！講真嗰句，因為疫情，我呢一年真係唔係好 有感受。但係同時值得慶幸嘅係作為大一新生識到好多 唔同國家嘅人傾到計，佢哋嘅家鄉位於五大洲上不同嘅 洲份，例如摩洛哥、沙地阿拉伯、約旦、印度、波蘭。 我同佢哋談天說地，上至天文，下至各國本身嘅風土人 情都有所交流，有時我哋都會講到佢哋國家嘅政治、語 言。以往淨係可以喺上堂聽到嘅嘢突然變得真實咗，而 呢種有趣而生動嘅文化交流，喺晨興就係我哋嘅日常， 擴闊咗我哋嘅眼界。

Favourite meal at Morningside 最愛的晨興餐點 Spaghetti Bolognese

番茄肉醬意粉

Favourite place on campus 最愛的校園景點 Gate of Wisdom and University Library

仲門、大學圖書館

Arnav Sethi 賽帝亞諾 Hong Kong 香港

Hospitality & Real Estate 酒店旅遊及房地產

From the get-go, I feel honoured and privileged to be part of the Morningside community. I am also humbled by the gesture of being presented an Honours at Entrance and Scholarship, both of which were beyond my expectation.

Such recognition in the first year puts me in a difficult spot as I have been bestowed with great responsibility to excel academically and, hopefully, one day become a proud alumni of Morningside and CUHK. Nonetheless, I am more appreciative and grateful to Morningside and CUHK for everything they have supported me with thus far.

我從一開始就很榮幸能成為晨興的一份子。獲得大學頒 發榮譽新生獎和入學獎學金，更是感恩，且完全出乎意 料。第一年就得到這些嘉許，讓我感到有點為難，因為 這表示我肩負更大的責任，要取得卓越的學業成績，並 且希望有一天能成為晨興和中大的傑出校友。我非常感 激晨興和中大一直至今對我的支持。

Shi Yuhan 石雨菡 Luzhou, Sichuan 四川瀘州

Science 理學

As a first-year student at Morningside and at CUHK, I have mixed feelings. Competition at CUHK is fiercer than I imagined, which sometimes makes me quite anxious about my grades and future studies. However, this academic environment is also a powerful motivator for me to work more efficiently and to discover my potential in order to become a better person. In addition, I feel really grateful to Morningside College, which provides students with abundant resources and whose staff are very considerate, patient and helpful. Furthermore, I appreciate that the students at CUHK, especially at Morningside, possess unique personalities.

By interacting with them, I learnt about different cultures, values, and attitudes toward life. Such exposure improves my ability to think from multiple perspectives.

作為中大晨興書院的大一學生，我總是有著複雜的感受。 中大的競爭比我想像的更為激烈，這有時會讓我對自己的 成績和未來學習感到焦慮。不過，這樣的環境也是一種強

Favourite hobbies 喜愛的活動

有力的助推劑，激勵我提高效率、發掘潛能以增強個人競

Traveling, sports, creating videos

術資源，我對此十分感激。書院裡的職工教員都非常體貼

旅行、做運動、製作短片

爭力。此外，晨興書院為我們提供了豐富的社會資源和學 耐心，為我提供了很多幫助。我還發現在中大，尤其是在

New hobby during the pandemic 疫情期間的新喜好

晨興書院的同學們都有著獨特鮮明的個性。與之交流往來

Exploring Hong Kong’s secret spots, particularly the haunted and abandoned places, and vlogging my experiences

和生活態度。這極大鍛煉了我多角度思考問題的能力。

探索香港鬧鬼的地方、廢墟和其他秘境，並製成 錄像網誌。

Favourite dish from home 最愛的家鄉菜 Paneer Butter Masala (Indian cottage cheese with tomato gravy) with Garlic Naan

瑪莎拉牛油芝士（番茄汁燴印度茅屋芝士）配蒜 烤餅

的過程中，我得以接觸到他們不同的文化特色、價值觀念

Connecting with Morningside 聯繫晨興 Working together with classmates in the GEMC1001 course, which helped me to improve my writing skills and enabled me to know a lot of my fellow Morningsiders. I also enjoyed watching TV series online with other Morningsiders and the Junior Fellows.

與其他晨興新生一起上書院通識 GEMC1001 課程， 它幫助我提高寫作水平，並讓我結識許多晨興的同 學。我也很高興能夠在網上與其他晨興同學和通識 教育導師一起追劇。

Favourite dish from home 最愛的家鄉菜 Braised beef

醬滷牛肉

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MC MEETS

Tan Hou Yuan 陳厚元 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 馬來西亞吉隆坡

Natalie Woo 胡鎧潼 Translation 翻譯

As a first-year student, I’m new to everything around Morningside and the University. I suppose online learning simplifies a lot of things, leaving only the courses for me to focus on. As a result, the first semester is rather relaxing (for me at least). One thing I’m not so used to is how quick people come and go in classes, perhaps it’s how courses in universities are designed; it’s difficult to get to know people, or who knows, maybe it’s because of online classes.

Anyways, I have yet to experience what it is exactly like to be at Morningside, but I’m sure it will be great. Looking forward to meeting new friends when I can finally be on campus!

身為新生，與校園有關的一切都是新奇的。線上教學模 式大概簡化了許多事，我只需要專心上課就行了，所以 這第一學期對我而言還挺輕鬆的。有一點我不是很能適 應，就是同班同學的聚散率太高了，基本上只要不是同 系，學期結束後就老死不相往來了，這或許是大學課程 設計所致吧，但也可能是網課的緣故。話說回來，雖然 我無法確切地體驗在晨興書院的生活，但我相信那肯定 是不錯的。期待返回校園時認識新的朋友！

What I learned from Morningside… 我從晨興學會了……

I have learnt from the Morningside WhatsApp group chat that Prof. Ann Huss bakes amazing cakes and cookies, but what I have not learnt is how quickly they get wiped out before I can taste one! Also, always remember to keep my key card with me.

Hong Kong 香港

Biomedical Sciences 生物醫學

Being a first-year student at Morningside is an amazing experience! Since everything is new to me, stepping out of Morningside always feels like I am embarking on an adventure.

Occasionally, I will stumble upon unexplored areas, which feels like I unlocked a new “achievement”. Now that I am more familiar with CUHK, I can’t help but be enamoured by its breathtaking scenery. I really like staring at the trees outside my window as the natural light makes its way into my room.

I also like walking on the bridge that connects the T and G blocks, because it allows me to see Morningside and beyond with a bird’s eye view. The calming view always makes my day.

I also enjoyed the courses I have taken so far! Course contents were surprisingly diverse and are more interesting than I thought they would be. As a STEM major, I never knew I would be learning about philosophy, but it was unexpectedly fun (before I had to write papers)! The cherry on top of everything is that I get to meet a lot of new people (and dogs). Listening to their stories is always fun.

踏進中大校園，彷彿走進了世外桃源。中大的景色總是令 我嘆為觀止，心曠神怡。宿舍窗外的樹木在陽光普照之下 隨着微風搖擺，使人悠然自得，心中負面的情緒也自然煙 消雲散。站在連繫着格林伯格樓和學生宿舍高座的橋上更 能俯瞰吐露港一帶，蔚為大觀。 由於上學期是網上授課，起初尚未搬進書院宿舍的我對中 大的人、事、物都感到極為陌生。可是，在這山城裏生活 久了後，還對這個地方產生了歸屬感和愛慕之情。我喜愛

我在晨興的 WhatsApp 群組中得知何素楠教授會 烘焙美味的蛋糕和曲奇餅，只是想不到我還未有 機會嚐一口前，蛋糕和曲奇就已瞬間被人掃光！ 還有，一定要緊記經常把門卡帶在身邊。

中大的校園，喜愛中大的課堂，喜愛在中大裏碰到的新面

Favourite dish from home 最愛的家鄉菜（碟）

意料地新鮮和有趣（功課除外，哈哈），充分地拓闊了我的

A white porcelain plate with blue patterns is definitely my favourite dish from home, because it is often used to serve my favourite dish: roast pork (char siu).

我最愛的家鄉菜碟是白底配襯藍色圖案的瓷碟， 因為碟上總是盛著我最愛的佳餚：叉燒。

孔。身為晨興書院的學生，我除了能認識許多不同國籍的 人和了解他們所代表的文化外，我更能藉着書院的通識課 程接觸與主修科目截然不同的學問—哲學。課堂內容出乎 視野。另外，在晨興書院裏生活，不得不提本書院的「吉 祥物」— Captain, Cuba 和 Tycho。牠們令我大學生活錦 上添花，讓我在中大的所見所聞變得格外難忘、新奇有趣。

Favourite place on campus 最愛的校園景點 The architecture building—the view from the rooftop garden is really amazing!

建築學院大樓—樓頂的景色美極了！

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Tom Yan 閻毅 Dali, Yunnan 雲南大理

You So Dam 유소담 Law 法律

University courses are tough, but it’s so heartwarming for me that many helping hands were reaching out from the lovely people at Morningside. Even though we had to meet online, it was still a great starting point of my college life!

I look forward to meeting everyone in person for the first time, where we can have friendly conversations without microphone and camera. It will be wonderful!

雖然大學課程內容不太簡單，但好在晨興的同學和老師 們都很樂於提供幫助。網絡一線牽，我的書院生活有了 一個超棒的起點！很期待線下的校園生活，讓我們終於 可以在Zoom之外親切友好地交流了！

Favourite memory from Fall 2020 2020秋季的最佳回憶 The GEMC1001 debate!

書院通識GEMC1001 課上的辯論會！

What I learned from Morningside… 我從晨興學會了……

Through the college general education course GEMC1001, I learnt to better understand and accept other people’s different opinions.

透過書院通識課程 GEMC1001，我學會了怎樣更 好地理解和接受別人與我不同的觀點。

Seoul, South Korea 韓國首爾

Integrated BBA 工商管理學士 綜合課程

I never expected my first year of university to start in such a “unique” way. I expected to study on campus, interacting with people face to face, not attending classes in my room wearing my pajamas. Fortunately, the virtual orientation with senior Morningsiders (my Joma and Joba) as well as the professors, Junior Fellows, and my friends from GEMC1001 made me feel welcomed at CUHK and Morningside. It is true that I had a tough time adjusting to the atmosphere of “university” and wished to go on campus, but I will think of the current hardship as a special experience. Thank you to everyone who helped me feel not so distant! 제 대학생활이 이렇게 '독특한' 방식으로 시작하리라고는 생각도 못했어요. 저는 캠퍼스에서 사람들과 교류하며 공부할 것을 기대 했지만, 현실은 집에 갇혀 파자마를 입고 수업을 듣는 것이었습니

다. 한국과 홍콩 사이에 물리적인 거리에도 불구하고, 모닝사이드 선배들이 주최한 온라인 오리엔테이션과, GEMC1001반 친구들과

시시콜콜한 대화들은 제가 CUHK와 모닝사이드 커뮤니티에서 환

영받고 있는 기분을 주었습니다. 대학이라는 낯설고 새로운 분위 기에 적응하느라 힘들었던 것도 사실이고, 캠퍼스에 가고 싶은 마 음은 아직도 굴뚝같지만, 지금의 고난을 색다르고 유익했던 경험으 로 생각하겠습니다! 많은 조언과 도움을 주신 교수님들, 주니어 펠

로우들, 선배님들 모두 감사드립니다. 채팅으로나마 친해진 동기

들도 모두 고맙고, 앞으로도 더 친하게 지내요, 우리! 맛집 투어 꼭 시켜주세요. 다음 학기에는 모두 다 건강하게, 얼굴 보며 만나요!

Favourite dish from home 最愛的家鄉菜

我從沒想過第一年的大學生活竟是以如此「獨特」的方式展

Er Kuai

成穿著睡衣在自己房間內上課。好在，晨興的學長 （我的組爸

餌塊

組媽）為我安排的網上迎新活動，還有各位教授、通識教育

開。原本預期在校園內學習，與人面對面交往，想不到竟變

導師以及GEMC1001 課程的朋友，均讓我感覺受到歡迎。

Favourite place in hometown 最愛的家鄉景點

我要調整適應這種「大學」氣氛真有點不容易，也渴望能夠

Dali’s Cangshan Mountain, which is renowned for the beautiful scenery of its snow-covered summit and floating clouds.

助我的所有人，讓我不至於感到自己跟大學是如此遙遠。

雲南大理蒼山，以山峰積雪和雲海美景聞名。

來到校園，但我會視目前的困難為特別的體驗。多謝曾經幫

Favourite dish from home 最愛的家鄉菜 Fried chicken and tteokbokki

炸雞及辣炒年糕

Favourite place in hometown 最愛的家鄉景點 Seoul Forest (a large park near my home)

首爾林（我家附近的大型公園）

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SEARCHING FOR MEANING AMIDST CHAOS Reflections from Lulu Miller, author of the 2020 One Book Programme selection

By Maryellen Stohlman-Vanderveen, Morningside College Junior Fellow

在混亂中追尋意義 2020 年「一本書計劃」作家 露露 · 米勒的反思 范美侖 晨興書院通識教育導師

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Lulu Miller is a Peabody awardwinning science journalist, co-host of the US public radio show Radiolab, and the author of this year’s One Book Programme selection, Why Fish Don’t Exist. While Miller was not able to visit campus as a result of the pandemic, she was still able to make an impact on the Morningside community through two virtual visits. In November, she gave a guest lecture to students in the college’s first-year general education seminar, Current Dilemmas and their Histories, discussing the ethical questions that arise in her book and challenging students to think critically about the biases they carry within themselves. In 露露 · 米勒是一名榮獲皮博迪獎的 March, Miller returned to Morningside’s virtual hall to deliver a 科學新聞記者、美國公共電台得獎節目「電 public lecture titled “Hacking Your Compass” in which she 台實驗室」 （ RadioLab）的聯合主持人，也是晨興 explored the tension between our searches for truth and 書院本年度「一本書計劃」 《魚兒何故不存在》的作者。 our intuitive reasoning. By providing examples from 雖然米勒因今年疫情關係未能親臨晨興書院，但她仍透 nature, she illustrated how our inner compasses 過兩次網上講座，為晨興帶來思想衝擊。她在 11 月為書院 often lead us astray and offered tips on how to 主持講座，跟正在修讀一年級通識教育研討課「當今困境及 keep an open mind in our quest to better 其歷史背景」的學生互動交流，討論她著作中提出的倫理問 understand the world. 題，要求學生思考自己的偏見。她於 3 月再度參與晨興的網 上活動，主持一個題為「砸碎你的指南針」的公開講座， 探討我們追求真相與內心直覺判斷之間可能出現的衝 突。她引用大自然的例子，說明我們內心的直覺指 南針常會令我們偏離正確的思路，因此建議我 們探求真相時，應保持開放的態度，才 能更清楚了解世情和真相。

Lulu Miller always loved reading and writing stories. In her childhood, the act of writing offered solace in a world that sometimes felt chaotic and overwhelming. Blank white pages felt like open roads that could allow her to go anywhere.

露露 · 米勒一直喜歡閱讀和創作故事。童年時，每

“When I was a little girl, one of my favorite things was grabbing a big stack of white computer paper, finding a room in the house where no one was, and stretching out on the bed to just invent a story,” she said.

“Oftentimes the stories I wrote would involve talking animals or wild things like sailing away on boats. They were super fantastical, and I think they were a form of joyful escape. I could imagine as I went, so the act of writing itself became a kind of an adventure.” Miller wanted to grow up to become a novelist but her penchant for storytelling did not lead her directly to a career in writing. Before she began work on her first book, she discovered another passion of hers in a surprising place — a woodshop.

「我小時候最愛拿著一大叠白紙，在家裡找個無人的

After graduating from Swarthmore College with a degree in history, Miller took a job with a woodworker in New York City. She had dabbled in sculpture and had always loved art, but what piqued her interest during the experience were the radio shows that always played in the background of the shop. Despite never having liked the radio as a child (she always found the droll voices of the hosts to be too flat and boring) Miller was hooked, captivated by the way shows pushed the listener to imagine the story for themselves.

一家木工店工作。她曾涉獵雕刻，也一直喜愛藝

當她感到混亂和無力時，寫作總能讓她得到心靈上 的慰藉。雪白的紙張就像遼闊的大道，任她自由闖 蕩。

房間，攤躺在床上，創作故事。」她說：「我寫的故 事，大多是講述會說話的動物，又或是出海冒險等 瘋狂的事情。故事內容荒誕，但可讓我愉快地逃離 現實。我下筆時會幻想自己如何出走，因此每次寫 作就變成了一次冒險旅程。」她希望長大後成為小說 家，但鍾情說故事卻未促使她直接投身寫作。在她 寫第一本書前，竟在一家木工店裡發現自己的另一 摰愛。 米勒在斯沃斯莫爾學院主修歷史，畢業後到紐約市 術。不過，在工作期間，最令她感興趣的是店內常 播放的電台節目。她小時候從不愛聽電台節目，總 覺得節目主持人的說話平淡乏味，一點也不動聽。 可是，木工店裡播放的電台節目卻能牽動聽眾幻想 故事，令她深深著迷。

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“We had the radio on in the woodshop all day, and I was really enjoying the form,” she explained. “I found that the shows had a similar effect to writing where I could really be transported by them. I remember laughing at really funny stories and crying at emotional ones - there was just this magnetism to that type of long form audio documentary.”

「我們整天在店裡開著收音機，而我很享受這種節

This magnetism led Miller to Radiolab, an award-winning public radio show that explores topics in science, philosophy, and ethics through storytelling. She began as a volunteer, wanting to learn more about this journalistic form that she now felt drawn to and eventually, she was hired as the show’s first producer. She spent the next five years learning the process of creating audio documentary stories, but she quickly realized that her urge to tell a story was not always an asset in journalism.

魅力。」這種魅力把米勒吸引到「電台實驗室」。那

Why Fish Don’t Exist and the dangers of the search for order While narratives can be gripping and useful in motivating an audience’s engagement with a story, they can also lead to oversimplifications, masking the truth and creating an appearance of connections that do not really exist. Through her more than 15 years as a reporter, Miller learned that a writer’s desire for an orderly narrative can actually hinder her ability to present reality’s true complexity. This struggle comes alive in Miller’s first book, Why Fish Don’t Exist, which seamlessly weaves her own quest for meaning in the world with the story of David Starr Jordan, a renowned taxonomist who is credited with discovering more than 2,500 species of fish.

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目模式。」她說：「我發現那些節目跟寫作帶來的效 果相似，我的心思被節目牽引著。我記得聽到有 趣的故事時會開懷大笑，聽到傷感的故事時又不免 落淚。這類長篇的電台紀述節目就是有這種攝人的 是個獲獎的公共電台節目，以故事形式探討科學、 哲學和道德的課題。她最初以義工身份參與節目製 作，希望仔細了解這種吸引她的廣播報導方式。其 後，她獲聘為該節目的首名監製，接著花了五年時 間學習創作廣播紀述故事，然而，很快便發現自己 渴望的說故事方式未必適合作廣播報導。

《魚兒何故不存在》以及尋找世間秩序帶來 的危險 雖然通過故事形式敘述事情能牽引和鼓動聽眾的情 緒，但卻容易過度簡化事實，掩蓋了真相，製造了 實際不存在的表面聯繫假象。在超過 15 年的記者生 涯中，米勒領悟到作者渴望有條理地敘述故事，其 實會妨礙報導現實背後真正的複雜問題。她在這方 面的內心掙扎，反映於其第一本著作《魚兒何故不存 在》。書內以著名生物分類學家大衛 · 斯塔爾 · 喬旦 的生平故事為主線，並在記述這位發現超過 2,500 種 魚類的學者事蹟時，適當地加插了作者對追尋世間 意義的見解。

The non-fiction novella, or “non-vella” as Miller affectionately calls it, began over ten years ago as an essay where she reflected on a memory from a childhood vacation to Cape Cod (photo, opposite page).

She and her father had been standing on a deck looking out over the ocean when she asked him about the meaning of life. “My dad essentially said the work of being a good human is to be really humble and aware of the fact that you’re never going to succeed.

There is no God, no afterlife, no destiny, and no fate. It’s likely that you’ll be wiped out by chaos quickly,” Miller recounted. “In contrast, David Starr Jordan felt like this counterpoint, a figure who basically put his middle finger up to the fates and represented a really different way to march through life. His defiance tickled at me because of the way my dad told me I should be oriented to chaos.”

Why Fish Don’t Exist takes readers alongside Miller on her journey of researching the life of Jordan, leading up to the discovery that his life’s mission to uncover the secret order of the animal kingdom was not as noble as it first appeared. By revealing the troubling connections between Jordan’s work and his advocacy for the eugenics movement, Miller illustrates how quests for order and attempts to make sense of the world can lead to dangerous ideologies about how society, and the world as a whole, is and ought to be structured.

Ironically, the forces that Miller comes to disavow in Why Fish Don’t Exist are the very same human instincts that led her to write the book in the first place: “I had this fire to connect the dots of his life in order to write a book saying don’t connect the dots. Even while I was questioning him, what it took for me to dig up his gnarly dirty sides was the same quality I end up critiquing in the book, which is that desire to hammer, and hammer, and hammer in order to make things line up.”

Perhaps this is why Why Fish Don’t Exist unfurls like a good horror film.

The reader begins in the same place as Miller and Jordan do, trying to make sense of a world in which there appears to be little logic or reason.

We watch in amazement as each time fate deals Jordan another blow, whether it is the death of his daughter or an earthquake that destroys his life’s work, he picks up his sewing needle intent on restoring the small amount of order he has been able to create. Meanwhile, Miller slowly pulls back the curtain to reveal the nefarious ends Jordan is willing to go to in order to maintain his neat picture of the world. By the end of the book, we find ourselves feeling just as betrayed by Jordan as Jane Stanford must have felt in 1905.

非 虛 構 短 篇 小 說（ n o n fiction novella），或是米勒 口中所說的「non-vella」， 初現於她 10 多年前的一篇 散文。文中憶述她兒時到 鱈魚角的一次旅行，她和 父親站在甲板上眺望大海 時，問父親生命有何意義 （左頁圖）。「父親說要成為 好人必須謙卑，並且要有 自己實際上永不可能成功 的覺悟。世間沒有神、沒 有來世、沒有命運，也沒 有天意。個人很容易被亂 世 濁 流 沖 走 ， 」米 勒 回 憶 說。「可是，大衛 · 斯塔爾 · 喬旦提出完全相反的論點。他鄙視天意，以截然不 同的方式活出人生。他那種對抗命運的態度對我的 思想帶來極大衝擊，因為父親說我該隨波逐流。」 《魚兒何故不存在》帶領讀者跟隨作者的步伐一起探 討喬旦的生平，卻發現喬旦發掘動物界神秘秩序的 終身使命，並非如最初所說的崇高。米勒在書中揭 示喬旦的工作跟他倡議的優生運動有著錯綜複雜的 關係，說明當一個人尋求世間秩序和意義時，可能 對社會甚至整個世界的結構產生出某些危險的想法。 諷刺的是，促使米勒在《魚兒何故不存在》中提出的 否定意見，正是最初推動她寫該書的直覺：「我熱 衷於把他一生中的點點滴滴串連起來，從而寫一本 書去說明別把這些點滴連起來。雖然我對他有所質 疑，但促使我把他的陰暗面發掘出來的動機，卻正 正是我最終在書內要批判的一點：為串連所有線索 而不斷挖掘、挖掘，再挖掘的慾望。」 也許這就是為甚麼《魚兒何故不存在》翻閱起來像在 看一齣恐怖電影。讀者最初跟米勒和喬旦一樣，想 設法理解看來沒有甚麼邏輯或理性的世界。不過， 稍後我們會詫異地看到喬旦每次受到命運播弄時的 反應，無論是他女兒的死或是地震把他畢生的研究 工作摧毀，他均會像縫補衣服般設法一點點地修復 原來建立的秩序。然後，米勒緩慢拉開帷幕，向讀 者展示喬旦如何為了維持自己整齊有序的世界，而 寧願走向邪惡的結局。讀到書的結尾，我們會發覺 自己就像簡 · 斯坦福於 1905年的感受一樣。

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David Starr Jordan, the Pandemic and Coronasomnia

大衛 · 斯塔爾 · 喬旦、疫症大流行與「新冠 疫情失眠症」

While Miller recognizes the horrendous ramifications of Jordan’s work, she also has respect for his resilience in the face of life’s chaotic forces.

When the pandemic broke out, Miller found herself thinking a lot about how Jordan would respond to it. “Surprisingly, I was thinking about how I could use his powers for good.” Miller explained. “I asked myself, what would someone like him do in this pandemic moment?” Jordan was not the type of person who would sit around wallowing; rather, he would use the new things that chaos threw at him as a creative constraint, a way to sharpen and make better his ideas.

雖然米勒知道喬旦的所作所為造成了種種極可怕的

Then Miller saw the protests happening in the United States and how people were using their pent-up energy to force people to care about the issues affecting them. She saw innovations happening in the arts world with people creating new forms of connection in a very isolating time, as well as all the other ways people were using the pandemic as an opportunity to launch something new. Inspired, Miller decided to turn her own experience as a reporter during the lockdown into something that could bring people together.

She realized that what she missed most about pre-pandemic life was being able to be out in the field, reporting on stories and connecting with people. Miller had been having a hard time sleeping and had read reports stating that many people were experiencing increases in insomnia during the pandemic – Corona-somnia. Lying awake at 2:00 AM one night, inspiration struck. “There's so many people awake right now,” she realized. “Wouldn't it be cool to just talk with them and connect us all in the space of insomnia when we're all a little bleary?”

This led to the development of an episode of Radiolab titled “Insomnia Line.” The episode was Miller’s first as a host of the show, having previously worked as one of its producers. At 1:45 AM on a Thursday night, Miller and her team tweeted out the radio station’s phone number with the instructions: “If you’re awake, call us.” By 2:00 AM, they already had 40 voicemails, so she and her team began returning calls.

後果，但仍很敬佩他面對逆境時的堅韌意志。疫症 大流行時，米勒發覺自己經常思考喬旦會如何應 對。「很奇怪，我竟思考如何借用他的力量應對疫 情。」米勒說：「我反覆自問，像他那樣的人在疫情 大爆發時會做甚麼呢？」喬旦不會就此閒坐打滾。 相反，他會把亂世中出現的新事物視為對創意的挑 戰，推動他想出更好的主意。 後來米勒看到美國出現連串的示威活動，看到人們 怎樣運用抑壓已久的精力，促使其他人關注跟他們 有切身關係的問題。她同時看到藝術界出現的創新 舉動，人們被逼隔離時如何創造新的聯繫方式，還 有其他人如何以不同方式，藉疫症大流行作出種種 新嘗試。米勒由此得到啟發，決定在封城期間以自 己的記者經驗，嘗試把人們連繫起來。 她最懷念疫症爆發前能夠自由外出，報導事件及與 人聯繫。有段時間她經常難以入眠，在閱讀報導後 知道在疫情期間有許多人失眠情況加劇，出現所謂 「新冠疫情失眠症」。有天凌晨二時，她躺著不能成 眠，忽然靈機一觸。「現在許多人應也無法入睡，」 她想：「如果大家可藉此失眠空間連繫起來，睡眼惺 忪地互相傾談，不是很好麼？」 這念頭發展成為「電台實驗室」的一輯新節目「失眠 熱線」。米勒原是幕後的節目監製之一，卻搖身一 變首次擔任新節目主持人。某個星期四凌晨 1 時 45 分，米勒和工作人員在社交通訊平台推特發報電台 的電話號碼，並留言說：「如果你還未睡，請致電 我們。」短短 15 分鐘內，電台就收到了 40 個電話留 言，米勒和工作人員便開始回覆。

Some callers talked about what was keeping them up at night, whether it was quitting drinking, being a nurse during COVID-19, a recent job loss, or the fires in California. Others talked about why they did not want to sleep. One man explained how the nighttime hours were the only hours he had to himself, while another woman had woken in the middle of the night, begun drawing, and now was not sure she wanted to go back to sleep.

有些聽眾談及他們失眠的原因，包括戒酒、在疫情

Then there was Maya, a college student who explained that she does homework until one each night and then is stuck with an active brain until four. Reporter Tracie Hunte offered her a tip for falling asleep; “When you're lying in bed, try thinking of a letter. An easy one like an M or a B or something. Then think of every word you can make with that letter and just see if you can bore yourself to sleep.”

隨後大腦會活躍地運作至凌晨 4 時。「電台實驗室」

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期間任職護士、最近失業，以及加州大火等。有些 聽眾則說為甚麼不想睡，其中一個男子說晚上是唯 一屬於自己的時間，另一名女子則說她半夜醒來開 始畫畫，現在不肯定是否想回到床上睡覺。 一名叫瑪雅的大學生說她每晚做功課至凌晨 1 時， 記者特蕾西 · 亨特教她一個入睡的秘訣：「躺在床上 時，挑選一個字母，不管是 M 或 B 或甚麼其他字母 都可以，再想出可用這字母組成的每一個詞，看能 否讓你悶極而睡。」

“I want writing to feel like a journey where the work itself has become an adventure. That’s not to say it's all going to be fun because you hit conflicting ideas or hard things about yourself, reality, history, or your government when you write. But I think maybe we would allow ourselves to do better work if we weren’t always tied to a feeling that we have to produce something in order to be worth something.” 「我希望寫作像個旅程，而作品要像一次冒險。不過，這並不表示寫作必 然會是一件樂事，因為每當寫到關於自己、現實、歷史或政府時，就可能 觸碰到衝突的思想或難題。然而，假如我們不執迷於一定要做甚麼來證明 自己的價值，我們就可以做得更好。」 “This was something we did from time to time,” Miller explained on the podcast. “Though we knew we probably couldn't help much, we would give people little offerings that we hoped might at least change their mindset.”

Changing people’s mindset is a common theme in Miller’s work. Whether she is exploring experiences of insomnia or the life of a twentieth century taxonomist and possible murderer, her work bridges the worlds of insight and story. Miller invites her audience to see the world through new eyes, with all its chaotic messiness and perplexing dilemmas. She does not claim to offer a perfect solution to these questions, but her work offers new ways of understanding and thinking about the challenges we face.

Fans of Miller can look forward to her continued reporting work for Radiolab, a forthcoming children’s book, and a possible essay collection.

Although she admits the thing that excites her most is spending time with her wife and two young children, Miller finds herself unable to turn away from writing about nature and the collision between human intuition and reality. Since completing Why Fish Don’t Exist, Miller looks forward to getting back to writing the way she did when she was a child.

“In the couple of essays, I've written since publishing my book, I've tried to just let myself go at my own pace and write at the moments where my workday is done and my kids are asleep – where I want to stay up late and actually work on writing,” she said. “I want writing to feel like a journey where the work itself has become an adventure. That’s not to say it's all going to be fun because you hit conflicting ideas or hard things about yourself, reality, history, or your government when you write. But I think maybe we would allow ourselves to do better work if we weren’t always tied to a feeling that we have to produce something in order to be worth something.”

「這些都是我們不時會為聽眾做的事，」米勒在播客 平台說：「雖然知道未必能幫上大忙，但我們還是希 望為其他人做點事，最少可改變他們的想法。」 改變其他人的想法是米勒作品中的共同主題。無論 是探討失眠經驗、二十世紀生物分類學家兼謀殺嫌 疑人的生平，米勒總是把啟發心思和故事這兩不相 干的領域串連起來。米勒鼓勵聽眾以新視角審視這 充滿紛亂混沌和困惑矛盾的世界。她並未宣稱可為 這些問題找出圓滿的答案，但其作品提出思考及了 解問題的新方法。 喜歡米勒作品的讀者可留意她在「電台實驗室」的報 導工作、即將出版的一本兒童書，以及一本可能出 版的散文集。雖然她承認自己最享受的是陪伴妻子 和兩名幼兒，但她放不下自己對大自然、人類直覺 和現實衝突等題材的寫作興趣。完成《魚兒何故不存 在》一書後，她期盼重拾自己年幼時的寫作方式。 「我在《魚兒何故不存在》出版後寫的幾篇散文，是 我嘗試按自己的步伐創作。在完成工作和孩子熟睡 後，而我想遲睡和感到想創作時才寫。」她說：「我 希望寫作像個旅程，而作品要像一次冒險。不過， 這並不表示寫作必然會是一件樂事，因為每當寫到 關於自己、現實、歷史或政府時，就可能觸碰到衝 突的思想或難題。然而，假如我們不執迷於一定要 做甚麼來證明自己的價值，我們就可以做得更好。」

Want to hear more from Lulu Miller? Miller’s public lecture “Hacking Your Compass” is available on the Morningside College YouTube account.

More of her recent essays and work can be found through her Twitter @lmillernpr. Episodes of the Radiolab and Invisibilia podcasts are available on Apple’s Podcast app and Spotify.

想對露露 · 米勒了解更多？她的公開講座「砸碎你的指南針」現上載於晨興書院的YouTube 帳號。關於她的最新散文和工作，可查看她的 推特帳戶 @Imillernpr。此外，RadioLab和Invisibilia播客的特輯，可在蘋果公司的播客應用程式和Spotify找到。

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KATE SAMWORTH: ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR OF WHY FISH DON’T EXIST 藝術家凱特 • 薩姆沃斯： 《魚兒何故不存在》的插畫家

By Juliet Levesque, Morningside College Junior Fellow 李慧姿 晨興書院通識教育導師

Artist Kate Samworth’s work serves as a reminder that art can and should exist in spaces beyond sterile galleries, white walls, and be admired from distances closer than one meter. In a conversation on Zoom, she touched on isolation, a fashionable topic this year, noting that even in normal times, “to be an artist is to work in isolation.” Though a great deal of artwork is produced in solitude, completed artwork should not be fated to exist in isolation. Samworth’s illustrative work in Why Fish Don’t Exist exemplifies the value of submerging artwork in context. In the case of narrative stories, there is a reciprocal relationship in which context embellishes the art, and art embellishes the story.

This is a delicate relationship, however, and Kate explained that “it’s up to artists to bring the illustrative interpretation and determine how to add to the text without repeating it.”

藝術家凱特 · 薩姆沃斯的作品，讓 我們認識到藝術品不應僅於缺乏生氣的藝 廊或四面白牆之內展示，而是可讓人親近地欣 賞的。凱特在網上通過 Zoom 接受我們的訪問，提 到現今最熱門的流行用語「隔離」時，指出即使沒有疫 情，「藝術家的創作過程也總是孤寂的」。不過，大部分 藝術品雖然是由藝術家孤獨地完成，但完成後的作品並不 孤單。薩姆沃斯為《魚兒何故不存在》一書創作的插畫， 展示出將畫作浸沒在文字中的價值。敘述式的故事往往 與其中的畫作相輔相承，畫作潤色文字，文字則渲染

In the past 50 years, it has become common practice for galleries across the globe to adopt the white cube aesthetic, in which bleached walls labelled with ‘please do not touch’ vinyl stickers and costly lighting function as the setting into which artwork is transplanted. Such spaces present artwork without a past or present context and create both physical and psychological distance between the art and the spectator.

畫作。對於如何掌握文字與畫作之間的微妙關係， 凱特認為「畫家須判斷如何詮釋文字內容，從 而創作出不重覆原著內容而能為文字增 添色彩的畫作。」

在過去 50 年間，全球各地藝廊大多喜歡採用白立方 體美學，在雪白的牆上掛著「請勿觸摸」的膠牌，再 以華麗的燈光效果展示藝術品。這樣的展示方式抽 離了藝術品在過去和現在所處的情境，使觀者與作 品之間產生實際上與心理上的距離。

The white cube is an art aesthetic that emerged in the twentieth century,

「白立方體」是二十世紀興起的一種展示藝術品的美

employing white walls and light sources from high ceilings with a goal

學，著重以白牆為背景，並從天花板高處照射藝術

to minimize distraction. In the contemporary, the white cube has been

品，以免觀者在觀賞時分散注意力。不過，當代評論

criticized for its propensity to cultivate elitism in art spaces. See Brian

家認為「白立方體」是推崇營造藝術空間的精英主義。

O’Doherty’s 1976 article-turned-book, Inside the White Cube.

請參閱布賴恩．奧多爾蒂於 1976 年出版的散文集《透 視白立方體》(Inside the White Cube)。

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After a brief call with Kate, it became clear that both she and her art thrive in spaces outside and beyond the white cube. Her work is made to be reproduced in print for people to hold and consume with full control.

She works in isolation, but that is not to say that she works without stimulation. She has spent a large sum of her life in nature, which is obvious in her artwork. Her advice for art students is: Keep pushing yourself to acquire new skills. Keep looking at the world. The approach to artmaking is different for everyone. Keep exploring, and always find the time even if it means you have to get up two hours before work in the morning.

Kate’s initial art schooling was incompatible with her artistic vision. She explained that it was difficult for her to find a teacher that was willing to teach her the sort of skills she was looking for. She attributed this difficulty to the heavy influence of abstract expressionism on some of her early teachers: “The art school that I went to, The Corcoran, discouraged me from drawing. They kept telling me I was drawing too much. They just wanted us to paint dots because that’s what all of my teachers did.

I ended up dropping out of that school because they weren’t really teaching me how to draw.”

跟凱特簡短通話後，我明白她如何跨越白立方體美 學，另行為其作品賦予生命力。她的方法是把自己 的作品複製刊印，讓人拿在手裡，無拘無束地自由 使用。她獨自創作，但並不表示她缺乏外界的靈 感。她長時間接觸大自然，而大自然在她的作品中 也十分顯要。她對主修藝術的學生有以下的建議：

每個人的藝術創作方式各有不同，但你應堅持掌 握新技術，時刻留心觀察世界，不斷探索，即使 要在每天工作前早兩小時起床，也應設法騰出時 間來創作。 凱特最初接受的正規藝術教育，並非她心中渴望的 理想。學院裡沒有甚麼老師願意教她想學的技巧， 因為他們大多深受抽象表現主義影響。「我就讀的 科克蘭藝術學院並不鼓勵畫素描畫，老師只想學生 畫幾何圖案的圓點，因 此常說我畫得太多。最 後，我退學離校，因為 那裡並沒有教我該如何 真正作畫。」 對於凱特來講，教書是

For Kate, teaching has been a means to perpetuate the importance of drawing from observation. She currently teaches ‘Art of Natural History’ and ‘Drawing from Reference Materials’ at the Pennsylvania Fine Arts Academy.

The involved methods in these courses, which focus on fundamental drawing skills that allow artists to achieve a likeness to life, are absent in Abstract Expressionism. Such techniques require a divergence from traditionally celebrated conventions like drawing from observation to produce lifelikeness, which has been a focal point for Samworth’s personal workspace (image provided by artist) Kate as both a student and educator. 薩姆沃斯的私人工作間（照片由藝術家本人提供）

她強調觀察後作畫重要 性的途徑。她現於賓夕 法尼亞藝術學院主講「自 然歷史藝術」和「參考材 料作畫」兩項課程。課程 旨在教會學生如何栩栩 如生地繪畫實物，而這 些技巧是抽象表現主義 絕口不提的。凱特從學 生時代以至現為人師均 著重傳統畫作技巧，主 張透過觀察後繪畫栩栩 如生的實物。

Abstract expressionism emerged in New York City in the 1940s through

抽象表現主義最初於 1940 年代在紐約市興起，起源於

a path paved by European Surrealist artists, who had fled to the United

歐洲超現實藝術家因第二次世界大戰逃難至美國而引入

States as World War II exiles. Artworks from the movement are meant to

當地。這一浪潮的作品，著重反映藝術家的內心世界。

be understood as reflections of the artist’s psyche. Despite their aesthetic

雖然抽象表現的作品有其美學特色，但評論家卻認為該

merits, abstract expressionist works are prone to ambiguity relating to

等作品的目標、訊息和「論點」均流於晦澀難明。抽象

purpose, message, or ‘a point,’ as argued by critics of the movement.

The value in abstract expressionism is found in an artist’s expression and gestures. It values an artist’s ability to make expressions through unique and personal gestures in spontaneous and improvised ways, producing abstract forms. See works by Helen Frankenthaler, Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko.

表現主義作品的價值則由藝術家的外在表現和行為所體 現。藝術家可以用即興隨意的方式，按獨特的個人姿態 自由表達。請參考抽象表現畫家海倫．弗蘭肯塔勒、傑 克遜．波洛克及馬克．羅斯科的作品。

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Kate had a clear vision of what she wanted to gain from formal instruction, which she later found at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art. There, she studied life painting and life drawing. Her positive experience provided her with a sense of urgency to pass on the cultivated skills.

She believes that “it’s important to share the skills in drawing from observation because it makes you curious about the world when you study in that way.”

凱特非常清楚自己想通過正規藝術教育學到甚麼。 她轉到新奧爾良藝術學院，在那裡她學習油畫寫生 和素描，終於得償所願。這次愉快的學習經歷，促 使她立志要把所學的技巧傳授其他人。她相信「這 是很有意義的事情，因為人們通過學習觀察作畫的 方法，會對世界變得更好奇。」 她於 2010 年重返新奧爾良藝

When she returned to the New Orleans Academy of Fine Art to pursue a printmaking degree in 2010, she gained additional experience that further informed her art. The scratchboard techniques used in Why Fish Don’t Exist are very similar to etching, a method used in printmaking. Natural History printmakers have employed this method for centuries. Kate imitates the form in graphite.

術學院修讀版畫製作學位課 程，進一步加強自己的藝術 修 養 。 她 為《 魚 兒 何 故 不 存 在》創作插畫時採用的刮畫板 技術，跟製作版畫的蝕刻技 巧很相似。這是自然歷史版 畫家過去幾百年來採用的創 作方法，而她嘗試用石墨模 倣這創作方式。 大自然一直對凱特的藝術視

The natural world has been key in shaping her Kate’s lens. Her parents’ interests also influenced her development as an artist:

角有著關鍵的影響，而父母 的興趣也促使她立志成為藝 術家：

我一直很關注環境問題。由 I was always interested in 於父親在 [ 美國 ] 政府工作， environmental issues because 要做許多有關水質及節能的 my father worked for the [US] 研究，因此我們都很關心環 government and did a lot of 境。我媽媽是位藝術家，也 studies on water quality and 讓我自小就喜歡藝術創作。 energy conservation and raised 我在華盛頓特區長大，那裡 us with a consciousness of the environment. My mom’s an artist, 有許多很好的博物館，可讓 so it was always my favorite thing ’A Boy With His Head in the Stars’ by Kate Samworth 我隨意去參觀。我喜歡在人 凱特 · 薩姆沃斯的作品〈頭在星星裡的男孩〉 to do as a kid. I grew up in D.C. 像畫廊裡定睛欣賞人像畫， and had access to all of the great museums. I’d go to the portrait 心裡難以相信竟有人可畫出如此逼真的人像。我 gallery and stare at portraits. I couldn’t believe that a human could 在高中獨自作畫時，發覺時間過得特別快。最初 paint this thing that’s so lifelike. In high school, I noticed time just 我是按照唱片封套和廣告傳單進行模倣繪畫的。 flew by when I was painting, and I got my start by copying album 高中畢業後入讀藝術學院，是我自小的心願。 covers and flyers. I went to art school after high school and I always knew it was [what] I wanted to do. 我於 1999 年在巴西逗留了好幾個月，絕大部分 I went to Brazil for a few months in 1999 and spent 98% of my time outdoors hiking in wide-open spaces. There were birds and butterflies and insects – it was just overwhelmingly beautiful, and that’s when I made a personal connection to environmental issues and started using them in my work.

Kate’s curiosity and relationship to nature aided her in illustrating Why Fish Don’t Exist. Her dreamlike scratchboard work, which functions as the invitation into each chapter of the book, has been widely admired at the College. The original copy of ‘A Boy With His Head in the Stars’ from Chapter One was raffled as a prize for the special Why Fish Don’t Exist edition of the Morningside Crossword Puzzle and awarded to a Morningside College student in April of this year as a special feature of our One Book Programme.

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時間在空曠遼闊的地方遠足。那裡有雀鳥、蝴蝶 和昆蟲等非常美麗的事物，自此我跟大自然產生 了一種個人層面上的聯繫，我也開始以大自然為 題材作畫。 凱特對大自然充滿好奇心和親切感，有助她為《魚兒 何故不存在》創作插畫。她為該書創作了想像力豐 富的刮畫板作品，每幅畫作就像是邀請讀者閱讀書 內的每一篇章，因此深受晨興書院師生欣賞。書院 為今年的「一本書計劃」特別舉辦《魚兒何故不存在》 填字比賽，而獎品正是書中第一章〈頭枕在星星裡的 男孩〉的原稿插畫，於今年 4 月頒發給書院的得獎學 生。

Kate explained her relationship with Lulu Miller and their uncommon collaborative approach to the book: I met Lulu in Charlottesville maybe ten years ago. I was already interested in natural history and collectors, and studying taxonomy; that was fitting and that’s why she thought of me. It was exciting to work on a piece of nonfiction that was related to my other interests, and of course she’s such a pleasure to work with.

Sometimes I’d be stumped on how to interpret the chapter because there’s some heavy material in there. It was hard to figure out how to maintain a sense of fairy-tale and the surreal in the art, and how to bring that to some of the darker parts of the story. We talked about ideas and that’s not usual. Usually, the artist and illustrator are kept apart by the publisher and not allowed to communicate, but since we were friends, they couldn’t stop us. It was a great experience and I really hope to work on another project with her.

Why Fish Don’t Exist was Kate’s first official illustration project for an adult book, but she explained that, “my first book [Aviary Wonders, Inc] was a book about birds meant for artists, birdwatchers, and adults.”

Kate possess an impressive ability to illustrate for both children and adults. She shared what she liked about illustrating for adults, “It’s more interesting to me to do highly detailed drawings, to let the subject matter be a bit dark, or a bit obtuse, and not let the point that you are trying to communicate be so obvious. I hope to do more books for adults and about nature. I also like inventing scenes and using surreal images and surreal combinations of figures and animals.”

It was inspiring to listen to Kate share about how she navigated her own schooling to find the educational experiences that aligned with her own vision and values. It was even more inspiring to learn about the ways that she shares the fruit of those experiences to educate and entertain others. It was clear that her commitment to her priorities and vision have been long and strong. For aspiring artists, she left a few words of advice: The most important thing you can do to be an artist is to stay out of debt. You’ve got to have time to make your art. A lot of great artists get into a massive amount of debt in their 20s. Then they don’t have the time to make the art, end up taking a full time job and it becomes very hard to pursue art. Get used to doing without a lot of the luxuries; that’s the way you are able to make your art. Maybe that means you don’t have cable. If you really love art you’ll always find the time for it, and you’ll do without some of the creature comforts.

Over the pandemic, Kate has enjoyed the ability to spend time working on Grand Isle, a children’s picture book that is set to be released this coming fall. She describes the wordless picture book as a “modern fairytale about a witch who communicates with animals.”

To learn more about her work, visit Kate’s website: www.katesamworth.com.

凱特談及她與露露．米勒的關係以及她們為本書合 作的特別模式：

我大約是 10 年前在夏洛特鎮認識露露的，那時 候我已對自然歷史、收藏家和生物分類學很感興 趣，所以正好配合露露的作品，而這也是她想找 我合作的原因吧。要為一本與自己興趣相符的非 虛構作品創作插畫，我感到很興奮，而跟露露合 作更是非常愉快的事情。 由於本書內容有點深奧艱澀，有時候我無法想通 該如何詮釋某一章節。還有，我要設法在畫作中 保持童話和超現實的感覺，再將這種感覺結合到 書中某些陰暗的內容，這令我頗感為難。這時我 們唯有跨越一般作者與畫家合作的方法，一起溝 通商量。一般來說，出版社會把作者和插畫家分 隔開，不讓雙方聯絡。不過，由於我們是朋友， 出版社沒法阻止我們對話溝通。這次合作非常愉 快，我很期待下次再跟露露合作。 《魚兒何故不存在》是凱特第一本正式為成年人讀物 創作插畫的作品。不過，她說：「我的第一本書 《鳥 [ 舍奇觀公司》]，是為藝術家、觀鳥者及成年人創作 有關雀鳥的書籍。」凱特擁有出色的能力，能為兒童 及成年人兩類不同年齡層的讀者創作插畫。她分享 為成年讀者繪畫的樂趣：「我喜歡創作細緻的畫作， 讓主體有點陰暗或圓潤，但不會太明顯地展示意 念。我希望為更多成年讀者和大自然的書本創作， 也喜歡以超現實方式繪畫人物和動物，創造超現實 的圖畫。」 凱特講述自己尋覓學校的經歷，如何尋找與自己心 願及價值觀一致的教師和課程，娓娓道來，令人受 益匪淺。她談及如何將自己的經驗傳授其他人，則 更讓人深受啟發。她總是努力達成自己想做的事情 和個人的心願。對於有志從事藝術創作的人士，她 提出以下的建議：

要想成為藝術家，首要做到的是不要欠債，因為 你須有時間創作。許多優秀的藝術家在二十歲左 右就負債累累，結果要全職工作還債，以致沒時 間創作，難以繼續追求藝術抱負。因此，你須習 慣拋棄奢侈的生活，甚至連看電視的娛樂也得放 棄，才有可能創作。但如果你真的熱愛藝術，你 會放棄舒適的生活方式，騰出時間來創作。 疫情期間，凱特很高興可騰出時間為一本兒童圖書 《大海島》作畫。這本沒有任何文字的圖書即將於秋 季出版，她形容該書是「一本現代童話，講述一個 能夠跟動物溝通心意的女巫故事。」 想更深入了解凱特的作品，請瀏覽她的網站： www.katesamworth.com。

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Which Taxi?

Evan Wu

Morningside College

The Morningside College Photography Competition is held every spring. All CUHK undergraduates are eligible to submit photos for consideration. In these pages we present the winning photos of this year’s competition.

晨興書院每年於春季舉辦攝影比賽，邀請所有 中文大學本科生參加。本章節展示今年比賽的獲獎 作品。

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Nicholas Ng

Wu Yee Sun College

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Life Companion, Walk With You

Yeung Ka Kit Shaw College

A Tree of Hong Kong

Jasmine Yu

Morningside College

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Sunshine on Mount Qomolangma After the Mist

Song Yuetong CW Chu College

Old Man

Woo Tin Shing New Asia College

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The Start of Infinite Possibilities Graduation Speech by Joelle Li Class of 2020, Social Science

回首漫爛時光 2020 年社會科學院畢業生 李倩盈致辭全文

Vice-Chancellor, Master, Dean of Students, Parents, fellow graduates and guests, Good morning. I am Joelle Li, a graduate representative from the Department of Psychology.

Now that a few months have passed since graduation, do you miss the days when you stayed in the pantry till late night just to revise for your midterm, the nights when you felt hungry and decided to go to the Women’s Cooperative or the CC canteen to grab some late night snacks, or the way you ran up the steep stairs outside the University Health Service in order to get to the Mong Man Wai Building on time?

Do you miss your club committee friends who tried out all the games you designed for o-camp with you even when no one was backing you up? Do you miss your friends who complained about the quality of the communal dinners and made fun of it with you? Do you miss our dear Pilot and Captain, or do you recall your o-camp friend whom you always had dinner with when you first came to CU but drifted further and further apart from as time went by?

A few months have passed since graduation. How have you been?

During my second year at Morningside, I told a prospective CU student that Morningside College was “the place filled with infinite possibilities”.

“Infinite possibilities”, who would ever use such naïve words? I did anyway. And now, thinking more carefully after I graduated, were there “infinite possibilities”?

Back in my year 2, I signed up for the university exchange program. My grades weren’t bad, but I ranked one hundred something eventually in the application process. Ranking one hundred something meant that I wouldn’t be able to apply for the best schools in East Asia, not to mention those popular destinations in Europe or the U.S. Luckily, I secured a place in University College Utrecht, the Netherlands, thanks to the exchange program in Morningside. My year 2 was not a good one for me. It turned out that I was not as passionate about psychology as I had imagined and I had no idea what I could become in the future. To me, applying for an exchange almost meant applying for “a refuge from studies”. Yet who knew that such an “escape” would help me find out what I really liked and disliked? An excerpt from a speech I wrote during my days at University College Utrecht sums up my days of exchange, “If I had not had the opportunity to perceive Utrecht in both detached 23

尊敬的校長、院長、輔導長，親愛的家長、朋友、 畢業生： 大家好，我是李倩盈，2019-20 年度心理學系畢業 生。 畢業了幾個月，不知道各位畢業生有沒有和我一 樣，掛念那個中期考試前坐在宿舍公共空間裡溫 習至三更半夜、夜半無聊走到女工或崇基食堂吃宵 夜、或者為了到蒙民偉樓上課而喘著氣走完保健梯 的自己？有沒有記掛那個在沒有人理解你時、仍然 『捱義氣』和你試玩迎新營遊戲的『莊友』、那個會跟 你一起抱怨共膳食物質素的宿友、還有我們最親愛 的 Pilot 和 Captain、甚至是那個剛入學時常常一起 聚會、後來卻越見生疏的迎新營同組同學？ 畢業了的幾個月，你還好嗎？ 還記得進了晨興後的一年，我在晨興的本科入學資 訊日跟那時的高中生說過：『晨興是滿足你無限可能 的地方』。『無限可能』，那時真是太大言不慚。從四 年後的今天回望，晨興究竟給予我們什麼？ 我大學二年級時報名參加大學的交換計劃，那時成 績不俗，卻排名一百多—這是連南韓和日本那些 比較好的院校也不能報的成績，更遑論歐美那些熱 門院校。幸好那時候我也報名參加了晨興的交換計 劃，因而能夠到荷蘭的烏德勒支大學學院交換。那 時我主修科目的學習遇到了瓶頸，對前景也是一無 所知。說到底，其實就是去荷蘭『逃避學業』一個學 期。然而正正就是這次『逃避』，卻令我更加知道自 己想要什麼。套用一句我在當地演講曾說過的講辭 來總結這次交換旅程的得著，那就是『當我有半年 的閒情逸致，時而抽離、時而親切地感受城市，我 才能在登上鐘樓的一刻，一邊感受著時間在齒輪逐 秒轉動間流逝、一邊看著鐘樓下那些像螞蟻一樣的 人散聚、來去』—那時我第一次對自己的大小，乃 至自己的煩惱，有正確的認知。而晨興給我的這次 機會不單令我認清和更加勇於承認自己喜歡什麼，

and local ways, I wouldn’t have been amazed when I climbed up to the historical observatory. I wouldn’t have been aware that time literally flew as the giant cogwheel of the clock turned one second at a time. And it was just amazing to see people, the size of ants, enter my sight and leave.” That was the first time I had a correct view of myself, of how small my problems and I actually were. The opportunity Morningside has given me not only encouraged me to admit what I am interested in, but also “opened a window” for me. Finally recognizing the value of learning, I started to take psychology seriously after I went back to CU. I made sense of what was taught. And I actually started finding pleasure in it! At the same time, I was also determined to explore cultural subjects which I was better at, like anthropology and cultural management.

更像開了一扇窗，幫助我意識到原來知識是多麼值

Another thing that Morningside gave me were ample opportunities. I am far from being a good student. Compared to many of you, I am certainly not an academic high achiever. However, this comfortable place taught me that the worst thing you can do is not to ask – asking is the key to new possibilities that you can never imagine. This precious opportunity to stand here and give my speech, for instance, originated from a parents’ night 5 years ago, when I volunteered to be the emcee of the event. Now that I have been the master of ceremonies of several college events, many kind-hearted teachers here have helped, nurtured and encouraged me along the way. The smallest potato can find its place here!

去數年來我之所以能夠成為書院不同活動的稱職司

If the landscape of CU or the people we met and the things we came across in Morningside could turn into rich fertilizer, for how long might 4 or 5 years’ worth of memories support us? I have no answer to this.

But I am certain about one thing: We have become better drivers – we are equipped to start our engines, know exactly where our accelerators are and are ready to start this long journey. We know that the choice to pause or make a turn is in our hands. I am sure I will find this car metaphor as naïve as the phrase “Morningside is filled with infinite possibilities” four or five years from now, but as a fresh graduate, it’s my privilege to stay naïve for a while.

“Long has been my road and far the journey; I will search high and low to find my heart’s desire (Qu Yuan, BCE 278).” I hope we can successfully seek what we are looking for safely and joyfully.

得追尋的。回到中大以後，凡此種種都令我願意更 加謙卑地理解和學習心理學了。同時，我也立定心 腸探索我比較擅長的文化科目。 第二樣晨興給予我的，是很多我從未想像過的機 會。我不是一個成績頂尖的人，對比起很多正在 看直播的同學，我的成績絕對說不上好。但這個安 全舒適的地方教會我，原來只要你願意嘗試，你會 有許多意想不到的收穫。例如說，我今天之所以能 站在這裡代表畢業生致辭，就是因為五年前大膽跟 書院辦公室職員說我可以當家長晚會的司儀。而過 儀、乃至在學業上的種種際遇，依靠的都是書院職 員和許多善心老師的提攜和幫助。『小薯』在這裡也 可以有逆襲之日啊！這些機會在汰弱留強的社會看 似很不切實際和不現實，但是在成長的過程中，卻 足以造就一個人。 如果中大的山和水、晨興的人和事真的會化成養 分，不知道這四、五年來的養分可以支撐我們走多 遠的路？老實說，我也不知道。前面的路很長，但 可以肯定的是，我們終於學會開車，可以發動引擎 了—我們現在終於能找到油門在哪、知道我的這 輛車子用的是什麼油。這也讓我越發明白，前面有 很多分叉路口，而我可以隨時決定停下、轉左、轉 右。說到這裡我就會不期然想起，可能四、五年後 當我重看這篇講稿，心情就會跟我回想大二時說那 句『晨興可以給你無限可能』一樣，尷尬非常。但 是，我仍然很想記下這種專屬於二十三歲、屬於 『社會新鮮人』的輕狂。 超過二千年前，詩人屈原曾經說過：『路漫漫而修遠 兮，吾將上下而求索。』二千年後的今天，希望大家 都可以平安、快樂地一路追尋自己想要追尋的一切。 謝謝大家，也謝謝陪伴我們走過這一段路的所有人。

Thank you all – and thank you to those who have accompanied us on this journey.

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Holding Together Graduation Speech by Kevin Feng Class of 2020, Engineering

四海一家 2020 年工程學院畢業生 馮嘯寒致辭全文

Vice-Chancellor, Master, Fellows, Professors, parents, fellow students, ladies and gentlemen:

校長、院長、各位院務委員、教授、家長、同學、

The past 18 months have proved to be a particular challenge for us graduates, but we made it. Sometimes it is easy to disconnect from our past experience, so I invite you to stop for a while at this point and look over your shoulder: we haven’t had access to campus facilities for a long time – I know that I personally miss the sea view from my hostel room and the fragrance of books in the library – and more importantly, we face uncertainty about the future for ourselves and the world we live in. But despite that, we have met our academic and social obligations and are entitled to wear this gown today. I would like to invite all graduates to take a moment to reflect on how we addressed the adversity we went through.

過去 18 個月對本屆畢業生來說，實在是挑戰重重，

I recall at this point one challenge I met during the past academic year: I have felt disconnected, both physically and mentally. I have felt that it is difficult to interact with my classmates and instructors – the Internet delay and construction noise across the street make learning different from the usual classroom experience. So what is holding us together at this point, when we do not have the physical boundary of lecture halls?

此刻回想，我去年面對的一個難題，是感覺自己好

Back when we were residing at the college hostels, we all had private space, but we would go out and chat with each other at the pantry, or during communal dinners. We would share ideas because we considered them potentially helpful and inspiring to other students, or in other words, because they might be in the interest of the community.

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但是我們都一一克服了。有時候我們會很快忘記過 去的經歷，所以我想請各位暫停片刻，回想一下， 就會發現我們已有一段長時間沒有踏足校園了。對 我來說，最難忘的是宿舍窗外的海景，還有圖書館 裡的書香。而更重要的是，我們要面對不確定的前 景和世界。儘管如此，我們終於達到學業和社會的 要求，有資格在今天穿上畢業禮袍。我想請各位畢 業同學用片刻時間，回想一下我們如何排除萬難， 跨過逆境。

像在身心上均同時與人失去聯繫。網絡傳遞的延 誤，加上街外的建築工程嘈音，使我難以跟同學和 導師溝通，不能像平常在課堂般學習。沒有了講堂 的牆壁，我們此刻又是如何靠攏在一起呢？ 回想我們在宿舍生活的日子，大家各自有私人空 間，但亦可在茶水間或書院共膳時閒聊，分享對其 他同學可能有用或啟發性的想法，讓書院社群或許 有所得益。記得有次跟何素楠教授談到其他同學對 書院一些問題的意見時，她說每個晨興人都有責任

I remember that when I was discussing the comments from other students on hostel issues with Professor Ann Huss, she remarked that Morningsiders have the responsibility to negotiate issues about the community independently. Looking back now, that was the start of my realizing my role as a participant in the community, in which I could have confidence in making a commitment and be recognized for the contribution, whether big or small, because I too could benefit from it: I enjoyed the accommodation, I learned from the discussions happening in the college, and I felt supported in general. So this is really a two-way relationship that we have trust in.

Three years have passed since then, and we fresh graduates are facing a world of disengagement, disconnection, and distrust. Recent events have disassociated people from the community they previously belonged to.

It is the time when we step out from the two hostel blocks and find that the outside is drastically different from the inside, that consensus may be more challenging to achieve than ever, that we feel anxious, confused and depressed. However, ultimately we need to collaborate on projects, large and small, similar to the course group projects we discussed at the bridge during final season. If we look at the mega projects in progress as a response to the pandemic, all of them are coordinated efforts from different minds, so it is the consensus on fighting the virus together for the well-being of all society that reconnects us across social separation.

And I believe that the experience we gained from college life about critical thinking, constructive dialogue and empathy for community members will translate into actionable plans we can follow in the real world, plans that will guide us through the fog of disruption to build something great together.

獨立地解決有關書院社群的問題。現在回想起來， 我該是從那時開始認識到自己身為書院的一份子， 該有自信致力為書院作出貢獻。無論貢獻有多大或 多小，我也可得到認同，而自己亦可得益。我喜歡 住在這裡，透過討論了解書院發生的事情，也感到 自己得到支援。這的確是我們所信賴的雙向溝通關 係。 三年過去了，我們這些新畢業生現在要面對的，是 個冷漠、分離、充滿猜疑的世界。最近發生的種種 事情，更把原本是同一社群的人分隔開了。我們現 在要走出兩座宿舍，面對截然不同的世界，或許比 以前更難就一些事情取得共識。我們會感到徬徨、 困惑和失落。不過，就像我們最後一個學期在橋上 一起討論小組作業一樣，我們最終須與其他人一起 合作，處理各種大小不同的事情。請看看那些應對 疫情的大型項目，同樣需要想法各異的人一起協調 合作，共同對抗疫情，造福社會大眾，把受到社交 限制而分開的我們重新聯繫起來。我相信在書院學 會的獨立思考、有建設性的對話，以及對待他人的 同理心，可轉化為現實世界裡實際可行的行動，引 領我們走出迷霧，攜手構建美好的未來。 感謝各位與我們一起度過在晨興書院的日子，並參 與今天的畢業禮。謹祝各位在疫情期間及疫情過後 一直身體健康。

Thank you for being with us today and throughout our time at Morningside. I wish everyone good health during and beyond the pandemic.

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Morningside graduates awarded UK scholarships 晨興畢業生獲頒英國獎學金

In fall 2020, two Morningside College graduates were awarded scholarships to study medicine in the United Kingdom. Allan Lui (top photo) was awarded a 2020/21 Croucher Cambridge International Scholarship to pursue his Doctorate in Medical Science at Cambridge University. He will be researching the evolution of drug resistance in triple-negative breast cancer with the goal of identifying strategies to overcome it at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute. Timothy Tipoe (bottom photo), a 2019 Bachelor of Medicine graduate, received an Esther Yewpick Lee Millennium Scholarship. He will be conducting research on HIV therapy while he pursues a Doctorate in Clinical Medicine at the University of Oxford.

After completing his degree, he plans to return to the Prince of Wales Hospital to become a clinical researcher. 晨興畢業生呂祖榮（上圖）及鄭世鴻（下圖）於 2020 年秋季獲頒 獎學金，負笈英國進修醫學。呂祖榮獲頒 2020–21 年度裘槎劍 橋國際獎學金，前往劍橋大學攻讀醫藥科學博士學位。他在英 國癌症研究協會所屬劍橋研究所就三陰性乳癌的抗藥性問題進 行研究，希望找出解決方案。在 2019 年取得香港中文大學內 外全科醫學士學位的鄭世鴻，獲頒利黃瑤璧千禧獎學金，前赴 牛津大學攻讀臨床醫學博士學位，研究人類免疫力缺乏病毒 （HIV）治療法。他計劃取得博士學位後，返回香港威爾斯親王 醫院擔任臨床研究員。

Exploring journalism in challenging times with Hannah Lucinda Smith 與漢娜 · 露辛達 · 史密斯探討新聞界面對的衝擊 On 11 November 2020, Morningside College hosted a Writers Series speaker event on Zoom with Ms. Hannah Lucinda Smith, author of Erdogan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey (2019). Smith is a correspondent for The Times (London) based in Istanbul covering Turkey and the Balkans.

Erdogan Rising examines the rise of Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, offering a closer look at Turkey’s recent politics and the broader implications for Europe. Smith talked to Morningside students about her experience as a reporter based in Turkey, her views on journalism in an increasingly authoritarian world, and her suggestions on how to think critically about the information we see on the Internet. This event was co-organised with the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.

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書院於 2020 年11月11日在網上 以 Zoom 舉行晨興訪問作家系 列講座，由《埃爾多安的崛起： 為土耳其精神而戰》一書作者 漢娜 · 露辛達 · 史密斯主講。 史密斯是英國倫敦《泰晤士報》 駐伊斯坦布爾記者，專責報導 土耳其及巴爾幹半島的新聞。 她在書中剖析土耳其領袖埃爾 多安崛起之路，透視土耳其近年的政治發展以及對歐洲的廣大 影響。她在講座中與學生分享在土耳其擔任記者的經歷、獨裁 統治在世界日漸盛行對新聞界的衝擊，以及閱覽網上資訊時應 如何分析解讀。這次講座由晨興書院與香港國際文學節合辦。

Class of 2020 graduates attend virtual graduation ceremony 網上畢業典禮賀2020年畢業生

On 19 November 2020, The Chinese University of Hong Kong broadcast the 88th Congregation for the conferment of bachelor’s degrees and the 8th Morningside College Graduation Ceremony. Master Nick Rawlins with our Presiding Officer and Vice Chancellor of the University, Professor Rocky Tuan, celebrated the achievements of 80 graduating Morningsiders. Graduates Joelle Li (Psychology) and Kevin Feng (Information Engineering) addressed the audience.

The Master reflected on the enduring commitment of our students during extraordinary times: “What a final year you have all had! Profound social unrest was quickly followed by waves of COVID-19. Classes were suspended; the College had to close and is yet to re-open fully; online teaching, followed by online examinations, became the norm; our

community has dispersed and is distributed across the globe.

Yet I see this very clearly as a year to remember, rather than as a year to try to forget. Morningside’s spirit — its kindness and cohesion, its enthusiasms and bubbling curiosity, and its thoughtful support for all its members — came through all this, and is as present as ever. You rose to all the challenges rather than being brought low by them. That undaunted spirit will be a lasting part of the mark you will make upon the world.” Congratulations to the Class of 2020! 香港中文大學第八十八屆大會（頒授學士學位典禮）及晨興書院 第八屆畢業典禮，於 2020 年11月19日以網上直播形式舉行。 晨興書院院長汪寧笙教授與校長兼主禮人段崇智教授祝賀 80 名晨興畢業生。代表畢業生致辭的是李倩盈（心理學）及馮嘯寒 （信息工程學）。 院長致辭時回顧在非常時期裏晨興畢業生表現的堅毅精神： 「過去一年真的是非比尋常。先是巨大的社會動盪，隨之而來 是新型冠狀病毒席捲全球。我們須暫時停課，書院關閉至今仍 未能全面重開。課堂轉為網上教學，考試隨後也改在網上舉 行，而這種模式已漸成常態。晨興社群被逼分散於世界各地。 不過，我清楚肯定這是值得銘記的一年，而不是要設法忘卻的 一年。晨興精神在於關懷仁愛、緊密連繫、充滿熱誠、常懷好 奇心以及支援所有其他晨興成員。這種精神經得起過往一年的 所有考驗，而現今以至將來也不會有所改變。挑戰和困難並沒 有使各位低頭屈服，反而是迎難而上。這種無畏的精神將有助 各位為世界作出貢獻。」謹此祝賀 2020年的畢業生！

Students acquire résumé and job interview skills at online workshops 網上工作坊助學生掌握撰寫履歷及面試技巧 On 6 February and 20 March 2021, Morningsiders joined the College’s online résumé and job interview workshops. Ms. Natalie Evie, who runs her own consulting company and has more than a decade of corporate training experience, offered

two workshops via Zoom. The workshops covered ten top rules for writing an effective résumé and three keys for successful interviewing. Students analysed job descriptions and learned how to answer six common types of interview questions. 晨興學生於2021年2月6日及3月 20日參加書院舉辦的履歷及求 職面試網上工作坊。負責透過 Zoom主持這兩場工作坊的導師 黃慧玟女士，創立及經營自家的 顧問公司，擁有超過10年的企業 培訓經驗。她在工作坊教導學生 撰寫恰當履歷的十大法則，並講 解成功面試的三大要訣。學生掌 握了分析職位要求的方法，亦明 白應如何回答六類常見的面試問 題。 28

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Celebrating the Class of 2021 at Photo Day 2021 年畢業班拍照日

On 26 March 2021, Morningside celebrated the Class of 2021 graduates at the College’s Photo Day. Master Nick Rawlins and Dean of Students Colin Graham addressed students and their guests, lauding the resilience of this graduating class and inviting students to give thanks to all who had helped them. The graduating students gathered for group and individual photos and celebrated the joyous occasion with family and friends. Congratulations to the Class of 2021! 書院於 2021 年 3 月 26 日舉行畢業班拍照日，祝 賀應屆畢業生。院長汪寧笙教授及輔導長簡家廉 教授分別向學生及來賓致辭，稱讚學生面對逆境 的優秀應對能力，並邀請學生感謝曾幫助他們的 人。畢業班學生聚首一堂拍攝合照和獨照，並與 家人及好友開懷慶祝。謹此祝賀 2021 年畢業班 學生！

Morningsiders present at Virtual Global COVID Symposium 晨興學生於新型冠狀病毒網上研討會發表簡報 Morningsiders Hayley Feng, Emilie Fu, Josephine Gracio (pictured below), Marta Gramatyka, Goran Shiao, and Natalie Woo presented at the Global COVID Symposium hosted by Connecticut College on 1 April 2021. Over the past several months, these Morningsiders worked virtually with students from institutions around the globe on collaborative research projects. The partnering institutions included Ashesi University in Ghana, Ashoka University in India, Connecticut College in the United States, and Higher School of Economics in Russia.

First-year student Goran Shiao, whose research focus was activism, commented, “It is crucial for us to acknowledge our cultural limitations which restrain us from gaining a better understanding of another country with a distinct sociohistorical context. I truly enjoyed the intercultural experience brought by this project; it allowed me to transcend my cultural boundaries by listening to the perspectives of participants from other parts of the globe.”

Marta Gramatyka, whose research focus was inequality, explained that she chose to take part in the project because “being able to expand my horizons, challenge my perspectives and learn to understand previously unexplored parts of the world is the best education!”

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美國康涅狄格學院於 2021 年 4 月 1 日在網上舉行全球新型冠 狀病毒研討會，晨興學生馮韋涵、符東怡、劉苹苹（下圖）、 Marta Gramatyka、邵柏均及胡鎧潼參與研討並發表簡報。他 們在過去數月與世界各地不同院校的學生在網上一起合作，共 同進行研究。參與合作的院校包括非洲加納Ashesi大學、印度 阿育王大學、美國康涅狄格學院以及俄羅斯高等經濟學院。 專注研究激進主義的一年級學生邵柏均表示：「我們必須明白 文化上的局限會令我們難以理解社會歷史背景截然不同的國 家。我很高興這個研究計劃為我帶來跨文化的體驗，讓我有機 會聆聽世界其他地方參與者的觀點，衝破自己的文化局限。」 以不平等問題為研究重點的 Marta Gramatyka 表示，參加這次 研究計劃的理由是「可擴闊眼界，衝擊自己的想法，了解世界 上不曾探索的其他地方，讓我得到最好的教育！」

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This magazine includes illustrations by Kate Samworth for Why Fish Don’t Exist (front cover, p. 9 and p.17).

Images were provided courtesy of Simon & Schuster. 本雜誌刊載了凱特 · 薩姆沃斯為《魚兒何故不存在》繪製的插畫（封面、第9及 17頁）。圖像由西蒙與舒斯特出版社提供。

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