A journey to Chinese culture for Stanford students

CUHK Vice-Chancellor Prof. Rocky S. Tuan (4th right, front) hosts a welcoming dinner for the BOSP students.

Following the successful first cohort in 2021, CUHK has once again welcomed a group of 20 undergraduate students from Stanford University (Stanford) from September to December this year through the Bing Overseas Studies Program (BOSP) in Hong Kong, an international learning programme jointly developed by Stanford and CUHK.

Designed to deliver an immersive experience of CUHK and Hong Kong, the BOSP-HK programme offers students the opportunity to take up CUHK academic courses curated by both institutions in a wide variety of disciplines, including an exclusive mandatory course ‘Investigating Hong Kong through Multidisciplinary Lens’ covering Hong Kong’s society, politics, economy and culture taught by Prof. Suk-ying Wong together with a number of guest speakers from different CUHK departments.

The BOSP students have fully experienced CUHK and Hong Kong outside of the classroom through a series of exclusive activities, including field trips to the city centres for a glimpse of Hong Kong’s unique proposition as the crossroad of Eastern and Western cultures, and a visit to the Ping Shan village in Yuen Long to survey the city’s indigenous history before colonisation. The students also took part in other activities organised by Stanford alumni in Hong Kong.

The BOSP students visit the Tang Family Ancestral Hall in the heart of the traditional village of Ping Shan.

Stanford undergraduate students can experience international learning at one of the 13 BOSP programme centres across the world. While most of the centres are directly maintained by Stanford, the Hong Kong programme is operated in collaboration with CUHK.