Professor Yu Kwang-Chung served as a professor of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at CUHK from 1974 to 1985, nurturing many future stars of the Hong Kong literary scene. In the 1990s, Professor Yu returned to CUHK multiple times as a visiting scholar and keynote speaker at international symposia. In the 21st century, he served as a judge for the Global Youth Chinese Literary Award for the New Century hosted by the Faculty of Arts at CUHK, making significant contributions to promoting youth literature and Chinese culture.
Professor Yu has written dozens of books of poetry, prose, essays, and translations. His representative works include White Jade Bitter Gourd (poetry), Memory as Long as Iron Rail (essays), and On the Watershed: Collected Essays of Yu Kwang-Chung (critical essays).
