LEUNG Mo Ling Rebecca

Dr Rebecca Leung Mo-Ling is currently the Associate Professor of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Associate Dean and the Director of the Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture. She received her BA, MPhil, and PhD in Chinese from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Hong Kong. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei. Her research interests lie primarily in the area of Chinese modern literature, Chinese contemporary literature, cultural & film theory and creative writing studies. She has published numerous papers in renowned journals such as Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, Bulletin of the Department of Chinese Literature National Chengchi University, and Chinese Modern Literature. She also published books titled Chinese Creative Writing Studies; Chinese Creative Writing and Multimedia in Practice; Imagination and Shaping: The Newspaper Coverage of Eileen Chang in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; and Visuality, Gender and Power: The Imaginations in Novels from Liu Na'ou, Mu Shiying to Eileen Chang etc. Apart from academic research, she is also enthusiastic about creative writing. She obtained the prestigious “Unitas Award for New Novelists” in Taiwan in 2002. Her novel A Lover's Discourse: Fragments 02.21 was published by Linking Publishing Company in Taiwan in 2021.

• Chinese Modern Literature
• Chinese Contemporary Literature
• Cultural & Film theory
• Creative Writing

Academic Experiences

Visiting Scholar, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2023

Awards

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, the Katie Shu Sui Pui Charitable Trust — Outstanding Research Publication Award 2024 (Gold Prize) 

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, The Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture led by Dr. Rebecca Leung has been successfully awarded the President’s Awards for Distinguished Achievement 2020/21 (校長卓越表現獎)

以論文〈創意寫作的未來──香港公開大學創意寫作課程設計之跨學科發展方向〉獲第六屆世界華文創意寫作大會暨2020年中國創意寫作高峰論壇優秀論文二等獎 (2020年)

以論文〈大學生創意寫作能力培訓──以香港公開大學創意寫作課程為例〉獲中國期刊《寫作》首屆優秀論文三等獎(2020年)

Hong Kong Metropolitan University, The Department of Creative Arts led by Dr. Rebecca Leung has been successfully awarded the President’s Awards for Distinguished Achievement 2017/18 (校長卓越表現獎)

以〈故事的碎片〉獲得臺灣《聯合文學》第十六屆小說新人獎短篇小說首獎(Unitas Award for New Novelists) (2002)

Grants and Funding

Principal investigator, Research and Development Grant, FDS project, " The Construction of Literary Thought and Cultural Ideology: An Analysis of Stephen Soong’s Cultural Activities and Networks in Hong Kong (1951–1996) in the Cold War Context ", Research Grants Council, HK$271,390 (Ref. no: UGC/FDS16/H01/24), 2024-2025.

Project Grant Holder, HKMU, Quality Enhancement Measures Funding, "HKMU Creative Arts Production Project", HK$ 3, 200, 000, 2023-2026. (PI: Dr Rebecca Leung, Team members: Mr Malcolm Liu, Mr Cheng Sei Hong, Mr Walter Wong, Mr Vincent Mak)

Project coordinator, Education Bureau, Enhancement and Start-up Grant Scheme for Self-financing Post-secondary Education, “Upgrading Teaching and Learning Facilities and Resources to Support Creative Arts Programmes in Interactive Music and Virtual Production Technology”, HK$ 33,000,000, 2023-2026.

Project Grant Holder, Research Matching Grant (by donation), Research Grant Council, “Teaching and Learning in Digital Humanities: A Study of Enhancing the Experiences of Chinese Literature and Culture through Interactive”, HK$3,005,000, 2022-23. (PI: Dr Rebecca Leung, Co-I: Dr William Lai, Dr Lee Lok Man, Mr Walter Wong, Mr Vincent Mak)

Project Grant Holder, HKMU, Faculty Advancement Fund, “Visiting Scholar, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and/or conducting research and development activities at The Chinese University of Hong Kong”, HK$190,000, 2022-2023.

Principal investigator, Research and Development Grant, FDS project, "Shaping and Being Shaped by Multiple Cultural Fields: An Analysis of Newspaper Coverage of Eileen Chang in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan", Research Grants Council, HK$496, 900 (Ref. no: UGC/FDS16/H02/17), 2017-2018. 

Principal investigator, Grant for Publication, " An Alternate Imagination of China: From Liu Na'ou, Mu Shiying to Eileen Chang", Hong Kong Arts Development Council, HK$36,400, 2016-2017. (withdrawn)

Principal investigator, Self-financing Post-Secondary Education Fund, Quality Enhancement Support Scheme (QESS), " Developing Language Proficiency for Post-Secondary Students: Online Assessment and Self-learning of Putonghua through gamification and automation", Education Bureau, HK$1,995,284 (PI: Dr. Leung Mo Ling Rebecca; Co-I: Prof. Cheung Kwong Yue and Ms Lau Wai), 2013-2014.

Creative Writing

梁慕靈：〈不可一世〉，香港：《香港作家》(2019年2月號)，頁7-14。

梁慕靈：〈紅莓記〉，台北：《聯合文學》(2003年12月號)，頁116-129；並收錄於《台港文學選刊》(2005年第3期)，頁7-21。

梁慕靈：〈小說問答〉，台北：《聯合文學》(2003年12月號)，頁112-115。

梁慕靈：〈胸圍〉，香港：《明報‧世紀版》，2003年1月23日。

梁慕靈：〈故事的碎片〉，台北：《聯合文學》(2002年11月號)，頁42-55，並入選台灣九歌出版社《九十一年小說選》，收錄於袁瓊瓊編：《九十年小說選》(台北：九歌出版社，2003年)，頁243-269。

Articles

梁慕靈、黃淑鳴：〈張愛玲、宋淇及宋鄺文美手稿遺物捐贈予香港都會大學──專訪宋以朗博士〉，《明報月刊》2025年3月號，頁82-86。

梁慕靈、黃淑鳴：〈香港都會大學獲宋以朗宋元琳捐贈張愛玲、宋淇及宋鄺文美手稿遺物〉，《明報》2025年2月20日，C9明月灣區。

梁慕靈：〈推動文創由大學做起——以都大張愛玲、宋淇和宋鄺文美手稿遺物特藏為例〉，《星島日報》(2025年2月14日)教育版「智凝都會‧知識轉移」，D02。

梁慕靈：〈「昨日今日」──宋淇在一九四九年前的文學創作和文化活動〉，《明報月刊》2025年2月號，頁73-75。

梁慕靈：〈香港文學如何成為旅遊業發展資源〉，《星島日報》(2025年1月14日)教育版「智凝都會‧知識轉移」。

梁慕靈：〈卓絕貢獻 橫跨三地──「張愛玲現象」宋淇貢獻最大〉，〈夏志清、宋淇與張愛玲研究──香港作家聯會文學講座紀實〉，《明報月刊‧明月灣區》2024年12月，頁7。

梁慕靈：〈數碼時代下的現代文學史料探尋──報刊中的張愛玲〉，《星島日報》(2024年12月10日)教育版(D02)「智凝都會‧知識轉移」。

梁慕靈：〈鄉土‧女性與荒誕──以小說思考社會和人生〉，《城市文藝》(2024年10月號) ，頁70-71。

梁慕靈：〈以張愛玲小說為例 看中國現代文學版本研究的重要性〉，《星島日報》(2024年10月4日)教育版「知識轉移」。

梁慕靈：〈推薦語──鄧人中：直到下一個夜晚的來臨〉，《香港文學》2024 校園文學增刊(2024年9月) ，頁45。

梁慕靈：〈閱讀文學作品只能賞析？──中國現代文學研究「科學化」〉，《星島日報》(2024年8月26日)教育版「知識轉移」。

梁慕靈：〈因緣際會──張愛玲與香港的互為形塑〉，《品賞──香港文學館館刊》創刊號，香港文學館，2024年夏季，頁51-57。

梁慕靈：〈論穆時英香港時期的創作〉，《田家炳中華文化中心通訊》2024年3月第13期，頁9-11。

梁慕靈：〈張愛玲的《描金鳳》、《傷心事》與《鬱金香》〉，《明報月刊》2023年5月號，頁80-84。

梁慕靈：〈數字人文視野下的現代文學史料研究──以張愛玲研究為例〉，《田家炳中華文化中心通訊》2022年9月第10期，頁14-16。

梁慕靈：〈創意寫作只有「寫作」？──在全球化視野下的創意寫作課程設計研究〉，《田家炳中華文化中心通訊》2020年3月第5期，頁25-26。

梁慕靈：〈張愛玲的衣服對照記〉，《田家炳中華文化中心通訊》2018年3月第1期，頁10-13。

• Associate Editor of Editorial Board of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (the field of Chinese Literature) (Springer Nature)
• Generic Skills Technical Advisor of the Employees Retraining Board
• Advisor of the Committee of Literature and Arts, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
• Examiner of Literary Arts, Hong Kong Arts Development Council
• Member of the Judge Panel of the “He Jianming” China Creative Writing Awards
• Executive Director and Deputy Secretary-General of the World Chinese Creative Writing Association
• The Master and Mentor for gifted students of the Hong Kong Gifted Apprentice Programme Voluntary Service mentorship programme