Purpose
To enhance students' humanistic literacy, writing skills, and critical thinking, promote a reading culture on campus, and strengthen academic exchanges between institutions.
Organizers
- Organizer: Higher Education Services Office (Gabinete de Apoio ao Ensino Superior)
- Co-organizer/Implementing Unit: Macao Literary Critics Association
Competition Categories & Themes
- Critique Category: Humanistic Interpretation of Literary Works
- Poetry Category: Ode to Macao
Writing Scope
Critique Category
Select and read one of the following works, providing a humanistic interpretation of its ideas and artistry.
- Lu Xun "Wild Grass"
- Tao Li "Staggering"
- Xiao Hong "Tales of Hulan River"
- Yu Hua "Chronicle of a Blood Merchant"
- Xu Xu "The Whistling Wind"
- Lin Zhongying "Solo for Female Voice"
- Wang Meng "The Movable Parts"
- Liao Zixin "Ogo"
- Jin Yong "The Book and the Sword"
- Li Bihua "The Bridge of Life and Death"
- Cao Yu "Thunderstorm"
- Mo Yan "Red Sorghum"
- Bai Xianyong "Taipei People"
- Mo Yan "Frog"
- Liu Yichang "The Drunkard"
- Ba Jin "Cold Nights"
- Wang Yingguo "Sea Elegy"
- Chen Zhongshi "White Deer Plain"
- Xi Xi "My City"
- Wang Xiaobo "The Golden Age"
Poetry Category
Theme: Ode to Macao.
Eligibility
- Students enrolled in bachelor's degree or higher diploma programs at Macao higher education institutions.
- Macao residents studying bachelor's degree or higher diploma programs outside Macao.
Competition Rules
- Participation must be individual.
- Each participant may submit only one entry per category.
- Critique entries must be between 5,000 and 7,000 characters (including punctuation).
- Poetry entries must be between 10 and 50 lines.
- The first page of the submission must be the entry form, the second page the work information form. Both forms can be downloaded from the GAES website: [email protected].
- Font: Traditional or Simplified Chinese is acceptable. Must be computer-typed (specifications: A4 paper, 14-point MingLiU/14-point Song typeface, single line spacing).
- Submit a printed copy along with a CD or 3.5-inch floppy disk containing the digital file.
- References or citations must be noted using the Citation Order System at the end of the text. Plagiarism will result in disqualification.
- No simultaneous submissions to other competitions. No plagiarism.
- Submitted works will not be returned.
- The organizer and award winners will jointly hold the usage rights of the winning works, which may be published in a collection.
Submission Method
Participants must email the completed entry form, work information form (downloadable from http://studentblog.gaes.gov.mo), copies of ID card and student card, along with the competition entry by March 15 to:
Submission Deadline
March 15, 2013
Source
http://www.gaes.gov.mo/big5/act_new/116/
