Cangwu’s Book Chat: When the Page Becomes the Screen

A Gathering on Adaptation, Expression, and the Art of Re-creation

Have you ever loved a film because a book first captured your heart?  
Or glimpsed, flickering on the screen, a soul you once met in the quiet intimacy of a page?

Literature and cinema, one conjures worlds from the silent dance of words, the other paints reality with the fleeting brushstrokes of light and shadow.  
When the timeless meets the newly imagined, it is not merely the echo of a story retold, but a daring experiment in the very act of storytelling.

Whether you are a faithful reader, forever chasing the next line,  
or a devoted cinephile, entranced by the magic of the moving image,  
this is an invitation—  
to gather, to wonder, and to journey together.

Let us ask in the luminous space between text and image: What does it mean to be true? And what does it mean to be free?

Date: 6 November 2025 (Thursday)  
Time: 19.00 – 21.00  
Venue: QR402  
(by) Ms LI Yufei  
(for) PolyU Students