NTHU proudly presented an Honorary Doctorate to Mr. Leung Yung Cha, known as Yong Jin throughout Chinese speaking areas. As one of the most famous modern authors, Mr. Jin is also one of the important leaders in publishing industry. His is the founder of Ming Bao Daily and Monthly in Hong Kong.

Led by President Lih J. Chen, a group of faculty members went to Hong Kong to take parts in this historical event. Other distinguished guests attended the ceremony including the Minister of the Council for Cultural Affairs, Dr. Ovid J.L. Tzeng, former NTHU President Chung Laung Liu, President Way Kuo of City University of Hong Kong, President Yan-Hwa Wu of National Chiao Tung University, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Yuan-Liou Publishing Co., Ltd., Mr. Jung-Wen Wang, and several of Mr. Yong Jin's friends and relatives.

President Chen stated that Mr. Yong Jin started his brilliant career in literature very early; he and his classmates wrote a popular guide book on the application to junior high schools, entitled "To Junior High Applicants," when they were only 15 years-old. After finishing his formal education, he worked as a reporter, interpreter, editor, screenwriter, and movie director. Moreover, at age of 31, Mr. Yong Jin wrote his first martial arts novel "The Book and The Sword," and he published his master piece "the Deer and the Cauldron" when he was 48. Eventually he wrote and published 15 best-selling novels, and some were adapted to television series, radio plays and stage shows. Therefore, Mr. Jin made great contribution to Chinese literature for past fifty years and has become one of the most influential writers in the Chinese community.

President Chen further said that Academician Chin-Chuan Cheng and Academician Ovid J.L. Tzeng had analyzed numerous novels written by Mr. Yong Jin. They found out that Mr. Jin uses no more than four thousand and five hundred words for each novel and there are more positive than negative remarks. In addition, the martial arts depicted in his novels correspond with recent discovery in cognitive psychology, indicating Mr. Jin's extra ordinary mastery with words. He used words and sentences that the general public can easily understand, and use his experience and extensive knowledge to create a vivid and dazzling world of martial arts.

Mr. Jin has been in journalism for decades, and has become one of the most successful journalists in our society. President Chen respects his extensive knowledge of poetry and literature, ability to write social criticism with his left hand and novels with his right, and his devotion to promote democracy and freedom, as well as his contribution toward of the welfare of common people. President Chen further indicated that Mr. Jin has a strong thirst for knowledge and has done a great deal of researches in the field of law, history and religion; and he is probably one of the eldest scholars in the history, because at age of 82 he received an MA from Cambridge after completing the thesis on "The Imperial Succession in the Early Tang Dynasty," and at 86 he got his PhD from the same institution with a dissertation entitled "The Imperial Succession In Prosperous Tang Dynasty."

President Chen pointed out that Mr. Jin’s cousins, Mr. Liang Zheng Cha, known as Mu Dan, and Mr. Liang Zhao Cha, are both famous Tsing Hua alumni. Furthermore, in 2001, NTHU presented Mr. Jin the Honorary Distinguished Professorship when he joined the "Wisdom of Time – The Minds of Grand Masters Conference" with former NTHU President Chao-Shiuan Liu and Dr. Chen-Ning Yang. President Chen also indicated that Mr. Jin used to play Go with former NTHU President Chun-Shan Shen for many years, so when NTHU built the "Go Garden" on our campus, it quickly became an attractive landmark. This landmark will soon be decorated by Mr. Jin's calligraphy and a poem that he is writing.

Mr. Yong Jin has witnessed many important events in the history, thus Dr. Ovid J.L. Tzeng indicated that he is very happy to see that NTHU is presenting an honorary doctorate to Mr. Jin for his insights and reflection on history and Chinese culture. Minister Tzeng believes that Mr. Jin's readers would all agree with the moral standards and value system in the novels, which is why Mr. Yong Jin has such an influence in Chinese society.

According to former NTHU President Chung Laung Liu, Mr. Jin was born in a family of scholars, but raised in a time chaos. Mr. Jin established the Ming Pao News as a true patriot and as a statesman devoted to the betterment of our society. He is also a promoter of Chinese culture, the creator of new genre of martial arts literature, a man of wisdom, and a scholar who never stops studying. He further said that despite the advancement of technology, unstableness of social structure and constant political conflict, the human nature never changes. With that concept in mind, Mr. Jin portrayed the characters so detailed as if they were real people in our live.