Artes Liberales

Dr. CHEN Ceng is an independent film producer and director, who used to do research on human milk at the Mass General Hospital and the Harvard Medical School. She holds a B.S. in chemistry from Nanjing University, and a Ph.D. from Washington University in Saint Louis.

Dr. Chen is active in science academies and societies back in China, and she organizes many academic writing workshops for graduate students majoring in science. Through running these workshops, she discovered common challenges faced by the students while she was inspired to learn more about liberal arts education as an approach to tackle important topics in one’s life. Artes Liberales is her first feature documentary, and she “made this film for all the Chinese international students fighting to be successful in the US education system.”

陈层，独立电影导演及制片人，哈佛大学医学院糖生物学项目博士后，本科毕业于南京大学化学化工学院，后于圣路易斯华盛顿大学获得博士学位。她在研究之外，自发利用回国时间，到中国各大高校及中科院各研究所举行科学写作讲座。正是在与研究生们交流英文写作遇到的困难当中，她逐渐地形成了对东西方语言及文化差异的系统性思考，并从通识教育和更广义的博雅教育中寻求答案。《大学之道》是她的首部纪录长片；她希望此片讨论的内容可以帮助中国留学生跨越文化障碍而找到自己的方向，也找到自己的幸福。