Chinese University Bulletin Number Three 1986

The Chinese University B ulletin is an official publication of The Chinese University of Hong Kong published, five issues a year, by the Secretariat for free distribution to members and friends o f the University.

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News Exhibition and Symposium on Contemporary ...... 1 International Colloquium on Yao Studies...... 3 News in B rie f...... 5 Recent Developments Department of Anthropology...... 9 Career Destination of 1985 Graduates...... 13 Academic / Cultural Events Seminars • Exhibitions ...... 15 P ro file s ...... 17 P e rso n a lia ...... 18 Gifts and Donations...... 19

Cover: L i Reran, Learning Calligraphy

Advisory Committee on Chinese University Bulletin Professor D.C. Lau Mr. Jacob S.K. Leung Professor S.W. Tam Professor Yeung Yue-man E d ito r: Mrs. Y .L.C. Foo (On leave) Guest Editor (English Edition): Mr. Brian C. Blomfield Assistant Editors: Mr. Chung K i Yuen Mrs. K. Lee Wan Address: The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong Exhibition and Symposium on Contemporary Chinese Painting

The University held an Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Paintings at Hong Kong City Hall from 9th to 14th May, in vitin g some fifty overseas and local artists to participate. In the meantime, from 10th to 13th May, a symposium w ith the same theme was also held at the University, at which prominent scholars and renowned Chinese painters from all parts of the world gathered to explore issues in the theoretical and creative aspects o f contemporary Chinese painting. The exhibition and the symposium, sponsored by the Ming Pao Daily News Ltd., aimed to encourage research on and to inspire the creative sp irit in Chinese painting, as well as to promote international cultural exchanges. Preparation for the exhibition and the sympo sium began early this year, w ith an organizing com mittee headed by Dr. Ng Lee Ming, Dean of the Faculty of Arts. The painters and scholars were invited in their personal capacity. The exhibition, after months of hard work by the organizing committee, commenced on 9th May. Professor C.N. Yang, Distinguished Professor-at-Large of the University, officiated at the opening ceremony. Professor Yang, Dr. Ma Lin, the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Louis Cha, Director of Ming Pao Daily News Ltd. and Professor Tseng Yuho, representative of the painters, addressed the guests at the ceremony. The Chinese painters from the four comers of the world represented in this major exhibition included Zhu Qizhan, Liu Haisu, Dong Shouping, , Ye Qianyu, Wu Zuoren, Lu Yanshao, Li Xiongcai, Tang Yun, , Guan Shanyue, Sun Ying, Wu Guanzhong, Cheng Shifa, Huang Yongyu, Huang Zhou, Peiqiu from the Chinese mainland; Wong Chun- pei, Chen Chi-kwan, Wu Cheng-yen, Hsu Shu-hsiu, Kuan Chih-chung, Li Chi-mao, Yuan Te-hsing, Au H o nien, Lee Chu-yuan, Hwang Chur-hwu, Ho Huai-shuo, Hong Keng-sheng from Taiwan; Luis Chan, Chao Shao- an, Yang Shen-sum, Jao Tsung-i, Irene Chou, Liu Kuo- sung, Chong ling-ling, Chui Tze-hung, Lee Yun-woon, Kan Tai-keung, Kwok Hon-sum, Cheng Ming, Lau Wai-ki from Hong Kong; Wang Chi-ch'ien, Tseng Yuho, Fong Chung-ray, Chen Sui-kang, Wucius Wong from the United States, Koo Mei from Canada, Chu Teh- chun, Zao Wou-ki from France, Hsiao Chin from Italy, Fang Zhaoling from the United Kingdom, Chen Wen- hsi from Singapore and Chung Chen-sun from Malaysia. On display at the exhibition were about 200 paintings, showing a great variety of subject matters Jao Tsung-i，Cave at Izum o

NEWS 1 and styles. Traditional paintings of landscape, figure, ‘The Style o f Chinese Painting in M alaysia' by Chung bird and flower were placed side by side with mod Chen-sun dern paintings in a semi-abstract or abstract style. Inheritance and Innovation, by Wang Zhaowen This exhibition provided a good opportunity to Ways to let "One Hundred Flowers Blossom'' in review the various trends and developments o f Chinese Modem Chinese Painting' by Hsiao Chin painting in the twentieth century. The Look o f Hong Kong Ink Painting’ by Chui Tze- The catalogue of the exhibition, entitled hung Contemporary Chinese Painting, was edited and ‘My Experience in Studying Painting, by Fang published by The Chinese University Press. W ith 120 Zhaoling illustrations and biographies of the artists, this 140- ‘My Way, by Wu Guanzhong page catalogue is a useful reference for contemporary ‘The Synthesis o f Chinese and Western Painting' by Chinese painting. Chen Wen-hsi The symposium was held at the University's During the period of the exhibition and the Cho Yiu Hall and was opened by the Vice-Chancellor. symposium, the highlight was the two painting Three lectures were delivered at the symposium: sessions on 12th and 13th May in which the artists 'Contemporary Scene in Chinese Painting' by Huang took part. The Art Gallery played host to these Miaozi from Chinese mainland, 'Problems Concerning memorable gatherings, which resulted in almost Brushwork and In k in Chinese Painting' by Wang Chi- twenty paintings jointly done by the artists present, ch'ien from the United States, and 'The Revolution including a large painting measuring about four metres of Chinese Ink Painting' by Yuan Te-hsing from wide. Two of these paintings were then presented to Taiwan. The panel discussions were chaired by Dr. the organizer and the sponsor of this grand event as Mayching Kao and Mr. Sheung Chung Ho, and the souvenirs. following papers were presented: A historic event in the contemporary Chinese art ‘The so-called “Literati Painting” and “Northern and scene, the exhibition and the symposium provided an Southern Schools” o f Dong Qichang' by Xie Zhiliu unprecedented opportunity for major artists to display 'A Discussion on Density and Sparsity o f Brushwork their works under one roof and to exchange their and Composition in Chinese Painting' by Jao views on Chinese painting. The response from the Tsung-i painters and scholars was even more enthusiastic, since ‘Aesthetics and the Spirit o f Chinese Painting’ by some o f them were friends who have been apart fo r Tseng Yuho tw o or three decades. The activities have focused the ‘Chinese Ink Painting and the Spiritual Expression o f public's attention on Chinese painting and stimulated Brushwork and In k ' by Dong Shouping greater interest. A ll the artists and scholars who took 'A Tentative Study o f the Lingnan School and Inno part agreed w ith M r. Huang Zhou who, at the Vice- vation in Chinese Painting' by Guan Shanyue Chancellor's welcoming dinner, said: This is a ‘The New Generation o f Ink Painting in Taiwan' by gathering that has no precedent. It may be the first Hwang Chur-hwu time, but we believe it w ill not be the last.

Liu Haisu, Light at the Top o f Huangshan (detail)

2 NEWS International Colloquium on Yao Studies

'The Yao are one o f the major minority nationalities Australia and the United States. Among them, seven in China. With a population o f 1.4 million, they rank were Yao people themselves. There was also a Yao only twelfth among the most populous minority delegation of three representing the Yao people who groups in the country, but they are widely distributed have migrated to the United States from Southeast in the provinces o f Guangxi, Hunan, , Guang Asia. dong, Guizhou and Jiangxi. Yao people are also found The colloquium was held in thirteen sessions: in Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, France and the United First Session: States o f America. The Yao people have been the Chairman Jao Tsung-i focus o f studies fo r both Chinese and overseas ethnol Discussant Joel Thoraval ogists, linguists and historians on account o f their Speakers Fei Xiao-tong: ‘Fifty Years'Investi cultural uniqueness and numerous ethnic subdivisions.' gation in the Yao Mountains.' Liu Yao-quan; Hu Qi-wang: ‘A The first International Colloquium on Yao Summary o f the Yao Studies in Studies commenced on 26th May, 1986 in the Univer China from 1949 to 1984. ’ sity's Cho Y iu Hall. Briefing the guests on the theme Second Session: of the colloquium in these words, the Vice-Chancellor, Chairman Liu Yao-quan Dr. Ma Lin , also pointed out in his opening speech Discussant Zee Yun-yang that the colloquium, with thirty-one Yao specialists Speakers Georges Condominas: The First and scholars from China and overseas participating, French Publications on the Yao.' was really a great event in the study of the Yao, as Gordon B. Downer: 'Divisions there had not previously been any international aca between Yao and Miao.' demic organization for the promotion of Yao studies Third Session: and cooperation among Yao scholars. Mr. Tang Hui, Chairman Hsieh Jiann Chairman of the Commission for Minority National Discussant Gordon B. Downer ities Affairs of Guangdong Province, also delivered a Speakers Pan Cheng-qian: 'YaoDialectology.' speech at the opening ceremony, giving a detailed Zee Yun-yang: 'A Comparison introduction on the distribution of the Yao people in between Pai Yao and Guoshan China, the characteristics of the subdivisions in cos Yao Dialects.' tumes, language, economic life and the changes after Fourth Session: 1949. Finally, Dr. Chiao Chien, Chairman of the Chairman Tang Hui Department of Anthropology, made a report on behalf Discussant Hsieh Jiann of the Organizing Committee of the Colloquium. Speakers Li Xiao-wen: ‘Study o f the Pai Yao The four-day colloquium was jointly organized Dresses and Ornaments.' by the Department of Anthropology, the Research Xu Wen-qing: 'Myths and Legends

Centre on the Anthropology of South China and ， o f the Liannan Ba Pai Yao.' Indo-Chinese Peninsula of the French National Centre F ifth Session: of Scientific Research, and the Hong Kong Institute Chairman Pan Cai-wan for Promotion of Chinese Culture. Apart from local Discussant Peter Kandre scholars, participants included fourteen scholars from Speakers Lia o Bao-yun: ‘Social Change in the China and eight from France, England, Sweden, Liannan Autonomous County in

NEWS 3 Guangdong: An Analysis Based Tw elfth Session: on Population Structure.' Chairman Yeung Yu-ping Hsieh Jiann: 'A Preliminary Study Discussant Jacques Lemoine o f Territorial Endogamy o f the Speakers Huang Yu: 'Preliminary Study of Pai Yao in Liannan.' King Ping's Charter.， Sixth Session: L i Mo: ‘The Ancient Distribution Chairman Georges Condominas o f the Yao in Guangdong.， Discussant Chen Chi-nan Thirteenth Session: Speakers Pan Cai-wan: 'Distribution and Chairman Gordon B. Downer Origin o f the Yao in Ruyuan.' Discussant James A. Standifer Lai Cai-qing: ‘Social Change in the Speaker Jacques Lemoine: ‘Yao Culture and Liannan Yao A re a .， Some Other Related Problems.， Seventh Session: The concluding session o f the colloquium was Chairman Liao Bao-yun held at the Hong Kong Institute for Promotion of Discussant Herbert C. Purnell Chinese Culture and chaired by Dr. Chiao Chien. Speakers Chiao Chien: ‘Sexual Equality and Speaking at the concluding session were M r. Yeung Patrilineality: A Case o f Pai Yao.' Yu-ping, General Manager of the Institute, Jacques Song En-chang: The Family System Lemoine, Director, the Research Centre on the and Its Ethic among the Yunnan Anthropology of South China and the Indo-Chinese Yao. ' Peninsula of the French National Centre of Scientific Eighth Session: Research, and Mr. Liu Yao-quan, Director, Guangdong Chairman Zee Yun-yang Research Institute of M inority Nationalities. Discussant Nicholas C.T. Tapp To promote the public understanding of the Speakers Hu Qi-wang: 'A Preliminary Study Yao people, an exhibition of 'Arts and Artifacts of o f Yao Shifting Cultivation.' the Yao Minorities of North Guangdong' jointly pre Peter Kandre: ‘The Relevance of sented by the Hong Kong Institute for Promotion of Ecology and / or Economy for Chinese Culture and the Guangdong Research Institute the Study o f Yao R eligion.， of Minority Nationalities was held at the Hong Kong N inth Session: Institute for Promotion of Chinese Culture from 3rd Chairman Song En-chang to 30th May. Exhibits included some o f the tools, Discussant Michel Strickman implements and costumes, articles and religious items Speakers Jao Tsung-i: ‘Some Remarks on of the Yao people's cultural and artistic activities the Yao Documents Found in before the 1950s. Thailand and Edited by Y. Following the colloquium, participants set S h ira to ri.， out for a field trip to Liannan and Ruyuan Yao Kok Hu-jin: ‘Some Aspects o f Yao Autonomous Counties of Northern Guangdong on Belief System.， 30th May, at the invitation of the Commission for Tenth Session: M inority Nationalities Affairs of Guangdong Province. Chairman Jacques Lemoine Discussions were held during the trip with local Yao Discussant Huang Yu people and Chinese officials who were involved in the Speakers Zhang You-juan: 'A Simple Expla research on Yao culture as well as socio-economic nation o f the Yao Taoist Beliefs development of the Yao communities. among the Yao of the One The colloquium was considered a great success. Hundred Thousand Mounts.， It was unanimously decided by the thirty-one partici Michel Strickman: 'Chinese Sources pants to officially establish a permanent organization, o f Yao R itu a l and M y th .' the International Association for Yao Studies, dealing Eleventh Session: with the development of research on Yao culture and Chairman Peter Kandre the various groups which share this culture. At the Discussant Kok Hu-jin first meeting of the Executive Committee of the Speakers James A . Standifer: ‘The Folksongs， Association held in Ruyuan Yao Autonomous County Dance， and Culture o f the Yao on 4th June, major joint research projects on Yao Nationality.， culture were proposed and it was also agreed that the Herbert C. Purnell: ‘The M etrical second International Colloquium on Yao Studies Structure o f Yiu Mien Secular would be held in Guangxi in 1988，and the th ird one Songs.' in Paris in 1990. 4 NEWS News in B rief

University Offers New Programmes Under the reorganized faculty, the Board of The Senate has approved the establishment o f the Undergraduate Studies, the Board o f Graduate Studies, following new undergraduate and postgraduate pro and an Executive Training Programme Committee grammes: w ill be established. The three existing departments (1) Full-time Integrated BBA Programme in 1986-87 w ill also be reorganized into six new departments, This integrated BBA programme aims to provide namely, Accountancy, Finance, Marketing, Inter­ a more balanced exposure to all business functional national Business, Organization and Management, and areas fo r each student in the Faculty o f Business Systems Management. Administration and students under the programme w ill be affiliated to the faculty rather than to indivi Budget Committee dual departments. For those students who may wish The membership of the University's Budget Com­ to specialize in accounting, a study scheme fo r a mittee from 1st July, 1986 is as follows: Professional Accountancy Programme is also offered. Chairman: Professor Hsu Baysung (2) Minor Undergraduate Programme in Law in Members: Professor Tien-chi Chen 1987-88 Dr. Stanislaus Hu This minor programme, to be administered by Professor Rance Pui-leung Lee the Department of Government and Public Admin Dr. Ng Lee-Ming istration, aims to give students a more comprehensive Ex-officio members: University Secretary understanding of the complex modern society in Registrar which law has become a basic component. Bursar (3) Joint MPhil Programme in Biotechnology in Secretary: M r. Terence C.W. Chan 1986-87 The Budget Committee is to make recommen This new programme, jointly administered by dations to the Administrative and Planning Committee the Graduate Divisions of Biology and Biochemistry, (AAPC) on all matters relating to financial procedure is a first step in co-ordinating teaching and research and planning in the University. Except for the ex- activities in biotechnology, and w ill help strengthen officio members, all other members of the Committee, the University's position in providing biotechnological including the Chairman and the Secretary, are expertise to the local and regional communities. appointed in their personal capacity for a term of Initially, student intake will be limited to two per tw o academic years. year. (4) MBA Specialization Programme in Finance and Academic Equipment Grant Committee Accounting in 1987-88 The membership of the University's Academic Equip This two-year full-time programme w ill be the ment Grant Committee for the period from 1st July, third MBA Specialization Programme. It w ill adopt 1986 to 30th June, 1988 is as follows: basically the same curriculum structure as the others. Chairman: Professor David J. Riches Members: Dr. Choy Chung-loong Reorganization of the Faculty o f Business Adminis Dr. Daniel Ping-Leung Law tration Mr. David A. Gilkes The Senate, at its meeting held on 30th April, Dr. Stanislaus Hu approved a proposal to reorganize the Faculty of Professor Chung Yu-to Business Adm inistration in 1987-88. The reorganiz Professor Rance Pui-leung Lee ation is in line with recent developments in leading Chairman, Science Centre Manage business schools in other countries, and w ill enable ment Committee the faculty to make better and more effective use Secretary: M r. Terence C.W. Chan of its manpower. The terms of reference of the Committee are:

NEWS 5 (a) having regard to overall University policies on University Members Serve on Outside Committees academic development and research, to advise AAPC (1) The following members of the University have on the broad outline for using the academic equip been appointed/reappointed by His Excellency the ment grant; (b) to make annual equipment fund Governor to serve on various boards and councils: allocations; (c) to formulate regulations and controls * Dr. Ho Kam-fai, Director of the Department of on the use of the equipment grant; and (d) to monitor Extramural Studies, appointed as Vice-Chairman of the pattern of equipment grant use and its effective the Police Complaints Committee for the period until ness, and to report to AAPC thereon. 31st December, 1987. * Dr. Victor Mok, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Council Member Honoured appointed to serve on the Chinese Textbooks Com Dr. Clark Kerr, longtime member of the University mittee for the period until 31st March, 1988. Council and President Emeritus of the University of * Professor Rance Pui-leung Lee, Professor of California, was recently honoured by UC Berkeley Sociology, appointed as a member of the Statistics when a section of its campus, formerly known as Advisory Board for a term of two years with effect 'Dwight-Derby site' ，was renamed ‘Clark Kerr Campus' from 1st June，1986. as a tribute to one of UC's most distinguished alumni * Professor Lin Tzong-biau, Professor of Econ who was also the first Berkeley Chancellor. omics, appointed as a member of the Air Transport Clark Kerr Campus is a student housing and licensing Authority for a term of two years with recreation complex of about nineteen hectares, with effect from 15th May, 1986. Spanish style buildings and beautiful landscape. It is * Dr. Fong-ching Chen, Director of the Institute the home for 750 undergraduate students. of Chinese Studies, and Professor David Gwilt, Pro fessor of Music, appointed as members of the Council of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts for Professor C.N, Yang Honoured a period of two years with effect from 1st July, 1986. Professor C.N. Yang, Distinguished Professor-at-Large, * Professor G.H. Choa, Professor of Adminis was honoured by the award of a Medal of Liberty in trative Medicine, who served on the Medical Develop New York at a ceremony held on 2nd M y. Winners ment Advisory Committee in his capacity as Dean of o f the Medal are all famous immigrants who have ties Medicine of the University until the end of June 1986， to New Y ork C ity and were deemed to have made a reappointed to continue to serve on the Committee contribution to America. in a personal capacity for a further term of two years with effect from 1st July, 1986. Professorial Inaugural Lecture (2) The following members have been nominated Professor Lee Cheuk-yu, Professor of Biochemistry, by the University to serve on outside committees: delivered his Inaugural Lecture, ‘The Logic of Life — * Professor Joseph C.K. Lee, Professor of Morbid Diversity and Unity' ，on 23rd May, 1986. Anatomy and Dean of Medicine, to represent the University on the Hong Kong Medical Council for the New Members / Secretary o f Advisory Boards unexpired term of membership of Professor G.H. Choa * The following have been invited to be members from 1st July, 1986 to 30th September, 1988. of advisory boards of the University: * Professor Yeung Yue-man, the Registrar, to Mr. Colin Parkes, Principal Assistant Secretary extend his term of office as a member of the Hong fo r the C ivil Service (Appointm ents), has succeeded Kong Examinations Authority until 31st July, 1987. Mrs. lily Yam as a member of the Appointments * Professor Leonard Minkes, Visiting Professor of Board for a term until 31st July, 1987. General Business Management and Personnel Manage M r. Henry Boss, representative o f the Hong ment, and Dr. Alfred F.M. Leung, Senior Lecturer in Kong General Chamber o f Commerce, has succeeded Physics, as representatives of the University to serve the Hon. T. Clydesdale as a member of the Advisory on the Commonwealth Scholarships Selection Com Board on Accounting Studies for a term until 29th mittee for the 1987-88 Awards. February, 1988. * Professor Joseph C .K. Lee，and Professor Arthur * Dr. P.S. Chung, Senior Lecturer in Electronics, K.C. li, Professor of Surgery, to represent the Univer has been appointed by the Vice-Chancellor as Secre sity to serve on the Working Party on Postgraduate tary of the Advisory Committee on Electronics from Medical Education and Training for a period of two 1st July, 1986 to 31st December, 1987. years with effect from 1st October, 1986.

6 NEWS Special Fund to Support Research on Social Problems and is the only comprehensive Canadian encyclopaedia A half-million dollar endowment fund, known as the published in more than two decades. 'Tan Jen Chiu Fund for Research on Social Problems', * The Shun H ing Education and Charity Fund has been set up in the University to support research has pledged an annual grant of HK $20,000 to the projects and activities conducted by the Departments University towards its library acquisition fund. The of Sociology and Social Work on social problems in 1986 grant w ill enable the University's library System Hong Kong. to further enhance its expanding science collection. At a brief ceremony held at the University on The Shun King Group has in the past rendered 21st May, Madam Tan Jen Chiu, donor of the fund, continuing support to the University through the formally presented the cheque to the Vice-Chancellor. donation of a number of student scholarships as well Annual interest of the fund will be allocated by a as equipment to the Faculty of Medicine. special funding committee to be established under the Centre for Hong Kong Studies. Training Course Jointly Organized with Beijing Madam Tan has had a lifelong interest in social University services. She is presently Honorary President of the The Department of Marketing and International Hong Kong Young Women's Christian Association, Business o f this University and the Faculty o f Econ Executive Committee member of the Society of Boys' omics, Beijing University ，jointly conducted a six-week Centre and Board member of the International Asso 'Senior Executive Training Course in Foreign Trade ciation of Volunteer Effort. Management' in Beijing from 12th July to 21st August. Three lecturers of this University and experts from Beijing University and China's foreign trade Gifts to University Library System departments gave lectures on theories and develop * The Government o f Canada has recently donated ments of Chinese and foreign economic management to the University a set of Canadian Encyclopaedia, as well as decision making on management o f Chinese which was received by Mr. Lee Chik-fong, Sub and foreign enterprises. librarian, at a brief presentation officiated by Mr. Attending the course were 120 executives from M.D. Copithome, Commissioner for Canada, on 8th foreign trade departments, companies, factories,mines July. as well as teachers of economics in institutions of The Encyclopaedia includes some three m illio n higher learning from various provinces, prefectures words of text and 1,600 illustrations, mostly in colour, and counties.

Madam Tan Jen Chiu (second from left) with the Vice-Chancellor at his office after the presentation ceremony

NEWS 7 Exchange Programme with Zhongshan University New Asia College held its thirty-fifth farewell Renewed Assembly for 337 graduates on 15th June. Addressing An official delegation from Zhongshan University in the gathering was Professor G.H. Choa, Pro-Vice- Guangzhou, China, visited the University from 9th to Chancellor and Dean of Medicine. 13 th May to renew an academic exchange agreement between the two institutions for another three years, Chairman o f NA Board Elected Engineers' New Chief effective from August 1986. Mr. Edwin H.C. Tao, Chairman of the New Asia Heading the delegation was Professor Li College Board of Trustees, has recently been elected Yuesheng, President of Zhongshan University. Other President of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. members included Professor Wu Wenhui, Professor Mr. Tao is a mechanical engineer, whose career has in Chinese Language and lite ra tu re ; M r. Zhu Mohe, been in building services, particularly air conditioning. Associate Professor in Electronics; and Madam Lu Chang-ling, Section Chief of External Affairs Office. New Trustees o f New Asia College The renewed agreement places emphasis on Mr. Tsai Ming-yu , an international financier who set up medium- and long-term collaborative projects besides the New Asia College 'Ming Yu Cultural Foundation' lecturing and other staff development activities organ in 1982，and Mr. Tong Fung, Chairman of the Sun ized by various teaching departments as carried out Hung Kai and Co. Ltd., have accepted the invitation in the past few years. of New Asia College to serve on its Board of Trustees for a term of three, years from 1st August, 1986 to 31st July, 1989.

College Visiting Scholars Three New Asia College Ming Yu Visiting Scholars visited the college recently: * Professor Wong Kar Yiu, Professor of Inter national Trade, University of Washington, visited the college with his wife from 16th to 30th June. * D r. Cheng Yang, Reviser, Chinese Service, United Nations，arrived at the college with his wife on 24th July for a week-long visit. * Dr. Andrew C. Tam, Manager of the Non- destructive Materials Evaluation Department of the IBM Research Laboratory, visited the college from Dr. Ma Lin and Professor L i Yuesheng sign on behalf 14th to 17 th August. o f the two universities the exchange programme

Postgraduate Student Wins IC I O xford Scholarship Mr. Leung Shui-on, a 1984 BSc graduate and presently Colleges B id Farewell to Class o f 1986 a postgraduate student of the University expecting The three constituent colleges held their respective his MPhil degree in Biochemistry later this year, farewell/graduation gatherings in June. has won the ICI (a UK-based chemical company) United College conducted the 1986 Graduation Postgraduate Scholarship tenable at Oxford Univer Ceremony for its 432 graduates on 7th June. Special sity. guests invited to the ceremony included D r. Ho Kam- The ICI Scholarships, jointly funded by ICI, fai, a member of the Legislative Council and Director Oxford University and the Foreign and Common of the University's Extramural Studies Department, wealth O ffice o f U K, provide very generous assistance and Rev. K.M. Cheung, President of the Executive fo r selected students from overseas fo r courses o f Committee of the United College Alumni Association. study lasting from one to three years. The 1986 award Chung Chi College held its thirty-second Val marks the first ICI Scholarship ever made available to edictory Service for this year's 394 graduates on 8th a student from Hong Kong. June. Guest speaker for the occasion was the Hon. As an ICI scholar, Mr. Leung w ill study for his Martin C.M. Lee, Unofficial Member of the Legislative PhD in molecular pathology at Wolfson College, Council and Member of the Basic Law Drafting Com Oxford University, for a period of three years com m ittee. mencing October this year.

8 NEWS Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology is in a unique posi Programmes of Studies tion as the only establishment devoted to the teaching The department offers major and m inor courses of anthropology in Hong Kong. Although retaining organized around the main areas of cultural anthro strong links with the Department of Sociology, in pology, theory and methodology of anthropology, which anthropology was originally taught from 1973， ethnography, anthropology and the modem world, the Department of Anthropology was formally estab linguistic anthropology, principles of anthropology, lished in September 1980. Today the department and a course by thesis which allows students to pursue offers both major and minor undergraduate options their own research interests with guided instruction in each of the four classic sub-divisions of the disci from appropriate members of staff. pline: Cultural (Social) Anthropology, Archaeology, The MPhil Programme, projected for 1987-88， linguistic Anthropology, and Physical Anthropology. will have as its two main theoretical orientations The department is well-appointed, being equipped anthropological studies of Hong Kong, and ethnicity with computer, video and other facilities for photo and ethnic relations overseas, and these w ill be organ graphing and recording. It possesses a vast collection ized into six major new courses. At the end of the first of fossil human skulls and bones, a set of Palaeolithic year the student w ill submit a thesis proposal, setting stone tools, a library of classic anthropological films, out the topic of research as well as describing and an exhibition collection of costumes and artifacts of analysing past work on it, which may form part of the m inority nationalities of China, and an extensive the later thesis. On the department's acceptance of data collection on China and Hong Kong. Much of this proposal, the student w ill embark on a further these is available for the students. Since 1980, the period of field/library research, leading to the final department has in itia te d a stim ulating series o f thesis. research projects on China and contemporary Hong The department maintains a steady intake of Kong, with the active collaboration of staff and students, and is to continue its past emphasis on the students. As the study of humankind, anthropology field of socio-cultural anthropology. A further provides important opportunities to students to important feature of the department's programmes collect data, to research in the field, and to pursue is its emphasis on applied anthropology, reflected in their own research interests in the form of library such courses as economic anthropology, visual theses and course papers, and the department is anthropology, and culture and management. In this particularly well located to provide a sound training way the department means to ensure that anthro in this respect. Now that the department plans to pology remains relevant to the changing social initiate an MPhil programme in 1987，there w ill be environment of Hong Kong and East Asia. more emphasis on the techniques and methodology of Many graduates o f the department have fu r data collection in the field. The department organizes thered their studies abroad, and have successfully regular field trips to the Liannan Yao Autonomous entered widely varied fields of employment, ranging County in Northern Guangdong, and besides pro from the Hong Kong Museum of History to inter ducing much valuable ethnographic data, this provides national banking. many students with their first opportunities of field research. The department hopes to expand its pro Research Activities gramme o f overseas study tours to Southeast Asia in Over the years, members of the Department the future and has actively promoted exchanges and have actively been engaged in both individual and visits with international scholars and with institutions collaborative research. The research carried out by the in France, Britain and China. This year, for example, five teachers of the department is briefly described the Department hosted the First International in the following paragraphs. Colloquium on Yao Studies at the University, which Dr. Chiao Chien (PhD, Cornell) has focused brought together for the first time scholars in Chinese his researches on Chinese strategic behaviour, rituals minority nationalities from China and those from of the Hong Kong Chinese, and social organization Hong Kong and overseas. of the Pai Yao, and is continuing the work on both

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 9 the Yao and Hong Kong Chinese. These studies have in Northern Guangdong w ith the help and cooperation resulted in the publication of a number of books and of the Commission for Minority Nationalities in articles in journals. Dr. Hsieh Jiann (PhD, Pittsburgh) Guangdong. Liannan is a mixed ethnic region com has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Singapore, prising Yao, Hakka, Putonghua and Cantonese Hong Kong and Taiwan, and among the Samei of speaking populations, with a total population of about Yunnan in China. He has published widely, including 128,000 in nine major rural districts and is thus an The Waichow Hakka Association in Hong Kong ideal field for research into the changing modes of (Chinese University Press, 1981)，The Samei o f East ethnicity and inter-ethnic relations in China. Some , China (in press). The Samei may be the of the topics dealt with to date by the two mixed first book by an outside ethnographer concerning a teams of staff and students, which visit Liannan m in o rity group and its socio-cultural changes during separately each year, are kinship and family organiz the past three decades in China to appear since 1949. ation, marketing and economic organization, language Dr. Hsieh has numerous articles in such journals and education, socialization processes, the role of as The Journal o f the Royal Asiatic Society (Hong women, and changes in the traditional belief system. Kong), Asian Folklore Studies (Japan), Bulletin of An impressive collection of data has been built up the Institute o f Ethnology, Academia Sinica (Taipei), in the department on the area, in both audio-visual International Review o f Modem Sociology (USA), and w ritten form , and the results are shortly to be Journal o f the Guizhou Institute o f Nationalities published. Students have shown a particular interest Research (China), Human Organization (USA) and in this programme, and some have even returned to Anthropos (West Germany). D r. Zee Yun-yang (PhD, their fieldwork sites later in the year on their own UCLA) has been working on six research projects， initiative for the collection of further data. In the including the linguistic analysis of Cantonese and future the department plans to expand its scope of Hakka dialects, and a comparison of Pai Yao with fieldwork beyond Hong Kong and China to include Kuo San Yao. Four o f these projects have been com ethnographically related areas of Southeast Asia, pleted, and the first two have been published in accompanied by two new courses projected for the Language and Speech, and the Journal o f Chinese coming triennium. Linguistics. Dr. Zee is now initiating two further research projects, including a sociolinguistic study Major Research Projects of Hong Kong society. Dr. Chen Chi-nan (PhD, Yale) The research projects carried out by the Department is undertaking a three-year research project on the of Anthropology cover a wide range of topics. The study of traditional family system and corporate following are descriptions of two major projects. organization in Chinese society, mainly based on his fieldw ork in modem Taiwan. He has published several Research Project on the Pai Yao articles on this subject, and is to continue his study of As a subgroup o f the Yao, the Pai Yao or Ba Pai the socio-economic history of Taiwan and Formosan Yao are mostly settled in Liannan Yao Autonomous aborigines. A collection of his critical essays on the County of Guangdong Province. According to the socio-cultural problems o f Chinese society has been census o f 1982，the total population of the Yao in published in Taiwan in two books. Dr. Nicholas Tapp China amounted to more than 1,400,000, most of (PhD, London), who joined the department in January them dispersed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, and 1986，is Main Consultant on an ethnography of the other provinces. In addition, some Yao people inhabit Hmong (Miao) commissioned by the United Nations Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and have reached as far as High Commission on Refugees in Geneva. He has France, Brazil and the United States, in the form of published in various journals, including Anthropology small communities. The Yao people's long historical Today (Royal Anthropological Institute, London), background and splendid culture have attracted the and The Journal of Developing Societies (B rill, research interest of many students in Yao studies Leiden), and a short book on the Hmong will be around the world. published in London this year. Dr. Tapp's current Studies on Chinese minority groups and their research projects include a semiological analysis of cultures have been one o f the fields o f the under T'ai Chi Ch'uan in Hong Kong, and the study of Miao graduate programme since the establishment of the conununities in China. Department of Anthropology in 1980. Owing to The Department initiated a major research pro limited manpower and financial resources, it seems gramme on the national minorities of China in 1984， impossible to maintain a permanent station for field and this year will be carrying out its third annual studies in a minority area, but a periodic visit to an field tour to the Liannan Yao Autonomous County outpost close to Hong Kong is very helpful for both

10 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS teaching and research work. Having considered the system, as w ell as their changes and their general accessibility of the location to Hong Kong and the relevance to anthropological studies. lingua franca, which is Putonghua and Cantonese, of c) The Religious System most people, we have located such an outpost in This includes areas as world-views, rites de Liannan Yao Autonomous County with the generous passage, ancestor worship, religious organization and help of the local authorities. ritual activities. The present project consists mainly of the d) linguistic Studies follow ing areas: This includes sociolinguistic, syntactic, phono a) Population Structure and Family Pattern logical, and phonetic studies of the two main Yao Data w ill be collected to increase understanding varieties spoken in northern Guangdong. o f the Pai Yao population structure and its changes Research Project on Boat People in Tai-O, Hong Kong during the past three decades, especially those due to Tai-O, situated on the western edge of Lantau the recent family planning policies. The structure and Island, is a historical fishing community in South content of various family forms of the Pai Yao w ill China. For years，it has been considered as an ideal be examined in terms of their different ecological anthropological research location by the department conditions and subsistance patterns. both for its distinct cultural patterns and its b) Social Organization and the Kinship System accessibility. Students and faculty members of the Areas of studies include chieftainship, tribal department have been frequent visitors to the com organization, descent rules, descent groups, kinship munity and have carried out research projects on terminology, kinship behaviour and the marriage various cultural aspects of the people in Tai-O. Two

Anthropology field studies — Ta-Shih Wang effigy at Kam Ting ‘ta chiao' (1985)

Doing fieldwork in Tai-0

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 11 senior theses on social structure, social organization, fishing activities, and economic and religious aspects of the community have been written. Furthermore, a major joint video project by two senior students and a faculty member on the celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival in Tai-0 has been completed. The com munity has also attracted the attention of foreign anthropologists. For instance, Professor Yoshiro Shiratori, Director of the Ethnohistorical Research Project of Sophia University, Japan, organized a research team which included many distinguished Japanese ethnographers to carry out ethnographic research on this fishing community from 1981-84. Students of the department were invited to participate in collecting ethnographic data. The team conducted Dr. Chiao Chien a series o f fie ld researches, which resulted in the Chairman，Department o f Anthropology publication of The Dragon Boat Festival in Hong Trained in anthropology, Dr. Chiao Chien obtained Kong (1985). The research projects so far carried out his degrees o f BA in 1958 and M A in 1961，from have by no means exhausted the anthropological data National Taiwan University, and PhD in 1969 from or weakened the justification for further investigations. Cornell University, USA. Before joining this univer On the contrary, in our opinion, further large-scale sity in 1973， first as Lecturer, and then Senior and in-depth studies must be carried out in order to Lecturer, Head of the Anthropology Section, and reach a better understanding, not only of the customs since 1980 Chairman of the Department, he had and other socio-cultural aspects of the people of the held positions as Lecturer, Assistant Professor and community, but also of their cultural and historical Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana relationship with other ethnic groups in southern University, and Associate Research Fellow and China. This is supported by the fact that D r. Jacques National Science Council Visiting Associate Professor Lemoine, Director of the Research Centre on the at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica. Dr. Anthropology of South China and the Indo-Chinese Chiao has been the Founding Chairman of Hong Kong Peninsula in Paris, fascinated by the cultural unique Anthropological Society, and of the International ness of the community and curious about its historical Association for Yao Studies, and a member of the ties with other ethnic m inority groups in South China, Permanent Council of the International Union of has proposed joint anthropological field research on Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (ICAES). the fishing community together with the department. He has undertaken extensive fieldwork in Taiwan, We welcome this proposal as we are committed to Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and among the Navajo further exploration of such an anthropological of Arizona and New Mexico, and has organized inter treasure-house. national conferences and symposia as the Conferences on Modernization and Chinese Culture, held at the The Future University in 1983 and 1985, and symposia at As the only institute performing intensive meetings of the ICAES (1983) and the American anthropological work in Hong Kong, the department Anthropological Association (1979). Despite his is likely to prove particularly valuable in the years active teaching and research commitments, Dr. Chiao ahead as a data resource base and information ex has published extensively. His publications and edited change centre in such im portant areas as ethnicity works include A First Course in Literary Chinese and the study of the national minorities of China, the (Cornell, 1968), Continuation o f Tradition in Navajo urbanization of villages in the New Territories, studies Society (1971), Proceedings o f the Conference on of the fishing communities in Tai-0 and other offshore Modernization and Chinese Culture (1985 ，w ith Lee, islands, and investigation in to further social aspects o f King, Kuan and Lau), and New Asia Academic Hong Kong life. In the meantime, the department is Bulletin Special Issue on Anthropological Studies o f intensively engaged in specialized research w ork and China (1986，w ith Hsieh and Zee), besides numerous teaching projects, and offers its students practical articles in journals such as East Asian Civilizations, opportunities of testing their knowledge in the field Ethnology, Bulletin o f the Institute o f Ethnology, and an introduction to cross-cultural problems which Academia Sinica，and Journal o f the Chinese Univer w ill be invaluable in their future careers. sity o f Hong Kong, and in collected volumes. - Nicholas Tapp —Nicholas Tapp 12 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Career Destination of 1985 Graduates

The 1985 annual employment survey, conducted by (0.1%) was preparing for further studies and two the Appointments Service, covered all first and higher (0.2%) were ill and not seeking employment. Twenty- degree graduates and diplomates. Out o f a to ta l o f nine (3.3%) were still seeking suitable employment 1,009 full-tim e firs t degree graduates, 869 returned at the time o f analysis. completed and valid questionnaires, giving a response Graduates entering the business sector continued rate o f 86.1%. The response rate o f higher degree to increase from 36.6% in 1982 through 39.9% in graduates and diplomates was 85.9%. 1983 and 45.6% in 1984 to 54.7% in 1985. While it By the time the survey was conducted, that is, was appropriate that the vast majority (88%) of about five to six months after graduation, the majority graduates in business administration should launch of the 1985 graduates were found to be satisfactorily their careers in business, there was a marked increase employed in a large variety of career fields. The in the percentage of science graduates who entered general pattern of their destinations broadly followed the business sector, from 45.2% in 1984 to 58.5% in that of the year before. 1985. The number o f arts and social science graduates The number of graduates who entered the who opted fo r careers in business also increased by business sector has been on the increase since 1982. 8.1% and 5.6% respectively. Among those employed This increase was particularly noticeable among in the business sector, 38.8% served in local companies graduates in the non-business disciplines. It indicated and 19.4% in American companies. Some 18% were that graduates were more aware o f the broad range o f with PRC-funded firms. The rest were working for career opportunities that were available in the local companies owned by British (10.1%)，Japanese (3.7%) market. The graduates were willing to take up jobs and other interests (9.9%). which are not directly related to their academic The percentage of graduates entering the educa­ training. tion sector continued to decline from 46.5% in 1983 The overall percentage o f graduates who entered to 40.3% in 1984 and then 32.2% in 1985. The the field of secondary school teaching continued to decrease in arts and science graduates entering the drop, and the decrease was particularly noticeable education sector was 14.6% and 9.2% respectively among graduates in arts and science. While there was when compared to the figures of the previous year. no obvious shortage of teaching jobs in 1985, this Most of the graduates in education (84.6%) were decrease might reflect a larger demand for graduates teaching in secondary schools, while 9.5% were of various academic backgrounds in the other employ­ teaching in tertiary educational institutions. Of those ment sectors, especially the business community. The who were engaged in secondary school teaching, Government absorbed slightly more graduates than 86.6% were serving in aided or caput schools. it did in the previous year. The percentages of graduates employed in public Findings of the employment surveys conducted utilities and in social and public service organizations in the past few years suggest that there was a growing decreased slightly from 1.7% and 7% in 1984 to 1% trend for graduates' career choices to become more and 5.7% in 1985 respectively. There was a slight diversified. In view of the imminent changes in the increase in the percentage of graduates joining the socio-economic fabric of Hong Kong, it is believed civil service, from 5.4%in 1984 to 6.1% in 1985. that such diversification will be beneficial to the The number of graduates who went into graduates themselves and the community as a whole. teaching was on the decline, from 45% in 1983 to 39.8% in 1984 and 30.7% in 1985. As regards the First Degree Graduates other career fields, the percentages of graduates taking Of the 869 respondents who returned valid up administrative work (10.4%), marketing (10.8%) questionnaires, 687 (79.1%) had commenced work, and accounting (6.7%) increased by 3.4%, 2.9% and 150 (17.3%) were engaged in further studies, one 2.7% over the respective figures of the year before.

RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 13 Banking and finance (10.2%), the social services o f the organizations they worked fo r. Some 21% (6.1%), computer/data processing (5.4%), electronic expressed concern for their prospect for advancement. engineering (4.1%) and insurance (3.1%) also attracted The major factors believed by graduates to have substantial numbers of graduates. helped them to secure their present jobs included While the teaching profession continued to be having taken the relevant courses at university (38.7%), the major outlet for arts graduates, the percentage of performance at interviews (27.8%) and academic arts graduates taking up teaching positions in second results (8.6%). Graduates in government and business ary and tertiary institutions dropped by 12.3% from regarded performance at interviews as the most impor the corresponding figure of 1984. On the other hand, tant factor in obtaining their present jobs. Graduates arts graduates employed in administrative or mana in education, on the other hand, cited having taken gerial positions increased by 6.5% from 4.4% in 1984 relevant courses at university as the fundamental to 10.9% in 1985. factor which enabled them to get their jobs. The major career fields which attracted gradu The major difficulties claimed by graduates to ates in business adm inistration were banking and have unfavourably affected their chance of employ finance (32.6%), accounting (22.8%), administration/ ment were lack of relevant working experience management (12%) and marketing (10.3%). (24.9%), inadequate interview techniques (14%) and The percentage of science graduates who opted inadequate Eng lish (13.5%). The absence o f relevant for teaching jobs continued to decline. On the other working experience was cited by graduates in all hand, there was a steady increase in science graduates sectors as the chief handicap in their search for taking up marketing jobs, from 8.3% in 1983 to 10.7% employment. in 1984 and 21.4% in 1985. The increase was particu Some 74% o f the graduates obtained their firs t larly noticeable among graduates in biochemistry and appointment offers by the end of August. About chemistry. As in the previous years, most of the com 37% of the graduates in employment received two or puter science graduates (88%) and the electronics more offers. 15% were on their second or third job graduates (77.2%) were engaged in professions directly since graduation at the time of the survey. related to their training. The percentage of graduates proceeding to Social science graduates were rather diversified further studies in 1985 (17.3%) was similar to that of in their choice of careers. About one fifth (20.4%) of the previous year (17.2%). Some 14% o f the graduates the social science graduates, all of whom were social in further studies were attending academic institutions w ork majors, were engaged in social services. Other abroad, a sharp drop as compared to that of 1984 major fields into which social science graduates were (28.4%). O f the graduates who were engaged in further absorbed included teaching (18.3%), administration/ studies, 42.7% were working towards a Diploma in management (15.2%), marketing (8.9%), journalism Education, an increase o f 11.1% over the corre (6.8%), banking (6.3%), insurance (4.2%), accounting sponding figure of 1984. About 13% were admitted (3.2%) and mass communication (3.2%). to Master o f Business A dm inistration programmes, The average monthly salary of 1985 graduates and roughly 23% were studying fo r a Master o f Science appreciated by 4.1% from that of the previous year. degree. Over three quarters o f the graduates in further The median monthly salaries for those entering the studies were entirely on their own finances. About government, the education sector and the business 13% were offered teaching assistantships, and 10% sector were HK$6,243, $6,211 and $4,154 respect were awarded fu ll scholarships. ively. Some 23% o f the graduates, most o f whom were in the business sector, had a remuneration package Part-time Degree Graduates which included an annual bonus. About 16% were A to ta l o f twenty-five part-tim e degree gradu entitled to educational and/or housing allowance. ates, all social w ork majors, took their degrees this Over half of the graduates (55.5%) were sub year. A ll of them continued to serve after graduation stantially satisfied with their current employment, in the same organizations where they had been while 31% indicated an average level o f satisfaction. working during the course of their studies. As in the previous years, most of the graduates were Some 64% o f these graduates were promoted interested in the type of their work, enjoyed amicable from the rank of Senior Social Work Assistant or working relationships with their colleagues, and were Social Work Assistant to Assistant Social Work Officer satisfied with their working environment. About 29% upon obtaining the degree. Of those who remained in of the graduates, however, were not satisfied with the their original positions, some were already holding training provided by employers and about a quarter degree posts while some others expected to be pro (24.7%) had reservations about the way o f management moted in the near future.

14 RECENT DEVELOPMENTS Higher Degree Graduates their present employment. A total of ninety-nine valid questionnaires were The vast majority of the two-year MBA gradu­ collected from higher degree graduates. O f all the ates who responded to the survey entered the com respondents, seventy-eight (78.8%) had commenced merce and industry sector (88.9%). The survey w ork, eighteen (18.2%) were engaged in further revealed that the 1985 MBA graduates, unlike their studies and three (3%) were still seeking suitable predecessors in 1984 who were diversified in the employment at the time of analysis. choice of careers, confined themselves to a relatively As regards factors which helped them to obtain smaller variety of career fields. Over 90% of these their present jobs, 32.1% cited having taken relevant graduates took up positions in the following fields: courses at university, 17.9% cited favourable academic banking (40.8%), marketing (37%) and adminis results, and 16.7% the fact that they had relevant tration/management (14.8%). Roughly 78% of them working experience. Those who encountered d iffi started with a monthly salary over HK$5,500. More culties attributed them to the lack of relevant working than 70% of them were satisfied with their current experience (32.1%), inadequate English (7.7%) and employment. inadequate interview techniques (6.4%). Over half of the MBA graduates were offered Eighteen (25%) higher degree graduates (ex employment as early as May and by the end of July, cluding MBA graduates) pursued further studies 77.8% had commenced work. The average number of (29.1% in 1984). Over 70% of them were from the appointment offers received by the MBA graduates science divisions. Some 45% received financial aid in was two. A little over 7% were in their second job at the form of scholarships, and six were on full scholar the time of analysis. ships. Of those who were in employment, about 61% Diplomates of the School of Education were engaged in teaching either in secondary or te rti Teaching continued to be the major outlet for ary educational institutions. Some 25% were employed the diplomates (93.5%). Most of them were teaching in the business sector while roughly 6% were working in government or aided secondary schools. The starting in the civil service. Most of the graduates (86.3%) salary for more than half of them (50.6%) was in the received a m onthly salary above H K$6 ，000，and some range o f $6,501 to %7,500 per m onth. Roughly 56% of them, who had previous working experience, were of the diplomates expressed satisfaction with their earning over $10,000 per month. current employment. A t the time o f analysis, 17.6% o f the graduates About 38% of the diplomates reported that in had held more than one job since graduation. Roughly obtaining their current employment, having taken 55% of them expressed a general satisfaction with relevant courses at university had been valuable.

Seminars • Exhibitions

* The Department of Government and Public * The Comparative literature Research Unit and Administration, Yale-China Association and the Office Hong Kong Comparative literature Association jointly of International Studies Programmes jointly organized presented a lecture on 'Classical Bildungsroman: Its a public lecture ‘What Happened to Developmental Model and Its Variations' by Professor Francois Jost, Studies?' on 12th May. The speaker was Professor Professor of Comparative Literature and French, David E. Apter，Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Com University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, on 15th parative Political and Social Development, Yale May. University.

ACADEMIC/CULTURAL EVENTS 15 * The Institute of Chinese Studies held a seminar — 'Applications o f Photoacoustic Sensing Tech on ‘Gao Jian-Fu and the Japanese Influence in His niques', by Dr. Andrew C. Tam, Manager of Painting', conducted by Mr. Tsuruta Takeyoshi, the Nondestructive Materials Evaluation Research Fellow and Head of Photographic Archive, Department of IBM Research Laboratory, Tokyo National Research Institute of Cultural Pro USA, on 15th August. perties, on 19 th May. * The Department of Physics presented a seminar * The English Language Teaching Unit organized on 'Holography and Its Applications to Medicine', a Workshop on Microcomputer Applications in English conducted by Professor Gert von Bally, Department Teaching, which took place at the Microcomputer of Medical Acoustics and Biophysics Laboratories, Laboratory of United College on 28th May. At the University of Munster, West Germany, on 24th June. Workshop, Professor Huang Jun, Associate Professor o f the Foreign Languages Department o f Jinan Univer * The Management for the Executive Develop sity, Guangzhou and Resident Fellow of United ment Programme of the Extramural Studies Depart College gave a demonstration o f an authoring package ment, and the Department of Marketing and Inter on 'Language Proficiency Test/Exercises', and Dr. national Business jo in tly organized a seminar on Louie Crew of the Department of English of this 'Global Marketing Strategies', which took place on University gave a lecture on software on computer- 25th and 26th June at Furama Hotel Intercontinental. aided text editing and revising strategies. The speaker was Professor Philip Kotler, a renowned authority on marketing from the United States, who * The Department of Chemistry presented the is currently Harold T. Martin Professor of Marketing following seminars: at Northwestern University.

一 ‘The Chemist and the Law', conducted by Mr. N.S. Lee of the Government Laboratory, * The Department of Electronics presented a on 13 th June. seminar on 'Decentralized Optimal Control of Large- — ‘Stereo and Enantioselective Photoreactions Scale Systems', conducted by Professor Lu Qiang, in Inclusion Complexes', conducted by Dr. Department of Electrical Engineering, Colorado State Koichi Tanaka, Department of Industrial University, on 4th July. Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Ehime University, Japan, on 14th July. * The Art Gallery mounted the following exhibi

一 'Testicular Zinc Metabolism in a Mutant Rat tions: Strain', conducted by Professor Wai Yee — The 'Graduation Exhibition of the Depart Chan, Department of Paediatrics, University ment of Fine Arts' held on 21st and 22nd of Oklahoma, USA, on 18th July. May. On display were works of the fourteen — 'Reactivity Control in Organized Assemblies graduates of the department, including with Carbohydrate Moieties', conducted by sculptures, prints, paintings, and calligraphy. Professor Hui Yongzheng, Institute — The exhibition of Tainting by the Lingnan of Organic Chemistry, Academia Sinica, on Masters' held from 31st May to 13th August. 1st August. It featured a selection of paintings by the Kao brothers from the Guangdong collection o f the A rt Gallery. Chinese ceramics, bronzes, * New Asia College organized the following objects for the scholar's desk and jade carv lectures and seminar conducted by its Ming Yu ings were also on display. Visiting Scholars: - ‘Welfare Comparison of Trade Situations',by * The Department of Fine Arts held its Annual Professor Wong Kar Yiu, Professor of Inter Art Exhibition at the Exhibition Gallery，High Block national Trade, University of Washington, of the Hong Kong City Hall from 1st to 4th June. on 19th June. Sponsored by the Urban Council, the exhibition — ‘The Methodological Problems in the Study featured nearly ninety works of art by the students of Chinese Intellectual History', by Dr. of the department, including Chinese painting and Cheng Yang, Reviser, Chinese Service, United calligraphy, modem Chinese ink painting, oil painting, Nations, on 26th July. watercolour, and printmaking.

16 ACADEMIC/CULTURAL EVENTS Profiles

Dr. P.S. Chung Dr. Chak-lam Wong, John Dr. Nicholas Tapp

Dr. P.S. Chung in Pharmacology, and was awarded an MPhil degree Senior Lecturer, Department o f Electronics in 1976. He then went to Australia to further his Dr. P.S. Chung graduated from the University o f studies at Monash University, Victoria. Receiving his Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, with a BSc and an MSc in PhD degree in early 1979，Dr. Wong returned to Hong Electrical Engineering, and was awarded the Bronze Kong and took up the post as Lecturer in the Depart Tablet and the Highest Honours. His early research ment of Pharmacology of his alma mater. In 1981， interests included solid-state theory and semicon Dr. Wong joined the Faculty of Medicine of this ductor memory. He took his PhD degree in Electrical university as Lecturer in Pharmacology. He was Engineering at Trinity College, University of appointed Senior Lecturer in April 1986. Cambridge. Graduating in 1976，Dr. Chung joined Dr. Wong's main research interest focuses on the Physical Electronics Group at University College, the mechanisms o f actions o f the analgesic effect, University of London, working in the areas of optical tolerance and physical dependence of the opiates. fibres, integrated optics and x-ray waveguiding pro Recently he is also interested in pharmacokinetic blems. In 1978 he went to Philips Telecom in studies. Dr. Wong is a member of a number of inter Malmesbury, U.K .， and worked on digital trans national academic societies, and has been Honorary mission, PCM techniques and four-phase MOS-LSI Treasurer of the Hong Kong Society of Neurosciences. logic design. In 1980 he was appointed Lecturer in Lately, he has participated in the planning and the the Department of Communications at the University establishment of the Hong Kong Pharmacology o f New South Wales, Australia. He was promoted Society. Senior Lecturer in 1983，and in July the same year, Dr. Nicholas Tapp was awarded a six-month JSPS (Japanese Society Lecturer in Anthropology for the Promotion of Science) Fellowship to carry D r. Tapp was educated at Gonville and Caius College, out research on optoelectronics at the Faculty of University of Cambridge, and at the School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Japan. He Oriental and African Studies, University of London. came to Hong Kong in early 1986 to take up the post He obtained a BA (Hons.) and an MA degree in of Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronics English literature from Cambridge, and the degrees at this university. of MA in Southeast Asian Studies and PhD in Social Dr. Chung's research interests and publications Anthropology from London. Dr. Tapp is interested are in optical thin films, integrated and fibre optics, in semiology and structuralism, the analysis of kinship fibre and integrated optical sensors. systems, and mythology. After teaching in southern Thailand for two years, he went on to do eighteen Dr. Chak-lam Wong, John months of intensive fieldwork in a White Hmong Senior Lecturer, Department o f Pharmacology upland community in northern Thailand. He has D r. Chak-lam Wong, John, obtained his BSc degree taught in the Anthropology Department of the School from the University of Hong Kong in 1974. Upon of Oriental and African Studies, and has presented graduation, he was admitted to the Faculty of Medi papers at conferences in Minneapolis, USA, and cine of the same university for postgraduate training Bangkok, Thailand. He has also given a ta lk in Kun­

PROFILES 17 ming, Yunnan on the Hmong (or Miao), who are the Journal o f Developing Societies, Anthropology Today, fifth largest national m inority in the Chinese mainland. and the Royal Anthropological Institute News. A He has worked on ethnographic films as Consultant book on the Hmong is shortly due to be published for the BBC, and completed an ethnographic collec in London. Dr. Tapp is at present revising his thesis tion for the Museum of Mankind in London. Dr. on the Hmong for publication, and is writing book Tapp's current research interests include the semio reviews fo r MAN and the Journal o f the Siam Society . logical analysis of T'ai Chi Ch'uan in Hong Kong, and He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute the study of Miao communities in China. and of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is also Main Dr. Tapp's publications include articles in the Consultant for the United Nations High Commission Journal o f the Siam Society, The Guardian, the on Refugees on an ethnography o f the Hmong.

Personalia

(From 16th May to 31st July, 1986)

I. Appointments Administrative Staff

Professor Chen Char Nie Dr. Law Yu Fai Acting Head, New Asia College Assistant to Director, Office of International (From 1st July to 31st December, 1986) Studies Programmes Professor Lee Cheuk-yu Mr. Ng Yuk Bun Acting Head, United College Assistant Architect, Buildings Office (From 17th June to 15th August, 1986) Mrs. Chan Tang Suet Chun, Jane Professor J.C.K. Lee Executive Officer II ， Admissions Section, Dean, Faculty of Medicine Registry Dr. Chuang Lien-sheng Miss Lee Ngan Ling, Marieana Director, Yeung Shui Sang Laboratory for H all Manageress, Madam S.H. Ho Hostel fo r Thermoluminescence Research in Ancient Medical Students Ceramics II. Promotions Academic Staff M r. King Chia Lun Faculty o f Medicine Senior Staff Tutor, Department of Extramural Professor Ranan Rimon Studies Visiting Professor of Psychiatry Mr. Ng Tsun Hao Mr. Cheng Chun Yiu, Jack Senior Computer Officer 11，Computer Services Senior Lecturer in Orthopaedic & Traumatic Centre Surgery M r. Liang Shing Hok Dr. Cynthia Chan Shiu-yee Assistant to Director, Buildings Office Lecturer in Community Medicine Mr. Mui Chun Yuen, Raymond D r.L a uCar Wah Engineer, Buildings Office Lecturer in Medicine Mr. Ma Kwai Hung Dr. Mary Victoria Daniels Production Controller, Chinese University Press Visiting Lecturer in Anaesthesia Dr. Tam Kwok Kan, John M r. Kenneth George Marquis Park Assistant to Director, Research Centre for Visiting Lecturer in Surgery Translation Dr. Charles Edward Williams M r. Wu King Wing Visiting Lecturer in Diagnostic Radiology & Executive Officer I ，Business Section, Bursar's Organ Imaging Office

18 PERSONALIA (7) From Amicon Polymers (HK) Ltd. a donation Gifts and Donations of HK$15,000 in support of the research activ ities of the Renal Unit of the Department of Medicine. (8) From the Croucher Foundation the following As a manifestation o f their confidence in this univer donations: sity's development, local and overseas individuals (a) H K$243 ，000 for a research project jointly and foundations have donated generously to support undertaken by the Departments of Bio­ the University's physical development programme, chemistry and Biology of this university, research projects，publication projects，fellowship and and the research groups of the Imperial scholarship schemes， and have presented the Univer College, University of London and the sity with equipment and books. The University has Institute of Microbiology of the Academia recently received the following gifts and donations: Sinica, Beijing; and (b) HK$5,000 as a research training support (1) From the following donors contributions for grant to a PhD student in Biochemistry. the establishment of 'Mrs. Ellen Li Student (9) From Cyanamid (Far East) limited the Travel Loan Scheme' to provide interest-free following donations: loans for students to participate in educational (a) H K$41 ，000 in support of a research tours: project of the Department of Clinical (a) HK$100,000 from Dr. and Mrs. Li Shu Oncology on Mitoxantrone; and Pui; and (b) HK$ 1,664 to sponsor a Senior Lecturer (b) HK$50,000 from Dr. Ho Sin Hang. in Clinical Oncology to attend conferences (2) From friends of Dr. and Mrs. Li Shu Pui a in Australia in May 1986. further contribution of HK$3,000 to the (10) From the following contributors donations for endowment fund for the 'Dr. Li Shu Pui research and educational purposes at the Depart Scholarship' to be awarded from 1986-87 to an ment of Surgery: academically outstanding second-year student (a) HK$5,000 from Mr. Lai Fu Wah; and o f the Part-time Degree Programme in Chinese- (b) HK$3,000 from Ms. Leung Tong Wen English. Har. (3) From the University o f Sussex a donation o f (11) From the French Government a donation of approximately £ 7,800 for the establishment of HK$32,967 in support of the Yao/Miao research a 'S ir Run Run Shaw Scholarship' fo r a graduate project by the Department of Anthropology. of this university to pursue postgraduate studies (12) From Glaxo Orient (Pte) Ltd. a donation of

at the University of Sussex in 1986-87. The HK$50 ，000 in support of research projects donation is part of the proceeds from Sir Run conducted by Dr. Joseph C.K. Pang of the Run Shaw's g ift to the University o f Sussex. Department of Medicine. (4) From University of Shanghai Hong Kong (13) From the Hong Kong Institute for Promotion Alumni Association a donation of HK$3,000 o f Chinese Culture a donation o f HK$30，000 fo r fo r three bursaries o f HK$ 1,000 each fo r 1985- sponsoring the First International Colloquium 86. on Yao Studies jointly presented by the Depart (5) From Mrs. Woo Yeung Ming-lau a donation of ment of Anthropology and several outside HK$50,000 as an endowment fund to establish organizations. a ‘Dr. Woo Hon Fai Memorial Scholarship', to (14) From Mrs. Belinda Hui Wai Woon-ching a dona be awarded annually from 1986-87 to an aca tion of HK$5,000 in support of the IVF Pro demically outstanding second-year student of gramme of the Department of Obstetrics and the Part-time Degree Programme in Business Gynaecology. Administration. (15) From Pfizer Corporation a donation of (6) From Deloitte Haskins and Sells a donation of H K$20 ，000 and 5 gm each o f pure Sulbactam HK$5,250 to sponsor the publication of A and Ampicillin for a study on Sulbactam and Summary Report on the Employment Survey Ampicillin conducted by the Department of o f 1985 Graduates. Microbiology.

GIFTS AND DONATIONS 19 (16) From Ms. Tan Jen Chiu a donation of (a) HK$ 1，000 from BASF China lim ited; HK$500,000 for the establishment of the ‘Tan (b) HK$ 1,500 from Bayer China Company, Jen Chiu Fund for Research on Social Problems' L td .; to support research of social problems in Hong (c) HK$ 1，500 from BFG Finance Asia Ltd.; Kong under the auspices o f the Centre fo r (d) HK$ 1,500 from Deutsche Bank; Hong Kong Studies. (e) HK$11,647.60 from Goethe Institut, (17) From World Health Organization (HK) a dona German Cultural Centre; tion of HK$7,000 in support of a research pro (f) HK$ 1,000 from Henkel Chemicals (HK) ject of the Department of Medicine on the use L td .; and of anti-tuberculous drugs for tuberculous (g) HK$ 1，000 from Hoechst China Ltd. meningitis. (25) From Friends of the Art Gallery donations of: (18) From Mrs. Yuen Lin Yau a donation of (a) HK$40,000 towards the Art Gallery HK$5,000 for research purposes of the Depart Acquisition Fund; ment of Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery. (b) HK$5,000 in support of an Interflow (19) From Astra Pharmaceuticals Sweden a donation Art Camp organized by students of the

o f H K$6 ，000 for the weekly Cardiac Seminar Department of Fine Arts; and organized by the Department of Medicine. (c) HK$ 10,645 to sponsor a postgraduate (20) From the Bei Shan Tang Foundation a dona student in Fine Arts to take a field trip tion of HK$5,800 to sponsor a joint research to China in connection with his Master's project on Chinese seals between the Palace thesis. Museum in Beijing and the Art Gallery of the (26) From Nestle China Ltd. a donation of University. HK$ 10,000 to sponsor the Professor of Obstet (21) From Dow Chemical Pacific Ltd. a donation rics and Gynaecology to give lectures at a of HK$10,000 to sponsor doctors from China medical meeting held in Beijing and Shanghai in March 1986. to participate in the Regional Conference of the Australian College of Occupational Medicine (27) From Smith, Kline and French Laboratories held in Hong Kong in June 1986. donations of: (a) HK$ 12,000 to sponsor a Lecturer in (22) From the following contributors donations Medicine to attend the fiftieth Annual towards the Endowment Fund of New Asia College: Meeting of American Rheumatism Asso ciation held in the United States in June (a) HK$100,000 from Mr. Chou Wen-hsien; 1986; and (b) HK$2,000 from Mr. Heung Shu-fai; (b) fu ll expenses fo r a Lecturer in Medicine (c) H K$2 ，000 from Mr. Lee Kam-chung; to make an academic trip to the United (d) HK$50,000 from Dr. Li Dak-sum; States in May 1986. (e) HK$10 ，000 from Mr. Liu Beh-kong; (f) HK$100,000 from Mr. Liu Lit-man; (28) From various donors gifts and donations (g) HK$ 1，000 from Mr. Nathan Ning-hei Ma; totalling HK$1,354,347 to Chung Chi College (h) HK$20,000 from Mr. Ng Ping-kin; from September 1985 to March 1986. (i) HK$100,000 from Mr. Hsiang-chien Tang; (29) From Glaxo (HK) Ltd. two volumes of text G) HK$10,000 from Mr. Edwin Tao; books entitled Antibiotic Therapy in Clinical (k) HK$ 1,000 from Mrs. Tso Wong Chiu-yok; Practice and Oxford Textbook o f Clinical (1) HK$100,000 from Mr. John Tung; and Pharmacology and Drug Therapy to the Depart

(m ) H K$5 ，000 from Yale-China Association. ment of Microbiology. (23) From the following contributors donations for (30) From ICI (China) Ltd. a slide library on reconstruction of tennis courts in New Asia infection control to the Department of Micro College: biology.

(a) H K$20 ，000 from Mr. William Cheung; (31) From May and Baker HK Ltd. a Leeds Psycho and motor Tester to the Department of Psychiatry. (b) H K$30 ，000 from Mr. Hui Kwok-hau. (32) From Watsons Pharmaceutical L td . samples o f (24) From the following contributors donations in Salazopyrin EN to the Department of Medicine support of the Summer Intensive Programme for conducting a clinical trial for treatment of in German, 1986: rheumatoid arthritis patients.

20 GIFTS AND DONATIONS Wang Chi-ch' ien, Landscape (Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese Paintings) Zhu Qizhan, Narcissus (Exhibition o f Contemporary Chinese Paintings)