Bulletin Number Five 1986

Dr. King Wai Chow Dr. Kwok-kan Tam Dr. Po-keung Wong Dr. King Wai Chow Lecturer, Department of Government & Public Administration Dr. King Wai Chow was born in Guangzhou, China in 1954. He attended a junior college in Oklahoma, USA in 1975-76 ， and entered the University of Texas at Austin in 1977, where he received his degrees of BA, MA and PhD in government in 1979,1981 and 1984 respectively. From September 1984 to June 1986, he served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Texas Tech University, USA. Dr. Chow joined this University in August 1986. Dr. Chow's specialization is public administration and policy, and his current research interest is in Chinese state administration. He has published and presented many papers on Chinese bureaucratic policies. Dr. Kwok-kan Tam Lecturer, Department of English Dr. Kwok-kan Tam received his BA (Hons.) degree in English and Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1979. He obtained his MA and PhD degrees in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1982 and 1984 respectively. Upon graduation, he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship to conduct research on 'literature and Social Change in Asia' at the East-West Center, Hawaii for one year. In 1985 ， Dr. Tam joined this University as Managing Editor of Renditions at the Research Centre for Translation, the Institute of Chinese Studies. At the same time, he was a Fellow of the Comparative literature Research Unit of the Department of English. He was promoted Assistant to the Director of the Research Centre for Translation before he joined the Department of English as Lecturer in August 1986. Dr. Tam's research interests are in literary theory, East-West literary relations, English and European literature, contemporary Chinese and Japanese literature, and translation. He has published numerous articles as well as translations on Chinese- Western literary relations, literary theory, and Chinese and Japanese drama in Edda (Norway), Modern Chinese Literature (USA), Asian Culture Quarterly (Taiwan), and The Journal of the Institute of Chinese Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong). At present, he is also affiliated with the Institute of Chinese Studies as a Research Fellow working on the project 'Modern Chinese Drama: Tradition and Innovation'. Dr. Po-keung Wong Lecturer, Department of Biology Dr. Po-keung Wong obtained his BSc and MPhil degrees in Biology from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1977 and 1979 respectively. For his master thesis project, he studied the use of microorganisms in removing environmental pollutants from sewage. He pursued further studies at the Department of Food Science and Technology of the University of California at Davis, USA, and received his PhD degree in Microbiology in 1983. He then began the study of the molecular biology of nitrogen metabolism in bacteria at the Department of Bacteriology of the same University. He joined the Department of Biology of this University in September 1986. Dr. Wong's research interest is in the application of genetic engineering in micro-organisms for bio- degradation and biotransformation of environmental pollutants. PROFILES 23