Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1979

Hong Kong Conference on East-West Comparative Literature The first 'Hong Kong Conference on East-West Comparative Literature' was held by the Comparative Literature and Translation Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies of the University from 14th to 16th August, 1979. Through theoretical and practical reconsiderations of some basic concepts and methodologies in East-West comparative literary studies, some of the crucial problems encountered in the comparative study of Chinese literature were raised and their possible solutions discussed, with the final aim to broaden the scope of both Chinese literature and comparative literature studies. Dr. M a Lin, the Vice-Chancellor, and Dr. Ching- ho Chen ， Director of the Institute of Chinese Studies, in their opening addresses, both emphasized the importance of such a 'comparative approach'towards a ‘broad but unified concept of Chinese Studies' here at The Chinese University since the University aspires to ‘function as the cultural exchanging ground between the East and the West'. A m o ng the thirty scholars who participated, thirteen came from abroad. They were: (from Taiwan) Dr. Han-liang Chang, National Taiwan University Professor Ch'iu-lang Chi, Tamkang College of Arts & Sciences Professor Limin Chu, National Taiwan University Professor Chien Hou, National Taiwan University (from U. S. A) Professor A. Owen Aldridge, University of Illinois Professor Horst Frenz, Indiana University Professor Donald Wesling, University of California, San Diego Professor Wai-lim Yip, University of California, San Diego Professor Dominic Cheung, University of Southern California (from Europe) Professor Douwe Fokkema, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands Professor Elrud Ibsch, Free University, the Nether- lands Professor Andre Lefevere, University of Antwerp, Belgium Professor Robert Ruhlmann, University of Paris Local scholars included Dr. Ping-leung Chan from the University of Hong Kong, Dr. Chingho Chen of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Mr. John B. Gannon of the Arts Faculty, Professor D. C. Lau of the Department of Chinese Language & Literature,Dr. Shu-hsien Liu of the Department of Philosophy, Mr. Stephen C. Soong of the Comparative Literature and Translation Centre, and other teaching and research members