Bulletin No. 1, 2010

Humanities · Humanity · Humankind   The Humanities Seven Centre for Hong Kong Cultural Studies Publishing the new Hong Kong Cultural Studies series; conducting cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology Organizing Master Class in Phenomenology for Asian Scholars etc; publishing Journal of Phenomenology a nd t h e Huma n S c i e n c e s a nd R e s e a r c h on Phenomenology and the Human Sciences Research Centre for Comparative City Cultures Conducting research on the history, culture and interaction between cities, including Hong Kong, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Singapore Research Centre for Confucian Studies Studying Confucian teaching and learning in late imperial China, Confucianism in Lingnan China; organizing workshops on Confucian statecraft Research Centre for Human Values Running a joint monthly Luncheon Series for the College Fellows with Morningside College; hosting seminars, a conference and a forum Research Centre for Humanities Computing Maintaining research website HUMANUM; servicing University units, e.g., Department of Philosophy, to implement the CU Philosophy Information Databases Research Centre for Ming-Qing Studies Coordinating teaching and research on the literature, history, philosophy, religion, culture of the Ming-Qing era California (USC) and an electrical engineer by training, who has done a lot to boost USC’s arts and humanities programmes during his 19 years in office, incidentally with the help of another electrical engineer—provost and future USC president, Prof. C.L. Max Nikias. Professor Leung added that the Chinese University is clearly attaching great importance to the humanities and he is very happy about it.