Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2002

Dr. Choh-Ming Li Speech at the Rotary Club of Hong Kong on 28th April 1964 ‘ ...It [Chung Chi College] was organized ... by a group of college professors w h o used to teach in Christian universities and colleges in China. N ew Asia College was started by a group of scholars w h o used to teach in the national universities on the mainland. United College is actually a merger of a number of small colleges organized also by scholars mainly from Kwangtung [Guangdong] — colleges wh i ch were privately and locally financed. So here you have three distinct elements of the Chinese high education which have been developed over the last half century — the Christian colleges, the national universities and colleges, and local colleges. N o w The Chinese University of Hong Kong attempts to federalize t h e m , to incorporate t h em into a university. This very idea of putting these three distinct elements of Chinese high education into one single institution is really something quite unique in the whole history of Chinese education. ...' The pagoda at New Asia College's Farm Road campus (1956-73) is a favourite haunt of the students. The earliest building of United College on Caine Road The Faculty of Science at United College in 1972, before moving from Caine Lane to the Sha Tin campus CUHK at 40 A Collegiate University — Unique in Hong Kong 5