Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1981

Recent Developments of Various Units Chinese University Press The Chinese University Press has recently be come an international member of the Association of American University Presses (AAUP) and the Society for Scholarly Publishing, U.S.A. The AAUP has a membership of 76 and almost all distinguished American universities, public and private, are among its members. Its international members include Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Tokyo Press, and Universitetsforlaget of Norway. The Chinese Univer sity Press is the first in South-East Asia to join the AAUP. The Society for Scholarly Publishing is an international association of editors and publishers with interests in the production of scholarly and professional publications, with a membership of nearly 1000. Department of Extramural Studies The Department of Extramural Studies and the Guangdong People's Radio jointly launched an Everyday English Course for Chinese secondary school graduates. Broadcast by the Guangdong People's Radio weekly, the programme has been on the air since 20th April, 1981. It is the first joint project ever undertaken by a Chinese radio station with a foreign body. Institute of Chinese Studies/Art Gallery * A book presentation ceremony took place at the Institute of Chinese Studies on 20th May, 1981, when Mr. Harold Wong formally presented the Wong Po-hei Collection to the University. Professor G.H. Choa, Pro-Vice-Chancellor, received the dona tion on behalf of the University. The Wong Po-hei Collection donated to the Institute of Chinese Studies in 1979 is general and broad in scope, consisting of 25,000 books and periodicals in Chinese, Japanese, English, and other European languages. Two thirds of the Chinese books are block-prints and in the traditional silk-stitched format, dating from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), with a number of early Qing editions. The remainder are published in the modern format, dating from the early Republican period to the 1970s. * Mr. Rogerio Lam, Chairman of the B.Y. Lam Foundation, persented at a brief ceremony on 3rd January, 1981 a group of twelve Chinese ceramics and jades to Dr. Ma Lin, the Vice-Chancellor, as a gift to the Art Gallery. The collection, which is worth more than HK$3 million, was bought at the Sotheby auctions in Hong Kong and London. It includes five mid-Qing jade carvings, a finely painted Cizhou pillow modelled in the shape of a reclining baby, a Longquan celadon vase and a spouted bowl, an early Ming celadon inkstone and three Tang to Liao northern white wares. Journalism and Communication Department/Centre for Communication Studies * The experimental wire station of the Journal ism and Communication Department was inaugurated by Dr. Ambrose King, Head of New Asia College, on 16th February, 1981. Sponsored by the Asia Foundation, Radio Television Hong Kong, Rediffusion, Methodist Church of America and World Lutheran Churches, the experimental station serves to provide oppor­ tunities for students to combine theory with practice. Dr. Alton Everest, an expert in audio-visual studio design, helped design the studio. All programmes of the station, news reporting, features, drama and variety shows, are produced by third- and fourth-year students of the Department. * The Computer-aided Research and Instruction Laboratory (CARIL) of the Centre for Communica­ tion Studies was formally opened on 23rd April, 1981 by Mr. Alan Scott, Secretary for Information of the Government. The Laboratory is equipped through a generous donation of HK$400,000 by Dr. Sally Aw Sian, Chairman of Sing Tao Newspapers Ltd., and CONIC Business System Ltd. The CARIL system, the first of its kind in Asia, consists of one general processing unit, four terminals and one printer. It will be used to teach basic joumal- 18