Bulletin Spring 1988

12th to 16th January. Professor Zhang delivered a public lecture on The Economic Relationship between China and Hong Kong' on 14th January. The lecture was jointly organized with the Department of Economics. —Professor Osamu Oba, professor of history, Kansai University, Japan, delivered a lecture on the Chinese mercantile ship and Sino- Japanese trade in the Qing period on 12th February. The lecture was jointly organized with the Department of History. —Professor Hsu Hong, chairman of the Department of History at the National Taiwan University, arrived on 15th March for a one- week visit. Professor Hsu gave a public lecture on ‘The Internal Migration in Early Ming China' on 19th March. —Professor Wu L i f u, professor of art criticism, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, arrived on 16th March for a two-week visit. Professor Wu delivered a lecture on 'Poetry in Drawing — A Comparison of Chinese and Western Aesthetics' on 23rd March. —Professor Huang Ching-shing, associate research fellow of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, paid a visit to the College between 19th and 25th March. Professor Huang delivered a public lecture entitled 'The Characteristics of the Ideology of Early Ch'ing Regime: a Politicized Orthodoxy, on 21st March. * The Department of Chemistry organized the following seminars: —I . C. Wafer Fabrication' conducted by Mr. Cheung Wing Kit, manager, production engineering section, ELACP Electronics Ltd., on 22nd January. -- 'Synthetic Adventures in the Arachidonic Aid Cascade' conducted by Dr. R.J.K. Taylor, School of Chemical Sciences, University of East Anglia, UK, on 12th February. * The departments of electronics and physics jointly organized a seminar on 'Electron Tunneling in Semiconductors', conducted by Professor Richard Barker, Yale University, USA, on 22nd January. * The Department of Statistics organized the following seminars conducted by Professor Zheng Zukang of the Fudan University, Shanghai, China: —‘Regression Analysis with Censored Data' on 12th January. —‘Time Sequential Plan for Non-parametric Testing Hypothesis with Censored Data' on 26th January. * The Institute of Chinese Studies organized the following lectures: —'Problems Concerning the Literary Writings of Han Yu and Liu Zong-yuan' by Professor Wu Wenzhi, professor of Chinese, Nanjing Normal College, China, on 25th January. —'The Battle in Shanghai and the Japanese Massacre in Nanking' by Professor Liu Feng- han, research fellow, Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan and visiting professor of New Asia Research Institute, on 29th January. * The Japanese Studies Section organized a lecture by Professor Yoshinobu Takahashi of the Institute of Regional Economy, Kagoshima College of Economics, Japan, on the current situation and future prospect of the Japanese economy on 25th January. * The Department of Paediatrics organized a lecture on 'Neuromuscular Disorders in Children' by Dr. Edmund Woo, lecturer in medicine, University of Hong Kong, on 26th January. * The United College held its 1988 annual workshop on ‘The Limits of Freedom' on 30th January. The panelists included Dr. Philip Shen, dean of arts, Dr. C.N. Chen, lecturer in anthropology, and Mr. Andrew W.F. Wong, lecturer in government and public administration. * The New Asia College organized the following lectures: —'The Crisis of Modern Social Sciences as a Crisis of Rationality', a New Asia Ming Yu Foundation public lecture, by Professor Michel Crozier, director of the Centre de Sociologie des Organizations, Paris, on 4th February. - T h e 1988 Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture on 'Social Ethics as Religion: Li- Chiao and Late Imperial Chinese Society', by Professor Lui Kwong Ching, professor of history, University of California, Davis, USA: (a) Li-Chiao and the History of a Doctrine (8th February); (b) Li-Chiao and Social Structure (10th February); (c) Li-Chiao and Economic Development (12th February). 19