The First Six Years 1963-69

The Institute is under the administration o f a Director. A Board o f Advisers recommends the award o f research grants for projects which are acceptable to the University and w ith in avail able resources. The University is striving to make the Institute o f Science and Technology an important vehicle for cooperation w ith universities abroad in scientific research and teaching. More than 64 research projects have been supported by grants since the Ins ti tute was established and a number o f the research reports were subsequently published. Ins t i tu te o f Chinese Studies Since its founding, The Chinese University has received re peated requests from institutions o f higher learning in India, Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and other countries for assistance in developing their programmes o f Chinese Studies. Many scholars from all over the world have, in one capacity or another, visited the University for consultations, advice and other forms o f help in their work in this field. I t is quite obvious that academic institutions and scholars in both Asia and the West look to The Chinese University for assistance in developing material and human re sources in Chinese Studies. Accordingly ， the University established the Institute o f Chinese Studies in November 1967. This action is consistent w ith the basic philosophy o f the University to emphasize its in ter national character and status. I t also reflects the determination o f the University to develop Chinese Studies as a major fie ld ， in which it can claim distinction and make an important contribution to the world o f scholarship. The Institute is based on a broad but unified concept o f Chinese Studies. I t includes what is trad itiona lly identified as Sinology, but emphasizes the application o f the social science dis ciplines, characterized by quantitative and comparative appro aches. Equally important, the concept followed by the Institute stresses the development o f methods and techniques im p lic it in Chinese classical works as a contribution to modern scientific methodology. Chinese Studies thus conceived is inspired by the search for continuity from early to contemporary periods and for a synthesis between the Chinese and Western viewpoints and methodology. The Institute has, therefore, the following objectives: i • To promote scholarship in Chinese Studies in Hong Kong and overseas (especially Asia and the West) by serving as an inter national centre for Chinese Studies capable o f effectively assisting other academic and research institutions and scholars in the field 38