Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1980

Staff Profiles Professor Sen-dou Chang Professor Sen-dou Chang Professor, Department o f Geography Professor Sen-dou Chang was born in Zhejiang Province, China, in 1928. After receiving his B.A. degree from Chi-nan University, Shanghai, in 1949, he went to the United States for further studies at the University of Wisconsin (M.A., 1955), and the Univer sity o f Washington (Ph.D., 1961). Professor Chang had been Assistant Professor at California State University at Northridge, Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Washington, Associate Professor and later Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii before he joined this University in August, 1980. Professor Chang is amember of the Association of American Geographers, the Association of Asian Studies, AmericanGeographical Society, andAmerican Society of Photogrammetry. He has been given awards for conducting research on Chinese unbaniza tion by the Social Science Research Council, New York, and the Fulbright Hays Award by the U. S. Office of Education. Professor Changhas published numerous articles and reviews in various academic and professional journals of international standing, covering his research interests in urbanization, land use, and agricultural geography, etc., particularly of China. Professor Chang is also an expert on aerial photo graphic interpretation and remote sensing techniques. He is the co-author o f Atlas o f Hawaii Professor Leonard Minkes Visiting Professor, Lingnan Institute o f Business Administration Professor Leonard Minkes (M.A. Oxon, FRCA), Pro fessor of Business Organization and former Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Social Science at the University of Birmingham, joined this University as Visiting Professor of the Lingnan Institute of Business Administration in 1980. Professor Minkes' academic and professional experience in the U.K. and overseas has been rich, having worked with the Economic Commission for Europe of the United Nations, and served as amember of the Midlands Postal Board in the U.K., and is now on the Council of the Birmingham Chamber of Industry and Commerce. He is on the United Nations list of specialists in business organization and manage ment. In Hong Kong, Professor Minkes is busily engaged in consulting and educational work with industry and with the Hong Kong Government Service. He is also a member of the Council of the University of East Asia, Macau, to which he is a con sultant on Business Studies. Professor Wai-lim Yip Visiting Professor o f Comparative Literature , English Department Professor Wai-lim Yip was born in Guangdong Pro vince, China, in 1937. He received his university education in Taiwan and read English at National Taiwan University (B.A., 1959) and Taiwan Normal University (M.A., 1961). After teaching for a year at Kau Yan English College in Hong Kong, he left for the United States for further studies. He specialized 32

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