Bulletin Number Four 1984

Seminars and Exhibitions * Professor Fei Xiao-tung, a renowned sociologist from China; visited the University from 1st to 5th July at the invitation o f the Department o f Sociology. Under the jo in t sponsorship o f the Department and the Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies, Professor Fei conducted a symposium on 'The Social Signifi cance o f the Development o f Small Towns in China' on 3rd July. * The Psychology Department o f the two local universities, in collaboration w ith the Chinese Language Society o f Hong • Kong, organized an International Symposium on Psychological Aspects o f the Chinese Language from 2nd to 6th July. The Symposium was attended by about fifty scholars from Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, China, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States. Over forty papers were presented. * The Department o f Chemistry presented the following seminars: — ‘Solvolytic Studies on the Highly Deactivated a -Trifluoromethyl System' on 28th August by Professor K .T. Liu, Department o f Chemistry o f National Taiwan University; — ‘Polarized Absorption Spectroscopy o f the Visual Pigments' on 4th September by Dr. Leon Margulies, The Hebrew University o f Jerusalem, Israel; — ‘Electrostatic Catalysis by Ionic Aggregates' on 13th September by Professor Y. Pocker, Chemistry Department, University o f Washington; — ‘Separation o f Metals by Combined Ion Exchange-Solvent Extraction' on 17th September by Professor Johann Korkisch, Professor o f Analytical Chemistry and Chief o f Division o f Analysis o f Nuclear Raw Material, Analytical Institute, University o f Vienna, Austria. * Professor Zhu Yun-cheng, Director o f the Population Theory Research Centre and Associate Professor o f the Geography Department, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, made a three-week visit to the University from 22nd August. Professor Zhu conducted a seminar on 'Emerging Population Problems after the Implementation o f the Farm Production Responsibility System in Rural China' on 29th August, and delivered a lecture on ‘The Development Problems o f the Urban Population in China' on 7th September. They were both jo in tly organized by the Department o f Sociology and the Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies. * * * * The A rt Gallery has mounted the following exhibitions: — Highlights from the A rt Gallery Collection (16th June to early September), which exhibited a selection o f ceramics, paintings, rubbings and calligraphy from the permanent collection o f the A rt Gallery. Recent acquisitions were also on display. — Archaeological Finds from Pre-Qin Sites in Guangdong (22nd September to 4th Novem ber), the fourth jo in t exhibition organized in association w ith the museums in Guangzhou. A total o f one hundred items selected from archaeological finds recovered from Neolithic to Warring-states sites and burials both in Guangdong and Hong Kong are on display. * The Department o f Fine Arts staged an Exhibition o f Chinese ink paintings by Dr. Kao Mu-sen at Pao Sui Loong Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre from 6th to 9th July, and an Exhibition of Paintings and Calligraphy by Cheng Ming from 21st to 23rd September at the City Hall. 22 ACADEMIC/CULTURAL EVENTS