Bulletin Number Four 1984

Dr. Simon S.C. CHAU D r CHEUNG Yuet-wah listening to other people recounting their experiences. This is why he is a great believer in the merits o f continuing education and this is why he has spoken out strongly for adult education both in the Legislative Council and outside it on numerous occasions throughout his career. A man o f great curiosity, Dr. Ho has often expressed the wish to study the appreciation o f art and literature —to start learning new things all over again. An intellectual curiosity and an incisive grasp o f societal needs at the macro-level are useful and rare qualities which Dr. Ho w ill bring to his appoint ment. As the new Director o f one o f Hong Kong's major centres for continuing education, the University has found in Dr. Ho a worthy successor to Mr. T.C. Lai. —T .L Tsim D r. S imon S.C. CHAU L e c tu re r, D e p a rtm e n t o f T ransla tion Dr. Chau graduated from the Department o f Chinese, the University o f Hong Kong in 1970 ， and taught English and Chinese in secondary schools in Hong Kong. He joined The Chinese University o f Hong Kong in 1973 first as a Tutor in Translation, and later as Assistant Chinese Editor at the Centre for Translation Studies. His MPhil thesis on translation criticism, submitted to Hong Kong University in 1976 ， was later published by The Chinese University Press. Dr. Chau then worked as a free-lance translator, editor, instructional TV producer and presenter, graphic designer, and newspaper columnist, and taught translation for brief periods at Hong Kong University and Hong Kong Polytechnic. To pursue his studies in translation theory, he le ft for Britain to complete an MSc course in Applied linguistics at the University o f Edinburgh, and remained there to work on his thesis on translation pedagogy for which he was awarded a PhD degree. A compulsive writer, Dr. Chau has published articles and papers in about sixty periodicals in different parts o f the world. Among his twenty books published are original and translated literary works, a manual for translators, and commissioned trans­ lations in fields as varied as medical ethics, marital pathology, nuclear energy, child psychology and moral education. To promote professionalism in the field o f translation, Dr. Chau plays an active role in the Hong Kong Translation Society and the Translator's Guild (U.K.). His interest in ecology and alternative styles o f living led to his involvement in organizations such as Education Otherwise, War on Want, Oxfam and Friends o f the Earth. D r. CHEUNG Yuet-wah Lecturer, Department o f Sociology Dr. Cheung Yuet-wah obtained his BSSc in Sociology from The Chinese University o f Hong Kong in 1975. Upon graduation, he served as a Research Assistant in the former Social Research Centre o f the University for a year, and then as a Tutor in the Department o f Sociology. In 1977 ， he received a Conmionwealth Scholarship for graduate studies in Canada. He obtained his MA (1978) from McMaster University, and PhD (1982) from the University o f Toronto, where he had been a Junior Fellow o f the Centre o f Criminology for three years. From September 1982 to August 1984 ， Dr. Cheung taught Sociology at Hong Kong Lingnan College, where he also served for eight months as Acting Chairman o f the Department o f Social Sciences. He was at the same time an Honorary Research Associate o f the Centre for Hong Kong Studies o f this University. Dr. Cheung's research areas include medical sociology and criminology. He has published articles on the development o f Western medicine in China. Currently, he is working w ith a colleague on two research projects on juvenile delinquency in Hong Kong. 24 PROFILES