Bulletin Number Four 1984

Dr. Louie CREW Mr. Koon-wang KWOK Dr. KWONG Chung-Ping D r. Lou ie CREW Lecturer ， Department o f English Dr. Crew directs the composition programme o f majors in the reorganized English Department. Before coming to Hong Kong this August, he was an Associate Professor at the University o f Wisconsin, Stevens Point. In 1983-84 he was on leave as a composition specialist at the Second Foreign Language Institute in Beijing. Dr. Crew has published over 400 items as an essayist and poet. This summer Radio Beijing featured Crew in dialogue w ith Bi Shuowang, poet and secretary to China P.E.N. Centre. Crew also collaborated w ith Beijing colleague Li Wenxin for two articles on religion in China, one on assignment for the national U.S.A. anglican journal to cover the China visit o f the Archbishop o f Canterbury. Crew has also published several recent articles on computer appli cations for writers. The University o f Michigan has collected over 900 pounds o f Crew's correspondence and other manuscripts for its civil rights archive, the Labadie Collection. Dr. Crew has served four years on the Board o f Directors o f the National Council o f Teachers o f English (U.S.A.) and has held three post-doctoral summer fellowships from the National Endowment for Humanities — in stylistics at the University o f California, Berkeley ， in grammar at the University o f Texas, and in composition at the University o f Chicago. He has been a Fulbright grantee and a Resident Writing Fellow for the Wurlitzer Foundation. He is listed in Contemporary Authors ， International Who's Who in Poetry, Who's Who in America, et a l. He considers himself an evangelist for clarity. M r. Koon-wang KWOK Lecturer in Accounting and Finance Mr. Koon-wang Kwok graduated from Hong Kong Baptist College w ith a Diploma in Accounting in 1971. After working for two years as Teaching Assistant in his alma mater, he le ft for Canada to study at York University, where he obtained in 1975 and 1976 the degrees o f BA (Accounting) and MBA. In 1984 ， he was awarded the degree o f MPAcc (Master o f Professional Accounting) by the University o f Washington. A fter graduating from York University, Mr. Kwok worked as a Research Associate for The Society o f Management Accountants o f Canada for one year. He then moved to New York, taking up posts as Tax Auditor o f the Board o f Equalization, State o f California; and Assistant Director, Finance and Senior Accounting Instructor o f Chinatown Manpower Project, Inc. Mr. Kwok is a Certified Management Account ant (CMA), U.S.A., and an Associate Member o f the Institute o f Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ACIS )， England and Canada. D r. KWONG Chung-Ping Lecturer, Department o f Electronics Dr. Kwong Chung-Ping obtained his MSc degree in Digital Communications from the Loughborough University in 1977. Before going to the United Kingdom for futher studies, Dr. Kwong received an industrial education in Hong Kong at the Hong Kong Technical College and the Morrison H ill Technical Institute. Dr. Kwong returned to Hong Kong and joined The Chinese University in 1978 as a Demonstrator in the Department o f Electronics. He was admitted to the PhD programme in Electronics in 1980 and completed his thesis in two years' time under the supervision o f Professor Chen Chih-fan. Upon graduation, Dr. Kwong was appointed Lecturer o f the Hong Kong Polytechnic. He rejoined the University in August this year. Dr. Kwong's specialization is in the area o f Control and System Theory. His current research interest is on the use o f Differential-Geometric Approach in Nonlinear System Theory. PROFILES 25