Bulletin Number Five 1984

27th Congregation and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the Mass Transit Railway Corporation, and the Kowloon-Canton Rail way Corporation, and has also been appointed to the Legislative Council and the Executive Council as well as numerous other consultative and public bodies, either as member or chairman. Surely it would have taken the most resolute and resilient workaholic merely to survive the kind of schedule entailed by such heavy commitments, not to mention savouring it and thriving on it like Miss Dunn. The most important contribution made by Miss Dunn towards the economy of Hong Kong is prob ably through her work with the textile and garment development, especially her efforts for liberalizing international textile trade. Following the footsteps of several noted community leaders, she was appointed the Chairman of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council in 1983 ， to look after the promotion of export trade, which is the lifeline of Hong Kong. In that position she w ill now surely find a worthy challenge in keeping up the momentum of the Hong Kong economy while it is about to tack onto a different course in shifting winds. Apart from trade, land is another important factor in the economy of Hong Kong to which Miss Dunn hasmade considerable contribution, mainly as chairman during the 1980-83 period on several public committees responsible for land policy and its implementation. She was made a Justice of the Peace in 1976, an Officer of the Order of British Empire in 1978 ， and then a Commander of the Order of British Empire in 1983. Also concerned with the promotion of higher education, Miss Dunn was invited by this University to join the University Council in 1978 ， served as Chairman of the Appointments Board from 1979 to 1982, and became the University Treasurer as well as the Chairman of the Finance Committee in 1982. She is presently also the Chairman of the dental teaching hospital of Hong Kong University. Mr. Chancellor, in recognition of her public service, especially her efforts towards trade and economic development, and in recognition of her contribution towards the higher education of Hong Kong, may I request Your Excellency to confer upon Miss Lydia Dunn the Degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. The Honorable Mr. Justice T.L. Yang The two pillars of traditional Chinese political philosophy were Confucianism, which emphasized the importance of rites and education, and Legalism, which saw law and punishment as having more direct and definitive effects. In practice, the statesman made use of both approaches to obtain ajudicious mixture which would, ideally, elicit the best from both of them. While such a compromise avoided the pitfalls of the extremes, the two Schools in effect counter acted each other, thereby stultifying the free individual development of both. And this is still a problem with Chinese politics today. On the other hand, law and education are in the West conceptually associated with two separate and distinct ideals, namely justice and knowledge. Just as ‘render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God', so it was considered natural that legal and educational institutions should each develop in its own separate way without interfering with each other — so separate that, as a matter of fact, they often become divided from each other. This is indeed a fundamental difference between the thinking of China and that of the West. Nevertheless, Mr. T.L. Yang does, in more than one sense cross that line: a prominent figure on the bench while at the same time the key person responsible for bringing together the Government and universities, he nevertheless does not suffer from a conflict of roles or from the multi farious demands made on him. This surely speaks for the calibre of his learning which enables him to move from one culture to another with ease. It must only be a metropolis like Hong Kong which can produce Mr. Yang's breed, and it must be persons of Mr. 6 NEWS