Bulletin Number Two 1985

P r o f i l e s Professor CHENG Tsu-yu Dr. Kar Neng LAI Dr, WANG Chi University Librarian Dr. Wang Chi was educated in America, receiving his BS from the University of Maryland in 1957 and his MA and PhD in 1965 and 69 respectively from Georgetown University. In 1958 Dr. Wang joined the Library of Congress i n America, thereby began his lifelong career in library management while establishing himself as a scholar specializing in Asian studies. He was the Oriental Specialist at the Science and Technology Division of the library of Congress from 1960 to 67 and served as Assistant Head of the Chinese and Korean Section from 1969 to 75 before becoming its Head. While on leave from the library of Congress (1970-72), he took up a two-year appointment as the University librarian at this University. In addition to library work, Dr. Wang has been teaching Chinese History at Georgetown University as Professor on a part-time basis since 1969. Dr. Wang joined this University again as the University Libarian on January 1985. Dr. Wang is a member of the American Library Association, Association for Asian Studies, American Historical Association, Phi Alpha Theta, American Association of University Professors, and National Committee on US-China Relations. Professor CHENG Tsu-yu Senior Research Fellow o f the Institute o f Chinese Studies Professor Cheng Tsu-yu, a well-known scholar from Singapore, specializes i n the study of Chinese Rhetoric, and was awarded a Certificate by the Institute of Language Teaching, Waseda University, Tokyo. He delivered a paper at a conference on Sinology in England in 1971，and has been invited to give lectures and conduct research i n various universities and research institutes in Japan and the United States since the 1960s. He was appointed Professor of the Graduate School of Waseda University in 1964 and a Full Professor in Chinese Rhetoric of Daito Bunka University from 1978 to 1980. Professor Cheng's major publications include: Changes in Chinese Rhetorics，A Textual Examination of the Collected Poems of Huang Ts'ung-hsien, Selected Works of Cheng Tsu-yu, Posthumous Conversation Notes between Huang Ts'ung-hsien and His Japanese Friends (Co-editor: Sanet o Keishu), On Chinese Poetics and Poetical Notes, A Draft History of Chinese Rhetoric (the first of its kind), I n Remembrance of My Japanese Friends，and Lectures Given in Tokyo, etc., some of which have bee n translated into English and Japanese. Apart from being a scholar of classical Chinese literature, Professor Cheng is also a literary writer and critic. He has published countless proses，essays, poems and literary criticism in various journals in China and abroad. His name appears in A Dictionary o f Literary Figures in China，A Dictionary o f Chinese and Foreign Writers，and Who's Who in Japanese Universities. Professor Cheng is now Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies. Dr. Kar Neng L A I Senior Lecturer, Department o f Medicine Dr. Kar Neng Lai graduated MB BS from the University of Hong Kong in 1975 with distinction in Medicine and won the C.P. Fong Gold Medal in Medicine. He worked as a lecturer in Medicine at his alma mater from 1976 to 78. He went to Australia the following year, and received his training in Nephrology at the Royal Adelaide Hospital and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Adelaide, South Australia. He also worked at the Prince Henry Hospital, Sydney before returning to Hong Kong in late 1982. He joined this University i n 1983 as Lecturer in Medicine and was appointed Senior Lecturer in 1985. Dr. Lai became a member of the Royal College of Physician (United Kingdom) in 1980，and received his Doctorate in Medicine from the University of Hong Kong in 1983 for his thesis entitled 'Observation of Left Ventricular Function in Uraemic Patients'. His research interest in Nephrology include IgA nephropathy, uraemic cardiomyopathy and haemofiltration therapy. He has been elected members of various international organizations including the Australasian Society of Nephrology, International Society of Nephrology and the New York Academy of Sciences. 28 PROFILES