Bulletin Number Five 1986

Seminars • Concerts • Exhibitions * The China's SEZs Data and Research Unit of the Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies organized: —Lectures by Mr. Cai Renqun, Deputy Head of Research Section, Guangzhou Institute of Geography: (1) 'Zhuhai SEZ: Investment Environment and Development Prospects' (3rd November); and (2) 'The Development of the Shantou SEZ' (4th November). —Two SEZs Public Lectures by Professor Liu Guoguang, Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Honorary Professor of Peking University, China: (1) 'The Strategy of the Development of the Special Economic Zones' (15th December); and (2) 'China's Open Policy and Reforms' (16th December). * At the invitation of the Japanese Studies Section, Professor Tanaka Hisao of Kyoto Sangyo University gave a lecture on 'The Culture of Japan: 1. The Characteristics of Japanese Culture; 2. The Chinese, Korean and Western Impacts on Japanese Culture' on 4th November. * The Department of Electronics organized: —Two seminars conducted by Professor Howard H. Rosenbrock, Professor of Control Engineering, Control Systems Centre, Institute of Science and Technology, University of Manchester, UK: (1) Technology and Work' (4th November); and (2) 'Control Theory and QuantumMechanics' (18th November). —A seminar on 'Semiconductor Laser Amplifiers' conducted by Ms. Chen Wei-xi of the Department of Physics, Peking University, on 30th December. * At the invitation of the Department of Journalism and Communication, Mr. James J.S. Wong, Deputy Chairman of Saatchi and Saatchi Wong Lam Ltd., gave a lecture on ‘Creative Advertising' on 5th November. * The Department of Chemistry organized the following seminars: 一 'Convergence of Studies on Carbocations Onium Ions and Ylides in the Conversion of Methane into Ethylene' conducted by Professor George A. Olah, Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute, University of Southern California, USA, on 7th November. —‘Some New Reactions of Perhaloorganic Compounds' conducted by Dr. Huang Bing- nan, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, China, on 20th November. —‘DIRDIF: Direct Methods for Difference Structures' conducted by Professor Paul Beurskens of Katholieke Universiteit, the Netherlands, on 25th November. * At the invitation of the Institute of Chinese Studies, Mr. Xu Heng-bin conducted a seminar on ‘A Study on the Mummified Image of the Sixth Patriarch Hui Neng in the Nan Hua Temple' on 11th November. Mr. Xu is the Associate Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Committee for the Protection of Historical Relics, Guangdong Province. * At the invitation of the School of Education and the Goethe-Institut, Professor Hellmut Becker, a renowned scholar in adult education from West Germany, gave a public lecture on ‘Persistent Contradiction in Adult Education' on 14th November. * United College organized the following lectures by the 1986 Distinguished Visiting Scholars: —‘Space Shuttle Programme' by Dr. Franklin R. Chang-Diaz, Astronaut of National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA, on 14th November. —A series of lectures by Professor Chern Shiing-shen, Director of the Institute of Mathematics, Nankai University, and Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, University of California at Berkeley: (1) 'What is Geometry?' (19th November); (2) ‘My Teaching Experience — Development of Mathematics in China in the Past Sixty Years' (20th November); (3) ‘Differential Geometry and Theoretical 18 ACADEMIC/CULTURAL EVENTS