Bulletin Number Five 1986

* New Asia College organized the Eighth Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture Programme in December. Professor Yu Ying Shih, Charles Seymour Professor of History, Yale University, and former President of the College, delivered a series of three lectures on ‘Traditions and Breakthroughs in Chinese Intellectual History': —'Some Salient Features of Chinese Intellectual History' (8th December); —'Intellectual Traditions: Formation and Transformation' (10th December); and -'Intellectual Breakthroughs: Patterns and Processes' (12th December). * At the invitation of the Department of Physics, Professor Ngar-Cheung Lau of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program of Princeton University, USA, conducted a seminar on ‘Some Current Problems in Meteorology' on 22nd December. * The Department of Music organized the following concerts: —A guitar masterclass by Ms. Alice Artzt on 13th November. —A student clarinet recital by Mr. Leung Po Wah on 19th November. —A soprano recital by Ms. Foo Foo Poon, an outstanding soprano in Hong Kong, on 20th November. - A piano lecture-recital by Ms. Betty Woo, a Hong Kong born pianist, who has established her reputation in USA, on 26th November. —A piano recital by Mr. William Howard, a famous British pianist and a Czech music specialist, on 3rd December. —A joint student recital on 4th December. * An Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions and Donations is being mounted by the Art Gallery from 26th December, 1986 to 15th February, 1987. The exhibition features recent acquisitions and donations of the Art Gallery, including bronze seals, paintings and calligraphy, ceramics and rubbings. Among the exhibits are thirteen pieces in eight sets of porcelain recovered from 'Geldermalsen', or more popularly called the Nanking Cargo. These were gifts of Dr. K. S. Lo ， President of the Soya Bean Products Co. Ltd. and renowned collector of Chinese art. Selections of imperial porcelain of late Qing from the Kwan Collection and paintings by Guangdong artists are also on display. Recent Publications of the University The following books and journal were published by the Chinese University Press fromMarch to November 1986: (Titles in Chinese) Gregory C. Chow: The Chinese Economy (xii + 299pp., hardcover) Richard M.W. Ho: A Study of Experimental and Variant Forms in Chinese Verse (xii + 242pp., paperback) Hsu Kwan-san: New Historiography since 1900, Vol. 1 (viii + 259pp., paperback) Ogawa Tamaki (ed. by Yue-him Tam): On Chinese Poetry (305pp., paperback) W.W. Tso ， W.K. Li and C.N. Lam (ed .)： A Glossary of Chemical Terms for Secondary School (viii + 62pp., paperback) Chinese Teaching Material Development Committee (ed.): A Glossary of Mathematical Terms for Secondary School (iv + 24pp., paperback) (Titles in English) Chou Fa-kao: Papers in Chinese Linguistics and Epigraphy (x + 144pp .， hardcover) Ying-hsiung Chou (ed .)： The Chinese Text: Studies in Comparative Literature (xxii + 210pp., hardcover) Stephen C. Soong (ed .)： A Brotherhood in Song (x + 386pp., hardcover) Album Contemporary Chinese Painting (xvi + 143pp .， hardcover) Journal Hong Kong Journal of Business Management, Vol. 3 (vi + 152pp .， paperback) 20 ACADEMIC/CULTURAL EVENTS