Bulletin Winter 1999

Cultural Events Ju Lian, Sand pear and mantis, fan (Exhibition of paintings by Ju Chao and Ju Lian) * An exhibition of paintings by Ju Chao and Ju Lian was mounted at the Art Gallery from 6th October, 1989 to 13th March, 1990. On display were about 100 paintings selected from the Guangdong collection of the Art Gallery. Ju Chao (1811-1865) spent most of his life in Panyu, Guangdong. He was specially skilled at painting birds, flowers, fish and insects, having studied under Meng Jinyi and Song Guangbao. His paintings have some of the ethereal qualities of Yun Shouping (1633-1690). Ju Lian (1828-1904) was the younger cousin of Ju Chao. His paintings of flowers and insects were celebrated throughout Guangdong. He and Ju Chao exerted great influence on the art and practice of painting in the province, giving rise to the term ‘the Ju school of painting'. Famous painters like Gao Jianfu, Chen Shuren and others at one time or another drew inspiration from the Ju's. * New Asia College organize d the following activities: - A n art exhibition was mounted at City Hall from 9th to 15th October to celebrate the college's 40th anniversary. Some 80 exhibits produced by faculty members, students, alumni as well as visiting scholars were on display. Officiated at the opening ceremony were Professor Charles K. Kao, the Vice- Chancellor, and Dr. Edwin Tao ， chairman of the college board of trustees. - P r o f e s s o r Tu Wei-ming, professor of Chinese history and philosophy, Harvard University, USA, visited the college from 25th October to 10th November, as speaker of the 1989 Ch'ien Mu Lecture in History and Culture. Three lectures were delivered on the theme of ‘New Prospects on Confucian Learning': (1) 'From Rootlessness to Spiritual Em- beddedness', on 27th October; (2) ‘The Contemporary Implications of Moral Metaphysics', on 1st November; and (3) ‘ The Commu n al C r i t i c a l Se l f- Consciousness of the Intellectual', on 3rd November. —Professor Benjamin Schwartz, forme r Leroy B. W i l l i ams Professor o f H i s t o r y and Government, and director of academic pol- 14