Bulletin Spring‧Summer Autumn‧Winter 1999

and management practices in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. This year, the programme lasted for five days and was conducted by experienced academic staff from the Faculty of Business Administration and key executives from the local business community. Alumni Support Student Activities Fund The CUHK Federation of Alumni Associations has resolved to establish a Student Activities Fund to support the development of student services and promote student activities at the University. Interest accrued from the fund w i ll be used to subsidize training programmes for student leaders, student delegations to international competitions and conferences, worthy projects organized by the student unions and other student societies, and any other activity approved by the fund's management committee. The fund will be administered by the Office of Student Affairs. Letters were sent in May to CUHK alumni in Hong Kong and overseas to invite donations for the fund. Pledges of support have been received from a considerable number of graduates. Mr. Thomas H.C. Cheung, chairman of the committee, has generously contributed HK$ 1,000,000 to the fund. Art Gallery Exhibitions The Art Gallery mounted two new exhibitions in its West Wing Galleries this summer: * Recent Acquisitions of Chinese Antiquities — The exhibition was held from 27th June to 17th July. Exhibits included paintings, calligraphy, ceramics, bronze seals, rubbings, scholar's objects and furniture recently acquired by the Art Gallery. Comb, W. Zhou — Spring and Autumn periods (Exhibition of Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection) * Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection — The exhibition began on 28th July and w i ll continue until 14th October. On display are some 200 items of ivories from the collection of Dr. Simon Kwan, a well-known architect and collector of Chinese art. Exhibits include carvings of utilitarian objects, ornaments, fittings and game accessories of the Shang to the Yuan period, as well as carvings of figures, scholar's articles, vessels and decorative objects of the Mi ng and the Qing periods. Guan Zhong hou yin, Eastern Han - Wei (Exhibition of Recent Acquisitions of Chinese Antiquities) N E WS 27