Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1992

* Dr. Lam Kin-che, senior lecturer in geography, has been appointed a member of the Environmental Pollution Advisory Committee for two years from 1st January 1992. * Mr. T.L. Tsim, director of The Chinese University Press, has been appointed a member of the Education Commission for one year from 1st January 1992. * Dr. Richard M.W. Ho, lecturer in Chinese language and literature, has been appointed an arbitrator to an arbitration tribunal for three years from 1st March 1992. * Prof. Ma Lin, chairman of the Board of Trustees of Shaw College, was reappointed a member of the United Kingdom/Hong Kong Scholarships Committee from 1st January to 31st March 1992. * Prof. Leung Ping-chung, professor of orthopaedics and traumatology, has been appointed a member of the Health and Medical Development Advisory Committee for two years from 1st March 1992. * Dr. Chan Kai-ming, reader of orthopaedics and traumatology, has been appointed a member of the Health and Medical Development Advisory Committee for two years from 1st March 1992, and has been reappointed a member of the Board of the Hong Kong Sports Institute from 1st April to 30th June 1992. * Dr. Frank H. Fu, senior lecturer of physical education, has been reappointed a member of the Board of the Hong Kong Sports Institute from 1st April to 30th June 1992. * Dr. Mok Hoi, reader of economics, has been appointed a member of the Chinese Textbooks Committee for two years from 1st April 1992. * Prof. Yeung Yue-man, professor of geography and director of Hong Kong Institute o f Asia-Pacific Studies, has been appointed a member of the Town Planning Board and its subordinate committees for two years from 1st April 1992. He has also been reappointed a member of the Hong Kong Housing Authority for two years from 1st April 1992. * Mr. William Wa n Hon-cheung, alumni affairs officer, has been appointed a member of the Town Planning Board and its subordinate committees for two years from 1st April 1992. * Dr. Tsui Hung Tat, senior lecturer of electronic engineering, has been appointed a member of the Committee on Training of Technologists of the Vocational Training Council until 31st March 1993. New Research Laboratory for Food Science A Research Laboratory for Food Science was newly set up in late 1991 under the Department of Biology. It is the first of its kind establishe d by a local tertiary institution to provide consultative service to the food industry in Hong Kong and abroad. The laboratory serves to coordinat e existing food-related research at The Chinese University and to stimulate further projects by providing the expertise and personnel required. At the moment, it is focusing its efforts on modernizing the processing of traditional Chinese food, and using integrative biotechnology to develop mushrooms as health food products. Its research agenda also includes a joint project with the University of California at Davis to identify the protein in shrimps that causes allergic reactions. Wei Lun Lectures Prof. James Michael Holquist, professor of comparative literature and head of Department of Soviet and East European Studies at Yale University, gave two lectures on 15th and 23rd April as the University's Wei Lun Visiting Professor. In his first lecture, entitled 'Nationalism and (Auto) Biography: Reflections on a Russia n Doll', Prof. Holquist stressed the intimate relationship between individual experience and attempts to make sense of collective identities such as the national consciousness. The metaphor of the Russian stackin g doll was introduced to demonstrate the assumption that stories that shape individual lives derive their coherence from collective stories. Prof. Holquist's second lecture entitled 'From Cultural Studies to Cultural Criticism: Remembering Censorship' tried to evaluate the place of cultural studies within current debates in various countries about multi-culturalism. The argumen t was directed against certain recent attempts to change curriculum in the belief that a single set of courses could satisfy NEWS 22 •