Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1993

to the Secretary of State for Education and has been actively engage d in education reforms in the UK. Chinese and Foreign Learning Bo t h as Subs t ance and as Use — A Proposal for the Modernization of Chinese Culture The fourth 30th anniversary lecture was presented by the Faculty of Arts on 18th March. Prof. Tse-tsung Chow, professor of East Asian languages and history at the University of Wisconsin, was invited to talk on ‘Chinese and Foreign Learning Both as Substance and as Use 一 A Proposal for the Modernization of Chinese Culture'. Prof. Chow started by defining 'civilization' and 'culture', and then discussed the meaning and origin of 'Chinese learning for substance, Western learning for practical use', a slogan first proposed in the late 19th century for the modernization of Chinese culture. When advocating ‘Chinese and foreign learning both as substance and as use' as the new guide for the modernization process, Prof. Chow gave new meaning to the words 'substance' and ‘use’ and suggested that China shoul d learn not only from the West but also fro m other countries such as India, Japan, or Southeast Asian countries, whose cultures had once been influenced by Chinese civilization. 30th Anniversary Symposia I n addition to anniversary lectures, five internationa l conferences were held in the first four months of the year to celebrate the University's 30th birthday. These conferences have also been partly subsidized by the Wei Lun Foundation Ltd. Title Date Organizers International Conference on Cultural Criticism 29th December 1992 — 10th January 1993 Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK; Centre for Psychosocial Studies, Chicago The Third International Conference on Min Dialects 11th- 12th January Department of Chinese Language and Literature & Ng Tor-Tai Chinese Language Research Centre, CUHK International Conference on Nuo Theatre and Nuo Culture 27th — 29th January Department of Music & Faculty of Arts, CUHK; Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan Critical Care '93 — the Seventh Congress of the Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine 12th-15th March Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, CUHK; Hong Kong Critical Care Society HK Retina 1993 —An International Opthalmological Meeting 29th March - 2nd April Eye Unit, Department of Surgery, CUHK; Schepens International Society 30TH ANNIVERSARY 4