Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 1997

Exhibition of selected ceramics from the Hsu collection in the new exhibition hall in the ICS extension (1995) Tang Chung (below) of the Archaeology Centre taking photographs at the Pak Mong excavation site on Lantau Island Secondly, the Lee family continued to s u p p o rt the i ns t i t u te w i t h the same dedication and magnanimity, and, together with the B.Y. Lam Foundation, donated a major new wing to the ICS building in 1988, thus providing much needed additional facilities, including a second exhibition hall to the Art Museum. Thirdly, two substantial new sources of public funding for research became available during the period ： the Research Grants Council of the University Grants Committee and the Chiang Ching Kuo Foundation for International Scholarly Exchange. Together, they awarded a total of over 10 million dollars in competitive grants to researchers at ICS during the past decade, thus giving us the freedom of trying out new ideas on a scale not hitherto contemplated. Finally, perhaps most important of all, many bright, young people appeared at just the right time to take over existing work or start up new ventures. They include Eva Hung, who in 1986 succeeded John Minford in editing Renditions and heading the Research Centre for Translation, and despite her young age and relative inexperience was soon able to expand the activities of the centre and augment its a l r eady considerable international reputation ； Tang Chung, who bravely led the Archaeology Centre into field work in 1987, kept at the hard labour w i th tenacity, and in 1993 became the director of the Archaeology Centre, wh i ch by now has undertaken almost a dozen highly successful excavation projects in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Vietnam, in cooperation with archaeological teams from the mainland ； Ho Che-wah, who in 1988 gave up a secure teaching position to take on the challenge of building a database of all ancient Chinese texts up to the sixth century A.D .， and who soon found himself right at the centre of one of the most exciting and productive research projects in the University, one ICS AT THIRTY—A Portrait of the Institute of Chinese Studies 1967-97 9