Bulletin Spring‧Summer 1999

1998, Department of English; • The Fourth International Conference on Confucian-Christian Dialogue, 21st to 23rd December 1998 ， Chung Chi College, Department of Religion, Department of Philosophy, and the Christian Study Centre on Chinese Religion and Culture; • I n t e r n a t i o n a l Con f e r en ce on New Professionalism in Teaching: Teacher Education and Teacher Development in a Changing World, 15th to 17th January 1999, Hong Kong Institute o f Educational Research, Faculty of Education, and Professional Actions and Cultures of Teaching; • The A r t and Science of M i d w i f e r y: Meeting the Psychological Needs of Childbearing Women, 15th January 1999, Department of Nursing and the Hong Kong Midwives Association; • Hong Kong Nu r s i ng Sympos i um on Ca n c er Ca r e, 23 rd January 1999, Departments of Nursing and Clinical Oncology; • Conference on Pre-Qin Civilization in the Jianghan Region, 25th January 1999, Art Museum; • Workshop on Advancing Family Medicine in China, 12th and 13th March 1999, Department of Community and Family Medicine, sponsored by the F i f t i e t h Anniversary Fund of New Asia College; • The Fourth Annual Scientific Symposium of the Hong Kong Cancer Institute, 13th March 1999, the Hong Kong Cancer Institute; • Symposium on Multimedia Everywhere, 26th March 1999, Shaw College. Wei Lun Lectures • Prof. Stephen J. Ball, director of the Centre for Public Policy Research, School of Education, King's College London, delivered a lecture entitled ‘ G l oba l Trends in Educational Reform and the Struggle for the Soul of the Teacher' on 27th November 1998. • Prof. Thomas B. Ferguson, Emeritus Professor of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in Missouri, gave a lecture on 'Some Observations on Scientific Publishing' on 4th December 1998. • Prof. Rulan Chao Pian, Professor Emeritus of the Music Department and the East Asian Languages and Civilization Department of Harvard University, gave a lecture on ‘The Ethnomusicological Approach to Chinese Music Studies' on 7th December 1998. Visiting Scholars • Prof. Sanson-Fisher, dean of medicine at the University of Newcastle in Australia ， visited New Asia College as its Ming Yu Visiting Professor and gave two seminars respectively entitled 'Changing Behaviour in Primary Care' and ‘Teaching Communication Skills' on 15th October 1998. • Prof. Lin Wen-yueh, Professor Emeritus of the Chinese Department of National Taiwan University, visited Chung Chi College as Siu Lien Ling Wong Visiting Fellow 1998-99 from 5th to 16th January 1999. Prof. Lin gave several talks to staff and students. • Prof. Yau Shing-tung, professor o f mathematics at Harvard University and director of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences at The Chinese University, delivered a lecture entitled ‘Mathematics and Society' on 15th January 1999 in his capacity as Sir Run Run Shaw Distinguished Visiting Scholar of Shaw College. • Prof. Wolfgang Kubin, professor of sinology and head of the Department o f Classical Chinese Studies of the University of Bonn in Germany, visited Chung Chi College under its visiting scholar programme. During his visit, Prof. Kubin gave a public lecture entitled “‘Only the Chinese Understand Ch i n a ” — Pr ob l ems o f East-West Understanding' on 24th March 1999 and a poetry reading entitled 'Images of Macau — A Chinese-European Perspective' jointly News in Brief 63