Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2002

Installtion of the New Vice-Chancellor Introduction of Prof. Ambrose Y.C. King P rof. Ambrose K i ng is a sociologist of h i gh standing a n d great r e n o w n. A d i s t i n g u i s h ed scholar w i t h i mp o r t a nt publications, he has influenced academia i n v e ry significant ways. Prof. K i ng is a native of Tiantai in Zhejiang Province. He obtained the Bachelor of L aws degree f r om T a i wan U n i v e r s i ty i n 1957, a nd a master's degree i n p o l i t i c al science from Chengchi University in 1959. After graduation he taught for a t i me at Ch e n g c hi Un i v e r s i t y, a nd was successively the D e p u ty Editor-in-Chief of Commercial Press ， Taiwan, a nd the Editor of The Eastern Miscellany. He later went to the United States for graduate studies and obtained a Ph.D. f r om the University of Pittsburgh in 1970. I n the same year he came to H o n g Ko ng to take up a lectureship in sociology at N e w Asia College, The Chinese University of H o n g Kong. Since then he has been a h i g h ly v a l u ed member of the University, h a v i ng been appointed to key positions and entrusted w i t h important tasks by the University. He was p r omo t ed to a senior lectureship i n 1974, and became the chairman of the Department of Sociology i n 1977. I n 1979 he was appointed reader and, i n 1983, took u p the chair of sociology. He was head of N e w Asia College f r om 1977 to 1985, and was appointed pro-vice-chancellor in 1989. In 2002 he was made Vice-Chancellor of the University, marking the culmination of a close association w i t h The Chinese Un i v e r s i ty spanning three decades and t wo centuries. I n this l o ng career at The Chinese University, Prof. K i n g has occupied some of the most senior a nd i mp o r t a nt administrative positions i n the academic hierarchy. Yet his first love has remained t e a c h i ng a n d research. H is research career has t a k en several directions. From Tradition to Modernity, w h i ch he published early i n Taiwan, has been reprinted time and again; i n 1999, an edition i n The University's 58th Cong r e g ation 31