Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2003

officials and student groups, visited an AIDS Home, and participated in voluntary services during their trip. Their accommodation was provided by local host families. Yale students paid a return visit to New Asia College from 8th to 22nd March. The annual exchange programme has been jointly organized by the two institutions since 1993. Oxford Students of Materials Science Visit CUHK CUHK students from the Materials Science and Engineering Programme gave a presentation on their materials science programme to a delegation of 20 undergraduate students from Oxford University's Materials Department on 18th March 2003. Each year, undergraduate students from Oxford's Materials Department (previously Metallurgy Department) would visit similar academic departments from around the world with the aim of broadening their vision and understanding the latest technology in their field. Art Museum Exhibition Double Beauty: Qing Dynasty Couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection took place at the West Wing Galleries from 1st March to 4th May 2003. On display were a selection of 150 couplets from the Lechangzai Xuan Collection of Mr. Harold Wong, a r e n own ed landscape painter. The exhibition was o r g a n i z ed to c e l e b r a te t he 4 0 t h a n n i v e r s a ry o f t he University. The Chinese couplet is a rich and unique art form that has been made possible by one aspect of the classical Chinese literary tradition, namely the extensive use of parallelism. Incorporating literature, epigraphy, philology and the art of calligraphy, it becomes increasingly known as an art form associated exclusively with the calligraphy of the Qing Dynasty. In the Qing period, artists, scholars, officials and even emperors composed couplets. Such couplets were not only works of art but expressions of the artists' wit. Obituaries • Ms. Emma Poon, former senior instructor in the English Language Teaching Unit, passed away on 2nd October 2002. Ms. Poon served the University from 1982 to 2002. • Dr. John T.S. Chen, former registrar of the University, passed away on 21st December 2002. Dr. Chen served the University for 17 years and was University Registrar from 1973 to 1982. • Prof. Chen Te, senior tutor of Chung Chi College, passed away on 29th December 2002. Prof. Chen joined the University's Department of Philosophy in 1969 and retired in 1999. • Prof. David M. Davies, former professor of c l i n i c al pharmacology and f ound i ng chairman of the Department of Clinical Pharmacology, passed away in the UK over Christmas 2002. News in Brief 49