Bulletin Autumn‧Winter 2004

Professorial Appointments Professor of Accountancy Prof. Wong Tak-jun has been appointed professor of accountancy from 2nd July 2004. Prof. Wong has an MBA (1986) and a Ph.D. i n management (1990) f r om the University of California, Los Angeles. From 2002 to 2004, he was professor in accounting and director of the Centre for Corporate Governance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Professor of Chinese Language and Literature Prof. Samuel Cheung Hung-nin has been appointed professor of Chinese language and literature from 2nd August 2004. Prof. Cheung, who has a Ph.D. in oriental languages from the University of California (1974), Berkeley, has taught Chinese at the University of Oregon, UC Berkeley, the University of Hong Kong, and Hong Kong Baptist University. Prior to joining CUHK, he was professor and head of the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and professor emeritus of East Asian languages at UC Berkeley. Professor of Humanities Prof. Leo Lee O u - f an has been appointed professor of humanities f r om 2nd A u g u st 2004. Prof. Lee obtained his Ph.D. in h i s t o r y a n d Far Eastern languages from Harvard University in 1970. In the following two years, he was lecturer in history at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He had also taught history a n d / or East A s i an languages and cu l t u r es at various universities such as Dartmouth College, Princeton University, Indiana University, the University of Chicago, and the University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the Chinese University, he was professor in the Department of East Asian Languages a n d C i v i l i z a t i o ns of H a r v a r d University. Professor of Government and Public Administration Prof. Emerson M.S. Niou has been appointed professor of government and public administration from 5th August 2004. Prof. N i ou has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas at Austin (1987). He has taught political science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and the California Institute of Technology. He joined Duke University as associated professor of political science in 1994, becoming professor of political science in 2002. Professor of History Prof. David William Faure has been appointed professor of history from 1st September 2004. Prof. Faure obtained a Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University in 1976. He was lecturer in history at the Chinese University from 1976 to 1991. Prior to rejoining the University, he was university lecturer in modern Chinese history and Fellow of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford. News in Brief 55