Bulletin No. 2, 2009

32   Chinese University Bulletin No. 2, 2009 60 th Anniversary of Department of Philosophy T he history of the Department of Philosophy can be traced to the establishment of the Department of Philosophy and Education at New Asia College in 1949. This year marks its 60th anniversary, as well as the centenary of Prof. Tang Chun-I, the founding chairman and the first Chair Professor of the department. The department celebrated these events with a series of activities, including the International Conference on New Directions in Chinese Philosophy, and the inauguration of a statue of Professor Tang. The inauguration ceremony of Professor Tang’s statue took place on 20 May 2009. Standing on the lawn near the Chi’en Mu Library at the New Asia Campus, the statue was sculpted by Mr. Chu Tat- shing. It comes with an epigraph by Prof. Yu Ying-shih, former head of New Asia College, rendered into calligraphy by Prof. Lee Yun-woon, former chairman of the Department of Fine Arts. Speaking on the occasion, Prof. L awrence J. Lau, Vice -Chancellor of the University, praised Professor Tang for ‘spending a lifetime studying Chinese and Western philosophy, and dedicating himself to the promotion of traditional Chinese culture and the revival of Chinese humanism’.