Bulletin No. 1, 2010

CHINESE UNIVERSITY BULLETIN No. 1, 2010 © The Chinese University of Hong Kong 2010 The Chinese University Bulletin is published biannually by the Information Services Office Address all correspondence to Information Services Office, CUHK, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, The People's Republic of China Email iso@cuhk.edu.hk Website www.cuhk.edu.hk/iso/bulletin Advisory Committee on Chinese University Bulletin Prof. Laurence K.P. Wong Prof. Chan Hung-kan Prof. Joseph Man Chan Prof. David Parker Mr. Eric S.P. Ng Mr. Jacob S.K. Leung Ms. Amy Y.M. Tsui Ms. Antonia Y.H. Yeung Mr. Tommy W.K. Cho Contents 2 Humanities · Humanity · Humankind • Research Institute for the Humanities 4 • Research Centre for Comparative City Cultures 6 • Centre for Comparative and Public History 7 • Research Centre for Human Values 8 • Department of Music 10 • Centre for Culture and Development 12 • Centre for the Studies of Daoist Culture 14 • Centre for Catholic Studies 16 18 The 67th Congregation 22 Former Vice-Chancellor Prof. Charles K. Kao Returns to CUHK 28 Two Projects Made Areas of Excellence • Institute of Network Coding 29 • The Historical Anthropology of Chinese Society 30 32 Foundation Stone Laid for Lee Woo Sing College 34 The Best and the Brightest 36 News in Brief • Appointments 36 • Honours and Recognition 38 • Research 41 • Activities and Events 43 • Intellectual Cross-currents 47