Bulletin No. 2, 2020

Honours and Recognition   47  Humanity Award for Bridge-building Professor P rof. Ng Yan-yung Edward at the School of Architecture was awarded the Third Hong Kong Humanity Award by the Hong Kong Red Cross and Radio Television Hong Kong in May 2010. Professor Ng set up the Wu Zhi Qiao ( Bridge to China) Foundation in 2007. Under the auspices of the foundation, he led both Hong Kong and mainland university students to complete more than a dozen projects in poverty-stricken areas in Shaanxi, Sichuan, Gansu, Guizhou and Yunnan. These projects benefitted more than 10,000 people. The foundation has also launched post-earthquake reconstruction projects in Sichuan and Qinghai. Professor Ng’s work has shown mainlanders in plight the care and compassion of their countrymen thousands of miles away. Professor of History Elected Academician of Academia Sinica P rof. Leung Ki- che Angela was elected an academician (Division of Humanities and Social Sciences) of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan in July 2010 for her remarkable academic achievements. Professor Leung is a pioneer in the research of social history of Ming-Qing China and of medicine in China.