Calendar 2005–06

Research Institutes and Centres 105 Research Centre for Translation, the Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture, and the Research Centre for Chinese Ancient Texts, each of which maintains its own academic programme and publication activities. The institute publishes four periodicals — Journal of Chinese Studies , Renditions , Chinese Language Newsletter , and Twenty-First Century , as well as the cultural webpage Century China. The reference reading room of the institute contains 35,088 volumes of books and 322 periodicals. Art Museum Tel.: 2609 7416 Fax.: 2603 5366 E-mail: artmuseum@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/amm The Art Museum, established in 1971, serves as a university museum, which is also open to the public, and works for the causes of academic research and public education. Along with semi-permanent displays of its collection, the museum mounts special exhibitions, organizes lectures and symposia, and provides audio guide services and docent guided tours to promote the appreciation and understanding of Chinese art. The museum collection consists of over 10,000 pieces of Chinese art from the Neolithic to modern periods, including painting and calligraphy, rubbings of ancient calligraphy, seals, ceramics, jades, bronzes, lacquerwares, and objects for the scholar’s studio. Notable among them are archaic seals, epigraphy and rubbings, painting and calligraphy of the Song and Yuan dynasties, painting and calligraphy by Guangdong artists, and trade porcelain, which form the basis of research projects at the museum. The Art Museum publishes fully illustrated catalogues of special exhibitions and monographs of its collection. The Annex provides technical support for the museum. This includes the conservation of works of art, the mounting of Chinese paintings, audio-visual processing, woodwork, photographic and graphic design services. The Friends of the Art Museum was founded in 1981 to support the Art Museum and to promote its activities. Membership is open to the public. Centre for Chinese Archaeology and Art Tel.: 2609 7371 Fax.: 2603 7539 E-mail: ccaa@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/ccaa The centre was established in 1978 to undertake research in Chinese archaeology and art. The purpose was to pool the resources of the Art Museum and the departments of history, fine arts, and anthropology to promote research cooperation with museums and universities in mainland China and abroad. Recently the centre has shifted its emphasis to field archaeology, and its field work team has become active in local excavations as well as collaborative projects

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