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348 Part 4 • Research Units and University Extensions seminars and talks in cooperation with different departments in the Faculty of Arts. At present it is working on the new Hong Kong Cultural Studies series. A couple of cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional research projects on Hong Kong cultural studies are also being drawn up. Research Centre for Comparative City Cultures Tel.: 2609 7113 Fax.: 2603 5685 E-mail: yuensleung@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rih/city.html The Research Centre for Comparative City Cultures was established to coordinate and promote research on comparative city cultures at CUHK and to facilitate research collaboration with other institutions in this area. The centre organizes various research activities and academic events. It also works on projects in cooperation with research units from other universities in Hong Kong and in mainland China, such as ‘Cultural Relations and Interaction between Shanghai and Hong Kong’ and ‘Hong Kong– Shenzhen Cultural Relations’. Research Centre for Confucian Studies Tel.: 2609 7028 Fax.: 2603 5685 E-mail: hunglamchu@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/rih/confucian.html The Research Centre for Confucian Studies aims to achieve certain goals, including the promotion of research interest in the area of Confucianism and other aspects of Confucian culture, better coordination of ongoing research on Confucianism and related issues by members of the Faculty of Arts, and establishment of links with research institutions in the same field in mainland China and around the world. Completed projects of the centre include ‘The Uncertain Phoenix: Confucianism in Contemporary China’ and ‘Culture as Destiny — The Confucian Experiment in Modern Singapore’. On-going projects include ‘Classical Lectures and Statecraft Conception in the Court of Ming China, 1368–1644’. Future projects include studies on the forms of Confucian teaching and learning in late imperial China on the manifestation of Confucian ethics and rituals in the Lingnan area, including the present provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Hainan as well as Hong Kong and Macau. Research Centre for Humanities Computing Tel.: 2609 7165 Fax.: 2603 5323 E-mail: twkwan@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk The Research Centre for Humanities Computing is restructured from the Humanities Computing and Methodology Programme, which was founded as early as 1992 under the auspices of the Research Institute for the Humanities. Over the years, the centre has developed various webpages serving the need of the humanities community,