Newsletter No. 13

CUHK Newsletter Assessment of the Past, Present and Future' on 18th October. New Asia S.Y. Chung Visiting Fellow Prof. Chou Susing, an internationally renowned painter, visited New Asia College from 18th October to 17th November. He gave three classroom demonstrations for students of the Fine Arts Department and delivered a public lecture on the trend of contemporary Chinese painting in China. An exhibition of Prof. Chou's works was also held in the New Asia Art Gallery from 22nd to 27th October. New Asia Ming Yu Visiting Scholars Prof. Hu Fo of the Department of Politics, National Taiwan University, and Prof. Wen Chung-I, research fellow of the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, visited New Asia College from4th to 8th November and jointly presented a lecture on the problems of recent social and political development in Taiwan on 6th November. United College 90-91 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Prof. Wlodzimierz Brus, emeritus professor of modern Russian and East European studies, Oxford University, visited United College from 11th to 23rd November. During his visit, Prof. Brus gave three public lectures on the theme of ‘Socialist Economy - Concept, Reality andProspects'. The topics of the three lectures were respectively 'Concept — Marxist Claim to Superiority'; 'Reality —Experience of Eastern Europe' ; and 'Prospects - Reform or Replacement?' Prof. Brus also participated in a special panel discussion on ‘The Prospects of the Socialist System in China ， held at United College on 20th November. New Publications of The University Press The following new books will be sold at a 20 per cent discount to staff members at the University Bookshop, John Fulton Centre: • Promoting Prosperity: TheHong Kong Way of Social Policy (in English) by Catherine Jones, x + 374 pp., (hardcover, HK$160). -《新儒學的演變》 (inChinese) by Wong Yuk, vi + 255 pp., (paperback, HK$55). - Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 1990-91 (in Chinese) translated by Aloysius Tse, xxxii + 476 pp., (paperback, HK$138). Letter to the Editor I am new to this University community and one of the major cultural shocks I experience here is how the telephones on campus work, or, to be exact, how they do not work. You dial and dial and dial and never manage to get an external line; you wait and wait and wait and still there is no dialling tone. I lament the aggregate time and effort wasted on such dialling and waiting throughout the University. How can the University expect efficiency with this outdated telephone system? For how long do we have to put up with it? Is it not a little ironic that we have a vice-chancellor who is an authority on optical fibre communications? A frustrated dialler (Name and address supplied) Editor' s Note: Incidentally and coincidentally , the CUHK Newsletter interviewed the unit responsible for installin g a new telephone system for the University last month. We plan to report on the progress of the projec t in the January 1991 issue of the Newsletter. 3