Newsletter No. 62

2 No.62 4th January 1995 CUHK Newsletter NEW… Renditions Paperbacks Shu Ting: Selected Poems China's leading woman poet. A poet of directness and simplicity, with a distinctly feminine voice. 136 pp. HK$89 Renditions Nos.41/42 Classical Letters Spanning Chinese history from the Han dynasty to the Qing dynasty. Portraits of the correspondents and samples of their calligraphy highlight this issue. 200 pp. HK$110. Sold at 20% discount to staff at University Bookshop, John Fulton Centre. SCHool based management cont'd resourcing of schools such a change would entail. In the second lecture 'International Perspectives on the Impact of School- Based Management', Prof. Caldwell narrowed his focus to one major but controversial feature of school reform, namely, school-based management, or the shifting of responsibility, authority and accountability to the school level within centrally-determined frameworks. D r aw i ng on research f i nd i ngs in Australia, Britain, Canada, and Hong Kong, Prof. Caldwell explained the impact of this aspect of reform, with particular reference to the level of acceptance by principals and teachers, change in work place practice, and outcomes for students. According to Prof. Caldwell, change in schools is inevitable, as is change in society, and school-based management is just one of the number of strategies to improve the quality of learning and teaching with an eye on the needs of the 21st century. Prof. Caldwell, who visited the University as Wei Lun Visiting Professor, has served as consultant to UNESCO, the Or gan i z a t i on for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Asia Development Bank. He was president of the Australian Council for Educational Administration from 1990 to 1993, and received a gold medal in 1994 f or his outstanding contributions to educational administration in Australia. D o n a t i o n s of rare personal collections were recently made to the Chinese Music Archive by friends and alumni of the University. Such donations feature over 500 old 78r.p.m. records of Cantonese opera and instrumental music, including 100 items by pre-World War I I Cantonese artists and over 20 items by the male 'hua-dans'— male operatic artists who play female roles. There are also some 200 Chinese music books, scores and periodicals, i n c l u d i ng the now rare Chinese revolutionary songbooks and full scores of modern Chinese folk orchestral music, and some 20 musical publications, the circulation of which was primarily limited to mainland China. The Chinese Music Archive was founded in 1972 when Radio Hong Kong made a donation of old records of traditional Chinese music to the Chung Chi music department. The collection gradually increases over the years with additional items donated by Radio Hong Kong as well as private collectors. The archive is now a unique Chinese music collection centre in Hong Kong and a valuable source of i n f o rma t i on for those engaged in research into Chinese music. Demonstration of Endoscopic Techniques Televised Live to South Carolina More than 300 specialists from 22 countries attended the Ninth International Workshop on Therapeutic Endoscopy wh i ch took place f r om 6th to 8th December in the second-floor lecture theatre of the clinical sciences building of the Prince of Wales Hospital. Jointly organized by the University and the Hong Kong Society of Digestive Endoscopy, the annual workshop relays new endoscopic techniques to practising gastroenterologists and surgeons. Such techniques show much promise for reducing post-operative pain and shortening convalescence. The workshop this year featured a l i ve demonstration of therapeutic endoscopic techniques by world renowned experts in the newly opened Shaw Endoscopy Centre, which was watched and commented upon, via satellite, by American gastroenterologists from the Medical University of South Carolina. The satellite conference was a pilot project for the international exchange of expertise on therapeutic endoscopy amongst specialists. There are plans to link up other medical centres in Japan, Australia, USA and UK. Key figures in the field such as Prof. Sydney Chung, director of the Endoscopy Centre at the Prince of Wales Hospital and professor of surgery at CUH K , Dr. Wi l l i am Chao, president of the Hong Kong Society of Digestive Endoscopy, and Prof. Arthur Li, dean of medicine at CUHK, spoke at the opening ceremony of the workshop. Music Development Recieves Valuable Items