Newsletter No. 231

(Profiles of2003 Honorary Graduands continue) Prof. Jao Tsung-I Prof. Jao Tsung-I is a world famous s cho l ar b o a s t i ng r ema r k a b le achievements in Chinese and Oriental Studies as well as art and culture. B o r n t o a scholarly family in Chaoan, Guangdong, Prof. Jao came to Hong Kong in 1949 and t a u g h t at The University of Hong Kong from 1952 to 1968. For the ensuing five years, he was the first Chair of Chinese and Head of the Department of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. During the same period he also taught at Yale University as aVisiting Professor and served as aResearch Fellow at the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. In 1973, he returned to Hong Kong and joined the Department of Chinese Language and Literature of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was chairman of the department from 1976 until his retirement in 1978. Thereafter, he travelled and lectured in France, Japan, mainland China, Taiwan, and Macau. He is currently Wei Lun Honorary Professor of Fine Arts and Emeritus Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at CUHK. The extensive scope of Prof. Jao's scholarship covers paleography, Dunhuang studies, archaeology, epigraphy, historiography, etymology, history of music, history of religion, Chuci, bibliography, and the study of local gazettes. He is a prolific writer who has published over 80 books and 500 research papers. He has also published over 20 collections of poems and lyrics, and held exhibitions in Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Guangzhou, and Beijing of his calligraphy and paintings. Prof. Jao's academic achievements and contributions have won him numerous honours. He has been awarded the Prix Stanislas Julien by the Acad é mie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres, Institute de France, and was the first Chinese to receive an honorary degree in humanities by the É cole Pratique des Hautes É tudes in France. He is a Life Member of the Bhandarkar Oriental Institute in Poona, India; Fellow of É cole Fran ç aise d'Extr ê me-Orient; Honorary Member of the Societ é Asiatique, France; Honorary Research Fellow of the Dunhuang Research Institute, China; Adviser of the Research Centre of Ancient Civilization, Peking University; Consultant, Research Bureau of Ancient Scripts, State Council of China; and Adviser of the Institute of Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. For his remarkable work in promoting the arts and culture, he has received awards including the Order of Arts and Letters, Ministry of Culture of France, the Grand Bauhinia Medal, and a Prize for Special Contributions to the Protection of Dunhuang Relics. Prof. Jao has been actively associated with CUHK for several decades. He has made gifts of his calligraphy and paintings to the University. He also holds regular seminars and supervision sessions for graduate students, and leads important research projects. Prof. Yu Kwang Chung A well-known scholar and poet. Prof. Yu Kwang Chung was born in Nanjing in 1928. He first studied foreign languages at Jinling University in 1947 and transferred to Xiamen University in 1949 when he started writing poems. During the civil war, Prof. Yu fled to Hong Kong with his family and in 1950 settled in Taiwan. There he continued his university education and graduated from Taiwan University in 1952. A f t e r o b t a i n i ng a Master's Degree i n Fine Ar ts from Iowa State University in 1 9 5 9 , he r e t u r n ed to Ta i wan and t a u g h t at Taiwan Normal University. Prof. Yu visited and gave lectures as a Fulbright Scholar in the USA twice in the 1960s. In 1972, he became chairman of the Department of English at Chengchi University, Taiwan. He joined The Chinese University in 1974 as Reader in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature. In 1985, he returned to Taiwan and became Dean of the College of Liberal Arts of Sun Yat-sen University. He is currently Kung Hua Chair Professor of Sun Yat-sen University. Prof. Yu is awriter of great influence who is especially resourceful in poetry and prose. His poetry crystallizes his love for the motherland while reflecting life in a modern society. Prof. Yu is also a literary critic, editor, and translator. He enjoys a high reputation in literary circles and has been awarded numerous honours, including the National Award for Literature in poetry, the Wu San-lian Award in prose, and four times the Best Book of the Year award by United D a i l y of Taiwan. Prof. Yu left the employ of CUHK in 1985 but has since continued to contribute his time and effort to the academic development of United College and the University. He served as S.Y. Chung Visiting Fellow of New Asia College in 1992 and Distinguished Visiting Scholar of United College in 1993. He was one of the panel judges of the first and second Global Youth Chinese Literary Awards for the New Century organized by CUHK in 1999-2000 and 2002-3. Prof. Lu Yongxiang Prof. Lu Yongxiang is currently Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Born in Ningbo, China, Prof. Lu graduated from Zhejiang University in 1964. After obtaining a doctorate in engineering from the Technical University of Aachen in Germany in 1979, he returned to China and set up the Fluid Power Transmission and Control Laboratory at Zhejiang University. The laboratory was later upgraded to become the Institute of Fluid Power Transmission and Control. Prof. Lu was the first Director of the Institute, which is one of the key state laboratories in China. In 1988, Prof. Lu became President of Zhejiang University. In 1993, he was appointed Vice-President of The Chinese Academy of Sciences, and later became President of the Academy. Prof. Lu has made important c o n t r i b u t i o ns to the development of mechanical engineering, especially in fluid power transmission and control and higher education in the field of engineering. P r o f. Lu owns 20 European, US, and Chinese patents, published over 250 papers on engineering and engineering education, and authored two books. His research findings have been adopted by technical handbooks and t ex t books for postgraduate students in China, Germany, Japan, and Sweden. Prof. Lu has received numerous awards from Germany, including the Rudolf-Diesel Medal in Gold in 1997, the Alexander von Humboldt Medal in 1998, a Knight Commander's Cross (Badge and Star) from the Federal President of Germany in 2000, and the Werner Heisenberg Medal in 2001 for his contributions to the field of engineering science. His research was listed under the Torch Programme for wider applications and he came second and third in the National Innovation Prize of China in 198 and 1989 respectively. He also won the Guanghua Super Prize in 1993. Prof. Lu was awarded the degree of Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 1995 and an Honorary Doctorate of Engineering by City University of Hong Kong in 1997. In 2003, he was conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Law by the University of Melbourne, Australia andmade an Honorary Member of Senate by TU Berlin, Germany. Prof. Lu was a Fellow of The Third World Academy of Sciences, aMember of the Division of Technological Sciences of The Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Member of The Chinese Academy of Engineering. He served as Vice-President of the China Association for Science and Technology in 1986 and 1996, Chairman of the Higher Education Consultative Committee of the State Education Commission in 1990-94 and Vice- President of the International Association of Continuing Engineering Education from 1989 to 1992. He has been a deputy to the National People's Congress, PRC and aMember of the Central Committee of the 14th and 15th National Congress of Communist Party of China. He is currently a Member of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Vice-Chairman of the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council, Vice- Chairman of the China Overseas Friendship Association, President of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, Chairman of the Chinese Society of the History of Science and Technology, and Adviser to the China Association for Continuing Engineering Education. Prof. Lu maintains very close ties with academics and scientists in Hong Kong. He has served as aMember of the University Grants Committee and a Special Adviser to the Innovation and Technology Commission of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Prof. Lu has a long association with CUHK. He was a speaker at the Hong Kong Science Park Symposium hosted by CUHK in 1995. As President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), he supported the establishment of the first J o i nt L a b o r a t o ry f or Geoinformation Science (JLGIS), a collaboration between CAS and CUHK, and personally officiated at the launch of JLGIS in 1997. He also officiated at the opening of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Joint Laboratory in Chemical Synthesis in 1999, a joint venture among CUHK, The University of Hong Kong, and the Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of CAS. Prof. Lu supported CUHK in hosting the 107 Xianshan Scientific Symposium on Telescience and Robotics in 1998 as well as the establishment of the Shanghai-Hong Kong-Anson Research Foundation for CAS and CUHK in Molecular Biosciences in 2000. Prof. Reinhard Selten Prof. Reinhard Selten is an outstanding economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences 1994. Prof. Selten obtained a Master's Degree in Mathematics from Johann- Wo l f gang -Goe t he -Un i ve r s i ty in Frankfurt/Main, and a Ph.D. from Frankfurt University. He was Visiting Full Professor of the Schools of Business A d m i n i s t r a t i o n, U n i v e r s i t y of California at Berkeley from 1967 to 1968. In 1 9 6 9, he w a s appointed Chair of Economics at Free University, Germany. From 1972 to 1984, he was Full Professor of the Institute for Mathematical Economics, University of Bielefeld, Germany. He then joined the University of Bonn as Professor of Economics. He is currently Professor Emeritus of Economics and Director of the Laboratory for Experimental Research in Economics of the University of Bonn. Prof. Selten started his research in game theory in the mid 1950s. In 1965, he published an important piece of work distinguishing between reasonable and unreasonable decisions in predicting the outcome of games. The applications of game theory cover a wide range of subjects in economics, political sciences, and biology. Prof. Selten was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences jointly wi th Prof. John C. Harsanyi and Prof. John R Nash for their work in game theory. The three were commended for their 'pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games'. Prof. Selten has also been awarded numerous prizes and honorary degrees by well known institutions in the US, Europe, and mainland China, one of the most significant being the Prize of the State North-Rhine Westfalia, Germany, in 2000. Prof. Selten has close ties with the Department of Economics of the University and has been giving advice on the development of its academic and research programmes. He visited CUHK as Wei Lun Visiting Professor and gave a public lecture on 'Game Theory' in October 2002. 6 No. 231 4th December 2003