9 January 2007 World Authority in Contemporary China Studies Ezra Vogel
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The 28 panels of various topics and round table discussions will be chaired and discussed by these speakers and other international and local scholars, including Professor Andrew Walder, Professor Isabelle Thireau, Professor Gao Hua and Professor Lin Yunhui. The Chinese University of Hong Kong is committed to consolidate a premier international centre of Chinese Studies in Hong Kong. CUHK has a long and unique bilingual and multicultural tradition. There are several hundred scholars from a wide disciplines of subjects engaging in projects pertaining to China. The University has the Institute of Chinese Studies, Universities Service Centre for Chinese Studies, Hong Kong institute of Asia-pacific Studies, Asia-Pacific Institute of Business, Centre for East Asian Studies, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Social Science, and CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies. Since early 1960s, a fair number of China scholars have visited the Universities Service Centre for China Studies, conducting documentary research and writing up their Ph.D. dissertations. Thanks to its rich collections and liberal platform of intellectual cross-fertilization, the Centre has become an extremely stimulating research environment for those graduate students who have later become eminent scholars all over the world. Universities Service Centre for China Studies of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and CUHK-Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies will co-organize an annual Graduate Seminar on China (GSOC) and provide assistance and facilities to those participants who wish to stay at the Centre before or after the Seminar for the purpose of furthering their research. The GSOC is designed to 1) Promote research on contemporary China; 2) Exchange among Chinese and overseas young scholars in the field; and 3) Enhance the capability and broaden the horizon of Ph.D. students in contemporary China studies.
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