Dear HKIAPS Members and Friends,

Welcome to the ninth issue of the HKIAPS e-Bulletin. As we enter a new season, we present this e-Bulletin to keep you connected with our efforts in various fields of Social Science research.

While COVID-19 continues to affect the scale of our research fieldwork and public activities, we strive to sustain research activities and continue to explore new ways of disseminating our research and maintaining existing exchanges with our international collaborators. This half year we have held more than 10 seminars, which were offered by the various centres. In this way, we have been able to overcome geographical distances and have a larger research impact than before. At the same time, our Institute has maintained its standard research publications, which include survey press releases, journal articles, book and book chapters, reports, and newspaper commentaries.

In this issue, we highlight the launching of the Hong Kong Chronicles Institute (HKCI) commissioned project: “Hong Kong Chronicles: Commerce” . This is a two-year project which aims at compiling the history and development of the population of Hong Kong covering a period from the ancient era to the 20th anniversary of HKSAR on 1st July 2017.

In the coming months, we will continue to create a research impact by holding two major events: A policy forum on Chinese Medicine and the Greater Bay Area and the Annual Public Lecture Series of the Hong Kong Museum of History. While the COVID-19 pandemic may still hinder our ability to communicate face to face in the foreseeable future, it is prompting us to explore more ways to disseminate our research.

Anthony Y. H. Fung
Director