The Hong Kong-America Center
Room 503, Esther Lee Building, Chung Chi College
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, China
Tel.: (852) 2609-8748
Email: hkac@cuhk.edu.hk Fax: (852) 2603-5797
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/hkac
Board of The Hong Kong-America Center
From the Director
The Board of Governors of the Hong Kong-America Center
comprises distinguished citizens who guide and support the
Center’s work. They include the Vice-Chancellors of our
member universities. Representatives from the U.S. Consulate
General in Hong Kong and several major American research and
exchange organizations also serve as ex-officio members of the
Board.
Dear Friends of Fulbright in Hong Kong:
Chairman:
Karl C. Kwok, Chairman, Wing On International Holdings Ltd.
Vice Chairman:
Bernard Auyang, Chief Executive Officer, Computime
International Ltd.
Treasurer:
Drake Pike, Senior Vice President, Lehman Brothers
Secretary:
Paula DeLisle, Vice President, Asia Pacific, Client Services,
Watson Wyatt H. K. Ltd.
20006-07
Peggy Blumenthal, Executive Vice President, Institute of
International Education, New York
Chan Yuk-shee Edward, President, Lingnan University
H.K. Chang, President, City University of Hong Kong
Wailee Chow, Managing Director, WDA Group Ltd.
Paul Ching-Wu Chu, President, The Hong Kong University of
Science & Technology
Anthony Hutchinson, Director, Public Affairs Section, American
Consulate General
Ambrose King (Life Member), former Vice-Chancellor,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jeffrey Lam, Managing Director, Forward Winsome
Industries Ltd.
Lawrence Lau, Vice Chancellor, Chinese University of
Hong Kong
Jack Maisano, President, American Chamber of Commerce in
Hong Kong
Paul Morris, President, The Hong Kong Institute of Education
Lloyd Neighbors, U. S. Foreign Service (ret.), Washington, DC
Ng Ching-fai, Vice Chancellor & President, Hong Kong Baptist
University
Poon Chung-kwong, President, The Hong Kong Polytechnic
University
James E. Thompson, Chairman, Crown Worldwide Holdings
Ltd.
Tsui Lap-chee, Vice Chancellor, The University of Hong Kong
C.C. Tung (Chair Emeritus), Chairman, Orient Overseas
(International) Ltd.
Peter Wang, President, Tristate Holdings Ltd.
Pauline Yu, President, American Council of Learned Societies,
New York
Glenn Shive, Director, Hong Kong America Center
The BIG NEWS about Fulbright in Hong Kong this year is
the generous contributions from Mr. Po Chung to the HK
universities to host up to twenty American scholars in general
education in the run-up to 2012 and the onset of four-year
undergraduate programs. This strategic investment in new
ideas through international exchange is Hong Kong at its best.
We are delighted he has tasked the Fulbright program in HK to
bring master teachers from the US to work with HK scholars to
develop and refine new courses in general education.
As we manage this innovative Fulbright program over the
next six years, the HKAC aims to serve as a platform where
professors from different campuses can share ideas and practical
experiences in designing liberal arts for the HK university
context. Our students’ lives and careers will span both 1997 and
2047. Po Chung wants all students in our universities to grasp
their unique identity as part of the East-West synthesis that is
Hong Kong. Perhaps more than anything else, this will assure
HK’s competitiveness in the future.
We are also enormously pleased to have the HK University
of Science and Technology, Lingnan University and the HK
Institute of Education join the HKAC this year. As our circle
of universities, donors and partners expands, new potential
for exchanges appears on the horizon. Many of our programs
take us across the border in collaboration with institutions
in the Pearl River Delta. The HKAC is built on three-way
partnerships between universities, businesses and governments
in Hong Kong and the United States. This strong triangle of
interest and resource is reflected in our new Fulbright predoctoral scholarship program. Contributions of companies such
as AIG, Citigroup, Bank of America (Asia) and the AmCham
Foundation in HK are matched by HK’s Research Grants
Council (RGC) to create new opportunities for young HK
scholars to do dissertation research in American universities.
This further strengthens strategic fields such as logistics, law
and environmental science in HK universities.
Our powerful triangle of university, business and government
is also revealed in the three new individual members appointed
to the Board of Governors. Pauline Yu is the President of
the American Council of Learned Societies in NYC; Jack
Maisano is the President and CEO of the American Chamber
of Commerce in HK; and Lloyd Neighbors has just retired as
Minister Counselor from the U.S. State Department. In matters
of transition, we thank Dr. Richard Stites for three great years
of creative support for the HKAC as Public Affairs Officer at the
U.S. Consulate. We welcome Dr. Anthony Hutchinson, also a
China hand, to take on this important role on Garden Road for
education and cultural exchanges between Hong Kong and the
United States.
I am honored to serve as the Director of the HKAC, and
thank the Board of Governors for its generous support for
our enterprise. Working with our colleagues on projects in
all of Hong Kong’s universities over the past six years has
been endlessly stimulating. If there are several “best jobs in
Hong Kong,” then surely I have one of them.
Glenn Shive, PhD
Director
Fulbright Hong Kong General Education Project (FHKGEP)
M r. P o C h u n g , C h a i r m a n
Emeritus of DHL Asia, has
made major gifts totaling over
US$ 1 million to HK
universities to enable them to
host up to 20 American
Fulbright scholars for yearlong sojourns from 2008 to
2012.
Po Chung’s
philanthropy constitutes the
largest contribution given by a
private individual outside the
U.S. to the Fulbright program. His contributions and their
matching funds from the UGC will more than double the size of
the Fulbright program in HK. Po Chung has asked the HKAC to
coordinate this infusion of academic resources for general
education across all the universities in HK as they expand
curriculum for four-year undergraduate programs. We are
enthusiastic to take up this challenge of creating “Team
Fulbright” to enrich general education in Hong Kong.
A deep believer in the value of liberal arts education, Po Chung
looks to the Fulbright program to recruit creative scholars from
American universities to bring new ideas and practices about
teaching and learning to HK universities. He wants Hong Kong
students to understand how their society and culture has been
uniquely shaped by both Chinese and Western civilizations, and
how this confluence of ideas and heritage is the foundation for
our vitality and competitiveness in the 21st century.
Three New Members of the HKAC
We are delighted to report that the Hong Kong University of
Science and Technology (HKUST), Lingnan University and the
Hong Kong Institute of Education (HKIEd) have joined the
HKAC as institutional members from summer 2006. Prof. Paul
Chu, Prof. Edward Chen and Prof. Paul Morris will join the
Board of Governors.
Prof. Paul Chu of the
Hong Kong University
of Science &
Technology
Prof. Edward Chen of
Lingnan University
Prof. Paul Morris of
Hong Kong Institute of
Education
HKUST has a strong social science and humanities division that
is appropriate for a S&T university on the cusp between China
and the West. Lingnan University devotes itself to liberal arts
education in the Hong Kong context. HKIEd is focused on
teacher education, and is deeply engaged in schools and their
transition to the 3-3-4 system. They will expand our circle of
collaboration and enrich our work in general education.
Associate Members of the Center: Shantou University and
the University of Macau
The Li Ka Shing Foundation has supported the HKAC to work
with colleagues at the Shantou University in northeast
Guangdong Province on academic exchange programs with the
United States. Similarly, the Macau Foundation has enabled the
University of Macau to participate in the HKAC programs.
Many Fulbright professors and post-graduate students have
visited both Shantou University and the University of Macau in
years past through efforts of the HKAC. We look forward to
developing new exchange programs with them in areas of their
strategic strengths and priorities.
Recent Donors to the HKAC
AIG
Amcham Foundation HK
American Institute in Taiwan
Bank of America (Asia)
Citigroup
Computime Limited
Du Pont China Limited
Henry Luce Foundation
Hysan Development Company Limited
Lee Hysan Foundation
Li Ka Shing Foundation
Lingnan Foundation
Macau Foundation
Melco Group
Minnesota Private College Association
Po and Helen Chung Foundation
Research Grants Council of Hong Kong
Tung Foundation
US State Department
US Department of Education
US Embassy Beijing
US Consulate Hong Kong
Wing On (International) Holdings
The World Bank
Catherine Leung
Drake Pike
Glenn Shive
American Fulbright Scholars in Hong Kong 2006-2007
Dr. Mark S. GAYLORD
Dr. Nihal PERERA
Dean of Liberal Arts
North Central Michigan College
Project: Criminal Justice in Hong Kong
Host: School of Law, Chinese University of
Hong Kong and the Hong Kong-America Center
Associate Professor of Urban Planning
Department of Urban Planning
Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
Project: New Trends in Asian Urbanism
Host: Centre of China Urban and Regional Studies, Hong Kong
Baptist University
I first visited Hong Kong in 1972 when I was a Peace Corps
Volunteer in Malaysia. I later taught sociology and criminology
at City University from 1987 to 1999. I look forward to catching
up with the changes that have occurred in the past seven years.
I will teach a course on criminal justice in Chinese University’s
new law school and help the law school and department of
sociology organize an international conference on crime and
justice. I also look forward to assisting the center develop
plans to bring in a series of Fulbright consultants to assist Hong
Kong’s universities as they make plans to expand undergraduate
education from three to four years, beginning in 2012.
Dr. Cindy Hing-Yuk WONG
Chair. Department of Media and Culture Studies
College of Statin Island, City University of New
York
Host: School of Creative Media, City University
of Hong Kong
I am a native of Hong Kong, and look forward to returning under
Fulbright with my family. In America I specialize on Hong
Kong media practices, global film festivals, grassroots media,
and Chinese diasporic media. I have co-edited the Encyclopedia
of Contemporary American Culture. At the City University
of HK, I will teach classes on studying media user behavior,
cinema narratives and global media. My primary research area
will be on the history of Radio Television Hong Kong as a semigovernmental broadcasting agency.
Dr. Cotten SEILER
Dickenson College
Host: American Studies Program, Hong Kong
University (fall 2006)
20006-07
I am an assistant professor of American Studies at Dickinson
College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. I am currently at work on
a book about the history of driving in the U.S. My research
interests include the cultural history of the twentieth-century
United States, popular culture, race relations, and film. I plan to
conduct research in Hong Kong on the rise of auto-mobility in
Asia.
I am an urban planning educator, having practiced as an architect
and urban and regional planner in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. My
scholarly interests are in the production and transformation of
social space as part of social and cultural processes. I focus
on the contested aspects of space which I approach from the
standpoint of the less powerful - the colonized, the indigenes,
and women. In the year ahead, I will teach courses on urban
cultural landscapes and innovative planning practices in Asia. I
will also edit a volume on people- and place-specific urban and
planning practices in Asian cities. While living in Hong Kong
itself will provide insights into these issues, I also hope to benefit
from working with cultural geographers at HKBU and other
universities in Hong Kong. I look forward to an academically
and culturally rewarding experience in Hong Kong.
Dr. Suet Ling PONG
Pennsylvania State University
Research Project: Mainland Chinese Immigration
to HK: Implications for Family Effects on
Children’s Education.
Host: Faculty of Education, Chinese University of Hong Kong,
and the HKAC (spring 2007)
My Fulbright research project examines new immigrants from
mainland China in Hong Kong. I will focus on family structures
and ways in which mainland Chinese immigrant families help or
hinder their children's academic achievement in schools. This
in turn affects assimilation of new arrivals. I have always been
interested in the ways families influence children's education
in different cultures and societies. This project is an extension
of my research on the educational assimilation of Asian and
Hispanic immigrant children in the U.S. I hope to understand
whether assimilation theories developed in the U.S. can be
applied to a different socio-cultural setting such as HK. I also
look forward to learning more about recent educational reforms
in Hong Kong.
American
Fulbright
Scholars
in
Macau
Dr. Lou Ann Wieand
Dr. Lou Ann Wieand
California State University at Humboldt
Lecturer in Clinical Psychology at University of
Macau (spring 2006)
I arrived in Hong Kong and Macau during the
New Year celebrations in late January, 2006, a great introduction
to China! I spent the spring semester as a Fulbright lecturer in
the new psychology program at the University of Macau. I was
fortunate to have the first cohort of fourth year students in my
class on psychopathology, which included field placements
in mental health facilities in Macau. On my visits to their
placements we had great dialogues with professionals about
their work. I was also asked to help revise the undergraduate
curriculum for psychology majors, and to help design a masters
program in clinical psychology. A team of students and I
translated Western psychological assessment tools into Chinese
as part of comparative research on attitudes towards seeking
mental health services, prevalence of HIV risk, and adaptations
of models for HIV prevention for Macau and Hong Kong.
Dr. LIU Jianhong
Department of Sociology, Rhode Island College,
Providence, RI
Lecturer in Sociology at University of Macau
(fall 2006)
Project: Lecture and research in criminology
Hong Kong and Macau are excellent places to study crime
and criminology topics related to China since there are many
great colleagues here with similar interests. The libraries have
excellent holdings of both Chinese and English publications.
During my stay as Fulbright Scholar, I plan to continue my
research based on a victimization survey in Tianjin city,
supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), and
direct a survey on drugs and community in China. I will teach
a criminology course at Macau University and give lectures at
HKU and other universities. I look forward to an exciting and
rewarding experience!
Adam Lampton
I am a recent MFA graduate in photography from
the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston.
In school I focused on domestic interiors and
landscape. I was drawn to Macau because of
its unique legacy from Portugal and the impact
of recent urban development on the landscape,
architecture and people. I’ll be photographing the historic
architecture of Macau and the restoration of historic interior
spaces. I am interested in how Macau people have developed a
sense of space as reflected in their older buildings and how this
reflects and resonates with their contemporary experience.
American Fulbright Students in Hong Kong 2006-2007
Christie Gilson
University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Host: Faculty of Education, Hong Kong
University (spring and fall 2006)
I am pleased to be doing research in HK for
my doctorate in special education from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My theme is the
supports and barriers encountered by students with disabilities at
universities in Hong Kong. I am also interested in how disability
is viewed in Asia. I am grateful for the warm reception I have
received from the people of Hong Kong and hope to work on
disability empowerment in the region in the future.
Melissa Crews
I plan to study the development of senior adult
housing communities in Hong Kong. This
includes comparing the housing options for
the elderly in HK and the US. My interest in
Hong Kong arose from my friendship with
a HK student in the US. I am a doctoral
student in public policy and administration at
the University of West Florida, holding a bachelor degree in
psychology and a masters in higher education administration. I
am grateful to the City University of HK for hosting my study
and I hope to contribute in some small way to the knowledge
base of HK senior housing.
Jamie Johnston
After graduating from Northwestern University
in 2003, I spent a year in Germany studying at
the Ostfriesland University of Applied Sciences,
where I gained an interest in international/
comparative education policy. I returned to
the U.S. to work in the American Institutes for
Research on their program for international student assessment.
Under Fulbright, I will work with the PISA group at the CUHK
to examine the relationship between family background and
students' educational achievement. During my Fulbright year
in HK, I hope to gain a better understanding of how policies
on family and school partnerships improve the educational
achievement of students.
Alice Arnold
Graduate student in Filmmaking. She received her MFA in
Media Arts in 2005 from Hunter College, The City University of
New York (CUNY), New York
Project: A video project on electric signs in Hong Kong. She will
be affiliated with Multimedia Innovation Center, Hong Kong
Polytechnic University.
Robin Ewing in HKBU teaching English writing for journalists
I spent the spring semester as an English Language Fellow in the School of Communication at Hong
Kong Baptist University. I worked with communication undergraduates to improve English skills through
journalism in university writing classes as well as extracurricular activities. Highlights of my semester
include a fieldtrip to the Wall Street Journal Hong Kong office, the creation of an English film club and
discussion group and an advanced writing class for international journalism majors. I met with students to
study the writings of novelists, journalists and essayists and discuss how these writing techniques could be
applied to student work. I also encouraged English enhancement in a fun, self-learning environment through
English-language resources in the community and on the Internet. During my six-month fellowship, I had
the pleasure of meeting a fantastic group of intelligent, interesting and talented young people who will soon be shaping the
media of Hong Kong.
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FULBRIGHT HONG KONG ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
We wish to thank the distinguished members of the
Fulbright Advisory Committee:
Dr. Allen C. Choate, Director of Development, The Asia
Foundation
Professor Eugene EOYANG, Chair Professor of English,
Lingnan University
Dr. Anthony Hutchinson, Director, of Public Affairs,
American Consulate in HK
Professor Rance LEE Pui-leung, Chairman, Dept of
Sociology, CUHK
Mr. Mark C. Michelson, Managing Director, APCO Asia
Ltd. and Invest HK
F I F T H C O H O RT O F F U L B R I G H T H O N G K O N G
RESEARCH SCHOLARS
These new Fulbright Scholars who will go to the U.S. on
research fellowships in 2006-2007. The Research Grants
Council of HK provides the major funding of this program.
Dr. Victor Sze kuen LEE
Director, School of Continuing Studies, Chinese
University of HK
Project: Community Colleges in the U.S.
Host: Community College Research Center,
Teachers College Columbia University, NYC
(spring 2007)
20006-07
My Fulbright award will provide opportunities for me to
understand more about the practice and policy that ensure quality
education and success for students in community colleges in
the United States. Specifically, I would like to identify good
institutional characteristics and will determine how they could
be related and perhaps applied to the institutions in Hong Kong
so that Hong Kong institutions can become more effective and
efficient in providing quality education and better services to
our local community college students. Furthermore, as part
of a major restructuring of post-secondary education on the
Mainland, community colleges are emerging in its major cities
under various auspices. I also aim to make my research findings
useful for the community college movement in mainland China.
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P r o g r a m
Dr. Paul Sau him LAU
Associate Professor, School of Economics and
Finance, The University of Hong Kong
Project: Economic Miracle and Rapid
Demographic Transition in East Asia: Past and
Future
Host: Center for Economics and Demography of Aging,
University of California at Berkeley (Sept 06 to July 07)
Rapidity is an important feature of demographic transition in
East Asia.
While it took many European countries and the USA about a
century to substantially reduce fertility rates, it took some East
Asian economies only three to four decades to do so. During
my visit to UC Berkeley, I intend to study the causes and effects
of rapid demographic transition in East Asia, with a focus on
the relationship between demographic changes and economic
growth.
Dr. SING Ming
Associate Professor, Dept. of Public and Social
Administration, City University of Hong Kong
Project: Modeling the Survival of Sustainability
of Democratic Systems in the World from
1850-2000
Host: University of California at San Diego (Spring 2007)
At UC San Diego, I shall continue my research project on
the impact of institutional and non-institutional factors on
the survival of democracies. My focus is from 1850 to 2000,
worldwide. I believe the findings will shed light on designs for
democracy for Hong Kong and elsewhere.
Dr. Benjamin Hok bun KU
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied Social
Science, HK Polytechnic University
Project: Narratives of Empowerment:
Participatory Cultural Action Projects in Rural
China
Host: George W. Brown School of Social Work, Washington
University in St. Louis (spring 2007)
I study poverty reduction programs, local empowerment
strategies and the efficacy of participatory cultural action in rural
development in Mainland China. In the US under Fulbright I
will embark on a collaborative research project at Washington
University in St. Louis to re-examine the current model of rural
development programs in China and the rural people's notions of
poverty and development. We will study the effects of poverty
reduction programs on local villages. Through discovering local
people's stories and their experience in participatory action
research, we hope to promote communal participation and
cultural sensitivity in the practice of rural social work in China.
Fulbright Junior Research Awards
The Fulbright Hong Kong Scholar Program announces the first
two recipients of awards to doctoral candidates in Hong Kong to
do dissertation-related research in the U.S. in 2006-2007. The
new scholarship program was initiated by the U.S. Consulate
General in HK and the HKAC in honor of Frank Martin, former
President of the American Chamber of Commerce in HK.
AIG and Bank of America (Asia) have generously contributed to
this new Fulbright scholarship program. The two young scholars
are:
Ms. GU Weixia
SJD Candidate
Department of Law
The University of Hong Kong
Project: Adaptation of Chinese Arbitration into
Globalization – Reform of Arbitration Law,
Chinese Issues and American Experience
Host institution in the U.S.: School of Law, Fordham University
My particular research focuses upon international commercial
arbitration, which is considered to be the preferred dispute
settlement method in cross-border transactions. Because of
its unique transnational character, it gives the fascination for
researchers who usually think of legal problems confined to a
single legal system a broader sense of the reality of the global
market in the modern world. I attach great interest to the US
visiting research due to the fact that China is in the process
of reforming its National Arbitration Law while US as well is
undergoing the preparation of the amendment of its Federal
Arbitration Act. With the support of the Fulbright – Bank of
America (Asia) Scholarship, I will examine the distinctive US
adaptive model for globalized transplantation of international
legal instruments in the area of arbitration.
Mr. WONG Man-Sing
PhD research student
Department of Land Surveying and GeoInformatics
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Project: Monitoring of air pollution in Hong
Kong and south China with MODIS and CHRIS hyperspectral
satellite data
Host institution in the U.S.: Department of Atmospheric and
Oceanic Science, University of Maryland
It is a real honor to be the first recipient of the Hong Kong
Junior Fulbright scholarship, awarded by American International
Group. My research interest is in applied remote sensing and
satellite image interpretation. I am investigating the deteriorating
air quality in Hong Kong by using satellite images to monitor
air pollution, analyze trends and make future predictions. My
research is a collaborative project with NASA and the University
of Maryland. With the experience I shall gain from the Fulbright
award, I hope to consolidate my knowledge of meteorology and
climatology. I look forward to sharing my academic and cultural
experiences with the people in the United States, as well as
promoting Hong Kong.
Fulbright New Century Scholar from HK
Professor Fanny Mui ching CHEUNG
Chair, Dept of Psychology, Chinese
University of Hong Kong
Dr Cheung participated in the New
Century Scholar Program for 2004-2005
on the theme of “Toward equality:
Global empowerment of women”
Thirty one international scholars worked together on
five group projects around the theme “Toward equality:
Global empowerment of women”. In addition to the
group projects, each of us worked on an individual
research project. Mine was entitled “Work-Family
Balance for Women in Chinese and US Societies:
Implications for Enhancing Women Leadership”. The
potential conflicts between work and family roles pose as
implicit barriers for women’s advancement to leadership
positions. My study explored how successful women
leaders in Chinese and American societies perceived
and negotiated work-family interface in a cross-cultural
context. The study involved in-depth interviews of over
60 senior women leaders in China, Hong Kong and the
United States. This study highlighted the organizational
and social contexts in which senior women leaders
integrated multiple roles, and illustrated the institutional
structures and policies that facilitate or impede workfamily balance. The strategies that these successful
women leaders adopted inform us how work and family
roles could be interfaced to overcome the implicit
barriers. Insights from this study converge with recent
research that expands the research paradigm on workfamily balance from that of a conflict model to include
integration and enhancement.
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FULBRIGHT CHINA RESEARCH
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UNIVERSITY
The Centre for Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong
hosted over 60 young Fulbright researchers for a conference on
China studies in February 20-24, 2006. The HKAC organized
this mid-year retreat for American scholars of China who spent
2005-2006 on Fulbright awards in mainland China, Taiwan
or Hong Kong. They got together in warm Hong Kong to
share their experiences doing field research “on the ground”
in Chinese societies and to explore emerging trends in China
studies. The opening of the Fulbright China Research Forum
was also the occasion for the Fulbright/ Hong Kong awards
banquet each year.
FULBRIGHT CHINA SPRING
CONFERENCE IN SHANGHAI
The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics (SUFE)
hosted the annual spring conference for Fulbright lecturers who
taught in Chinese universities during the 2005-2006 academic
year. The HKAC worked with the Fulbright program office in
the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai
to organize this four-day program from February 8-12 on
teaching in Chinese universities. Many Chinese alumni from the
east China region who studied in the U.S. on Fulbright awards
also participated in the Fulbright China Spring Conference.
American Studies Collection at CUHK
20006-07
The American Studies Resource Library (ASRL),
administered by the University Library System of CUHK,
was donated to the CUHK when the Hong Kong-America
Center was founded in 1993. In 2001 it became part
of the Wu Chung Library of United College at CUHK.
With further donations from the U.S. Consulate and a
special William Faulkner Collection from Prof. James
Meriwether, the ASRL has now assembled one of the
finest research collections in Asia on American literature
and culture. We welcome all students and scholars of
American literature and culture to use this unique research
collection.
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FULBRIGHT SEMINAR ON WRITERS
OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH
There is nothing better than literature to show that we are
connected by timeless universal human truths transcending
the ideas and assumptions of our age.
Fulbright Scholars Present Literature of the American South
For five days, postgraduate students hailing from mainland
China and Hong Kong gathered at CUHK to study writers of
the American South under the guidance of Fulbright Scholars.
The Fulbright Southern Writers Seminar in Hong Kong was
organized from 20th to 24th March by the Hong Kong-America
Center (HKAC), the CUHK Department of English and the
American Studies Collection of the University Library. Their
aim was to promote the study of literature of the American
South in Hong Kong and China, and to highlight the University's
American Studies collection in the Wu Chung Library. The
readings included Faulkner, Southern poets Robert Warren
Penn, James Dickey, Dave Smith, Flannery O'Connor and Ralph
Ellison.
Despite Faulkner's liberal use of Southern speech traditions
— sometimes accompanied by stream of consciousness — the
students from CUHK and four other Hong Kong universities,
as well as Sun Yatsen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou and
Shantou University, surprisingly, did not have a hard time
grasping the real issues behind his sometimes convoluted
rhetoric. This shows that literature points below cultural
differences to a common human condition. Guiding the seminar
was Prof. Ernest Suarez, Fulbright Scholar and chair and
professor of English at the Catholic University of America in
Washington, D.C. 'During my visits to CUHK, I discovered the
Faulkner Collection in Wu Chung Multimedia Library. It must
be the best Faulkner collection in Asia. I wondered "How can
this be used?"' said Prof. Suarez whose classes and seminars
on contemporary writers of the American South have been
extremely well received in Asia.
Other contributors to the seminar included Dr. Dennis McCann,
Fulbright Scholar at CUHK, who spoke on religion in the
American South; Dr. Marco Antolin of Millersville State
University PA, who spoke on translating Southern American
writers into other languages, and Prof. Reid Mitchell, Fulbright
Scholar in HKU, who presented on the new Orleans of
Tennessee Williams.
Outstanding American Studies Collection at ULS
Dr. Glenn Shive, director of the HKAC, lauded the research
collection on American literature and culture at Wu Chung
Library as 'very distinctive in all of Asia'. He said, 'I have
wanted for a long time to highlight the collection and bring it
to young scholars of American literature in Asia, so that they
can do research here rather than having to go to the US. The
Department of English and the Library at CUHK have welcomed
this idea.'
Dr. Shive plans to hold another seminar at the ASLR again
next May. The HKAC is also exploring a joint project with the
CUHK Department of Translation to publish a book of modern
American poetry translated into Chinese. The HKAC would
assemble the American poets and the Chinese translators in
Hong Kong so they could work together on the translations.
Ms. Piera Chen, CUHK
Newsletter #276, April 4, 2006
C O R P O R AT E G O V E R N A N C E I N
A M E R I C A : I M P L I C AT I O N S F O R
ASIA, JUNE 5-8, 2006
The HKAC teamed up with the City University of Hong Kong
to organize “ASIA/06” (American Studies Institutes in Asia), the
latest in a series of regional seminars based in Hong Kong on
themes in American studies of relevance to Asia. Scholars and
professionals in the fields of business, law, social sciences and
humanities analyzed the Sarbanes-Oxley reforms in corporate
governance in the U.S. from multiple perspectives, and explored
their potential for impact in Asia. The highlight of ASIA/06 was
a live videoconference with David Lynn and Michael Coco of
the International Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchanges
Commission (SEC) in Washington DC. Fulbright professors in
law and business based in greater China participated in ASIA/06.
THE WTO AND INTERNATIONAL
TRADE IN EDUCATION SERVICES:
OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
FOR TRANS-NATIONAL HIGHER
EDUCATION.
P E A R L R I V E R D E LTA S T U D E N T
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE ON
ETHICS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP.
JULY 14-16, 2006
Sun Yatsen University (SYSU) in Guangzhou was the venue
for our third annual leadership conference. Seventy five
students from over 20 universities in mainland China, Hong
Kong, Macau and the United States participated in the threeday program. Eight teams of students discussed case studies
and worked together to create and present their business plans
for entrepreneurial ventures in the PRD. HKAC partnered
with the SYSU School of Business, and received corporate
and foundation support from a record number of donors. They
include Lingnan Foundation, Lee Hysan Foundation, Melco
Group International, Lee Hysan Develoment Corporation,
Dupont/China and Fulbright.
The HKAC collaborated with the Center for Quality Assurance
in International Education (based in Washington DC) to
organize an international forum in conjunction with the WTO
Ministerial Meeting in Hong Kong in December 18-19, 2005.
With international focus on HK during the WTO meetings, we
used this meeting to promote Hong Kong as a regional hub for
international education exchanges.
With support from the World Bank, the conference brought
together members of the Asia-Pacific Quality Network, the
Education Directorate of the OECD, and members of the
Hong Kong Federation of Continuing Education in Tertiary
Institutions. We appreciate the support of the Hong Kong
Council of Academic Accreditation in preparing for this major
conference. Hong Kong Baptist University graciously hosted
the program in the Lam Woo Conference Center.
RECENT FULBRIGHT SENIOR SPECIALISTS TO HONG KONG/ MACAU
SCHOLAR
TOPIC
HOME INST
HOST INST
DATE
Ursula Belden
MFA/Theatre
Ohio University
HKAPA
February 2006
Peter Hoffman
Advocacy/ Moot Training
U. of Houston, TX
CUHK Law School
Sept 2006 and May 2007
Laxmi Bhuyan
Info technology
UC/ Riverside
City U and HKUST
Sept 2006
Blair Kauffman
Law Libraries
Yale University
CUHK Law School
Nov 2006
Colgate U
U of Macau
March 2007
Wm Michael Johnson Political Science
Fulbright Senior Specialists come to Hong Kong universities for 2-6 weeks for consultations and collaborative research.
Applications are on a rolling basis. A minimum of four months lead-time is required. Fulbright covers airfare and
honoraria while host institutions in Hong Kong cover local costs.
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SUMMER INTERNSHIPS FOR
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Yale Bulldogs in Hong Kong. The HKAC assisted Yale
University to organize an eight-week summer internship
program in Hong Kong for eighteen undergraduate students.
They worked in Hong Kong companies, lived in Graduate
House on the University of Hong Kong campus, and participated
in activities planned by the Center and the Yale Club of Hong
Kong.
New School University Graduate Program in International
Affairs engaged the HKAC to organize an internship program
in NGOs in HK for seven graduate students. For eight weeks
the New School Unversity students worked with local service
agencies and community groups in Hong Kong. The HKAC
also provided orientation, housing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University dormitories, a Wednesday evening course on HK
taught by Mark Sheldon, and programs of relevance to their
studies of comparative and international non-profit affairs.
The Pacific Basin Economic Council (www.pbec.org) has
recently moved its headquarters to Hong Kong to be closer to
its Asian corporate members. The HKAC has developed an
eight-week internship and fellows program with PBEC to start
in Hong Kong in June 2007. American university students can
apply to the HKAC before March 1, 2007 for summer and/or
semester length internships in fields of business, economics,
government, environmental studies, media and marketing
and IPR/transparency. Successful undergraduate interns may
apply to become PBEC fellows with corporate placements in
management offices of their member companies throughout
Asia.
20006-07
Summer Internships with Hong Kong Entrepreneurs. The
Centre for Entrepreneurship at the Chinese University of Hong
Kong will join with the HKAC to offer several internships with
entrepreneurs and high-growth start-up companies in HK from
summer 2007. Students must be self-starters and committed
to contribute to the host company. The HKAC welcomes
applications for this eight-week program (starting on June 7th
2007) from entrepreneurship education programs in American
universities by March 1, 2007. Direct applications from
students are not accepted. Further information on PBEC and
Entrepreneurship internships are on the HKAC website.
HOSTS OF AMERICAN SUMMER INTERNS 2006
The HKAC wishes to recognize with gratitude the
following organizations for providing valuable learning
opportunities for 25 American interns from Yale and the
New School University during eight weeks this summer.
They are:
Amnesty International
Asia Art Archive
Asian Migrant Center
Bloomberg International
BNP Paribas Bank
Citigroup
Community Business
Helping Domestic Helpers
Journalism and Media Centre/ HKU
Mission System Consulting (MSC)
Mobile Adventures (HK) Ltd.
Sino Group
Videotage
Youth Roundtable
Americans Study the Chinese Diaspora from Pearl
River Delta to North America
The HKAC sponsored a three-week study tour of Hong
Kong and the Pearl River Delta in January 2006 for a team
of twelve undergraduate students of the Honors College
of the City University of New York. This exchange
program, initiated by the College of Statin Island (one
of 18 campuses in the CUNY system), is a part of a new
partnership with the City University of Hong Kong.
Fulbright scholar Dr. Cindy Wong of CSI and Dr. Gary
McDonough of Bryn Mayr College in Philadelphia will
lead the program again in January 2007.
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Anthony Hutchinson is the new Public Affairs Officer in the
US Consulate Hong Kong
A career US foreign service officer,
his previous overseas assignments
were principally at Chinesespeaking posts: Hong Kong, Taipei,
Beijing (two tours), Shanghai; his
one non-Chinese posting was in
West Africa (Benin). He comes to
Hong Kong from Washington, DC.
where he served for the last two
years as director of China analysis
in the State Department's Bureau of
Intelligence and Research. He has extensive public diplomacy
and policy experience in North-East Asia (greater China, the
Korean peninsula, Japan, and Mongolia).
He grew up in Washington state, where he maintains his legal
residence. He has a Ph.D. in religious studies from the Catholic
University of America, as well as a B.A. and M.A. in classics.
He and his wife Elena (a children's librarian) have four grown
children. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese, French, and has
studied several other languages, ancient and modern, including
American Sign Language.
Religion and Public Life in China
The Henry Luce Foundation has funded the HKAC for a
30-month research and publication project designed to bring
international scholars together to produce a book and multimedia
materials for teaching this subject in American universities.
Hong Kong has leading scholars in this field, many of whom
will contribute to this project. We will also benefit from major
scholars in the U.S. and Europe, as well as learn from “new
voices” in the academic study of religion in Chinese universities.
The geographic scope will include mainland China, Taiwan,
Hong Kong and overseas Chinese communities in North
American and Southeast Asia. The scholars involved will draw
upon many academic disciplines to study religious behavior and
expression in fast-changing Chinese societies. Religion is an
important factor in the emergence of new forms of civil society
in rapid urbanization and globalization in China. Many images
and assumptions about this complex process held by people
outside China may be partial and obsolete. We hope to bring
fresh insights from recent research about this dynamic subject.
American University Field Study Programs in Hong Kong organized by HKAC
University
Date
Theme
Partner in HK
Minnesota Private Colleges
Nov 05
Higher Education Reform in HK/China
HKU
St Olaf College, MN
Nov/Dec 05
Chinese Art
CUHK Fine Art Dept
City University of NY
Dec 05/Jan 06
Diaspora
City U, HKBU, GDUFS
Hampshire College MA
Jan 06
NGOs in PRD
HKBU/ SYSU
Illinois Wesleyan University
May 06
China Business
CUHK
University of South Florida
May/ June 06
China Business
University of North Texas
June 06
PRD Business
HK PolyU
Lawrence University, Wisc
July 06
China Business
CUHK/ SYSU
Dickinson College PA
July 06
PRD/YRD development HK PolyU
City U of New York
July 06
Higher Education in HK/China
City U.
George Mason University VA
China Business
HKUST
Aug 06
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F u l b r i g h t
H o n g
K o n g
S c h o l a r
P r o g r a m
The Fulbright Program announces new scholarships for advanced post-graduate
students of HK universities to spend 6-10 months as visiting pre-doctorate
research scholars at American universities to conduct research for their
dissertations. Up to five grants will be awarded on a competitive basis for the
2007-2008 academic year. Four awards are in any field; one award supported
by Citigroup is reserved for candidates in the fields related to banking and
finance.
These junior Fulbright research awards are made possible through generous
contributions by AIG and Citigroup, and are matched by HK's Research Grants
Council (RGC). The awards are in honor of Frank Martin, former President of
the American of Commerce in Hong Kong. Over his thirty years in Hong Kong Frank Martin. Former President
of the American Chamber of
Martin was a champion of HK-US educational exchanges.
Commerce in Hong Kong
Applicants must be currently enrolled in a doctoral degree program of a university in Hong Kong. They
must have completed at least two years of study in HK prior to their planned departure for the U.S. The grant
award will be US$ 1,350 per month, to be augmented by studentship funds provided by the HK universities
for post-graduate students. A ten-month award, for example, would be US$ 13,500, or HK$ 105,300.
Sojourns in the US can begin anytime after September 2007. Six months is the minimum period and ten
month is the maximum, as justified in the application proposal. The scholarship winners will be visiting
junior Fulbright scholars for the purposes of conducting their own research. The lead professor in HK will be
responsible to supervise the student’s research while he/she is in the U.S. As the HK Fulbright awardees will
not take courses and not be matriculated in the host American university, tuition fees will be waived. These
Fulbright scholars are expected to return to HK after the award period and defend their dissertations for the
Ph.D. degree from their HK universities.
The Fulbright Program also invites applications from Hong Kong senior scholars for research awards
in the United States in fields of the arts, humanities, social sciences, business studies and law. The
Research Grants Council of HK and the Fulbright Program of the US have jointly established this
fellowship program in 2001; the HKAC administers it on their behalf. Up to three awards will be
made for the 2007-2008 academic year for HK scholars to spend from four to ten months as Fulbright
visiting scholars at major American universities. The basic award for a ten-month grant is HK$
350,000 and supplementary awards up to HK$ 150,000 for research expenses. This award may be used
in connection with a sabbatical leave or other research grants.
20006-07
The deadline for receiving applications at the HKAC for both senior and junior Fulbright award programs is
November 20, 2006.
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Finalists will be interviewed in December and announcements of awards will be made
by February, 2007. Further information and application forms for these Fulbright award programs, both pre- and post
doctoral, are at: www.cuhk.edu.hk/hkac. Interested applicants are encouraged to contact Dr. Glenn Shive, Director of the
HKAC, at (852) 2609-8749 or glennshive@cuhk.edu.hk before the deadline for guidance in preparing their proposals.
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