HKIAPS The Chinese University of Hong Kong eNewsletter

We are happy to announce that our Institute has finished digitalizing a total number of 135 past Occasional Papers of the Social Research Centre, Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies and Centre for Hong Kong Studies. The three centres were predecessors of our Institute.

Links to access the papers:
Social Research Centre:
http://www.hkiaps.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/src_publication.html

Centre for Contemporary Asian Studies:
http://www.hkiaps.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/ccas_publication.html

Centre for Hong Kong Studies:
http://www.hkiaps.cuhk.edu.hk/eng/chks_publication.html

中國社會科學院學者講座系列：消費和中國發展的新階段

2018年3月21日 | 香港中文大學行政樓祖堯堂

講者：李培林教授（中國社會科學院副院長、學部委員、社會學家）
合辦：香港中文大學學術交流處(國內事務)

李教授為「中國社會科學院學者講座系列」擔任主講嘉賓，與中大師生及公眾人士交流互動，分享他的研究經驗和心得。講座吸引了超過70人參加，反應熱烈。中大自2012年起舉辦社科院學者訪校計劃，每年邀請三至四位社科院學者到訪，並主持「中國社會科學院學者講座系列」。此計劃旨在加強中大與社科院在不同研究領域的學術交流和長期合作，加強彼此聯繫。

HKIAPS Annual Lunch 2018

2 March 2018

Our Annual Lunch was successfully held at MoMo Café in Shek Mun, attended by 52 colleagues with the generous sponsorship from centre and programme directors.

Public Lecture Series on the Belt and Road Initiative:

"Silk Roads and the Centrality of Old World Eurasia" by Prof. Wang Gungwu
"Plotting the Future of the Belt and Road Initiative: Connections, Opportunities and Challenges" by Prof. Peter Frankopan

14 & 22 November 2017 | Lecture Theatre 1, Cheng Yu Tung Building, CUHK

Keynote Speakers:
Prof. Wang Gungwu (University Professor, National University of Singapore)
Prof. Peter Frankopan (Professor of Global History, University of Oxford)
Sponsor: The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Two public lectures were held to facilitate communication between those from the land-based Belt and the Maritime Silk Road countries. Prof. Wang Gungwu and Prof. Peter Frankopan were invited to give keynote speeches and have a dialogue with Prof. Leung Yuen-sang, Dean, Faculty of Arts, CUHK and Prof. David Faure, Wei Lun Research Professor of History, CUHK, respectively. Each lecture was attended by over 300 guests.

Videos of public lectures:
Prof. Wang Gungwu's lecture: http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/cutv/detail/944
Prof. Peter Frankopan's lecture: http://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/cutv/detail/947

Chinese Law Programme

"One Country, Two Systems" and the Basic Law

3 April 2018 | Warren Chan Moot Court, CUHK Graduate Law Centre

Speaker:
Dr. the Hon Elsie Leung Oi-sie, GBM, JP (Deputy Chairperson, Committee for the Basic Law of the HKSAR, Standing Committee of the National People's Congress of the PRC; First Secretary for Justice of the HKSAR)
Sponsor: Well Link Insurance

This inaugural lecture of the Basic Law Lecture Series drew a full house of 70 academics, students, alumni and members of the public.

Policy Research @ HKIAPS

Policy Research Workshop: Writing Policy Papers

5 January 2018 | Room 520, Sino Building, CUHK

Speakers:
Mr. Lam Woon-kwong, GBS, JP (Former Convenor, Executive Council, HKSAR Government)
Ms. Annie Tam Kam-lan, GBS, JP (Former Permanent Secretary for Labour and Welfare, HKSAR Government)

Speakers shared with the audience their insights on the potential barriers to translating academic work into government policy reports/briefs and suggested helpful techniques for effective policy paper writing. More than thirty invited professors and researchers, including several CUHK Research Committee members, attended the workshop.