The CUHK-CCK Foundation Asia-Pacific Centre for Chinese Studies (APC) has invited Professor Shih Chih-yu (石之瑜教授) to be the Visiting Scholar of the APC Visiting Scholar Scheme in the year 2015. A public lecture themed "Cultural Chineseness, Ethnic Chineseness, and Post-Chineseness: The Chinese Studies in Southeast Asia Compared 中華性，華人性，與後華性：比較東南亞的華人與中國研究" will be held on 13 October 2015 (Tuesday), 4:30 – 6:00pm in Activities Room, 2/F, Art Museum East Wing, Institute of Chinese Studies. The lecture will be conducted in English.

Professor Shih Chih-yu is currently teaching international relations theory, anthropology of knowledge, and China studies in the capacity of National Chair and University Chair in the Department of Political Science at National Taiwan University. He is additionally the author of over 60 books, including Post-international Relationship Reconsidered: The Pre-modern Politics of Gongsun Long (2015); Harmonious Intervention: China's Quest for Relational Security (2014); Sinicizing International Relations: Self, Civilization and Intellectual Politics in Subaltern East Asia (2013); Civilization, Nation and Modernity in East Asia (2013); On China By India: From Civilization to Nation State (2012); Autonomy, Ethnicity and Poverty in Southwestern China: The State Turned Upside Down (2007), Navigating Sovereignty: World Politics Lost in China (2003). He is also the editor of the journal Asian Ethnicity and an editorial board member of a few international and domestic political science as well as China studies journals. His project on the intellectual history of China Studies in Hong Kong belongs to a larger project on Anthropology of Knowledge in the perspective of China studies. For further information about Professor Shih, please visit http://politics.ntu.edu.tw/RAEC/ .