A conference entitled 'Biographies and Databases for Modern China: Hong Kong and Shanghai', co-organised by the Research Centre of Contemporary Chinese Culture and the History Departments of Fudan University and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, was successfully held on the 8th and 9th of May at the Institute of Chinese Studies, CUHK.  

Twenty-one scholars from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong spoke on six major topics, namely, Hong Kong Business Families, the Building of a Biographical Database, Biographies on Political and Military Leaders, Stories of the Entrepreneurs, Research on Biographies, and Females and Artists. Participants at the Conference included Professors Xiong Yue Zhi and Jiang Yihua of Fudan University, Professors Ko-wu Huang and Kuo-hsing Hsieh of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, and Professors Leung Yuen Sang and Cheng Hwei Shing of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

We would like to express our sincere thanks to Chung Chi College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong for their kind sponsorship of this event.