Dear all,

 

It is with great pleasure that St Hugh’s College will welcome Dr Richard Kan and Dr K P Lau travelling from Hong Kong, to give what promises to be a very interesting talk on Confucianism.  The talk will take place in the College on Wednesday 20 May, in the Mordan Hall Suite, Dobbs Seminar Room 2, from 5pm.  Both Dr Kan and Dr Lau have had distinguished careers (please see biographical document below and attached for more information). 

 

We very much hope to see you there.  Please would you email Catherine Barton ([log in to unmask]) to register your interest.     

 

I look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours sincerely

 

 

Andrew Dilnot

Principal

 

 

Biographical information about the guest speakers:

 

Richard W C Kan is a chartered engineer who has been inspired by a variety of subjects, not least of which is the values of traditional Chinese philosophy spearheaded largely by Confucianism. He was educated in Hong Kong at St Paul’s Co-educational College and in England at Repton School and Imperial College. Having established a successful career over the past several decades in major land and marine developments in Hong Kong, he has embarked in recent years on a search for answers to fulfil a more meaningful life. He was appointed a Visiting Professor at the Academy of Chinese Culture, Beijing, in 2004 and was the Project Director of a series of cultural symposia in Beijing that spanned the years 2004 to 2006, involving twenty speakers and contributors to essays from the most learned circle in China on the subjects of ethics, morality, values, philosophy and the arts. He is also a Governor of the Comprehensive Records of Hong Kong Foundation overseeing this project. His publications include History Re-stored: Ancient Greek Coins from the Zhuyuetang Collection, Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods – the Zhuyuetang Collection, a Festschrift on a unique

Lysimachus hemidrachm co-authored with Professor François de Callataÿ in honour of Professor Ioannis Touratsoglou, and a number of monograms and articles on Chinese and Greek antiquities.

 

Chi-pang Lau completed his BA and MPhil from the University of Hong Kong and received his PhD from University of Washington, Seattle, USA. A scholar of Chinese intellectual history with abiding interests in Confucianism and Chinese civilization, he has carried out in-depth research on the intellectual movements in Late Imperial China. He is Assistant Professor of History at Lingnan University, teaches Chinese history and Chinese civilization. He is also in charge of a research unit at Lingnan University on the historical study of Hong Kong and South China, and has actively engaged in community

and cultural services. He is concurrently a district councillor and an antiquities advisor to the Hong Kong SAR Government, and a director of the Confucian Academy. A contributor to the National Qing History, C P Lau has widely published on Hong Kong history and is now the Director and Editor-in-Chief of the Comprehensive Records of Hong Kong project.

 

 

 

 

Janelle McCarty

University of Oxford China Centre, Administrator

74 Woodstock Road

Oxford, OX2 6HP

Tel. 01865-613826

 

www.chinacentre.ox.ac.uk/

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