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2007-08 News Bulletins
What's new
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Rivalry of the Chinese Scripts: Simplification and Politics
Date: Feb 29, 2008 (Friday)
Time: 4pm
Location: Room 113, Building 260 in Main Quad
Speaker: Prof. Chaofen Sun, Director of Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford
Seminar Abstract:
With the simplified characters adopted as the Chinese orthography in
China and Singapore, and the complexed characters in Taiwan and Hong
Kong, the Chinese people essentially have to live with two standard
scripts. I will, first of all, briefly review the history of the
Chinese written form, how it changed over time in the last two
millennia. Qinzhuan, a change from Jinwen, was standardized by
Qinshihuang to be the script used by the newly founded Empire.
Clerical script, Lishu adopted by the Han Empire, was essentially a
simplification of the zhuanshu, in accord with Xu Shen. Then,
Kaishu emerged after the downfall of the Han Empire. Simplified
characters were successfully standardized in the first ten years of
the People's Republic. But the focus will be on its developments in
the 20th century, the Guoyu yundong (National language movement) in
Late Qing, May 4th movement, the first standardization attempt of the
popular characters in the 1930, the standardization of the simplified
characters in the 1950s, and the failure of further simplification in
the 1970s, etc. A view on the underlying reasons for all these changes
will be presented, and an attempt will be made to answer to the
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Christmas Dinner & Harbor Cruise in Hong Kong!!
This Christmas, HKSA and Stanford Club of HK team up to bring you a memorable boat trip for the holiday season!
On Dec 20, we'll take an evening cruise to sail around the Victoria Harbor to enjoy the splendor of Christmas lights in Hong Kong. Buffet dinner and drinks will be provided. There will also be festive music and lucky draw.
Come, chat, and enjoy a fine evening with your alumni (or soon-to-be alumni) friends!
Date: Dec 20, 2007 (Thursday)
Location: Leaving from and returning to Central piers
Time: 7pm ?11pm
Price: $250 per person, including buffet dinner and drinks
RSVP: Please contact Winnie Lam at winnie.lam@stanfordalumni.org. Space is limited. Please RSVP by completing the attached payment form.
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Symposium on Hong Kong SAR's First Decade: Retrospect and Prospects
Date: Monday, Nov 12, 2007
Venue: Okimoto Room, 3rd floor Encina Hall East, Stanford University
Time: 10:30am - 6pm
Speakers include:
Dr. T. Y. Lau, Visiting Scholar CEAS, (Stanford MA communications '82)
Mr. Ronnie CHAN, chair, Better HK Foundation/Asia Society-HK Centre/Hang Lung Properties
Prof. WANG Zhenmin, Vice Dean, Tsinghua U. Law School/NPC HK Basic Law Committee
The Hon. Margaret Ng, HKSAR Legislative Councilor/Civic Party founding member
Mr. SHIU Sin-por, HKSAR Government Central Policy Unit
Prof. Edward K. Y. CHEN, Centre of Asian Studies, Univ. of HK/ex-President, Lingnan Univ.
Ambassador James Cunningham, US Consul General-HK
Open to the public. Due to limited space, please RSVP to lydiac@stanford.edu.
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HKSA Orientation photos added. Click here!
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Mailing
List for Active and Incoming New Students!
An e-mail list is set up for all
active and incoming new students. To subscribe, please send
an email to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu with the following message in the body (not subject) of the email:
subscribe hksa
Should you have any questions,
please feel free to email the webperson.
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Hong Kong Student Association wants YOU!
We're recruiting new helpers for the academic year 2007-08. If you're interested to join us, please email HKSA and tell us more about yourself. Thanks!!
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Past Events |
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Visit of Prof. CK Poon, President of HK Polytechnic University
Date: Monday, Oct 15, 2007
Venue: Room 034, Building 200 (History Corner of the Main Quad)
Time: 5:00pm
Prof. Poon is going to talk about the opportunities in PolyU with a view to attracting young faculty and
PhD students to pursue a teaching career in PolyU.
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HKSA Orientation 2007-08!!!
Date: Saturday, Sept 29, 2007
Venue: Graduate Community Center (Havana Room)
Time: 4:30pm
Hang out and meet the new students!
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HKSAR Government Recruitment Talk
Date: Thursday, Sept 27, 2007
Venue: Graduate Community Center (Nairobi Room)
Time: 4pm
Career opportunities in Hong Kong, with the governmental Administrative Officer position in particular,
will be addressed and discussed. Please feel free to invite your friends who are interested in pursuing
a career in Hong Kong to attend.
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Visit of Prof. Paul Chu, President of
HKUST
Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Venue: CISX Auditorium
Time: 5pm
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HKSA
Constitution Has Been Drafted
A new constitution for the Hong Kong Student
Association has been drafted on May 01, 2006. The
constitution can be found here.
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HKSA Alumni List is Up
To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@lists.stanford.edu
with the following message in the body (not subject) of the email:
subscribe hksa-alumni
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