2005 - 2006

Student Participants

Tufts University

JASON Lau
Born in Hong Kong, Jason is currently a rising junior at Tufts University, with high school experiences at St. Andrew's College (Toronto) and St. Joseph's College (Hong Kong). Pursuing a double major of International Relations and Economics, and a minor in Entrepreneurship, Mr. Lau is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, proficient in Japanese, and has learned two years of French. He has been selected as a Chinese tutor for the Academic Resource Center. At Tufts, Jason has always been active and enthusiastic in extracurricular activities. He is the vice president of the Young Entrepreneurs at Tufts (YET), elected-president of the Hong Kong Student Association, publicity Chair of the Asian Community at Tufts, Pan Asian Council representative, editing assistant for the Tufts Daily, and the stage manager for Tufts Lighting Sound and Video Crew. Representing his university on the volleyball court as a member of the Varsity Men's Volleyball team helps him refine his team-building and leadership skills. In high school, he also played basketball, tennis, rugby and golf at a competitive level. Outside of college, Jason enjoys community service: he volunteers in the All-Star children-mentoring program as well the orphanage at Po Leung Kuk during holidays. He also taught English at Pui Ching secondary school in Hong Kong. With his experience working at the Development Bank of Singapore (DBS) last summer, where he assisted in telemarketing, managing quantitative data, and analyzing clients' financial reports, Jason hopes to focus his career on banking, consulting or marketing where his interests lie. Starting his own business would be his ultimate goal.

SONIA Mak
Sonia is a rising senior at Tufts, majoring in Economics and International Relations. She grew up in Hong Kong, where she attended Chinese International School until the age of 16, when she came to Massachusetts to attend boarding school. She spent her last four summers working for Stora Enso in Finland. Last fall, she spent the semester abroad in Prague through New York University; there she interned for the Prague Centre of the East West Institute in its Middle East Leadership Programme. Sonia is a volunteer for Tufts' Leonard Carmichael Society in Special Friends, a youth mentoring programme. She is also interested in photography and has taken pictures for the Tufts Daily. She is fluent in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, and proficient in French. She hopes to work for the government or in the field of research/consultation in the near future.

YUICHIRO Okutsu
Yuichiro is a rising junior majoring in International Relations and Economics. He was born and raised in Tokyo, although the first three years of his early primary school life was spent in the Netherlands. He went to high school in Singapore at the United World College, and he is bilingual in Japanese and English. In Singapore, he was involved in numerous activities including Varsity Soccer, Culture performances, and the Himalayan Global Concerns, where he participated in a reforestation project in a village seven hours north of Kathmandu (Nepal). At Tufts University, he has played Junior Varsity Soccer for the last two years and was awarded the Most Improved Player for the 2003-04 season. He is also a member of the Tufts Alpine Ski team, the Vice President for the Japanese Culture Club, and he spent last year being involved in the Thai Club as a Pan-Asian Council Representative. He has held every job imaginable, from chief waiter to selling electronics, from refereeing indoor soccer to translating English in the International Media Center during the World Cup, from skiing instructor to a factory worker. This eclectic mix of jobs is representative of his strong interest in learning about different people and different situations.

ODMAA Otgonbileg
Odmaa is a rising senior double-majoring in International Relations and Economics. She is from Mongolia and has studied in the United States, Germany, and Switzerland. Odmaa is fluent in Mongolian, Russian, and English, is proficient in German and knows a little French. Her academic interests include natural resource management and economic development. After being a member of the EPIIC 2005 colloquium on Oil and Water, Odmaa has additionally developed an interest in energy politics, which she hopes to pursue in June with an internship with a petroleum importing and distributing company in Mongolia. At Tufts, she has been involved with the Tufts German Club and International Club. As a sophomore she was an assistant to the Mongolian Parliamentary delegates on the inaugural meeting of the International Parliamentarians for Social Services in 2003 in Seoul, Korea. In her free time she enjoys being with her family, reading, playing volleyball, horseback riding and traveling. Her future career plans include working in the field of international relations and economic development focusing possibly on environmental and social justice.

ANDREW Savini
Aloha! Andrew hails from Hawai'i and is a double major in economics and international relations. He is the founder and assistant coach of the Boston Debate League, which introduces debate to Boston City Schools, and he has interned for the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council and the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Honolulu. He was selected as the Tufts representative to the College Leaders Delegation in 2003 and as the Hawai'i representative to the National Youth Leadership Forum. He is also a member of Tufts University's all male a-capella group, The Beelzebubs. He was the Bubs' Tour Manager this past year. From the Honolulu Boy Choir at the age of six, to the western regional honor choir in high school, Andrew has gone to great lengths to share his love for music beyond his tiny island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Andrew's philosophy is that music is a means for people to share happiness with others -- and he loves to live up to this through singing with the Bubs. Being a warm blooded student freezing in the New England winters, Andrew also loves to share the warmth of his culture and Hawaiian pride with the rest of the Tufts Community. When not singing, Andrew can be found with the Hawaii Club, arguing with Democrats, or studying for an exciting future in International Finance.

GOUCHLIEN Taing
Gouchlien will be graduating and earning her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University in 2006. She spent her junior year abroad on the Tufts-In-London program at University College London. For the past two years, she has been a Peer Academic Leader for incoming engineering students. Gouchlien is a member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, American Chemical Society, and Chinese Student Association at Tufts University. Her interest in singing has been fulfilled through her participation in the Tufts University Chorale and Tufts University Third Day Gospel Choir, the latter of which she will rejoin in her upcoming senior year. She has also been recently elected to the position of Webmaster of the Tufts branch of the Society of Women Engineers. In addition, Gouchlien likes to do volunteer work whenever she possibly can. Her most recent involvement took place during spring break of her sophomore year when she went to Philadelphia on a Volunteer Vacation organized by the Leonard Carmichael Society at Tufts.

WU Xiaozheng Sheva
WU Xiaozheng recently graduated from Peking University with a major in Physics and a minor in Mathematics. He will be attending Tufts University as a graduate student in the fall. He was born in Beijing and lived by the Temple Heaven since his childhood. During his college career, he was an exchange student at the University of Hong Kong for one semester. His previous work experience includes modeling the SARS machanism, investigating the Hong Kong primary students' lingual and psychological ability and development, interning in the department of technical physics at Peking University on medical physics and in Chinese Academy of Sciences on nanoscience. He is interested in intercultural communications and maintains relations with many foreign students at Peking University. He is active in sports, including soccer, basketball, table tennis, hockey and baseball. He also likes to travel and has worked in environmental protection in China. He is now interested in finance and international relations.

Chinese University of Hong Kong

LAM Chau Lui Charles
Charles is a graduate student in architecture at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was born in Mainland China and migrated to Hong Kong when he was eight. From 1996 to 1999, he received his upper secondary and pre-university education in Singapore, with the full support of the Singapore Ministry of Education Scholarships. Upon his undergraduate graduation from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003, he worked at one of the leading architectural firms in Hong Kong for a year. Charles likes to travel and to see life. He also is very interested in social and political issues. He is a past co-host of a Cantonese current affairs program on Commercial Radio 881, and he is currently co-hosting self-administered web radio programs with a group of young people who care about the future of Hong Kong. Most importantly, Charles values people. His motto for his life is "to be a humanist architect who sees the dark sides and anticipates the future of society."

TSANG Wai Hang Wayne
Wayne is a senior in Information Engineering, with a minor in politics at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Besides organizing student activities, he has been involved in a wide range of social campaigns as well as the democratic movement in Hong Kong. He is the former president of CUHK's Student Union. Following his participation in the Student Union, he was a Council Chairman in the Hong Kong Federation of Students, the largest student association in Hong Kong. In that position, he initiated a strategic review of the Federation and brought new insights and strategic direction to the organization. He is currently working with Roundtable, the leading youth think-tank in Hong Kong, which aims at promoting youth participation in public affairs and the development of civil society. Besides political involvement, Wayne is keen on intercultural exposure. His was a participant in the Lee Shiu intercultural exchange program last summer. He will study at the Copenhagen Business School in the fall as an exchange student. Upon graduation, he plans to pursue a master's degree in financial engineering and a career in banking.

University of Hong Kong

AREVALO Guai Sing Chi
Sing is majoring in English and Language and Comminucation at The University of Hong Kong. Being Chinese-Korean and having studied in Hong Kong international schools and in the Philippines, Sing is fluent in English and Tagalog. Her interest in language and communication has inspired her to learn basic Spanish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Italian and French. She strongly believes in the importance of youth development and activism, which has driven her to pursue numerous leadership roles. Since the age of ten, she has held leadership positions in various school and external charities, and academic, artistic, media and sports organizations, such as being a Head of House at Sha Tin College and the Commission Chairperson of the Hong Kong Youth Summit 2003. She is currently deeply involved in university affairs, especially international issues and equal opportunity. She is an advocate of internationalism and is trying to increase global awareness at HKU and in Hong Kong. She received a scholarship from the Sino-British Fellowship Trust to represent Hong Kong at the 2003 APEC Youth Summit. In addition, she received an Outstanding Delegation Award at the 2003 Hong Kong International Model United Nations 2003, and she was an active AIESEC-HKU-LC Junior Executive. She is passionate about debating and is one of the founding directors of the Hong Kong Parliamentary Debating Society. As a member of the HKU English Debating Team, she participated in the World's University Debating Championship 2004-2005 and in various local competitions. When she gets the chance, Sing enjoys reading, acting, singing in choirs, netball, training in Taekwondo and athletics, and above all simply spending quality time with her friends.

CHAN Chi Cue Stephanie
Stephanie is an incoming second year Business and Law student at The University of Hong Kong. She completed her secondary studies at the Sherborne School for Girls (UK), gaining the Sherborne School for Girls Sixth Form Scholarship and the Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. During her studies in the UK, she was the Chairman of the International Association, the Treasurer for the British Association of Young Scientists (Dorset), the school prefect, and the house tennis captain. As a freshman at HKU, she has also been very active. She was awarded the Hong Kong Young Leaders Award, St. John's Bursary, and a scholarship for the Global Citizenship Programme. In addition to academics, Stephanie has gotten involved in campus life and volunteer work with zest and enthusiasm. She has tremendously enjoyed the international exposure and intellectual challenges she has had as a Hong Kong University English Debating Team member, representing Hong Kong at the World's Competition in Malaysia and various local competitions. Stephanie also has been selected as a finalist for the International Young Entrepreneurial Competition in June 2005. She also is a basketball and aquatics team member of St. John's College and has participated in various inter-hall activities. For her volunteer work, Stephanie is an international Student Ambassador for the Yan Oi Tong Organization, through which she has been involved in organizing fund-rising events to help the elderly and the mentally challenged. In her free time, she enjoys sailing, debating, reading, hiking and drama.

Peking University

GUAN Le
Le is a sophomore majoring in Finance and Banking at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. As the Public Relations Supervisor for the PKU Students’ International Communication Association (SICA), Guan endeavors to be professional in developing contacts with the media and sponsoring companies on the Association’s behalf. He was the Media Officer for the 2004-2005 PKU-Harvard Exchange Camp and for the Forum of American and Chinese students Exchange at Stanford (FACES) 2004, where 30+ Chinese and foreign media covered on the events. Guan is also currently working for Technology Education Connecting Cultures (TECC), a China-US joint NGO that promotes Internet and English education in the rural regions of West China. With a deep interest in the world economy and politics, Guan enjoys sharing and exchanging opinions and ideas on various issues. He is honored to have had the opportunity to participate in discussions with Dr. Zbigniew Bzrezinski, Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Dr. Henry Kissinger. In February 2005, he visited Tokyo as the final contestant of OVAL2005 International Business Contest and won second place. In his leisure time, Guan Le is a big fan of music and movies.

LUO Jiayuan Gloria
Jiayuan is a junior majoring in finance at Peking University. She comes from the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where she ranked first out of 150,000 in the National University Entrance Exam in 2002. Jiayuan has a wide range of interests in the world of business, and she is especially interested in marketing, strategy and finance. As a result of these interests, she has participated in the Citigroup International Case Competition, the Joint Case Study Seminar in Germany, as well as the Sixth Annual Business Plan Competition of PKU. In the PKU competition, she co-founded a bio-tech company, acted as the CFO, and led the team to the Silver Prize. She also works part time for the Monitor Company, through which she is developing her skills as a consultant and a future entrepreneur. Currently she is taking a course on Entrepreneur and Venture Capital taught by practitioners from Silicon Valley. In this course, she built a "company" of four people and is the CEO. Jiayuan has been the recipient of the Mingde Scholarship for the past two years, and as the Vice President of the Mingde Student Association in 2004 she initiated several investigations on SOEs in China and examined Beijing's preparedness to offer high quality services for the 2008 Olympic Games. She was also selected to participate in a joint program between PKU and Taiwan University and spent last summer in Taiwan. Jiayuan is also pursuing an independent research project on the agricultural sector in China, which is being funded by the President's Fund of PKU. Her other current interests are international trade and the Sino-American relationship. She always enjoys singing, jogging, swimming, and a little bit of skating and softball.

PANG Chao Hans
Chao is a sophomore at Peking University, pursuing a double major in Psychology and Economics. He has excelled in his academics, and his research is sponsored by the JUN Fund founded by Nobel Prize winner Dr. Tsung-Dao Lee. Outside of academics, he enjoys participating in campus life through student activities and internships. As the President of the Association of Psychology, one of the Top Ten Excellent Associations of Peking University, he and his peers successfully hosted the Psychological Festival and other well-received activities. Chao also dedicates his time to the Department of Psychology’s Student Union as a Minister in charge of the academic department. He is an active member of AIESEC, the biggest student NGO globally, where he co-designs leadership training programs to futher develop students’ skills. In 2004, based on his excellent work during the Summer Social Activities, he was honored as an excellent trainee by the PKU Communist Youth League. He also participates in the Peking University- Chinese University of Hong Kong-National Taiwan University Psychology Intercommunication Program, through which he has developed long-term friendships with other students. During the 2005 winter vacation, he served as a Customer Service Surveillant of the Chongqing Area for the Founder Corporation, one of the largest PC corporations in Mainland China. In his spare time, he loves swimming, jogging and Chinese painting.

WANG Xiaoxuan Tina
Xiaoxuan is a junior double majoring in International Relations and Economics, who is interested mainly in comparative politics and economics. She is one of the top students in her class and has received the UFJ International Funds Scholarship and the Study Awards of PKU for the past three years. Based on her outstanding academic ability and strong sense of responsibility, she is often selected as a PKU student representative to attend a variety of academic symposiums and to interview foreign guests. In the past three years, she has interviewed the US Ambassador to China, the Premier of India, and several presidents of world class universities. Many of her reports are published in the PKU official journal called newsletter for cooperation and communication. Besides her studies, Xiaoxuan is also engaged in many extra curricular activities. She is one of the primary members of the PKU Model United Nations team, and she participated in the 2005 HNMUN conference representing Peking University. In August 2004, she served as one of the volunteer English tutors in the English Training Program of the ASEAN Nanking Expo. She is also a member of the “love heart one to one” program in Beijing and has been sponsoring a girl in Gan Su Province for two years. Xiaoxuan enjoys traveling, swimming, music and films, and she is also good at traditional Chinese dancing.

ZHU Mengyao Molly
Zhu Mengyao is a junior in the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, where she is majoring in finance and minoring in probability and statistics. She was awarded the Guanghua Scholarship for her outstanding academic performance. Her strong passion in her field of study, both in and outside of the classroom, led to her representing PKU in the Second Citigroup International Case Competition in Hong Kong, as well as her playing an active role in the joint seminar between PKU and the University of Hanover on issues of marketing and corporate social responsibility. Besides studies, she is an active member in many social activities. Mengyao has been working in the Students International Communication Association for two years and is currently the vice president of and financial specialist for the association. She also has contributed to organizing and promoting various international students' activities, such as FACES 2004, NEAN2005, and the First PKU-Harvard Student Exchange Camp (which then invited her to join the Harvard panel held in Boston). She also has been a delegate to the business and technology oriented Sino-France program Silk Roads in Paris, and she is now a committee member for the program's Beijing panel this November. All of these activities have provided her with direct international exposure on economic, political and technological issues, and they built her teamwork and leadership skills. Mengyao usually spends her spare time reading history books and listening to music.

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Summer Calendar

July 3	US and PKU students arrive in Hong Kong
July 4-6	Orientation Program: The first two days will be an adventure program organized by HKU. The third day will be an urban adventure to introduce everyone to Hong Kong
July 7	Prepare for the start of internships, e.g. best travel routes, etc.
July 8	Begin internships
July 9	First weekend activities
July 13	Class: Hong Kong: Past and Future
July 15	Lecture: Kin Wai Michael Siu on Design and the Public Sphere
July 20	Class: China's Political Reform
July 24	Weekend activity
July 25	Documentary movie presentation: “The Gate of Heavenly Peace” \| 7:30 PM
July 27	Class: Legacy of Tiananmen Square \| 7:30pm
July 28	Lecture: Anson Chan on China and Hong Kong - One Country, Two Systems \| 6:15 PM
July 30	Weekend Activity
August 3	Class: China's Role in the World \| 7:30pm
August 5	Lecture: Dr. Eden Woon on Positioning Hong Kong as China Takes Off \| 6:30 PM
August 6	Weekend Activity
August 9	Lecture: Hon. Audrey Eu Yuet-Mee \| 6:30 PM
August 10	Class: China's Environment \| 7:30pm
August 12	Lecture: Christine Loh on Environmental Challenges of Hong Kong
August 13	Weekend Activity
August 16	Lecture: Frank Ching on Post-1997 Hong Kong - The first eight years
August 18	Last day of internships
August 19	Closing ceremony at HKU \| 5:30 PM
August 20-21	Brainstorming for the symposium
August 22	Depart for Beijing
August 31	End of summer program

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Summer Class Discussions

2005-06 Programs: Class Discussions

JULY 13: Hong Kong: Past and Future (Class 1)

Discussion Groups >>

Andrew, Sonia, Lien, Sheva, Stephanie, Charles, Tina, Chao
Jason, Odmaa, Yuichiro, Sing, Wayne, Gloria, Le, Molly

Discussion Questions >>

If you had the opportunity, would you change any aspect of the Basic Law?
Is the Basic Law fair to Hong Kong?
Is the Basic Law fair to China?
Is the policy of "one country, two systems" viable in the long term?
Since Britain only introduced democracy to Hong Kong in the last stages of its rule, should Hong Kong have the right to choose democracy?

Whole Group >>

For the last 30 minutes of class, each group should take 5 minutes to present its conclusions and then the whole group should discuss the similarities/difference in those conclusions.

Readings >>

"Hong Kong: From British Crown Colony to Special Administrative Region of China", p.40
"The First Symphony of National Reunification", p.65
"Basic Flaws", p. 71
"Hong Kong and the Limits of People Power", p.108
"Hong Kong: 'One Country, Two Systems' in Troubled Waters", p.111

Supplemental Readings >>

"Hong Kong - Historical Background", p.30
"The Hong Kong SAR: Prisoner of Legacy or History's Bellweather?", p.86

JULY 20: China’s Political Reform ( Class 2)

Discussion Groups >>

Hans, Le, Charles, Sing, Lien, Yuichiro, Odmaa, Gloria
Molly, Tina, Stephanie, Wayne, Sonia, Sheva, Andrew, Jason

Readings >>

“Opening Speech at the 12th National Congress of the Communist Party of China”, p. 653
“China’s Traditional Political Culture”, p. 506
“Toward a Consultative Rule of Law Regime in China” by Pan Wei, p. 526
“A Dialogue on the Future of China”, p. 567
“Roundtable: Democracy, Sooner or Later?”, p. 591

Supplementary Readings >>

“Late Imperial China and the Republican Period”, p. 516
“Beijing’s Ambivalent Reformers”, p. 616
“Xinjiang: China’s Future West Bank”, p. 646

Discussion >>

The centerpiece of the discussion should be Professor Pan’s article, which discusses the pros and cons of different types of democracies as well as the rule of law.

Begin by going around the group and each person defining what the term “democracy” means to him or her. Then discuss Professor Pan’s definitions of democracy, pure democracy, liberal democracy, illiberal democracy, autocracy, rule by morality, rule by Divinity, rule by law, and rule of law.

For the second hour, one person will be asked by Vera, on that day, to lead the rest of the discussion and incorporate the other required readings. Be prepared!

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Leadership Lecture Series

Friday, July 15 :: Design and the Public Sphere: Street Furniture Designs for Hong Kong

Professor Kin Wai Michael Siu
Dr. Kin Wai Michael Siu is an associate professor of the School of Design, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He is a chartered engineer and chartered designer. He is a fellow of the Chartered Society of Designers, the Royal Society of Arts, the Royal Geographical Society, and the College of Preceptors. He was a Fulbright Scholar at MIT (2002-2003) and an academic visitor in the Engineering Design Centre of the University of Cambridge (2001). He has been a visiting professor at universities in China and South Korea. He has been involved in a number of funded research and design projects related to street furniture, public facilities and urban design. He has been the executive members of different professional societies and associations. His articles have appeared in various journals including Design Issues, Journal of Popular Culture, Popular Culture Review, Human Relations, Critical Planning, Journal of Engineering Design, Engineering Science and Education Journal, the Journal of Art and Design Education.

July 21 :: What Makes Hong Kong Tick

The Hon. Selina Chow
Member of the Legislative Council, Hong Kong (directly elected member, representing New Territories West); Member of the Executive Council; Deputy Chairman, Liberal Party (since 1998); Chairman, Hong Kong Tourism Board; Hon. Advisor, Retail Management Association; Hon. Adviser, Association of Retailers & Tourism Services Ltd.; Committee Member, Small and Medium Enterprises; Director, HK Intellectual Property Society; Former Director and Chief Executive Officer, Asia Television Ltd. (ATV); Former Chairman & Chief Executive, Brainchild Production Ltd.; Former General Manager, Commercial Television Ltd. (CTV); Former Member, Law Reform Commission of Hong Kong; Former Chairman, Consumer Council; Central Co-Ordinating Committee Chairman, 1985 International Youth Year; Former Member, Advisory Committee on Corruption, Independent Commission Against Corruption; Former Appointed Member, Executive Council; Former Member, Education Commission; Former, Member, Provisional Legislature of HKSAR

July 28 :: China and Hong Kong - One Country, Two Systems

The Hon. Anson Chan
Dubbed the "Conscience of Hong Kong," Dr. the Honorable Anson Chan was a career public servant, serving 38 years in Hong Kong's Civil Service. She retired in 2001 as the Chief Secretary of the Hong Kong government. In that position she was a principal advisor to the Chief Executive and head of Hong Kong's 190,000 member civil service. Dr. Chan was the first woman, and the first person of Chinese ancestry, to hold that position. She was very much a figure of continuity, the most senior figure to straddle the British and Chinese eras in Hong Kong. In 1962, Dr. Chan joined the civil service as an administrative service cadet. She became a senior administrative officer in 1970. During this period she helped set up the Association of Female Senior Government Officers to fight for better rights for women civil servants. She was appointed the Director of Social Welfare in 1980 and from 1987 to 1993, she was Secretary for Economic Services, becoming Chief Secretary in 1993 to oversee the localization of the civil service. In retirement, Dr. Chan has continued to be an active public citizen, declaring her unyielding support for democracy and freedom and calling for legislative elections, a credible legislature and respect for civil liberties.

Friday, August 5 :: The Positioning of Hong Kong as China Takes Off

Dr. Eden Woon
Dr. Eden Woon is the CEO of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, the oldest and largest business organization in Hong Kong with around 4,000 corporate members. He served as Executive Director of the Washington State China Relations Council from 1994-97. A career U.S. Air Force officer who retired as a Colonel in 1993, Dr. Woon served as China policy advisor for the U.S. Secretary of Defense from 1989-94, and was assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing from 1983-85. Dr. Woon, who has a Ph.D in mathematics, was an Associate Professor of Mathematics in the late 1970s at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Dr. Woon is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations based in New York. He is on the board of the Hospital Authority, Ocean Park Corporation and the Hong Kong Tennis Foundation. Dr Woon is also a member of the Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation. He was named Director of the Year in Hong Kong in the non-profit category in 2001.

Tuesday, August 9 :: The Rule of Law - Clash of Two Systems

The Hon. Audrey Eu Yuet-mee
The Hon. Audrey Eu is a member of Hong Kong’s Legislative Council and a founding member of the Article 45 Concern Group in the Legislative Council. Ms. Eu has also been the Chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association; a Member of the Operations Review Committee and the Witness Protection Review Board Panel for the Independent Commission Against Corruption; an Honorary Legal Adviser for the Hong Kong Doctors Union; Deputy Chairman of the Inland Revenue Board of Review of the Finance Bureau; Member of Justice, the Hong Kong Section of the International Commission of Jurists; Member of the Provisional Council on Reproductive Technology; Member of the Hong Kong Housing Authority; and Member of Hong Kong’s Board of Education

Friday, August 12 :: Environmental Challenges of Hong Kong

The Hon. Christine Loh
"Thinking gets better when we think often. Thinking is fun because it creates new possibilities in the way we live our lives. Research helps to drive thinking. Thinking in groups helps leverage our collective intelligence and can lead to breakthroughs. I want Civic Exchange to produce pragmatic solutions to public policy problems. I also want to be able to synthesize and publicize other people's good ideas."
Christine Loh is well known for her wide-ranging intellect and ability to find practical solutions to problems. Her background in law, business, politics, media and the non-profit sector has given her considerable knowledge and insight about how they work and has helped her to become a leading voice in public policy in Hong Kong. Loh has authored numerous books, articles and public policy recommendations in a large number of local and international publications.

Trained as a lawyer, Loh did not practice law but enjoyed a highly successful 12 year career with a multinational as a commodities trader from 1980-1991. Appointed to the Legislative Council (LegCo) in 1992, running in two elections subsequently, Loh had a popular career as a politician until 2000 when she chose not to seek re-election. Her legislative successes were many, the most high profile being amending the law to enable the indigenous women of the New Territories to inherit rural land, restructuring the controversial section 30 of the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance, and sponsoring the historic Protection of the Harbor Ordinance. Businessweek named her in 1998 and 2000 as one of Asia's Stars.

With Lisa Hopkinson she founded Civic Exchange in September 2000. Loh is responsible for charting the Civic Exchange's long-term course.

She also is a member of the Advisory Committee for the Securities and Futures Commission, an Advisory Member of the Asia Society, and a Board Member of Human Rights in China, USA. Loh also is the former Chairperson of Friends of the Earth (HK) and of the Citizens Party (HK).

Tuesday, August 16 :: Post 1997 Hong Kong - The First Eight Years

Frank Ching
Frank Ching is a journalist who has reported and commented on events in Asia, particularly China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, for several decades. He worked for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Far Eastern Economic Review. In 2002, he joined the South China Morning Post as Senior Columnist.
He worked for The New York Times for about a decade, primarily editing stories about China during a period that included the Cultural Revolution. In 1976, when Dow Jones launched The Asian Wall Street Journal, he joined the new publication and worked as a reporter and editor. He also wrote a weekly column on political, social and economic developments in China.

In 1979, after the establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China, he opened The Wall Street Journal's bureau in Beijing and remained there for four years, during which time he covered the emergence of China from the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution, the open-door policy, the trial of the Gang of Four, the opening up of the country to foreign investment and China's strategic alignment with the United States against the Soviet Union.

After leaving Beijing, Mr. Ching spent several years working on a book, "ANCESTORS: 900 Years in the Life of a Chinese Family," (Morrow, N.Y. 1988). Using his own family as a vehicle, he presented a history of China from the Sung dynasty to the present.

In 1992, he joined the Far Eastern Economic Review. Until spring 2001, he wrote a weekly column, "Eye On Asia," in which he commented on political developments around the region. He left the Review in 2001.

For more than nine years, Mr. Ching has also hosted a weekly current affairs TV program in Hong Kong, "Newsline," which appears every Sunday evening on ATV World.

He has given speeches across the United States, including delivering the Inaugural Lecture of the Ravenholt-Severyns Lecture at the University of Washington and was the inaugural lunch speaker at the annual Chiefs of Defense Mission sponsored by the Commander in Chief, Pacific, in Honolulu. Aside from "ANCESTORS," he is the author of "Hong Kong and China: For Better or For Worse," published jointly by the Asia Society and the Foreign Policy Association in New York and, more recently, "The Li Dynasty: Hong Kong Aristocrats," published by Oxford University Press.

Currently, in addition to writing for the South China Morning Post, he also writes a weekly syndicated column on China that appears in publications in Asia, North America and Europe.

He is also an adjunct professor with Chinese University and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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2005 China Symposium

China's Future Challenges
The 2005-06 TILIP International Symposium Program

Thursday, February 2

Red-Color News Soldier: Chinese Photographer Li Zhensheng's Secret Archive of the Cultural Revolution, Unseen for 40 Years, 8:00pm, Braker 001

Li Zhensheng, Photographer and Author, Red-Color News Soldier

Jacques Menasche, Writer and Interviewer, Red-Color News Soldier

Friday, February 3

Risks and Rewards: Finance and Trade, 2:00pm, Braker 001

Steven Bennett, Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation

Douglas Guthrie, Professor of Sociology and Management, New York University; Author, Dragon in a Three-Piece Suit: The Emergence of Capitalism in China

Neil Hughes, Urban and Industrial Development Consultant; Author, China's Economic Challenge: Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl; Senior Operations Officer, China and Mongolia Department, World Bank from 1992 to 1997

Gary Jefferson, Carl Marks Professor of International Trade and Finance and Chair of Economics, Brandeis University; Coauthor, Enterprise Reform in China: Ownership, Transition, and Performance

Xiangmin Liu, Asia Program Fellow, Center for Business and Government, Harvard University

Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award Address by The Honorable Anson Chan, 5:00pm, Cabot Auditorium

Address by The Honorable Anson Chan, former Chief Secretary of the Government of Hong Kong

Saturday, February 4

Rising Social Problems

Pandemics and Population, 9:30am, Braker 001

Yanzhong Huang, Director of the Center for Global Health Studies and Assistant Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University; Author, “Mortal Peril: Public Health in China and Its Security Implications”and “The Politics of China’s SARS Crisis”

Neil Hughes, Urban and Industrial Development Consultant; Author, China's Economic Challenge: Smashing the Iron Rice Bowl; Senior Operations Officer, China and Mongolia Department, World Bank from 1992 to 1997

Joan Kaufman, Director, AIDS Public Policy Program, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Yuanli Liu, Assistant Professor of International Health, Department of Population and International Health and Director of the research project on “Health Care Financing for China’s Rural Poor,” Harvard School of Public Health

The Rural–Urban Divide, 11:30am, Braker 001

Thomas Bernstein, Professor of Political Science and Faculty Member, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Coauthor, Taxation without Representation in Rural China; Editor, Conflict and Cooperation between the Chinese Communist State and the Peasantry; Author, Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages: The Transfer of Youth from Urban to Rural China and “Unrest in Rural China: A 2003 Assessment”

Leiwan Jiang, Assistant Professor, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Author, “Population, Environment, and Development in China”

Lina Song, Reader in China Studies, School of Sociology and Social Policy, Nottingham University; Coauthor, The Rural-Urban Divide, Economic Disparities and Interactions in China and Towards a Labour Market in China

Anthony Saich, Director and Faculty Chair, Asia Programs, Center for Business and Government, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Power Dynamics in East Asia

Security and Uncertainty, 2:30pm, Braker 001

Shinju Fujihira, Associate Director, Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University

Charles Hooper (Col-US Army), former Senior Country Director for China, U.S. Department of Defense

Jing Huang, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution; Author, Civil-Military Relations in China: A Long March toward Institutionalization (forthcoming) and Factionalism in Chinese Communist Party Politics; Coauthor, Inseparable Separation: A Study in China-Taiwan Relations

Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science, Boston College; Research Associate of the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University; Author, U.S. China Relations, 1955-1971: A Reexamination of Cold War Conflict and Cooperation and Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging Power; Coauthor, Great Wall and Empty Fortress: China's Search for Security

Yu Bin, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wittenberg University; Coeditor, Dynamics and Dilemma: Mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong in a Changing World

China's Nationalism: Trends and Perspectives, 4:30pm, Braker 001

Yong Cao, Author, “From Communism to Nationalism: China’s Press in the Transition of Dominant Ideology”; PhD Candidate, College of Mass Communications and Media Arts, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Yu Bin, Associate Professor of Political Science, Wittenberg University; Author, “The China Syndrome: Rising Nationalism and Conflict in the West”

Suisheng Zhao, Professor of Political Science, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver; Author, Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism and China and Democracy: Reconsidering the Prospects fro a Democratic China

Rule of Law and Political Reform, 8:00pm, Braker 001

Anson Chan, Former Chief Secretary, Government of Hong Kong

Martin Dimitrov, Visiting Fellow, Institute of East Asian Studies, Harvard Law School; Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth University; Author, “Comparison of Chinese and Russian Federalism”

Ian Johnson, Author, Wild Grass: Three Stories of Change in Modern China; Former China Bureau Chief, Wall Street Journal; Pulitzer Prize Recipient for coverage of Falun Gong in China

Yawei Liu, Associate Director, China Village Elections Project, Democracy Program, The Carter Center

Xu Wenli, Dissident, Pro-democracy Advocate; Former Leader in the Democracy Wall movement; Former Editor, April Fifth Forum (samizdat-style journal in China); Founding Member, Beijing-Tianjin branch, China Democracy Party; Visiting Senir Fellow, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Sunday, February 5

Development Dilemmas

Fueling the Future, 10:00am, Braker 001

Bernard Cole, Professor of International History, National War College; Former Plans Officer for Commander-in-Chief Pacific Fleet, U.S. Navy; Author, Oil for the Lamps of China: Beijing’s 21st Century Search for Energy
Robert Ebel, Chairman, Energy Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Author, China’s Energy Future: The Middle Kingdom Seeks its Place in the Sun
T.R. Lakshmanan, Executive Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and Professor of Geography, Boston University
Theresa Sabonis-Helf, Professor of National Security Strategy, National Defense University

Sacrificing the Environment?, 1:00 pm, Braker 001

Bryan Bachner, Assistant Director of Legal Research, Eastern Law Division, Law Library of Congress. PhD from Wuhan University, China in Environmental and Natural Resources Law; JD (American); BA (Tufts)
Barbara Finamore, Founder and Director, China Clean Energy Program, and Senior Attorney, National Resources Defense Council
Leiwan Jiang, Assistant Professor, The Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University; Author, “Population, Environment, and Development in China”
Guodong Sun, Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Coauthor, From London to Beijing: Using Health Impact Assessments to Promote Sound Development; Co-Leader, collaborative project to study strategies to facilitate Clean Coal Technology innovation in China, Ministry of Science in China and Harvard University
Jason Zunsheng Yin, Chair and Professor of Strategic Management and International Business, Seton Hall University

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Summer Internships

Crown Interns: CHAN Chi Cue Stephanie, University of Hong Kong, Sonia Mak, Tufts University

Crown Projects:

Complete employee handbooks for each of the Asia offices during the next two months. This involves visiting an online legal website and researching the local labour laws and interviewing the managers and responsible administration staff to determine the local branch practices This information will be used to update the HRD site.
Designing and collating a survey to determine the incentive/employee rewards/ recognition plans and retirement schemes for each of the APAC offices, Reports for each plan need to be submitted detailing conclusions. Using an online survey, the interns will design and draft a survey. When approved, they will check on responses and follow-up on late respondents and subsequently manipulate the data in an excel spreadsheet and prepare a report for distribution to APAC.

CSL Interns: PANG Chao, Peking University, Yuichiro Okutsu, Tufts University

CSL Projects:

To identify the optimum manpower resource at shops through implementation of new traffic system and to identify improvement areas in shop sales and customer service operations.
To identify potential 3G users in One2Free customer base and to nurture their data usage behavior and proactively migrate them to 3G service so as to uplift customer's monthly spending in One2Free service.

HKEx Interns: LUO Jiayuan, Peking University, Odmaa Otgonbileg, Tufts University

HKEx Projects:

Analysis of the GEM companies (including (a) performance, profit record, etc of the 200 over companies; and (b) comparison with other second boards in other markets, in terms of performance, listing rules etc)
Mainland enterprises listed in overseas exchanges (in terms of number and their performance for the purpose of evaluating our competitiveness)
Location of the 300+ mainland enterprises listed in HK (in order to identify the number of Pan PRD enterprises listed for our upcoming Pan PRD conference at end of July and future marketing strategy)
Identify the foreign companies currently listed in HK

HKSAR Tourism commission

HKSAR Interns: Jason Lau, Tufts University, LAM Chau Lui Charles, Chinese University of Hong Kong

HKSAR Projects:

The adaptive reuse of overseas heritage buildings and the promotion of cultural heritage in Lautau in view of the opening of the Ngong Ping Sky rail on Lantau Island
Central Police Station Compound conservation
Ngong Ping Skyrail travel itinerary design
Ad-hoc involvement in TC's current projects: Wetland Park, Ocean Park, FMPHQ, etc

HKSAR Environment, Transport and Works Bureau (ETWB)

ETWB Interns: WANG Xiaoxuan, Peking University, Gouchlien Taing, Tufts University

ETWB Projects:

Select typical model-cities in mainland China and collect information on their tolling mechanism and policies of major bridges
Determine how the cities deal with the relations between government and private companies under BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer)
Evaluate the tolling policies in the mainland
Research the toll settings and adjustment mechanisms under public-private partnership arrangements in other countries, focusing on tunnels constructed via build-operate-transfer methodology. Results will be used in the Hong Kong issue concerning the uneven traffic distribution among the Cross Harbour Tunnel, Eastern Harbour Crossing, and Western Harbour Crossing.

HKTDC Interns: GUAN Le, Peking University, AREVALO Guai Sing Chi, University of Hong Kong

HKTDC Projects:

Using HK as the platform, research Hong Kong and mainland companies to better assist mainland companies with their overseas business expansion
Co-research with Chinese Ministry of Commerce on HK's new positioning in the integration of HK-mainland economy

HSBC Interns: ZHU Mengyao, Peking University, Andrew Savini, Tufts University

HSBC Projects:

Project 1 - Credit Risk Management

To assist the project team to implement the new internal credit rating system
To conduct data quality checking and generate management information reports

Project 2 - Strategy, Propositions & Planning

To undertake market research and promotional programme
To perform internal data-mining and produce management information for SME products

Morgan Stanley Interns: WU Xiaozheng, Tufts University, TSANG Wai Hang Wayne, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Morgan Stanley Projects:

Study of the business opportunities and legal, regulatory and infrastructure requirements for Morgan Stanley to establish an office to conduct each of its businesses in a market in which it is not currently operating through a resident vehicle.

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