Macau

Date:

  • 20 November 2003

Location:

  • Macau Ricci Institue

Time:

  • 18:00 to 21:30

Cost:

  • Free

Languages:

  • English

Speaker

Ming K. Chan

Ming K. Chan was born in Hong Kong. He received his BS in history, political science and economics from Iowa State University-Ames in 1969; MA in Chinese history from the University of Washington in 1970; and Ph. D in East Asian history from Stanford University in 1975.

He is Research Fellow & Executive Coordinator, Hong Kong Documentary Archives, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, where he was a Fellow, 1976-80, and Visiting Professor of History in the History Department, 1992-93. During 1980-1997, Ming Chan was a tenured member of the History Department, University of Hong Kong. He was the Julian & Virginia Cornell Visiting Professor at Swarthmore College, 1993-94. He also held visiting professorship at Mount Holyoke College (2002-3), Duke University (1989), the University of California (UCLA 1979-80; UC-Santa Cruz, 1975/79), and EL Colegio de Mexico (1975-76).

Ming Chan has published ten academic volumes and over fifty articles and book chapters on Chinese history and China-Hong Kong relations. He is General Editor of the Hong Kong Becoming China multi-volume series published by M. E. Sharpe, New York, with a Hong Kong University Press Asian paperback version. Nine titles have been published in this series since 1991.

Organizer of 14 panels at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) since 1985, Ming Chan has presented over sixty papers at international academic conferences.

Introduction

The speaker intends to compare the last two decades of crucial transformative processes that have been, and still are, reshaping contemporary Hong Kong and Macau. In essence, he will try to combine the key points from three of his most recent research works, including the forthcoming Historical Dictionary of the HKSAR & MSAR , in which he offers an evaluative summary of the overall performance of the PRC's two new SAR regimes under both Chief Executives Tung Chee-hwa and Edmund Ho Hau-wah, from the late 1990s to 2003. For Professor Chan, it is obvious that in contrast to Hong Kong, Macau has so far constituted a far more successful example of putting China's "one country, two systems" formula into practice. He therefore very much looks forward to obtaining inputs and insights from local Macau experts.

Professor Chan will also make use of the occasion to talk briefly about his exploration of the possibilities for the inclusion of Macau's transformation in the preliminary plans for a proposed Hoover Institution-staged 2007 public exhibition and international conference at Stanford University to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the "one country, two systems" actualization.