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Chinese University of Hong Kong
Overview
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong.
Established in 1963 as a federation of three colleges – Chung Chi College, New Asia College, and United College, it is Hong Kong's second-oldest university, with the first being the University of Hong Kong. Predecessors of the university included St. John's University, Lingnan University and Yenching University, alongside 10 other Christian universities in China.
The university is organised into nine constituent colleges and eight academic faculties, and remains the only collegiate university in Hong Kong. The university operates in both English and Chinese.
CUHK's affiliated faculty members and researchers include one Nobel Prize laureate and one Dan David Prize winner. It is the only university in Hong Kong that appears in the Nobel Prize Laureates and Research Affiliations list published by the Nobel Prize organisation. This recognition is attributed to Professor Charles Kuen Kao, who was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics and was affiliated with CUHK at the time of the award.
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Trees are planted round graves, because Confucius said they should be; if Confucianism dies out, even these will be cut down. But public-spirited Chinese students learn political theory as it is taught in our universities, and despise such humble questions as the utility of trees. After learning all about (say) the proper relations of the two Houses of Parliament, they go home to find that some Tuchun has dismissed…
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
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At the same time at the bottom of his heart probably every Chinese is convinced of the superiority of Chinese civilization--and maybe they are right--three thousand years is quite a spell to hold on.
John Dewey, Letters from China and Japan
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There are a number of figures, larger and smaller, of Chinese divinities, some of which are very neatly carved in ivory, wood, and stone.
Voltaire, Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume
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Philosophers who discussed Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Tang Chun-i
- Hartry Field
- Mou Tsung-san
- Lin Yutang
- Timothy Williamson
- Immanuel Wallerstein
- Ch'ien Mu
- Tu Weiming
- Dermot Moran
- James Griffin (philosopher)
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- Tang Chun-i
- Hong Kong
- Nobel Prize
- Protestantism
- University of Sussex
- United States
- Chinese Communist Revolution
- China
- Mainland China
- Chinese language
- Confucianism
- South China Morning Post
- Routledge
- Shenzhen
- English language
- Ch'ien Mu
- New Asia College
Place in the tradition
Part of Mohism.
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