Centre for China Studies

Focus	Sinology
Director	David Faure
Faculty	11 (full-time) 12 (part-time)
Formerly called	Centre for East Asian Studies
Address	Room 1102, 11/F Yasumoto International Academic Park, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin
Location	Hong Kong
Website	ccs.cuhk.edu.hk

The Centre for China Studies (CCS, Chinese: 中國研究中心), formerly the Centre for East Asian Studies (CEAS, 香港中文大學東亞研究中心), is located in The Chinese University of Hong Kong, providing interdisciplinary undergraduate and postgraduate programs in Chinese Studies taught and examined in English for students from around the world.

History

The centre was previously known as the Centre for East Asian Studies.

Mission

Their mission is to promote scholarship on China and understanding of Chinese culture in Hong Kong and around the world.^[1]

Centre faculty

• Billy Kee-long So, Director, PhD (A.N.U.), Professor of History
• Ann Huss, Associate Director, PhD (Columbia), Assistant Professor of Chinese Studies
• Jan Kiely, Associate Director, PhD (UC Berkeley), Associate Professor of Chinese Studies
• Bei Dao, Poet, Professor of Humanities
• Sui-wai Cheung, DPhil (Oxon), Assistant Professor, History
• John Lagerwey, PhD (Harvard), Professor of Chinese Studies
• William Shi-yuan Wang, PhD (Michigan), Wei Lun Research Professor of Chinese Linguistics and Engineering
• Stan Hok-wui Wong, PhD (UCLA), Assistant Professor, Government and Public Administration
• Dennis Tao Yang, PhD (Chicago), Professor, Economics

Events

CCS has been organising large-scale events:

• International Poets in Hong Kong
• International Poetry Nights 2009