PhD, Yale University. Director of the Centre of Chinese Culture, City University of Hong Kong. Specializes in the study of the history of the growth of cultural awareness in China. Publications include: T’ang Hsien-tzu and Late Ming Dynasty Culture, Joys of a Lofty Nature, Truth Can Be Inscrutable, Collected Writings of Tai Wang-shu (ed.), Words and Wordless Moral Influence: How a Culture Goes On From Generation to Generation (ed.), The Forum on Chinese Culture Series (ed.), Chinese Porcelain and China’s Foreign Trade from the 12^th to the 15^th Century (ed.), etc.