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7367123 Vie-Chancellor ond Reudent Professor Chio-Wei Woo, DS. MA. PhD
For immediate release 1 August 1991
HKUST Appoints Head of Humanities
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology today announces the appointment of Chinese history scholar Professor Hong HSU as Head of the Division of Humanities and Professor of History of the School of Humanities and Social Science.
Born in Fukien Province, Professor Hsu received his education in Taiwan. He attended National Taiwan University where he earned a BA, MA, and PhD in History. Immediately upon graduating he assumed a post in the University’s History Department as an Associate Professor. He became a full Professor in 1980, and Chairman of the Department in 1985.
During his career, Professor Hsu has held visiting positions in the US, Europe, and Asia. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard’s Harvard-Yenching Institute; a Visiting Scholar at Princeton; the Ming-Yu Visiting Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Guest Professor at Freie Universitat Benin. In addition he has been Director of the Graduate Institute of History since 1985, and also the Graduate Institute of Art History of National Taiwan University since 1989.
While covering a wide range of topics ancj periods in the history of China, Professor Hsu’s research and many publications focus on salt and its economic, social, and historical roles during the Ming and Ching Dynasties.
Professor Hsu is married with two children.
