Hong Kong university denies gutting China studies centre
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has denied that folding the Universities Service Centre for China Studies (USC) – established by one of the most respected China scholars in the West, Jerome Cohen – into the main library amounts to gutting the nearly 60-year-old institution, writes Phila Siu for the
South China Morning Post.
The move to digitise and put online the centre’s vast archive of ageing newspapers, books and video documentaries, some of which were critical of the nation’s government and covered politically sensitive events, would instead open the collection to a wider audience, the management at Chinese University said.