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8 unusual facts about Chinese University of Hong Kong


Chinese University of Hong Kong

As of 2013, four Nobel Prize winners are associated with the University, including Chen Ning Yang, James Mirrlees, Robert Alexander Mundell and former University President Charles K. Kao.

Cho-yun Hsu

He is an Emeritus Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh where he taught from 1970 until his retirement in 1998, and has served in honorary positions in several universities including Duke University, Nanjing University, and Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Daniel L. Smith-Christopher

Since 1989 he has taught at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, with short visits to teach at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, St. John's Seminary in Auckland, New Zealand, Bluffton University of Ohio, and Memphis Theological Seminary.

Ha Shing Chi

On the other hand, when Ha was studying in the City University of Hong Kong, he represented its football team, helping the team to claim the champions of Hong Kong University Football League in 2005 by defeating Chinese University of Hong Kong in the final.

James L. Perry

During his 24 years at SPEA he served as a visiting professor at Chinese University of Hong Kong on a Fulbright Scholarship and as a visiting professor at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs.

Peter Löscher

Later he attended but did not obtain a degree from an MBA program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard University.

Skye Chan

Before her current career, Chan was a flight attendant and studied at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Xiao Tao Sheng

The publications about his work namely Collection of Sketches by Xiao Tao Sheng and Collection of Oil Paintings by Xiao Tao Sheng had been included in the collections of the U.S. Library of Congress, New York's Columbia University Library and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.


Antonio Ng

After his graduation from Yuet Wah College, Macau, Ng obtained his undergraduate degree in economics at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Bei Dao

He has taught and lectured at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Beloit College, Wisconsin, and is Professor of Humanities in the Center for East Asian Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Faculties of Medicines in Hong Kong

There are three public, government funded schools of Traditional Chinese Medicine / Pharmacy in Hong Kong, including the School of Chinese Medicine of Hong Kong Baptist University, the School of Chinese Medicine at the University of Hong Kong, and the School of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Frank Ching

Ching has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Design from Nottingham Trent University; the S.Y. Chung Visiting Fellowship, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong; and a Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing.

Paul Yu

He also has been active professionally in other ways, including serving as external evaluator for the Chinese University of Hong Kong, National Taiwan University, and National Science Council of the Republic of China.

Ronald Hall

So is Ming Hua Tang, a hostel of Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong: Hall was one of the founders of Chung Chi college.

Shen Zhihua

He is director of the Center for Oriental History Studies of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and honorary researcher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Shiu-Yuen Cheng

Cheng chaired the Mathematics departments of both the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in the 90s.


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