Dr. Tze-wan Kwan

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:	Tze-wan KWAN, (B.A.; M.Phil., CUHK) (Dr.phil., Bochum, West Germany)
Sex:	Male
Family:	Married to Marjorie Hoi-lan Lam two children: Clemens Han-yi (deceased) and Valerie Han-yin
Address:	Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, NT, Hong Kong
Phone:	(852)-26098554 [Office at Philosophy Department] (852)-26097165 [Humanities Computing Lab.] (852)-26097136 [Secretary, Philosophy Department] (852)-26097159 [Assistant, Humanities Computing Lab.]
Fax:	(852)-26035323 [Philosophy Department]
Telex:	50301 CUHK HX
E-Mail:	twkwan@cuhk.edu.hk
WWW:	http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~twkwan (personal) http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/ (Research Centre for Humanities Computing) http://phil.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/phen-archive/ (Archive for Phenomenology & Contemporary Philosophy)

Education:

Primary	1957-60	Tai Tung Middle School, Primary School Section
Primary	1960-63	Semple Memorial School
Secondary	1963-69	New Method College, Kowloon
	1969	Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (English)
	1969-70	Queen's College, Hong Kong
	1970	Matriculation Examination, the Chinese University of Hongkong (CUHK)
Tertiary	1970-71	Study of Biology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, CUHK
	1971-74	Study of Philosophy, History and German at the CUHK
	1974	Bachelor of Arts with Honours (B.A.)
	1974-76	Study of Philosophy at the Graduate School, CUHK
	1976	Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.)
	1976-81	Study of Philosophy, History and Orientalistic at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Nord-Rhein-Westfalen, West Germany
	1981 (June)	Doktor der Philosphie (Dr.phil.)

Teaching & Research Experience:

1974-76	Part-time tutor in Philosophy Department, Chung Chi College, CUHK
1982-85	Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, Tunghai University, Taiwan
1985 (Jun-Oct)	Visiting Scholar to the Ruhr-Universität Bochum, West Germany
1986-94	Lecturer in Philosophy, The CUHK
1989 (Fall)	Visiting scholar of the year 1989 to the Psychology Department, Duquesne University at Pittsburgh, USA. Hosted as the first Asian scholar to the Duquesne Doctoral Mini-Course series.
1993-2001	Director, Humanities Computing & Methodology Programme, RIH (concurrent appointment)
1994-1995	Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, The CUHK
1995-96, 97-98	Division Head in Philosophy, Graduate School, The CUHK
1996-2004	Professor II, The CUHK
1998-2005	Chairman, Department of Philosophy, The CUHK
1999 (June-July)	Visiting Scholar to the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and the University of Zurich, Switzerland
2000 (Sept-Dec)	Visiting Fellow to Robinson College, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
2001-	Director, Research Centre for Humanities Computing, RIH, restructured from the previous Humanities Computing & Methodology Programme, RIH (concurrent appointment)
2004-	Visiting Professor to Department of Philosophy & Sociology, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2004-	Professor 1, The CUHK
2005-	Director, Archive for Phenomenology & Contemporary Philosophy (concurrent appointment)
2005 (Fall)	Visiting Professor to Philosophisches Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Academic and Related Awards:

1969-70	Hong Kong Government Scholarship for outstanding performance in the Certificate of Education Examination (1969), tenable for two years of postsecondary study at Queen's College, Hong Kong
1972-73	Dean's List Student
1973	United Presbyterian Award for academic achievement, CUHK
1973	"Yu Lian Shih Prizes for Original Writings (First Prize)", CUHK
1973-74	Dean's List Student
1976-81	Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), German Government Scholarship
1985 (Jun-Oct)	DAAD Research fellowship, West Germany
1987-88	Best Teacher Award, Student Union of the CUHK
1995-96	Best Teacher Award, Student Union of the CUHK
2002	Annually Most Outstanding Research Project representative of Arts Faculty, CUHK
2006	Philosophy Department Norminee for the VC Exemplary Teaching Award, CUHK
2007	Philosophy Department Norminee for the VC Exemplary Teaching Award, CUHK

Other Experience:

1972-74	Editor-in-Chief of the Chung Chi College Student Bulletin, CUHK.
1972 (Feb-May)	Participation as Hong Kong representative in the 24th gathering of the "Asia-Pacific Student Leader Project (APSL)", then a half-yearly occasion organized by the State Department of the United States.
1980-81	Voluntary interpreter for Indo-Chinese refugees for the government of the city of Bochum, then West Germany
1985	DAAD Research fellowship, then West Germany
1987-	Member of the executive committee, Research Society for Oriental Humanities, Hong Kong
1987-	Member of the editorial board to The Asian Journal of Philosophy, Fujen University, Taiwan
1988-	Member of the Editorial Board to Studies in Humanities, periodic journal of the Research Society for Oriental Humanities
1988-	Information advisor to the International Society for Chinese Philosophy, Kent State University, USA
1989-	Member of the advisory board to the Humanities Computing Yearbook of the Oxford University Press, Oxford
1989-	Member of the Academic Peer Group to the Faculty for Humanities and the Social Sciences of the Open Learning Institute of Hong Kong
1989	Member of the Selection Committee (Hong Kong section) of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
1991 (July)	Participation in the Workshop for Computational Linguistics, Theme: Computational Models of Meaning. Charles University, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1992	Participation in the Workshop for SNOBOL4 programming, Dakota State University, USA
1993-	Member of the Executive Committee of the Department of Philosophy
1993-	Member of the Arts Faculty Board of Studies
1994 (June-July)	Participation in the Summer Seminar: "Electronic Texts in the humanities: Methods and Tools", June 19-July 1, at Princeton University
1995 (August)	Voluntary World Wide Web service to the Hong Kong Children's Cancer Foundation, formerly a subsidiary of the Medical Faculty of CUHK
1995 (August)	Member of the Scientific Committee, Second World Phenomenology Congress, Guadalajara, Mexico, organized by the World Phenomenology Institute, USA
1997-	Member of the Editorial Committee, Phenomenology World Wide, a comprehensive source book for the study of phenomenology to be published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, the Netherlands
1998-	Research Fellow of the Joint Laboratory of Geoinformation Science (JLGIS), jointly run by the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese University of Hong Kong
1999-2001	Project director, Education toward Biliteracy and Trilingualism: An Internet Support Project, subsidized by the Quality Education Fund, HKSAR Government
1999-2000	Member of the Working Party for Student IT Competence, CUHK
2000-	Category E Member, Board of the Department of Chinese Language & Literature, CUHK
2000-2002	Appointed Member (ad personam) of the IT Policy Committee, CUHK
2001-2003	Technical consultant, A Multilingual Digital Video Content Hub project, jointly run by the Electronic Engineering Department, CUHK and the Electronic Engineering Department, HKUST. The project is supported by a grant of HK$5,980,000 of the Innovation and Technology Fund provided by the Hong Kong Government.
2002-2004	Reappointed Member (ad personam) of the IT Policy Committee, CUHK
2002-2004	Member of the Advisory Committee, Research Center for Morality and Religion, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
2002-	Member of the Editorial Committee, Waiguo Zhexue (外國哲學), Institute for Foreign Philosophy, Peking University.
2002-	Member of the Editorial Committee, Zhexuemen (哲學門), Department of Philosophy, Peking University.
2003-	Category 2 Member, Board of the Department of Religion, & Department of Chinese CUHK
2003-	Member of the Advisory Committee to the book series German Philosophy & Culture, Tongji University (同濟大學), Shanghai, China
2003-2004	Member of the Academic Equipment Grants Committee, CUHK
2003-	Member of the Clinical Ethics Committee, New Territory East (NTE) Cluster, Hospital Authority, HKSAR
2004-	Member of the Editorial Committee, Deguo Zhexue (德國哲學), Department of Philosophy, Hubei University.
2004-2006	Reappointed Member (ad personam) of the IT Policy Committee, CUHK
2006-2008	Reappointed Member (ad personam) of the IT Policy Committee, CUHK
2007-	Member of the Academic Committee, Chinese Yearbook of Phenomenological and Philosophical Research (中國現象學與哲學評論), 中國現象學專業委員會
2008-2010	Visiting Professor (客座教授), Philosophy Department, Wuhan University (武漢大學哲學系), Wuhan, China

Courses offered:


A. Undergraduate level: Lectures
1.	Introduction to Philosophy. [Core Program, freshman]
2.	Logic. [Core Program, freshman]
3.	Metaphysics. [Core Program, 3rd and 4th Year]
4.	Epistemology. [Core Program, 3rd and 4th Year]
5.	History of Western Philosophy. [Core Program, 2nd and 3rd Year]
6.	Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. [A guided study through the first half of Kant's monumental work, this course has been offered a number of times]
7.	Kant's Practical Philosophy. [The course covers Kant's major works on moral philosophy and on religion, including the Critique of Practical Reason, Groundwork on the Metaphysics of Moral, and Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone]
8.	Heidegger's Being and Time. [Offered twice, once in Taiwan as a year course, once in Hong Kong as a term course. In the first case, the entire work was covered, in the second case, the major portion of it. Particular effort was made to show what relevance the book has for a self understanding of human everydayness.]
9.	Introduction to Phenomenology. [a course introducing some basic concepts in Husserl's and Heidegger's phenomenology]
10.	Philosophy and the modern world. [General Ed.; topics discussed include: modernity crisis, the role of language in society, philosophical background of the Green Movement, justice and retribution in society, futurology (Toffler, Club of Rome, Limits to Growth, Megatrends etc.]
11.	Classical Western Culture. [General Ed.; Formation of the Greek mind as revealed in the tragedies, in the Pre-Socratic thinkers and in Athenian philosophy.]
12.	Art and Methodology of Thinking. [General Ed.; freshman]
13.	Miguel de Unamuno's The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and in Nations

B. Undergraduate level: Student Oriented Teaching (STOT)
14.	Guided Reading: Cassirer's An Essay on Man
15.	Guided Reading: Cassirer's The Logic of Humanities
16.	Guided Reading: Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals
17.	Guided Reading: Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy
18.	Guided Reading: Toffler's Future Shock
19.	Guided Reading: Jakobson's Six Lectures on Sound and Meaning
20.	Guided Reading: Saussure's Course in General Linguistics
21.	Guided Reading: Schopenhauer's Parerga and Paralipomena (Selections)
22.	Guided Reading: Contemporary Confucian Classics
23.	Guided Reading: Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being

C. Graduate level: Seminars
1.	Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, Preface and Introduction. [This term course first undertook a sentence by sentence interpretation of the preface and introduction to Hegel's work. Subsequent discussion then focused on the question as to the composition of the Phenomenology. In this regard, Kojeve's, Hyppolite's, Heidegger's and Pöggeler's (Palimpsest-Theorie) interpretations were drawn in to consideration.]
2.	Aristotle's concept of change. [In this course the problem of change or becoming is demonstrated to be a central notion around which the whole system of Aristotle revolves.]
3.	Gadamer's Truth and Method. [The course was offered once in Taiwan. It covered nearly the whole book (within one term) although emphasis was laid on the second part dealing with the problem of historical understanding.]
4.	Wilhelm von Humboldt's Linguistic Variability and Intellectual Development [Kawi-schrift]. [This work is supposed to be the most important cornerstone at the daybreak of the science of linguistics. Besides accounting for the homage paid by Chomsky, the course also tried to unveil some theoretical linkage between Humboldt and the other major linguists of our century such as Saussure and Jakobson. This course has been offered twice, in Taiwan as well as in Hongkong.]
5.	Readings in the European tradition in the philosophy of language. [Selected reading from Schopenhauer, Humboldt, Saussure, the Prague School, and Leo Weisgerber]
6.	Language, Categories, and the Human Condition. [A special 1-unit doctoral program of the Duquesne Minicourse Series, offered in November, 1989 at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, USA. The course consists of four 3-hour lectures, a major part of which has been drafted and will be reorganized for publication.]
7.	Special topic: The Pre-Socratics. [Emphasis on Greek tragedy, Heraclitus and Parmenides, course offered in the fall term of 1990]
8.	Kant's Critique of Judgment. [A guided study through the third major work of Kant's philosophical system. In this work, Kant treats of the phenomenon of aesthetic experience on the one hand and the problem of teleological explanation on the other. Course offered in the fall term of 1993]
9.	Special topic: Philosophy and Linguistic - Saussure, Jakobson and Chomsky. [co-teached with Dr. Thomas H.T. Lee of the English Department]

Projects in Humanities computing:

1.	German-English-Chinese Concordance Databases for Contemporary Philosophical Classics. (Funded by the Institute of Chinese Culture, CUHK and the Faculty of Arts, CUHK), 1989-1991.
2.	Bibliographical Database for Philosophical Literature in Periodicals. (Funded by the Chou's Foundation Fund), with ca. 1200 records by October 1993.
3.	Chinese Language Data-processing. A local research team in support of the Humanities Computing Yearbook of the Oxford University Press. Team members include Prof. Tien Chi Chen of the Department of Computer Science, Dr. Paul Kwong of the Department of Sociology and myself.
4.	"Humanities Computing and Methodology Program" of the Research Institute for the Humanities. Funded by the Hui Yeung Shing Memorial Fund(HK$ 240,000), and a VC Discretionary Fund for Excellence, CUHK(HK$ 750,000)
5.	Gopher Server of the Research Institute for the Humanities. Available on line to the University community as well as to the outside world since May 1994.
6.	WWW-Server of the Research Institute for the Humanities. Available on line to all since November 1994. URL: Http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk. The site has received numerous awards. In March 1998, this site has been ranked by Lycos A-Z as the most (#1) popular site in General humanities information.
7.	Preparation of electronic editions of various philosophical classics, with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason as a major sample. URL: Http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Philosophy/Kant/cpr
8.	Database/Lexicon for Cantonese Pronunciation: According to the Syllabary by S. L. Wong. Now available on-line through the World Wide Web. URL: Http://hermes.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Canton
9.	"On-line Electronic Text Archive for Chinese Philosophy Classics". A Collaborative project with the Corpus Linguistic Group of the Institute for History and Philology of the Academia Sinica.
10.	"Education toward Biliteracy and Trilingualism: An Internet Support Project", funded by the Quality Education Fund (HK$ 1,999,000)
11.	Commissioned by the Chinese University Press to work out an on-line (internet) version of Lin Yutang's Chinese-English Dictionary of Modern Usage. Web page now availbale via the URL: Http://hermes.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexs/Lindict/.
12.	"Concept and Practice of Humanities Computig: Introduction of XML into a New Working Model", project supported by an RGC Earmarked Grant (HK$ 507,817)
13.	Together with Professor Hsiu-hwang Ho, "Hong Kong, Mainland China & Taiwan: Chinese Character Frequency - A Transregional, Diachronic Survey", published over the WWW. Now available via http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/chifreq/
14.	Designing and Implementation of the "CU Philoosphy Information Databases (CUPID)", a web-driven and open-structured online information exchange platform for all staff and students of the Department of Philosophy, CUHK. Web page now availbale via the URL: http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~phidept/Cupid/

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