The engagement ceremony for Professor William C. Kirby and Professor Ye Wenxin was held on our North Zhongshan Road Campus on September 19th, 2010. Our Chancellor Zhang Jishun presided over the ceremony. Our President Yu Lizhong gave them letters of appointment and congratulated them.
William C. Kirby is now director of Fei Zhengqing Research Centre of Harvard University, studying East Asia. Ye Wenxin is the director of East Asia Research Institute of UC Berkeley. Both of them are famous scholars in the international history study community and Chinese research community.
(Translated and Edited by Shui Tao. Email: tao.shui0430@gmail.com)