"Hong Kong has stood at the international forefront of research on China for more than four decades, thanks largely to the Universities Service Centre for China Studies.
The two-storey library at Chinese University boasts one of the most extensive and accessible collections of materials on contemporary China, with holdings that include more than 250 provincial and national newspapers and nearly 1,500 periodicals going back to the early 1950s.
The centre has produced the most authoritative archive on the Cultural Revolution - a CD-ROM released in 2002. Its 35 million words include mainland newspaper reports, speeches of Communist Party leaders and leaflets published by Red Guards during the political upheavals."
"Wang said more than 60 per cent of the centre's current clients are scholars from the mainland. The centre sponsors up to 40 mainland academics each year on short visits, he said, particularly researchers from far-flung provinces such as Yunnan."
