Kuan Hsin-chi

Kuan Hsin-chi

Infobox LegCo
name=Kuan Hsin Chi


chinese name=關信基
nick name=
constituency=Hong Kong Island
party=Civic Party
pro=liberal, social democracy
previous occupation=Legislative Councillor
Chinese University of Hong Kong professor
webpage=
website= http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/gpa/hckuan/main.htm|

Kuan Hsin Chi (zh-t|t=關信基) is the current chairman of the Hong Kong Civic Party, as well as the chairman of the Department of Government and Public Administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). He retired in 2006 but continues to teach political science part-time.

Kuan Hsin Chi, affectionately known as "Ah Gwan" (阿關), was born in Macau and graduated from Yuet Wah College (粵華中學) there. After gaining his Ph.D from Munich University in 1972, he planned to take up teaching in Taiwan but was invited to teach at CUHK instead, where he spent his entire academic career until retirement.

During his 33-year teaching stint, apart from teaching political science Kuan was also Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the University Dean of Students. Currently, he is the Director of the Universities Service Centre and a member of the University Council.

His main research interests are political and legal culture and development, comparative politics, research methodology, political parties, and development of political science. He is one of the most widely-respected scholars in Hong Kong.

He has always believed that full democracy is the only way to rebuild Hong Kong. Thinking that today's political parties are insufficient to achieve this aim, he helped found the Civic Party (公民黨), drawings its members from Legco legislators of the Article 45 Concern Group.

Political views

Being the chairman of the Civic Party, Kuan is naturally pro-democratic rights. However, he caused controversy whilst speaking on Commercial Radio on April 1 2006. On the topic of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he said focusing on the still-controversial event would adversely affect democratic development in Hong Kong, which should come first. This view contrasts with those of most in the pro-democratic camp, drawing criticisms from the more radical Leung Kwok Hung (梁國雄), a.k.a. "Long Hair" (長毛).

External links

* [http://www.a45.hk/?p=233 Staying On Kuan Hsin-chi]


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