Ambrose King

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Ambrose Yeo-chi King, PhD (University of Pittsburgh) (Chinese: 金耀基) (born 14 February 1935) is a sociologist in Hong Kong and was formerly the vice-chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been pro-vice-chancellor before succeeding Arthur Li. He was famous for his the administrative absorption politics model (行政吸納政治).

He is now a Professor of Sociology in the CUHK, for the course Individual and Society.

[edit] Some of his work

"The Idea of University" (大學之理念), 2001, OUP
"Chinese Politics and Culture" (中國政治與文化), 1997, OUP
"State Confucianism and Its Transformation: The Restructuring of the State-Society Relation in Taiwan." and "The Transformation of Confucianism in the Post-Confucian Era: The Emergence of Rationalistic Traditionalism in Hong Kong."
in "Confucian Traditions in East Asian Modernity", 1996, edited by Tu Wei-ming. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
"Chinese Society and Culture" (中國社會與文化), 1992, OUP
"From Traditional to Modernised" (從傳統到現代), 1992, OUP

An excerpt of King's article "Traditional Chinese Society" (中國的傳統社會), published in the book From Tradition to Modern Era is adopted as a suggested reading material for Paper 2 (Questions on Culture) of the subject, Chinese Language and Culture, an AS-level subject in the Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination, held by the HKEAA.