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.

  • "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.

Preceded by:
Arthur Li
Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong
2002-2004
Succeeded by:
Lawrence J. Lau
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