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i met ching-wah lam in september 1996 in shandong at the ninth annual meeting of the china's traditional music society conference�� during which i listened to his academic reports for the first time. i can recall vividly that his report was on the music exchanges between china and the west in the 18th century. then he had collected rich materials and presented a thorough analysis that impressed all participants. it was the early days of china's economic reform and social opening-up�� and scholars in china were eager to gain experience of the research from the west. ����lam's presentation fitted well with china's academic environment and complemented the needs of chinese music scholars�� it came to my mind that hong kong had not reverted to china then�� but there would be much more exchanges between the mainland and hong kong in the future.  his research area will enable scholars of two sides to learn from one another.