Since its establishment in 1998, the CityU's Chinese Civilisation Centre ( CCIV ) has invited numerous visiting scholars and experts from around the world to CityU and delivered hundreds of lectures on Chinese art, history and culture. With a view to making these lectures more widely available in the community, the CCIV and the University Press published the many talks and presentations under the title of the Chinese Civilisation Lecture Series. These range from classical literature and ancient civilization to history of technological development and cultural exchanges between the East and the West.