During his visit, Professor Zhang sat as the chair speaker of a distinguished panel that included Professors Wang Ming-ke, Ding Yizhuang, Rong Xinjiang, and Helen F. Siu at the public forum on “Frontier and Ethnicity” (邊疆與族群). Professor Zhang also gave a public lecture on “The Contributions of Émmanuel-Édouard Chavannes towards Chinese Traditional Historiography and the Transformation of European Sinology” (沙畹對中國傳統史學轉型和歐洲漢學轉型的貢獻) and hosted the seminar “The Way to Learning” (問學之道) to engage with HKU colleagues and students for intellectual exchange.