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香港大學每週活動推介

2018年03月02日

 

HKUL Book Talk - 19th Century China (and Japan) through American Eyes

Speakers:  Dr Gillian Bickley
Date:  13 March 2018 (Tuesday)
Time:  6:30 - 8:00 pm
Venue:  Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, The University of Hong Kong
Language:  English
Registration:  http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2018_01.html

About the Speaker
Gillian Bickley, Editor of this work, has spent many years working with primary materials from 19th century history. She is the author of The Stewarts of Bourtreebush (2003) and The Golden Needle: The Biography of Frederick Stewart (1836-1889) (1997), and editor of The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart (2008), A Magistrate's Court in Nineteenth Century Hong Kong: Court in Time (2005; 2nd edition, 2009), The Development of Education in Hong Kong, 1841-1897 (2002) and Hong Kong Invaded! A ’97 Nightmare (2001). She is also a well-published and prize-winning poet, translated into many languages. With her husband, Verner Bickley, she is the founder of two annual international Literary Prizes, the Proverse Prize for book-length work (awarded since 2009) and the Proverse Poetry Prize for single poems (awarded since 2016).

About the Book
EYE-WITNESS ACCOUNTS OF EARLY WESTERN DIPLOMACY, MILITARY INTERVENTION, TOURISM AND TRADE IN CHINA AND JAPAN
Long ago secrets, lost emotions and persistent sadness at human conflict are finally revealed in this first publication of journals written by a young American visiting the Far East for the first time.

Travelling out in 1859 to join his uncle’s then successful trading house, Augustine Heard & Co., George was hired on shipboard by fellow-passenger John E. Ward, the American Minister tasked with the ratification of the American-Chinese treaty. As an attaché to the American Legation, George witnessed the June 1859 Battle of the Peiho, and in July 1860 – now promoted as Secretary of Legation – he saw the western Allies’ preparations for the return battle that took place in August 1860. At least one of his letters home was borrowed to be copied by the American Minister and sent to the US President as an official report.

These were early days in the intercourse between the United States and the Far East; the first Treaty with Japan (which George also visited and writes about here) had been agreed only a short time earlier. Some of the Chinese people whom George talked with in villages visited on the way to Beijing had never heard of his country.

A cultured, charming and conscientious person, with a sense of humour, an early-developed cross-cultural perspective, and highly readable writing style, George W. Heard died unmarried in his late thirties and was buried far from home. This book finally brings home his memorial.

Admission: Free
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大潭篤水塘落成一百周年
港大《人與水壩 》展覽
大潭供水計劃是殖民地時期為香港島提供淡水供應的龐大工程計劃，包括多個水塘工程，於1883年開展。大潭篤水塘是最後建成及容量最大之儲水庫，於1918年2月2日舉行落成紀念碑儀式後，整個港島供水工程便告一段落。

大潭篤水塘的主水壩，當年被稱爲「亞洲第一壩」，規模是英聯邦之最，由香港總工程師Daniel Jaffe 負責設計和監督建造，1912年開始興建，1917年完工，歷時五年。

香港大學建築學院房地產及建設系的潘新華博士用多年時間，翻尋歷史檔案和照片，重組當年水塘的建造歷史，並曾嘗試尋找被淹沒在水塘底下的村莊，又在當年的施工地點挖掘，翻出當年常駐的建築工人和監工的日常用品，藉以了解他們的生活點滴。

今次展覽的展品包括大潭篤水塘的百年檔案及歷史文物，從當年施工地盤辦公室和宿舍搜集的屋瓦、使用過的汽水瓶、陶壺，青花碗及藥瓶等，以及現在的大潭篤村在水底下的外牆的珍貴照片，當年附近一帶的郊遊圖，以及總工程師Daniel Jaffe的資料小故事等。

展出日期：即日起至2018年3月9日（星期五）
開放時間：
上午9時30分至下午6時 （公眾假期休息）
地點: 香港大學圖書館二樓
費用: 免費入場

傳媒查詢
港大傳訊及公共事務處
尹慧筠
電話︰2859 2600
電郵︰melwkwan@hku.hk

香港大學美術博物館展覽
《二生三：張洪與秋麥合作作品》 傳統水墨畫與攝影的視覺二重奏

展出日期：即日至2018年5月6日（星期日）

自2009年起，在保持傳統中國山水畫的本質、同時將傳統水墨和攝影融入21世紀的原則下，張洪與秋麥嘗試糅合這兩種媒介來創作。當兩個世界相遇、膠片顆粒與墨點結合之際，二人的視野就能超越個別的文化、定義、界限和地域。

展品涵蓋各式各樣的傳統藝術形式，如掛軸、手卷、冊頁、獨立版畫及扇面等，卻又散發出濃厚的當代氣息。兩位藝術家的個人作品，亦清晰地呈現出那段引領他們攜手合作的個人藝術歷程。

地點：香港薄扶林般咸道90號港大美術博物館馮平山樓1樓及2樓

開放時間：
星期一至星期六，上午9時30分至下午6時
星期日，下午1時至6時
大學及公眾假期休息
電話：（852）2241 5500 (一般查詢) ／ 電郵：museum@hku.hk
費用：免費入場
詳情請參閱：http://www.umag.hku.hk/tc/

傳媒查詢
港大美術博物館高級傳訊主任張寶儀女士，電話：（852）2241 5512，電郵：elenac@hku.hk
港大美術博物館項目助理蔡倩蘅小姐，電話：（852）2241 5509，電郵：cchelsea@hku.hk