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HKU weekly notice (from December 28, 2013 to January 3, 2014)

27 Dec 2013

 

University Museum and Art Gallery exhibition: “Embroidered Identities: Ornately Decorated Textiles and Accessories of Chinese Ethnic Minorities"
The exhibition presents traditional Chinese costumes, baby carriers and silver ornaments drawn from the collection of Mei-yin Lee. It demonstrates the wealth of colours, techniques and styles found in the on-going traditions of Chinese minority groups. The display is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, and the production of both exhibition and book has been generously supported by the HKU Museum Society in celebration of the Museum’s 60th and Society’s 25th anniversaries respectively.

Elaborately embroidered costumes and baby carriers, most of which originate with the Miao, Dong, Shui and Zhuang ethnic tribes of the south-western Chinese provinces of Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi are decorated with richly coloured, stitched and sewn ornamentations - and sometimes silver applications - indigenous to the particular culture and long-lived traditions they derive from. As some ethnic minorities lack a written script, the symbolism and colour-coding found in their textiles form a visual language that presents an important cultural and anthropological development and heritage still in practice today.

The exhibition will be held at 1/F T. T. Tsui Building, University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), 90 Bonham Road from 15 December 2013 to 9 February 2014.

UMAG’s opening hours are from 09:30 to 18:00 Monday to Saturday and 13:00 to 18:00 on Sunday. The Museum is closed on University and public holidays.

Two public talks will be held in January
Introduction to Chinese Ethnic Minorities with Mei-yin Lee (李美賢)
Date: January 11, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 3pm to 4:30pm
Place: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU
Speaker: Mei-yin Lee (李美賢) (in Cantonese)

Embroidered Identities: Ornately Decorated Textiles and Accessories of Chinese Ethnic Minorities with Mei-yin Lee (李美賢)
Date: January 18, 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 3pm to 4:30pm
Place: 1/F, T.T. Tsui Building, UMAG, HKU
Speaker: Mei-yin Lee (李美賢) (in Cantonese)

Please visit www.hkumag.hku.hk or call 2241-5500 for more information.

For media enquiries, please contact UMAG Communication Officer: Miss Elena Cheung, tel: 2241 5512, email: elenac@hku.hk .