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Book Talk featuring Mr Michael Chugani on Thursday, 23, April 2009

20 Apr 2009

 

Speaker: Mr Michael Chugani
Moderator: Dr Anthony Ferguson
Language: English
Date: 23 April 2009 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, HKU

Free Admission. Please register at: <http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2009_5.html>

About the Speaker
Michael Chugani has spent many years as a journalist, both here in Hong Kong , where he was born, and in the USA where he worked for seven years in Washington DC covering politics for the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Economic Journal.

For five years until February 2007 he was editor-in-chief of ATV's English News and Current Affairs Department. He is now the host of ATV's Newsline program, a columnist for the South China Morning Post, a regular contributor to the Hong Kong Economic Journal Monthly magazine, and a weekly host for RTHK's Backchat show on the English channel.

He put out two best-selling books (Double Talk l and Double Talk ll) featuring a collection of his South China Morning Post columns which were also translated into Chinese with footnotes by the well-known media personality To Kit. The books were published by the Tom Group.

About the Books
- What Next: Surviving the Twenty-First Century
Digesting vast amounts of information from a multiplicity of sources, and drawing on his experience at the highest levels of national and international politics, Chris Patten analyses what we know in each of the challenges facing our world and argues how in each of them we could get somewhere we might want to be. Very little, he says, has turned out as we might have expected twenty years ago, but there is plenty we can still do.

- Plan of Attack
Plan of Attack is the definitive account of how and why President George W. Bush, his war council, and allies launched a preemptive attack to topple Saddam Hussein and occupy Iraq. Bob Woodward's latest landmark account of Washington decision making provides an original, authoritative narrative of behind-the-scenes maneuvering over two years, examining the causes and consequences of the most controversial war since Vietnam.

- Double Talk《不中不英》
- Double Talk II《不中不英》第二集
featuring a collection of his South China Morning Post columns which were also translated into Chinese with footnotes by the well-known media personality To Kit (陶傑).

About the Reading Club

HKU Libraries Reading Club was established in 2001 to promote the cultural and intellectual life of Hong Kong.  The Reading Club sponsors a series of book talks featuring leading members of the Hong Kong intellectual community. At these book talks, we invite interesting people to talk about books that interest them.