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The University of Hong Kong Libraries Reading Club Presents "People Will Not Forget – reprint after 20 years"

01 Jun 2009

 

Written and compiled by a group of 64 Hong Kong reporters who have covered the pro-democratic movement in China in 1989, the book "People Will Not Forget" gives a first-hand account from various perspectives of the movement that ended with the military crackdown in Beijing on June 4, 1989. Twenty years on, the Editorial Committee of the book reprints the book, hoping that students and society at large will be able to view from a journalist perspective of the events. Four veteran journalists who covered the June 4 Incident in 1989 will come to HKU to share their views and experiences.

Media are cordially invited to cover the event, details are:

Date: June 2, 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, HKU
Speakers: Ms Ida Chan Yun Chi, Ms Lucy Chan Wai Yee and Ms Mak Yin Ting
Moderator: Mr Chris Yeung

About the speakers and moderator:
1. Ms Ida Chan Yun-chi: author of "June 4 : 20", Channel Manager, Live News Channel, Cable TV
2. Ms Lucy Chan Wai-yee: Media Consultant, formerly Campaign Consultant for Mrs Anson Chan and the Hon Alan Leong
3. Ms Mak Yin-ting: formerly Chairman of the Hong Kong Journalists' Association
4. Mr Chris Yeung, Editor-at-Large, South China Morning Post

About the Book:
"People Will Not Forget" was first published at the end of July 1989, less than two months after the crackdown. Though working for different media organizations in Hong Kong then, 64 journalists held out the same hope of telling the truth, setting the record.

More than 50,000 copies have been sold after it went on sale. With stock running out, no more copies of the book were available in bookstores in recent years. The Editorial Committee has decided to reprint the book 20 years after it was first published in 1989.

Proceeds of the book, as in the past, will go to the People Will Not Forget Fund which is aimed at promoting press and publication freedom in China and Hong Kong. The Fund is managed by the Hong Kong Journalists' Association.

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Trinni Choy, Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office (Tel: 2859 2606/Mobile: 9464 3431/E-mail: pychoy@hku.hk ) or Ms Joanne Yung, Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office (Tel: 2859 2600/E-mail: hkumedia@hku.hk )