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Professor Lung Ying-tai's lecture on the launch of her new book: "Big River, Big Sea -- Untold Stories of 1949"

16 Sep 2009

Professor Lung Ying-tai will give a lecture on the launch of her new book "Big River, Big Sea--Untold Stories of 1949" at the University of Hong Kong on September 18 (Friday).

The book has been planned by Professor Lung for ten years. Against a background of Kuomintang's defeat in the Chinese civil war and fleeing to Taiwan in 1949, Professor Lung traveled extensively, interviewed numerous people to capture the untold stories of a generation of the Chinese people.

The event is co-organised by Robert Black College of the University of Hong Kong and the Cosmos Books Company Limited.

You are cordially invited to the event. Details are as follows:

Date: September 18, 2009 (Friday)
Time: 7:30 pm
Venue: Loke Yew Hall, HKU
Language: Putonghua
Speaker: Professor Lung Ying-tai, "Hung Leung Hau Ling Distinguished Fellow in Humanities" of Robert Black College
Moderator: Mr. Chan Koon Chung

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