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Legends from the Swiss Alps

07 Jun 2010

 

Speakers: Professor Andrea Riemenschnitter, the University of Zurich; Professor Leung Ping-kwan, the Hong Kong Lingnan University

Guest: Mr Yuen Che-hung
Date: 10 June 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, HKU
Language: English & Cantonese
Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2010_7.html

There will be one 7-minute film screening "The Cablecar".

About the Speakers and Guest

Professor Andrea Riemenschnitter
Andrea Riemenschnitter is Professor of Modern Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her research interests focus on regionalist, ethnographic and historical fiction, as well as theatre, travel literature, and film and media studies. She is currently working on an analysis of aesthetic re-enactments of myths and mythologies from the late Qing through the post-Maoist period.

Professor Leung Ping-kwan
Leung Ping-kwan is Chair Professor of Comparative Literature at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He is a prolific writer and also an active translator and critic who has introduced world literature into Chinese.

Mr Yuen Che-hung
Yuen Che-hung, the veteran storyteller, founded "No Hurry Story Workshop" in 1994. Yuen visited hundreds of kindergartens, primary and secondary schools, telling stories and conducting creative writing programmes and workshops for teachers and parents.

About the Book

The book 'Legends from the Swiss Alps' was conceived during the study of the ghost world in modern Chinese films by Swiss students of Chinese at the University of Zurich. The programme is headed by Professor Andrea Riemenschnitter with guest Professor Leung Ping Kwan. A total of 75 Swiss alps legends are collected by Swiss students to form the trunk of the book, complemented with contemporary interpretation of black-and-white illustration works by young Swiss artist Julia Steiner, as well as contributing writings from a contemporary didactic film perspective by Natalie Bohler. 

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.