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Coming Full Circle - a return to Chinese origins

17 Jan 2011

 

Theme Book : Beneath the Banyan Tree, my family chronicles

Speaker : Mrs Cornelia (Nelly) Lichauco Fung

Moderator : Dr Anthony Ferguson (Consultant for the JURA)

Date: 20 January 2011 (Thursday)

Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm

Venue: Special Collections, 1/F Main Library, HKU

Register: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2011_02.html

About the Speaker

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Cornelia (Nelly) Lichauco Fung is the eldest daughter of the late Philippine Ambassador Marcial Lichauco and his Cuban-American wife, Jessie Coe.  Nelly Fung has lived in Hong Kong for over forty years. During that time her work in the community led her to be one of the founders of the Hong Kong International Music and Arts Festival which subsequently led to the formation of the HK Arts Festival. Together with her husband, Kenneth Hing Cheung Fung, she was involved with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Society. She was the Executive Director of the Society for the Promotion of Hospice Care, and is a member of the Maryknoll Medical and Welfare Association. Her educational interests and vision led her to be a founder of the Chinese International School and the ISF Academy in Hong Kong.

About the Book

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 "Beneath the Banyan Tree" is a daughter's personal account of her family's story through four generations and a turbulent era. 

It is also the personal story of a family, told simply, with candor and affection. As the Filipino identity and a sense of nationhood were forged in the Philippines, the Lichauco family played a role in the creation of the nation. Beginning with the coming of her Chinese ancestor Thomas Lichauco from Tongan, in Fujian Province in the early 19th century, and her Spanish antecedents from Galicia, the author traces the multi-racial and multi- cultural tapestry that created the blending of eastern and western elements of her family.

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