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HKU weekly notice (from August 26 to September 2)

26 Aug 2011

 

The Road to 1911: A Visual History
Photo exhibition and launch of the companion book 1911

An opening reception for the photo exhibition The Road to 1911: A Visual History and the simultaneous launch of the companion book China In Revolution : 1911 and beyond will be held on Monday, August 29 at the University Museum and Art Gallery on the Hong Kong University campus. Members of the media are cordially invited to cover the event.   

The "1911" exhibition is being staged to mark the centenary of The University of Hong Kong.  It features an extraordinary selection of 86 photographs brought together for the first time from collections worldwide.  The photographs, which date from the 1860s to the early 1920s, provide an insight into the origins of modern China, in which Hong Kong played a key role.  They illustrate the social conditions and attitudes of the era, the atmosphere inside the imperial court in the dying days of the Qing Dynasty, the lives of the mighty and the poor, and various events that helped shape the transition of China from the empire to the republican era.

The reception and book launch are presented by The University of Hong Kong's Journalism and Media Studies Centre, the University Museum and Art Gallery, The Commercial Press (H.K.) Ltd, and the Beijing World Art Museum.

Details:

Guests :
Professor Lap-Chee Tsui
Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Hong Kong

Mr Feng Guangsheng
Deputy Director of the Beijing World Art Museum

Dr Chan Man Hung
Vice-Chairman and President, Sino United Publishing (Holdings) Ltd

Mr Liu Heung Shing
Consultant to the exhibition, editor of "1911", Pulitzer Prize Winning photojournalist

Mr. Ruan Huaduan
Deputy Director of Guangdong Museum

Date: Monday, 29 August 2011
Time: 5:00 to 6:00 pm
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU
           90 Bonham Road, Hong Kong

The Road to 1911 exhibition will open in Hong Kong on 30 August and run for five weeks.  On 22 September, the exhibition will begin a month-long tour of ten prestigious museums in Beijing, Henan, Hubei, Guangdong, Jiangsi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Gansu and Fujian provinces.　　　　　　

For enquiries please contact Ms Velentina Ma, Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU, tel: 2219-4012 / 9123-0252, email: velentinam@hku.hk

Public Address: The Power of Images and The Road to 1911
Speaker: Liu Heung Shing
Date: Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Language: Putonghua
Free admission, all are welcome

Liu Heung Shing, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and former foreign correspondent, will give a talk on Tuesday, 30 August, to mark the centennial anniversary of the 1911 Revolution in China.

The talk coincides with the opening of a five-week exhibition, The Road to 1911: A Visual History, which will feature 86 photos brought together for the first time from collections worldwide.  The photos were collected by Liu.

The photographs, which run from the Second Opium War in 1860 to the end of the Warlord Era in the early 1920s, provide an insight into the origins of modern China, in which Hong Kong played a key role.

They illustrate the social conditions and attitudes of the era, the atmosphere inside the imperial court in the dying days of the Qing Dynasty, the lives of the mighty and the poor and various events that helped shape the transition of China from an empire to a republic.

Liu will recount his experiences in compiling this visual history. 

Hong Kong-born Liu Heung Shing's journalistic career has spanned several decades. Working for the Associated Press, he was based in Beijing, Los Angeles, Moscow and New Delhi.

He was named Best Photographer by the Associated Press Managing Editors and was awarded Picture of the Year by the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri for recording the turmoil in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

In 1992, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Now living and working in Beijing, Liu has co-authored Shanghai, A History in Photographs 1842 to Today, and edited China: Portrait of a Country, an epic visual history of the 60 years of the People's Republic.

The Road to 1911 exhibition is jointly presented by Hong Kong University's Journalism and Media Studies Centre and the University Museum and Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Beijing World Art Museum. It is sponsored by the HKU Culture and Humanities Fund. The exhibition will be on display at the University Museum and Art Gallery, 90 Bonham Road, from August 30 to October 4.

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Velentina Ma, Journalism and Media Studies Centre. Tel: 2219-4012 / 9123-0252; email: velentinam@hku.hk .

Symposium on NGO Capacity Building: China and Hong Kong
Date:  Friday September 2, 2011
Time:  2:00pm - 5:30pm
Venue: Council Chamber, 8/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong

Speakers:
Professor Zhang Xiulan
Dean, School of Social Development and Public Policy, Beijing Normal University

Dr Eliza Lee
Director, Centre for Civil Society and Governance, HKU

Ms Christine Fang
Chief Executive, The Hong Kong Council of Social Service

Moderator:
Dr C K Law
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU

Enquiries: floluk@hku.hk

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