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The Road to 1911: A Visual History - Photo Exhibition and Guided Tours

08 Sep 2011

 

The "1911" exhibition, a programme to mark the centenary of The University of Hong Kong, features an extraordinary selection of 86 photographs brought together for the first time from collections worldwide by Liu Heung Shing, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo-journalist. 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.

Exhibition Details : 30 August-4 October 2011.
University Museum and Art Gallery, 90 Bonham Road, Hong Kong

Guided Tours
Date/ Time : 10 September(Sat) 2011, 11am-noon.
24 September(Sat) & 2 October(Sun) 2011, 2pm-3pm
Language : Cantonese
Quota : 20

No registration required. Please queue at the entrance of the Art Gallery 10 minutes before the tour.

The exhibit is jointly presented by two arms of HKU, the Journalism and Media Studies Centre and the University Museum and Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Beijing World Art Museum, and is sponsored by HKU Culture and Humanities Fund.

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