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HKU weekly notice (from February 25 to March 2, 2012)

24 Feb 2012

 

HKUL Centenary Book Talk: Mabel Cheung on "Wolf Totem"
Wolf Totem is narrated by protagonist Chen Zhen, a young man in his 20s who, like the author, left his native Beijing to work in Inner Mongolia during the cultural revolution. Through descriptions of folk traditions, rituals, and life on the steppe, Wolf Totem compares the culture of the ethnic Mongolian nomads and the Han Chinese farmers in the area, praising the "freedom, independence, respect, unyielding before hardship, teamwork and competition" of the former and criticising the "Confucian-inspired culture" of the latter, which the author referred to as "sheeplike".

Speaker: Ms Mabel Cheung Yuen Ting
Moderator: Dr Elaine K. M. Chan
Guest Moderator: Mr Yau Ching-yuen

Date: 28 February 2012 (Tuesday)
Time: 7:15 to 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F Main Library, HKU
Language: Cantonese

Enquiry: Ms Marina Yeung (reading_club@lib.hku.hk )

University Artists Scheme: Dialogue with Maestro Yip Wing-sie
Maestro Yip Wing-sie will join Professor Daniel Chua, Head of the School of Humanities, in a conversation ranging from how she expresses her feelings for a piece of music through tempo and phrasing to how this expressivity affects the listening experience, from the pursuit of beauty in her life and work to the merits of an arts education.

Date: 1 March 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 5:30 to 7:00 pm (with Q&A session)
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Speaker: Maestro Yip Wing-sie (葉詠詩)
Moderator: Professor Daniel Chua (Head of the School of Humanities, HKU)

The Forum will be conducted in English.

Yip Wing-sie (Music)
A highly respected and influential figure in Asia's orchestral music scene, Yip Wing-sie (葉詠詩) has been the Music Director of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta since 2002 and is also the Principal Guest Conductor of the Guangzhou Symphony Orchestra. Winner of the First Prize as well as "LYRE d'OR" in the 35th Concours International de Jeunes Chefs d'Orchestre de Besançon in 1985, Yip Wing-sie has collaborated with such renowned artists as Augustin Dumay, Fou Ts'ong, Shlomo Mintz, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Itzhak Perlman and Pinchas Zukerman. She was awarded the "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication in 2007. In 2010, she was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Music (FRCM).

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Georgina Challen, Public Affairs Manager, Faculty of Arts (tel: 2219 4250 email: gchallen@hku.hk ) or Ms Phyllis Mak, Programme Manager, Faculty of Arts, HKU (tel: 2859 8048, email: kpmak@hku.hk ).

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