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HKUL Centenary Book Talk - Mabel Cheung on《狼圖騰》Wolf Totem

27 Feb 2012

 

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 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F Main Library, HKU
Language: Cantonese

About the Book

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".

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

Media Contact:  Ms. Carmen Tsang, Tel: 2859 2211 / Ms. Marina Yeung, Tel: 2859 8903