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HKU weekly notice (from Oct 20 to Oct 26, 2012)

19 Oct 2012

 

Contemporary China Studies Public Lecture
The Resilience of Chinese Communism: Mining the Anyuan Revolutionary Tradition

Date:   October 22, 2012
Time:   6:30pm  (Tea reception at 6:00pm)
Venue:   Social Sciences Chamber, 11/F, The Jockey Club Tower, HKU
Speaker:  Professor Elizabeth Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government, Harvard University
Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute, Harvard University

Website:  http://www.socsc.hku.hk/ccspl/eperry/

Details:  How do we explain the surprising trajectory of the Chinese Communist revolution?  Why has it taken such a different route from its Russian prototype?  An answer, Elizabeth Perry suggests, lies in the Chinese Communists’ creative development and deployment of cultural resources –  during their revolutionary rise to power and afterwards.  Skillful “cultural positioning” and “cultural patronage”, on the part of Mao Zedong, his comrades and successors, helped to construct a polity in which a once alien Communist system came to be accepted as familiarly “Chinese”.  Perry traces this process through a case study of the Anyuan coal mine, a place where Mao and other early leaders of the Chinese Communist Party mobilized an influential labor movement at the beginning of their revolution, and whose history later became a touchstone of “political correctness” in the People’s Republic of China.  Situated amidst the mountainous terrain of western Jiangxi province, the town of Anyuan [安源] was the site of the first Chinese Communist party cell dominated by industrial workers.  Many of these workers, after being educated and inspired by the cultural products of the Anyuan workers’ club, went on to play major roles in the revolution as peasant organizers and political commissars.  Once known as “China’s Little Moscow”, Anyuan came over time to symbolize a distinctively Chinese revolutionary tradition.  Yet the meanings of that tradition remain highly contested, as contemporary Chinese debate their revolutionary past in search of a new political future.

Enquiries:  Miss Nikki Wong (Email: nhywong@hku.hk)

 "Season of Art and Mental Health Awareness" – an art exhibition to increase “understanding and support” for People Living with Mental Illness
 The Centre on Behavioral Health of the University of Hong Kong together with the Tung Wah Groups of Hospital Lok Hong ICCMW will be launching the "“Season of Art and Mental Health Awareness" campaign in October 2012. This art therapy exhibition will tour around different parts of Hong Kong and showcase 20 art pieces created by people living with mental illness. The exhibition will form a unique platform for communication and support, as it enables client-artists to share their lives, hopes and dreams with the general public, while providing viewers a glimpse into their inner worlds. This exhibition will identify public misconceptions towards mental illness, and advocates for more comprehensive policy change to raise mental health awareness.

Launching ceremony:

Date: October 22, 2012 (Monday)
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm (formal programme begins at 8pm, guided tour from 7pm)
Venue: Skylight Atrium, Ma On Shan Plaza, 608, Sai Sha Road, Ma On Shan
Language:  Mainly Cantonese with some English

Guest Speakers:

• Ms. Shana Wong (Equal Opportunity Commission)
• Mrs. Helen Kwok (Social Welfare Department)
• Mr. Robert Lau (TWGHs)
• Exhibition Artists

Details of the “Season of Art and Mental Health Awareness” Exhibition
15 to 21 October @ Olympian City, West Kowloon
22 to 25 October @ Ma On Shan Plaza, Ma On Shan
26 to 31 October @ Fortune Metropolis, Hung Hom
19 to 25 November @ APA, Wan Chai

For more information, please contact Ms. Vania Ho at 28315202/28315158 or email to hovania@hku.hk

HKUL Centenary Book Talk - Through Boxer Rebellion, Plague and Revolution - 45 years of an Irish missionary in Manchuria

Theme Book: Frederick--The Life of My Missionary Grandfather in Manchuria
Speaker: Mr Mark O'Neill (Author & Journalist)
Moderator: Professor Ying Chan, Director, The Journalism and Media Studies Centre, HKU

Frederick O’Neill lived for 45 years in Faku, a small town in Manchuria. From his arrival in 1897 until his expulsion by the Japanese army, he witnessed and reported the extraordinary events that convulsed China – the Boxer Rebellion, the Great Manchurian Plague, the overthrow of the dynasty and the Japanese invasion of Manchuria. He also served with the China Labour Corps in France in World War One.

After the missionaries left in 1949, they feared the church would not survive. Instead, it has recovered, miraculously, from closure and persecution to become the fastest-growing Protestant Christian community in the world. By some estimates, it has 70-80 million members. Mark will describe the life of Frederick O’Neill, his grandfather, why he went to China, what he did there and why he wrote his biography.

Date: October 22, 2012 (Monday)
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Multi-purpose Area, Level 3, Main Library, HKU
Language: English

About the Speaker:
Born in UK in 1950 and educated at New College Oxford University, Mark O' Neill has worked as a journalist since 1972. Since 1978, he has been based in Asia, working in China, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and India, for Reuters news agency, the South China Morning Post and many others. His earlier book was on the Taiwan Buddhist Tzu Chi Foundation.

For registration, please visit: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2012_05.html

For enquiries, please contact Marina Yeung by email at mstyeung@HKUCC-COM.hku.hk

Press briefing on “Evaluation on Learning Enhancement – Upgrading the Advancement of Students’ Spoken Skill by Self-evaluation and Evaluation among the Classmates”
 This project is funded by Quality Education Fund which facilitates the preparation of oral section of Chinese subject in the Diploma of Secondary Education Examination.  It aims to upgrade the advancement of students’ spoken skill by taking the school-based curriculum, self-evaluation and evaluation among the classmates.  Teachers and classmates can also learn the effectiveness of student-based evaluation. 

 A press briefing session will be held to release the findings of the survey. Media representatives are cordially invited to attend the press briefing, with details as follows:

Date: October 25, 2012 (Thursday)
Time: 2:15 pm
Venue: LG02, Hui OI Chow Science Building, HKU
Speakers:

• Dr Winnie Lai, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, HKU
• Mr Alain Lo, Teaching Consultant & Partnership Director, HKU

Language:  Cantonese

For media enquiries, please contact Ms. Queenie Wong, Development and Communications Manager, Faculty of Education, HKU (Tel: 2219 4270 / mobile: 9220 5840 / fax: 2540 6360 / email: qlpwong@hku.hk).

Inaugural MB Lee Lecture in the Humanities: The Articulate Artwork
The inaugural MB Lee Lecture in the Humanities, entitled ‘The Articulate Artwork’, will be delivered by Professor Jonathan Hay, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He has published widely on Chinese art from the Tang dynasty to the present, and on the theory and method of art history.

 This is the first in a series of lectures designed to promote the significance of the arts and humanities to the wider public. This event also launches the Faculty of Arts Centenary – which will run from October 2012, when the first Arts students were admitted, to September 2013, when the first Dean of Arts was elected. On show for the first time in the Foyer prior to the Lecture will be some of the photographs taken by award-winning Hong Kong photographer So Hing Keung for the Arts Centenary photography project.

 Date: October 25, 2012 (Thursday)
Reception: 5:45 pm to 6:15 pm
Lecture: 6:15 pm to 7:30 pm
Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Language: English

Registration required.

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact Kit Ling Karen Leung by email at kklleung@hku.hk or by phone at 39174186 or by fax at 25467477.

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