Reading Club

To promote the cultural and intellectual life of Hong Kong, the Libraries has created the University of Hong Kong Libraries Reading Club. The Reading Club will sponsor a series of book talks featuring leading members of Hong Kong intellectual community.

 

Spring 2003

An Impossible Dream: Hong Kong University from Foundation to Re-establishment, 1910-1950

Speaker:	Dr Peter Cunich, Department of History, HKU
Date:	23 January 2003
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	English
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紅太陽是怎樣升起的：延安整風運動的來龍去脈／高華著
(How did the sun rise over Yanan: a history of the rectification movement by Guo Hua)

Speaker:	司徒華先生 Mr Szeto Wah
Moderator:	李怡先生，林和立先生 Mr Lee Yee and Mr Willy Lam Wo-lap
Date:	二ＯＯ三年三月六日 6 March 2003
Time:	晚上七時十五分 - 九時正 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Language:	廣東話 Cantonese
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行道天涯 : 孫中山宋慶齡的革命愛情故事 / 平路著

Speaker:	路平 Ms Lu Ping, Director of Kwang Hwa Information and Culture Center
Moderator:	Ms Evelyn Ng, Women's Studies Research Centre, HKU
Date:	15 May 2003
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	Putonghua
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A Room of one's own by Virginia Woolf ;Creating a life: professional women and the quest for children by Sylvia Ann Hewlett ; Lois Weber: the director who lost her way in history by Anthony Slide

Speaker:	Mrs Regina Ip, GBS, JP, Secretary for Security
Moderator:	Ms Evelyn Ng, Women's Studies Research Centre, HKU
Date:	5 June 2003
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	English
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Voices From the Past: Hong Kong 1842-1918 / selected and annotated by Solomon Bard

Speaker:	Professor David Lung, Department of Architecture HKU
Moderator:	Dr Elizabeth Sinn, Centre of Asian Studies
Date:	12 June 2003
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	English
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The Art of Xu Bing: words without meaning, meaning without words / Britta Erickson

Speaker:	Mr Xu Bing
Moderator:	Dr Colin Day
Date:	17 July 2003
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	English
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Fall 2003

Hong Kong Hansard

Speaker:	Mr Martin Lee 李柱銘
Moderator:	Dr Robert Chung 鍾庭耀
Date:	23 September 2003
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	English
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Colonial Hong Kong in the eyes of Elsie Tu

Speaker:	Ms Elsie Tu 杜葉錫恩
Discussants:	Ms Aileen Bridgewater, Dr Judith Mackay and Mr Peter Moss
Moderator:	Ms Aileen Bridgewater
Date:	9 October 2003 (Thursday)
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	English
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原野 / 曹禺著

Speaker:	詹德隆 Mr Tsim Tak Lung
Moderator:	楊玉峰博士 Dr Y.F. Yeung
Date:	二ＯＯ三年十月三十日 30 October 2003 (Thursday)
Time:	晚上七時十五分 - 九時正 7:15 pm - 9:00 pm
Language:	廣東話 Cantonese
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Pride and Prejudice / Jane Austen

Theme:	Women through the ages
Speaker:	Mrs Anson Chan
Moderator:	Dr. Sabine Maureen Alice
Date:	27 November 2003 (Thursday)
Time:	7:15 - 9:00 pm
Language:	English
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