Book Events
Upcoming: Book Talk
Talk Title: Poor English: Why Should Hong Kong Care?
Book Title: You Can Write Better English
Speaker: Mr Barry Kalb
Moderator: Prof Ying Chan
Organizers: JMSC of HKU and HKU Libraries Reading Club
Date: 9 September 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collection, 1/F, Main Library, HKU
* Online registration here
* Enquiries: Velentina Ma (22194012) / Carmen Tsang (28592211)
Recent: Book Talks
Journalism and Media Studies Centre HKU and HKUP co-hosted the launch of Eileen Chang's semi-autobiographical novel The Book of Change《易經》on 3 September at HKU. The book launch also marked the 90th birthday and 15th anniversary of Chang's death. At the launch, Dr Roland Soong, executor of Eileen Chang's estate, donated a photocopy of The Book of Change manuscript to HKU and expressed that Chang initially wanted to publish it as a literary work when it was completed in 1963. Renowned scholar Prof Leo Ou-fan Lee analyzed the book and recommended that it should be a required reading for every student in the Faculty of Arts.
 
On 21 August, photographer-writer Mr Edward Stokes talked about wild places, vivid memories and professional tips to The Hong Kong Gardening Society at the Museum of Medical Sciences. At this illustrated talk, Ed showed a selection of pictures from his latest book, Hong Kong Nature Landscapes, and recounted some of his most memorable moments of taking photos. He also shared his thoughts on local nature conservation.
  
Previous Events
(From Year 2009)
New Books
Latest
 The Book of Change
- The publication of this book marks the 90th birthday and 15th anniversary of Eileen Chang's death.
- In 1939 Eileen Chang enrolled in HKU. Her student life in Hong Kong was a happy interlude in her life, but the Japanese occupation of late 1941 provided many brutal lessons on the fragile nature of personal attachments.
- This semi-autobiographical novel provides a first-hand account of Chang's life in wartime Hong Kong.
 Ann Hui's Song of the Exile
- Analyses Ann Hui's (許鞍華)'s most haunting and poignant work, Song of the Exile (客途秋恨), a semi-autobiography depicting a daughter's coming to terms with her mother's Japanese identity.
- Examines how Hui challenges the myth of the original home as singular, familial and romatic, and constructs the second home as a new space for Hong Kong moderntiy.
- Enriches theorisations of Hong Kong identity and its political transition with an original focus on the ethics of return.
Also New
- Pain Medicine
- International Education and the Chinese Learner
- 個人信貸管理指南
- Service-Learning in Asia
- 謙卑的奮鬥
- Underground Front (paperback)
- 中華崛起未?
- Understanding Chinese Company Law, Second Edition
- Hong Kong Culture
- Cinema at the City's Edge |
