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 2005
Narcotic culture : a history of drugs in China / Frank Dikotter
| Speaker: | Prof Frank Dikotter |
| Moderator: | Dr Peter Cunich |
| Date: | 24 February 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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Lenin : a biography / Robert Service
| Speaker: | Ms Christine Loh (陸恭蕙女士) |
| Moderator: | Dr Michael Share |
| Date: | 9 March 2005 (Wednesday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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Hong Kong Style 《香港風格》 / Mathias Woo
| Speaker: | Mr Mathais Woo (胡恩威先生) |
| Date: | 7 April 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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The Communist Manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
| Speaker: | Hon Leung Kwok-hung (梁國雄議員) |
| Date: | 21 April 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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Wild Grass: China's Revolution From Below / Ian Johnson
| Speaker: | Ian Johnson |
| Date: | 5 May 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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Fall 2005
Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong : photographs & impressions 1946-47 / Edward Stokes
| Speaker: | Mr Edward Stokes |
| Date: | 22 September 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English / Edited by Mike Ingham and Xu Xi
| Speaker: | Ms Xu Xi and Dr Mike Ingham |
| Moderator: | Professor Leung Ping-kwan |
| Date: | 13 October 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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Mao: The Unknown Story / Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
| Speaker: | Professor Wang Gungwu 王賡武教授 |
| Date: | 17 November 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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崇禎中刊天主降生出像經解 / G Aleni (Tien-chu chiang-sheng ch'u-hsiang ching-chieh=Illustrated history of the life of Christ. Late Ming (1637), printed at Chin-chian Fukien by The Chin-chiang Church)
(presentation by Professor Eric Chen )
A Dictionary of the most Useful Words of the Chinese Language, 字典 containing in all about 5,000 characters 共五千字 , a manuscript in ink by Sir John Francis Davis, Macao, 1815.
(presentation by Mr Otto Lam )
五代史輯注 / 朱彝尊 (Wu dai shi ji zhu by Zhu, Yizun). 清康熙乾隆間 [1665-1795]. 清初鈔本.
(presentation by Mr Chan Wai Ming )
| Speakers: | Professor Eric Chen 陳友凱教授; Mr Otto Lam 林準祥先生; Mr Chan Wai Ming 陳偉明先生 |
| Date: | 1 December 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English / Cantonese |
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One Couple Two Cultures: 81 Western-Chinese Couples Talk About Love and Marriage / Dan Waters
| Speaker: | Dr Dan Waters |
| Co-speaker: | Mrs Vera Chan Waters |
| Date: | 15 December 2005 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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