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 2006
| Speaker: | Leo F. Goodstadt |
| Moderator: | Christine Loh |
| Date: | 23 February 2006 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
Click here to re-visit the book talk Uneasy Partners
The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century / Thomas L. Friedman
| Speaker: | Gordon Chang |
| Date: | 7 March 2006 (Tuesday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
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Topic: An Appreciation of Chinese Silk 中國絲綢欣賞
Zhi xiu zhen pin = Treasures in silk / [zuo zhe bian ji Zhao Feng ; fan yi Li Si].
織繡珍品 = Treasures in silk / 作者編輯趙豐 ; 翻譯李絲.
Zhongguo si chou yi shu shi = A History of Chinese silkart / Zhao Feng.
中國絲綢藝術史 = A History of Chinese silkart / 趙豐.
Zhongguo li dai zhi ran xiu tu lu / zhu bian Gao Hanyu ; bian xie Gao Ganyu, Bao Mingxin ; [she ying Zhou Zuyi].
中國歷代織染繡圖錄 / 主編高漢玉 ; 編寫高漢玉,包銘新 ; 攝影周祖貽.
| Speaker: | Mrs Lee Mei Yin |
| Date: | 23 March 2006 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | Cantonese |
Click here to re-visit the book talk An Appreciation of Chinese Silk
Topic: Read your way through mid-life: from success to fulfilment
New passages: mapping your life across time / Gail Sheehy.
Repacking your bags: lighten your load for the rest of your life / Richard J. Leider and David A. Shapiro.
Are you ready to succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life/ Srikumar S. Rao.
Creating the good life: Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness / James O’Toole.
| Speaker: | Po Chung 鍾普洋 |
| Date: | 20 April 2006 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
Click here to re-visit the book talk Read your way through mid-life
For the record, and other poems of Hong Kong
Moving house and other poems from Hong Kong: with an essay on new Hong Kong English language poetry
The development of education in Hong Kong 1841-1897: as revealed by the early education reports of the Hong Kong government 1848-1896
A magistrate's court in 19th century Hong Kong: court in time
| Speaker: | Dr Gillian Bickley |
| Date: | 11 May 2006 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
Click here to re-visit the book talk The human side of history
Fall 2006
| Readings by: | Jam Ismail, Agnes Lam, David McKirdy, Madeleine Marie Slavick, Nicole Wong, Hark Yeung Wai Man, Xu Xi, Ya Se |
| Moderator: | Xu Xi |
| Date: | 20 October 2006 (Friday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
Click here to re-visit the book talk City Voices Continued
| Speaker: | Professor Lung Ying-tai |
| Moderator: | Mr Chan Koon-chung |
| Date: | 7 November 2006 (Tuesday) |
| Time: | 6:00 - 7:30 pm |
| Language: | Putonghua |
Click here to re-visit the book talk 龍應台的香港筆記」
| Speaker: | Paul French |
| Date: | 23 November 2006 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
Click here to re-visit the book talk Carl Crow
Blindness / Jose Saramago ; translated from the Portuguese by Giovanni Pontiero.
| Speaker: | Dr Lo Wing Lok 勞永樂醫生 |
| Date: | 14 December 2006 (Thursday) |
| Time: | 7:15 - 9:00 pm |
| Language: | English |
Click here to re-visit the book talk Blindness / Jose Saramago