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HKU weekly notice (from March 2 to March 8, 2013)

01 Mar 2013

 

Retrospective of David Lam’s artistic career at University Museum and Art Gallery
In Memoriam of David Lam Chun-fai (1932–2013)
The University Museum and Art Gallery is deeply saddened to inform that David Lam Chun-fai passed away peacefully in Vancouver, BC, Canada on February 21, 2013.

The Museum’s retrospective of David Lam’s artistic career spans the period from the late 1950s to his most recent works, and will continue to be on view until March 10, 2013.

David Lam was born in Hong Kong in 1932, and was, like many of the emerging artists at the time, gripped by a modernising impulse.  In the 1950s David studied with the influential artist Lee Byng (1903–1994), who had trained in Canada. David began to gain recognition for his art in the 1960s and won first prize in the First Hong Kong Open Art Competition. As a founding member of the Circle Art Group, he counted Hon Chi-fun, Wucius Wong, Cheung Yee and Van Lau among his contemporaries. He left Hong Kong for Canada in 1965 but continued to take part in the Group’s exhibition activities by sending works back to Hong Kong by post. His painting developed in new directions in Canada, and he was finally able to become a full-time artist in 1975. David is survived by his wife Rose and their children Ernie and Eugenie.

Exhibition date: November 21, 2012 to March 10, 2013
Venue: University Museum and Art Gallery, HKU's main entrance on Bonham Road

For opening hours of the museum, please visit: http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/main.html

For more details about the exhibition, please visit: http://www.hkumag.hku.hk/exhibition.html

HKUL Book Talk featuring Dr Elizabeth Sinn
Theme book: Power and Charity: A Chinese Merchant Elite in Colonial Hong Kong

Speaker/Author: Dr Elizabeth Sinn
Moderator: Professor John Carroll (School of Humanities, HKU)

Date: March 7, 2013 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15 to 9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, Main Library, HKU
Language: English

About the Book
During the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Drawn initially by the gold rush, they took with them skills and goods and a view of the world which, though still Chinese, was transformed by their long journeys back and forth. They in turn transformed Hong Kong, their main point of embarkation, from a struggling infant colony into a prosperous international port and the cultural center of a far-ranging Chinese diaspora.

Making use of extensive research in archives around the world, Pacific Crossing charts the rise of Chinese Gold Mountain firms engaged in all kinds of transpacific trade, especially the lucrative export of prepared opium and other luxury goods. Challenging the traditional view that the migration was primarily a "coolie trade," Elizabeth Sinn uncovers leadership and agency among the many Chinese who made the crossing. In presenting Hong Kong as an "in-between place" of repeated journeys and continuous movement, Sinn also offers a fresh view of the British colony and a new paradigm for migration studies.

For registration, please visit: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2013_02.html

For further information, please visit:
http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2013_02.html

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