HKU Libraries : Book Talks. Vodcast
68 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 15 years ago -University of Hong Kong Libraries Book Talks
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Book Talk 1-Dec-2005
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 200 MB Video崇禎中刊 天主降生出像經解; 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; 五代史輯注
Book Talk 20-April-2006
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 55 minutes - 199 MB VideoNew passages: mapping your life across time; Repacking your bags: lighten your load for the rest of your life; Are you ready to succeed? Unconventional Strategies to Achieving Personal Mastery in Business and Life; Creating the good life: Applying Aristotle's Wisdom to Find Meaning and Happiness
Book Talk 23-March-2006
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 208 MB Video織繡珍品 = Treasures in silk; 中國絲綢藝術史 = A History of Chinese silkart; 中國歷代織染繡圖錄
Book Talk 25-March-2004
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 196 MB VideoThe Singapore story : memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew / Lee Kuan Yew; From Third World to first : the Singapore story, 1965-2000 / Lee Kuan Yew.
Book Talk 5-June-2003
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 53 minutes - 198 MB VideoA Room of one's own; Creating a life: professional women and the quest for children; Lois Weber: the director who lost her way in history
City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 191 MB VideoCity Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama written for Hong Kong performers and audiences. All the plays were written in the last ten years and so capture and reflect the fast-developing multiculturalism of the Hong Kong scene -- a somewhat paradoxical phenomenon in view of the 1997 return to China Mainland sovereignty.
Colonial Hong Kong in the eyes of Elsie Tu
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 23 minutes - 187 MB VideoI write this book because I believe that human beings can only comprehend the present when they understand the past, and they can only make a better future when they learn from previous errors. And I feel compelled to alert the younger generation of the dangers that confront the world today from those obsessed with wealth and power. I hope that all prejudices and evil ambitions can be set aside, and an equal playing field can be created for all nations.
Confessions of a Profligate, Fan Liuyuan
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 47 minutes - 150 MB VideoThis book is a sequel to the book, Love in a Fallen City, written by the acclaimed author, Zhang Ai-ling. Based on Fan Liuyuan's own love letters, the author, Lee Ou-fan has successfully created the most memorable character in this book.
紅太陽是怎樣升起的：延安整風運動的來龍去脈
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 178 MB Video延安整風運動是深刻影響二十世紀中國歷史進程的重大事件，這是由毛澤東親自領導的中共黨內第一次大規模政治運動，也是建國後歷次政治運動的濫觴。毛澤東在延安整風中運用他所創造的思想改造和審幹、肅反兩種手段，全面清除了中共黨內存留的五四自由民主思想的影響，徹底轉換了中共的「俄化」氣質，重建了以毛澤東為絕對主宰的上層結構，奠定了黨的全盤毛澤東化的基礎，其間所產生的一系列概念、範式在1949年後改變了億萬中國人的生活和命運。本書作者歷時十餘年，搜尋考辨大量歷史資料，在此基礎上，從實證研究的角度，詳細剖析了延安整風的前因後果及運動所涉及的各個方面，力圖再現當年這場運動的歷史真貌，是目前海內外唯一一本全面研究延安整風運動的歷史著作。
原野
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 53 minutes - 204 MB Video《原野》是曹禺在戲劇創作上的一次新開拓。他用浪漫主義、象徵主義等手法，表現了這個傳奇故事。他沒有更多地描寫農村生活和鬥爭的現實，而是借鑒了傳統戲曲有戲的地方大力渲染，無戲一筆帶過的手法，集中刻畫了仇虎復仇前後的心理活動，把歷史與現實、幻覺與真實結合在一起，寫情，寫戲，把人的生活伸延到鬼的世界，以揭示天上、地下、陽世、陰曹都沒有"公道"和"天理"。《原野》中的人物造型、民俗風情、服飾色彩、都深受民間傳說和戲曲的影響，鮮明，濃烈。
Fat Wars
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 212 MB VideoFat Wars will give you all the ammunition you need to successfully fight your own battle of the bulge" - Ray Sahelian, M.D. Does this statement hold for the people in Hong Kong? Yes and no, as it depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice the local gourmet food on offer.
Feeling the Stones
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 207 MB VideoSir David Akers-Jones (Zhong Yat-kit) has been a major figure in the life and government of Hong Kong for many years. In this book he writes with a light and distinctive touch about his life, focusing more on the human than the administrative, but nonetheless providing many insights into the recent history of Hong Kong.
Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong: Photographs and Impressions 1946-47
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 220 MB VideoIn 1946 the photographer Hedda Morrison, acclaimed for her 1930s and 1940s images of China, arrived in Hong Kong. During about six months there she photographed virtually every aspect of local life, which was little changed from decades earlier -- yet destined soon to be transformed.
Hong Kong Hansard
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 49 minutes - 229 MB VideoThe talk will be around the following speeches made by Mr Martin Lee in the Legco: 1. in the Legco on 27 November 1985; 2. Debate on the political reform on 29 June 1994; 3. Debate on the accountability system for principal officials on 29 May 2002.
Hong Kong Style 香港風格
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 57 minutes - 198 MB Video擠迫是香港的既有優勢。我們的複雜、擁擠、曖昧、不協調、半唐番 ……，吸引了幾許國際目光。混雜中，我們醞釀了獨特的建築、電影、音樂、文學、小說、設計、漫畫、茶餐廳、砵仔糕、油炸鬼 ……。並成為了「香港學派」。
Internationalizing China: domestic interests and global linkages
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 42 minutes - 272 MB VideoThis book provides excellent documentation and analysis of how China developed markets for several types of products within four main sectors: its urban centers, its rural regions, its educational institutions, and various international development assistance organizations.
KING OF GESAR V THE LONGEST ORAL EPIC FROM TIBET
December 06, 2006 00:00 - 1 hour - 191 MB VideoKing of Gesar is a collection of living oral epics sung among the Gesar artists in the high plains of Tibet for over a thousand years. Its tales of heaven and hell, conquest and defeat, love and marriage, celebration and ritual, vividly reflect the social life and collective wisdom of ancient Tibetans. The epic evolves with people and time - over 200 volumes of the epic have been recorded so far. Mr Tsering Puntsok is a leading scholar devoted to preserving the work of a Gesar artist Sang Zhu...