by admin | May 12, 2021
More than 200 military relics from World War II (WWII) are scattered around Hong Kong, including gun batteries, pillboxes (PBs), the air raid tunnels now housing the Hong Kong Museum of Coastal Defence at Shau Kei Wan, as well as fortifications along the Gin Drinker’s...
by admin | May 12, 2021
The collection of more than 24,000 images, was amassed by Frank Fischbeck who first came to Hong Kong in the 1970s as a photojournalist for LIFE magazine. In this capacity, and later as Managing Director of FormAsia Books he began taking photos documenting daily life...
by admin | May 12, 2021
When Professor Fu Hualing – Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities – was first approached to succeed Professor Michael Hor as Dean of Law, he hesitated. He was not from a common law jurisdiction (although he studied and worked in Toronto for seven...
by admin | May 12, 2021
Eileen Chang (1920–1995) began her writing career in the early 1940s in the Japanese-occupied city of Shanghai and went on to become the most prominent author and public intellectual in the besieged city. Educated bilingually from an early age, she enrolled at HKU in...
by admin | Nov 8, 2020
A new approach to ruling has emerged in recent decades that is shaking up the relationship between the state and society. Governments in diverse areas of the world have been mobilising citizens to execute and give legitimacy to their policy aims, in the guise of a...
