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Talks / Workshops
Subject Talk Series on "Grade A Elderly": (II) Developing Friendly Smart Home
| Date: | 2024/11/24 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | San Po Kong Public Library (Extension Activities Room) |
| Description: | Subject Talk Theme: With an ageing population, the public is increasingly concerned about providing a safer and more ideal living space and environment for the elderly. By creating personalised elderly-friendly smart homes through the use of smart home technology and accessible design, the development of gerontechnology has brought new solutions to home safety for the elderly. This subject talk will introduce the prerequisites for the development of elderly-friendly smart homes and common smart home devices, so that participants may gain a deeper understanding of gerontechnology and smart homes. Venue: San Po Kong Public Library Period: November 2024 |
Subject talk on Chinese Medicine: Ways of Health regimen: (2) Live with a happy life
| Date: | 2024/11/24 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Yau Ma Tei Public Library |
Cantonese Literature from the Late Qing to the Republican Era: On Liao Entao’s Xixiao ji
Activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series /Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival Library Tie-in Activities
| Date: | 2024/11/24 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F) |
| Description: | The Cantonese poems in the Xixiao ji by Liao Entao (1865–1954; style name Fengshu) are in strict poetic metre and formal tone patterns, while the Cantonese vocabularies used are rather lively and witty. These poems, thus, are catchy and memorable among Cantonese readers. In fact, the Xixiao ji does not belong to a new genre, but it stems from Cantonese literature with a long-standing history. This lecture introduces some pieces from the Xixiao ji, as well as explores the origin and evolution of Cantonese literature. |
Subject talk on Chinese Medicine: Ways of Health regimen(1) Good remedy for pain relief
| Date: | 2024/11/24 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Fa Yuen Street Public Library |
| Description: | This subject talk is also one of the activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series. The LCSD has all along promoted Chinese history and culture through organising an array of programmes and activities to enable the public learn more about broad and profound Chinese culture. For more information, please visit www.lcsd.gov.hk/en/ccpo/index.html. |
Parent-child Workshops on Origami Crafts
| Date: | 2024/11/24 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Sha Tin Public Library (Extension Activities Room) |
Storytelling Workshop – Wonders of Chinese Opera
| Date: | 2024/11/24 (Sunday) |
| Time: | 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon |
| Venue: | Yuen Long Public Library |
Subject talk about Health Preservation in Chinese Medicine
| Date: | 2024/11/23 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Quarry Bay Public Library (Extension Activities Room) |
Parent-child Workshops on Origami Crafts
| Date: | 2024/11/23 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Ma On Shan Public Library (Extension Activities Room) |
Subject Talk Series on“Be A Smart Smartphone User”–Security and Privacy on Smartphone
| Date: | 2024/11/23 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. |
| Venue: | Fanling Public Library (Extention Activities Room) |
Dictionaries, Textbooks and Periodicals: Foreign Language Learning of Lingnan Literati in Hong Kong and Macau in Late Qing
Activities in the Chinese Culture Promotion Series /Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Culture and Arts Festival Library Tie-in Activities
| Date: | 2024/11/23 (Saturday) |
| Time: | 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. |
| Venue: | Hong Kong Central Library (Lecture Theatre, G/F) |
| Description: | In the late Qing period of China, Hong Kong and Macau shared the doubly unique position in the Lingnan region. Both ports were the initial contact zones for the young Cantonese generation in the region to be exposed to foreign languages and western learning; both were the origins and nexus of exchange for the bourgeoning print culture, which was represented by the surge of new types of publications, such as bilingual dictionaries, language textbooks, newspapers and magazines. From this historical backdrop emerged a generation of Cantonese bilingual literati, who would in turn impact the diversifying linguistic landscape, print culture and educational environment in the region. The lecture unfolds a varied set of accessible and interesting primary sources recently found in digital archives in Hong Kong, China and the U.S., to engage the public audience in re-living the learning, working and expatriate experience of these late-Qing Cantonese bilinguals who made their very first steps in Hong Kong and Macau. The lecture will focalise two of such characters – Yung Wing (1828–1912), and Kwong Ki Chiu (1836 –1891), whose lives were deeply connected by the Chinese Education Mission to the U.S., and whose paths will shed lights on the historical moments when Lingnan literati reaches the World. |
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