About the TalkIn this talk, Professor Du will share on her latest research about the animated film-making activities of the North China Film Company (a branch of the Manchukuo Film Association (株式會社滿洲映畫協會) also known as Manying (滿映) between 1937–45), which was located in wartime Peking.Focusing on a Chinese cartoonist and animator named Liang Jin (?–1972), as well as a few Japanese animators at the North China Film Company, she will show that although Manying’s animated filmmaking followed a philosophy of "territorialization" and localization, it  still made a fantasy world distanced from the wartime realities of China and Japan. This enabled the animations to transcend wartime political controls, persist through a tumultuous regime change, and assume multiple afterlives  as "ghosts" animating Chinese socialist cinema, despite institutional efforts to erase them from the history of Chinese animation and live-action filmmaking.Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9298Notes:This is a recognized event in the "Self-directed Experience" component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour.No photography by the audience or any recording of this talk and its examples is allowed. About the SpeakerProfessor Du received her PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2012 and joined the faculty of the Division of Humanities at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2013. Her book, Animated Encounters: Transnational Movements of Chinese Animation 1940s-1970s, (2019) is available in the Library in both paper and e-book format. She is currently working on two other books tentatively titled Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (1937-1945) and Suspended Animation.She is interested in animation, film, media, feminist film criticism, critical race/ethnicity studies, transnational film studies, modern Chinese literature and visual culture, women/children/animal/machine/technology, travel/migration/diaspora, and modernity/modernism studies.Recently she started a new research project on women animators in China and is editing a few volumes about animation and new media. She is also the founder of the Association for Chinese Animation Studies, which is dedicated to introducing and promoting Chinese animation to the English-speaking world.  

About the Talk:Singapore appears to be moving towards a more open, competitive democracy. But this obscures the resilience of a conservative ruling party that has proved itself adept at accommodating popular sentiments without significant democratisation or political liberalisation.What are the prospects of political reforms in a liberal-democratic direction in a country that has long defied the predictions of modernisation theory? How resilient is Singapore’s model of illiberal democracy or soft authoritarianism? And will such reforms undermine the strong state and economic success that have been the hallmarks of Singapore?Prof. Donald Low of HKUST will discuss these topics, covered in his recent book, PAP v PAP : the partys struggle to adapt to a changing SingaporeRegistration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9064This is a recognized event in the “Self-directed Experience” component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour.Photos will be taken during the talk. The Chinese edition of the book,  威權政治之困境 : 新加坡未來政治想像 = PAP v. PAP... will be available for sale at the talk for HKD $100 (cash only).  Enquiries: Victoria Caplan (lbcaplan@ust.hk) About the Author:Donald Low is a senior lecturer and professor of Practice in Public Policy at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as well as director of the Institute for Emerging Market Studies.. He is the author of Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus (2014), in e-copy in our collection; and the editor of Behavioural Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (2012) in hard-copy in our book collection (HC445.8 .B45 2012)  

About the TalkBased on the first comprehensive study of all Western printed maps of China until 1735 (https://brill.com/view/title/39120?language=en), this talk will first show how to look at old maps using examples of the HKUST rich map collection, then will explain how Europeans maps of China changed over time and what they can teach us about the history of Europe and China and their entangled relationship. It will also tell some of the unique stories that made possible these visions from another world, stories marked by scholarly breakthroughs, obsession, missionary zeal, commercial sagacity and greed.Date: October 13, 2022Time: 15:30 - 16:30Venue: Kaisa Group Lecture Theater (IAS LT), Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, HKUST (Direction)Registration: https://lbcube.hkust.edu.hk/ce/event/9069 Speakers BioMarco Caboara is the Manager (Digital Scholarship and Archives) at the Lee Shau Kee Library, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. As manager of the Archives he is also in charge of the Library Special Collections, most prominently of the Antique Maps of China Collection. He studied in Italy, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Beijing and Hong Kong, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle with a study of the linguistic features of Classical Chinese Bamboo Manuscripts. He has been a Research Fellow at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies, Uppsala, Sweden.He has just completed a comprehensive carto-bibliography of Western printed maps of China from 1580 to 1735, published by Brill and has presented the earliest stages of the book project at major international map conferences in Amsterdam, Berlin, Macau and Shanghai.

Description是次講座以文化史角度，觀察中國武術百年來的發展歷程和近況。古典的文化史偏重精英群和正統的學術、藝術和思想創作。隨著歷史研究的視野擴大，歷史中的不同性別、階級和社群的經歷，感受與表達方式受到同樣的關注，同時也剖開了種種社會實踐的深層意義。我們得以瞭解不同傳統可以並存，沒有一種有必然的正當性。它們並存而且互相滲透。就算是當權者的區分，也不必然會令所謂次要的傳統消失。二十世紀之前，記載武術的文獻稀少，但都能顯示武術在國家層次的國防和教育價值，在民間的自衛、健體、娛樂和信仰功能。冷兵器時代結束，武術的實用性大減，其奇幻的一面也受到科學的挑戰，但在二十世紀民族建設的過程中，武術一度肩負強民強國的重擔，也經歷了力圖體制化、去蕪存菁和取長補短的國術運動。國術沒有在短時間達到既定的文化和民族目標，但在大戰之後至今，在華人社會展示出不同的活態，在近幾十年全球化和資訊發展中也得到新的養份，大小不同的武術傳統得以並存。語言: 廣東話地點: 是次講座將以實體（有可能因應疫情更改）及網上形式進行，名額有限，請儘早報名。報名：https://lbcube.ust.hk/ce/index.php/all-session/?grp=martial-arts講者: 麥勁生教授香港中文大學學士、碩士，主修歷史，副修英文；德國雷根斯堡大學歷史與政治學博士；歷任臺灣大學歷史學系講師，香港浸會大學歷史學系教授、系主任和當代中國研究所所長；主要研究西方近代思想，近代史學理論、近代中、德關係，近代軍事史及中國武術傳統，先後發表相關中西文專書十五種，論文六十餘篇。The talk will be recorded and photos will be taken during the talk.This is a recognized event in the “Self-directed Experience” component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.5 hours.Zoom meeting ID and passcode will be sent to registrants at 5pm, 1 day before the talk.Related Library book 止戈為武 : 中華武術在香江

昔日，不論在大小街道、各行商店，以至在廟宇佛寺、醫院善堂等等，都會見到各種書法作品，琳瑯滿目。但是隨著科技普及，以傳統書法寫成的招牌、對聯匾額等日漸減少，取而代之是的電腦字體。「香港字海遊蹤」將與大家分享講者近年在街上見到的書法作品，漫談每個字背後的有趣故事。語言：廣東話地點：是次講座將以實體及網上形式進行，名額有限，請儘早報名。報名：https://lbcube.ust.hk/ce/index.php/all-session/?grp=hkword講者: 溫佐治香港城市大學中文榮譽文學士、中文（專業中文）文學碩士，大學兼任講師。文化組織「程尋香港」創辦人之一，組織地區導賞，並籌辦結合認識物質及非物質文化遺產、傳統藝術、古蹟等體驗學習和考察項目。The talk will be recorded and photos will be taken during the talk.This is a recognized event in the “Self-directed Experience” component of CORE1905: Behavioral Foundations of University Education: Habits, Mindsets, and Wellness. You need to attend the event in full to get 1.0 hour.