[Book Talk & Launch]
“A Life in a Sea of Red – Liu Heung Shing’s Photography of Communism in China and Russia”

 

March 27, 2019 (Wed), 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Wang Gungwu Theatre, Graduate House, HKU
Language: English
*There will be book signing after the book talk.

Speaker:
Mr Liu Heung Shing 劉香成先生, Pulitzer Prize-winning Photojournalist

Moderator:
Mr Law Wing Chung, Founder and Director, Jervois One
Special Guests:
Prof Chan Yuen Ying (Honorary Professor, Technology-Enriched Learning Initiative, HKU)
Dr Luwei Rose Luqiu (Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University)
Dr Oscar Sanchez-Sibony (Assistant Professor, Department of History, HKU)

Online registration:
(HKU students and staff) https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?ueid=62076
(HKU Mentors, alumni and public) https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_regform.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=62077
[Photo Exhibition | March 19 – April 1]
Exhibition Area, Ingenium, 2/F Main Library, HKU

Opening hours of Main Library  https://lib.hku.hk/general/hours/weekly.html
*The exhibition is curated by Karen Smith and produced by HKU alumna Ying Chan, in conjunction with the HKU Libraries. It is held to mark the publication of Mr Liu’s new book, “A Life in a Sea of Red” a collection of photos that chronicles the pivotal decades of Communism in China and Russia, made between 1976 and 2017. Quoting the book’s publisher, Steidl Verlag, the book presents scenes of hope, hardship and change under and after Communist rule”. https://bit.ly/2TBKBe3

[More about Liu Heung Shing]

Hong Kong-born Liu has had a journalistic career that has spanned several decades, working for the Associated Press (AP) in Beijing, Los Angeles, Moscow and New Delhi. He was named Best Photographer by the AP Managing Editors and was awarded Picture of the Year by the School of Journalism at the University of Missouri for recording the unfolding events in Tiananmen Square in 1989. In 1992, he shared a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the tumultuous collapse of the Soviet Union.

More information: https://www.cedars.hku.hk/ge/newsevents/detail?id=806

 

 

 

 

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