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(Online) Lecture and Documentary Screening “Lighthouse Memories: Waglan Island Lighthouse (Japanese)”

(Online) Lecture and Documentary Screening “Lighthouse Memories: Waglan Island Lighthouse (Japanese)”
(Online) Lecture and Documentary Screening “Lighthouse Memories: Waglan Island Lighthouse (Japanese)”

Time & Location

23 Jan 2022, 15:00 – 17:00 GMT+8

Online Event

About the Event

In view of the latest social distancing measures announced by the Government, the documentary screening and Special Japanese Lecture will now be conducted online. 

Please join via this link: https://bit.ly/3FsVMsy

The Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM) and the City University of Hong Kong jointly present the screening of the documentary Lighthouse Memories: Waglan Island Lighthouse (Japanese version) and a Japanese lecture by Taga Yumi on Chinese writing as the historical connection between Japan and China. The event will be followed by a sharing session of the documentary production.

Produced by the Lighthouse Heritage Research Connections (LHRC) of the City University of Hong Kong, the documentary Lighthouse Memories: Waglan Island Lighthouse introduces an article published in 1856 in the Chinese Serial, Hong Kong’s first Chinese newspaper published by Ying Wah College. The article described western-style lighthouse with an illustration. The notion of a western lighthouse was unbeknownst to people in Hong…

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