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2020 No.3
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| Academic Reflection：香港粵語與香港中文 |
鄧思穎
香港中文大學
中國語言及文學系/中國文化研究所吳多泰中國語文研究中心
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| Event: Celebrating the Year of the Rat, Art Museum |
The Art Museum of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) presents the exhibition "Celebrating the Year of the Rat" starting from 13 June 2020, demonstrating the rich meanings of rats in the Chinese culture.
2020 is the Year of the Rat in traditional Chinese astrology. Members of the rodent family, rats are one of the oldest mammals in the world. Chinese literary references to the miniature nibblers are very often negative in nature. Nevertheless, as our close neighbour throughout human history, they have served as inspirations for artistic creations` based on some of their characteristics. For example, their strong ability to breed and adapt to the environment has become an auspicious symbol of prosperity.
This exhibition features over ten artefacts on rats and their relatives, such as squirrels and bats, from the Art Museum. Dated from as early as the Qing dynasty, this fine selection of exhibits covers a variety of artworks including high-quality porcelains, ink stones, as well as Lingnan paintings. |
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| Event: Amazing Clay: The Ceramic Collection of the Art Museum |
The history of Chinese ceramics is a long one. Over ten thousand years ago, ancient Chinese began shaping and firing clay at low temperatures (approximately 600–800°C) to produce a large variety of pottery. Following successive advances, firing at high temperatures (approximately 1250–1350°C) became possible, giving rise to the production of hard, durable and impermeable porcelains.
In an endeavour to present the development and culture of Chinese ceramics in their entirety, a fine selection of ceramics from the Art Museum collection dating from various periods is on display at the present exhibition. Thanks to generous support and donations from the community over the years, the Museum has been able to build up a comprehensive collection of ceramics, which has been one of our major fields of interests since the Museum’s foundation in 1971. Specifically, the Qing imperial wares are primarily gifts from the B. Y. Lam Foundation, the early pottery and Ming and Qing hallmarked porcelains come from the Zande Lou Collection, the late Qing imperial wares were donated by Dr Simon Kwan and Mr Anthony Cheung, the zisha and the Shiwan wares are from the Bei Shan Tang Collection’ Taoshi Zhai provided Tang-Dynasty Changsha wares and our export porcelains are acquisitions with funds from the Friends of the Art Museum, CUHK, Prof. and Mrs. Cheng Te-k'un, and Bei Shan Tang. It is our hope that the present exhibition will further facilitate teaching through actual objects and will provide our visitors with an understanding of the development of Chinese culture and history through ceramics. |
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| Event: Hong Kong Impressions |
The exhibition "Hong Kong Impressions" features over 100 paintings and photographs of old Hong Kong from the 1940s to 1970s. In addition to stunning views of the Victoria Harbour and bygone typhoon shelters, sketches and snapshots of everyday life and scenic spots off the beaten track by Lui Shou-kwan, Wucius Wong and a dozen other artists will serve as a reminder of how much this metropolis had evolved in the 20th century. Many items are exhibited for the first time, including the coloured photographs from the 1950s which are new acquisitions by the Art Museum, CUHK. |
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| Event: CU Art Buddy 2020, Art Museum |
From March to June, the Art Museum organised the “CU Art Buddy” scheme, discovering and connecting art-loving CUHK students and staff members. A total of 162 participants were involved in the scheme. The paired-up participants received online tasks from time to time. The scheme hoped to provide artistic and intellectual amusement that could enliven the participants’ stay at home. |
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| Event: Embrace Art at Home, Art Museum |
To encourage people to embrace art from home in the times of the pandemic, the Art Museum organised and published different categories of online learning resources, ranging from rubbings of stone engraving and model calligraphy to paintings and ancient Chinese gold techniques, with two new additions to the resources list. The content includes six videos introducing nineteen works from the exhibition “Jewels of Transcendence: Himalayan and Mongolian Treasures” and one browser game related to the exhibition “For Blessings and Guidance: the Qianlong Emperor’s Design for State Sacrificial Vessels”.
Link to the platform: Click Here |
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| Event: “Heart to Heart Talks” Video Series, Art Museum |
Starting from 29 May 2020, the Art Museum had released videos in a variety of topics for 8 consecutive Fridays. Guests from different walks of life were invited to share their views about the treasures of the Museum with our curators. |
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| Event: Time Travel • Hong Kong, Art Museum |
Generously sponsored by GS Foundation, the Art Museum presents three virtual tours that juxtapose current street views with landscape paintings and coloured slides from the 1940s to 1970s on Google Poly, starting from 7 September 2020. With a travel companion booklet designed by the Art Museum, viewers can “travel” all over Hong Kong even when staying at home. Tour participants can get a free “Hong Kong Impressions” coffee drip bag by voting and leaving a comment about their favourite view of the tour.
For details: Click Here |
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| Event: “Made in Hong Kong” Online Talk, Art Museum |
The Art Museum co-organised with Alisan Fine Arts a lively discussion titled “Made in Hong Kong” on 10 September 2020 (Thursday) on Zoom and Facebook. Three Hong Kong artists, Prof. KAN Tai-keung, Prof. HUNG Hoi and Ms. CHEUK Ka-wai, Cherie, are invited to share their local artistic experiences with Prof. Josh Yiu, Director of the Art Museum. The discussion attracted an audience of 103 on Zoom and 1,458 views on Facebook. |
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| Event: “Study on Ancient Tai Po Culture in Archaeological Perspectives”, Research Programme of Chinese Archaeology and Art, Art Museum |
The Research Programme of Chinese Archaeology and Art (RPCAA), the Art Museum, collaborated with the Programme for the Gifted and Talented at the Faculty of Education in their “Summer Programme for the Gifted and Talented 2020” on 8 August. During the course, “Study on Ancient Tai Po Culture in Archaeological Perspectives”, we introduced the collections of the blue-and-white porcelains and samples of kiln furniture, which were investigated by members of the Art Museum in the early 1970s. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the teaching was switched to an online mode, where we also offered a pottery-making demonstration. |
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| Event:Gold for Glory: History, Communication, Craft, The Research Programme of Chinese Archaeology and Art |
The exhibition, “Gold for Glory: History, Communication, Craft”, is co-organised by the Suzhou Museum and the Art Museum, CUHK. Members of the RPCAA curates the whole exhibition. A hundred items (sets) of exhibits will be on display, and 25 museums and institutions across the country will be participating in this event. The exhibition is divided into four key sections, which illustrates the development of gold art between the Shang and Qing dynasties and the intercultural communications between different regions in the past.
The craftmanship of Chinese gold art will be demonstrated, including how the technology has been inherited since the ancient times. The exhibition catalogue will be published in November 2020.
This exhibition is one of the outcomes of the study, "Ancient Chinese Gold Techniques Research Project (Phase II)". The research scheme is sponsored by Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Co. Ltd. |
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| Event: The Fourth Forum on University Chinese, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre |
The Fourth Forum on University Chinese was jointly organized by the Chinese Language Teaching Development Centre of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature and the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre of the Institute of Chinese Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. It was held on 6 August 2020 by means of video conferencing. Focusing on online Chinese teaching and assessment at universities in Hong Kong, academics, experts and teachers from various institutions and sectors were invited to give their views, which were conducive to the future development of Chinese language education.
At the Forum, academics and experts shared their teaching experience. Opportunities and challenges of developing online teaching were also being discussed. Looking ahead to the future, experts from different institutions will continue to explore innovative teaching modes and technologies, attaching importance to traditions while also keeping pace with the progress of our times. |
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| Event: Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Awards 2019-2020, Research Centre for Translation |
Standard Awards:
JIANG Fan (Graduate Institute of Interpretation and Translation, Shanghai International Studies University)
“Touguo fanyi xianxiang shenhua wenxue guanxi yanjiu—zailun Yase Weili he Wang Jizhen zai Hongloumeng Yingyi zhong de ‘mengjing’ zhi zheng” [An intertextual approach to literary relations: Rethinking Arthur Waley and Wang Chi-chen’s “Dream Controversy” in the English Translation and Adaptation of Hongloumeng] (in Chinese), Translation Quarterly 91 (March 2019), pp. 27–58.
Special Mention:
ZHANG Lihua (Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Peking University)
“Wenxue geming yu Yuwai xiaoshuoji de jingdianhua” [The canonization of Collections of Foreign Short Stories in context of the literary revolution] (in Chinese), Wenyi zhengming 298 (May 2019), pp. 60–75. |
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| Event: On-line book launch "THE INCONVENIENT GENERATION ", Universities Service Centre for China Studies |
On 16 July, the Centre organized an online book launch entitled “The Inconvenient Generation ", which was delivered by Prof. Minhua LING from the Center for China Studies at CUHK.
Drawing on multi-sited ethnographic data, Ling follows the trajectories of dozens of children coming of age at a time of competing economic and social imperatives. Illuminating the aspirations and strategies of these young men and women, Ling captures their experiences against the backdrop of a re-emergent global Shanghai. The talk attracted around 20 participants. Many insightful comments and questions were raised during the discussion sessions. |
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| New Publications |
- Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 179 (2020 June), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture
- Twenty-First Century Bimonthly, Issue 180 (2020 August), Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture
- Studies in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 41, Number 1), T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
- Current Research in Chinese Linguistics (Volume 99, Number 1), T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
- Renditions, No. 93 (Spring 2020), Research Centre for Translation
- Hong Kong Impressions, Art Museum
- Studies in Translation History 2018, Research Centre for Translation
- My City: a hongkong story (2020 reprint), Research Centre for Translation
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| Event Highlight: The Sixth Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre |
 The Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar (IRF) was initiated by The Chinese University of Hong Kong and Sun Yat-sen University in 2015 and extended its partnership with Fudan University in 2017, which has become an academic event organised rotationally by these three institutions as a platform intended to foster research on dialectal grammar under a comparative approach, focusing on southeastern Chinese dialects like Yue and Wu dialects, to promote inter-regional studies and to strengthen intellectual exchange and dialogue among researchers from different regions.
The Sixth Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar organised by the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Fudan University and co-organised by the T. T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre will be held on 24–25 October 2020 through video conferencing. For the details of the forum, please visit: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/clrc/irf/2020/. |
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| Event Highlight: Lecture Series of “Hong Kong Impressions”, Art Museum |
Four lectures will be conducted between October and November.
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| Editorial Board Committee |
Editor : Lai Chi-tim
Member : Heung Ting-ting |
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Academic Reflection：香港粵語與香港中文
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Event: Celebrating the Year of the Rat, Art Museum
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Event: Amazing Clay: The Ceramic Collection of the Art Museum
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Event: Hong Kong Impressions
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Event: CU Art Buddy 2020, Art Museum
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Event: Embrace Art at Home, Art Museum
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Event: “Heart to Heart Talks” Video Series, Art Museum
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Event: Time Travel • Hong Kong, Art Museum
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Event: “Made in Hong Kong” Online Talk, Art Museum
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Event: “Study on Ancient Tai Po Culture in Archaeological Perspectives”, Research Programme of Chinese Archaeology and Art, Art Museum
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Event:Gold for Glory: History, Communication, Craft, The Research Programme of Chinese Archaeology and Art
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Event: The Fourth Forum on University Chinese, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
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Event: Stephen C. Soong Translation Studies Memorial Awards 2019-2020, Research Centre for Translation
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Event: On-line book launch "THE INCONVENIENT GENERATION ", Universities Service Centre for China Studies
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New Publications
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Event Highlight: The Sixth Inter-Regional Forum on Dialectal Grammar, T.T. Ng Chinese Language Research Centre
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Event Highlight: Lecture Series of “Hong Kong Impressions”, Art Museum
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Editorial Board Committee
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