The Research Centre for Contemporary Chinese Culture actively collaborated with other university organisations, including the Chinese University Press and the Universities Service Centre for China Studies, to organise a total of four academic lectures between April and June. Because May 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the Cultural Revolution, the topics of the talks held in April and May were related to this historical event. We were delighted to have Mr Yáng Jǐn Lín, a renowned figure in the media, join Hu Fa Yun's talk as the anchor. To promote public participation, the talks were not limited to the CUHK campus: the talk on Sunday, 5 June, was held at the Commercial Compress bookstore in Tsim Sha Tsui. - 29 April 2016, "The Underground Culture During the Cultural Revolution: Private Art and Public History" (Speaker: Professor Wang Ai He, Honorary Associate Professor, School of Chinese, University of Hong Kong)
- 17 May 2016, "The Praise Song and Mobilisation Mode of Totalitarianism—Starting From the Red Song Concert on 2 May" (Speaker: Hu Fa Yun, Professional Writer)
- 5 June 2016, "Geographical Relationships—Ethnic Groups—Security Landscapes: The Security Demands of China in the 1950s" (Speaker: Liu Xiao Yuan, David Dean Chair Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Virginia, United States of America; Chair Professor of Zijiang Scholar Award Program, Shanghai East China Normal University)
- 7 June 2016, "Beijing Time: The Calendar of National Frontier Areas in the 1950s" (Speaker: Liu Xiao Yuan, David Dean Chair Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Virginia, United States of America; Chair Professor of Zijiang Scholar Award Program, Shanghai East China Normal University)
Videos of the two talks and news of our centre's upcoming events can be found at: - The centre's website http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ics/rcccc/event_main.html
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