News & Events

The Kunqu Educational Project Series

Liu Yilong
Kunqu Opera Artist; National Class-1 Performer

Date: 4 April, 2011 - 19 April, 2011
Venue: AV Room/R6143, Level 6, Amenities Building

"Music, Sound, and Site: 
A Case Study from Southern Song China (1127-1275)"

Date: 19 April, 2010 (Monday)
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm 
Venue: R6143, 6/F., Amenities Bldg., City University of Hong Kong 
Language: English 
Speaker: Joseph S. C. Lam

All are welcome

"Rivers of Garbage, Rivers of Song: 
Music and Environmental Awareness in Taiwan"

Date: 22 March, 2010 (Monday) 
Time: 4:30-6:00 pm 
Venue: R6143, 6/F., Amenities Bldg., City University of Hong Kong 
Language: English 
Speaker: Nancy Guy, Ph.D.

All are welcome

Suzhou Kun Opera Theater of Jiangsu Province

Date: February 2, 2010 (Tuesday)
Time: 19.30-21.20
‘Longing for the World’ and ‘Descending the Mountain’ from Sea of Sins, ‘Meeting at the Tower’ from West Tower Records

Date: February 3, 2010(Wednesday) 
Time: 19.30-21.20
‘Wandering in a Garden, Waking from a Dream’ from Peony Pavilion, ‘Meeting at a Monastery’ from Romance of the West Chamber

Date: February 4, 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 14.30-16.20
‘On the Pretext of Tea’ and ‘Captured Alive’ from The Water Margin, ‘Writing the Petition’ from The Tale of the Horse Dealer

Performance venue: 
Wei Hing Theatre, Level 6, Amenities Building

Admission by ticket only. Free tickets will be given away at CCIV, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please come personally for tickets.

The Kunqu Educational Project Series

Ji Zhenhua
Renowned Kunqu Artist; National Class-1 Performer; Winner of Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre

Date: 23 December, 2009 - 13 January 2010
Time: 19:00 - 21:00
Venue: AV Room/R6143, Level 6, Amenities Building

Jiangsu Kun Opera Theatre

Date: September 8, 2009 (Tuesday)
Time: 19.30-21.20
Excerpts from Kunqu masterpieces including Outlaws of the Marsh,Peony Pavilion, Winning the Beauty Queen

Date: September 9, 2009 (Wednesday) 
Time: 14.30-16.20
Excerpts from Kunqu masterpieces including Peony Pavilion and The Romance of a Hairpin

Date: September 9, 2009 (Wednesday)
Time: 19.30-21.20
Excerpts from Kunqu masterpieces including Peony Pavilion and the Story of West Chamber and the Mistake with the Kite

Performance venue: 
Wei Hing Theatre, Level 6, Amenities Building

Admission by ticket only. Free tickets will be given away at CCIV, on a first-come, first-served basis. Please come personally for tickets.

October 2008

• Special Features
  
  Kunqu Opera Performance - On the third week of October, CCIV is hosting performance by the world-renowned Shanghai Kunqu Opera Troupe for two consecutive evenings...
  
  Lecture Series - On Nov 15, the beauty of Kunqu opera will again be put under close intellectual scrutiny under the lecture series entitled “Exquisite Beauty: The World ofKunqu”...

Septermber 2007

• An "unusual" Cultural Salon features scientific interpretations of Chinese art
  Acting President Professor Richard Ho Yan-ki and Professor (Chair) Horace Ip Ho-shing shared their views and interpretations of Chinese art from a scientific angle at the City Cultural Salon that took place on 20 Septermber.

August 2007

• International Conference: Kunqu opera and Intangible Cultural Heritage
  Organised by Chinese Civilisation Centre, City University of Hong Kong.
  Proclaimed by UNESCO in 2001 as a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage, Kunquopera, a gem of traditional Chinese art, is given the opportunity of rebirth, but at the same time opens to crisis of commercialization and commodification. The conference serves as an assembly for scholars and practitioners of Kunqu opera to discuss issues concerning the conservation and sustainable development of this art form in the present social and cultural environment.
  
  
• Chinese author GUO Xiaolu heads up the longlist for the inaugural Man Asian literary prize. 
  (Source: Guardian Unlimited)

July 2007

• Two new volumes add to Chinese Civilisation Centre's Lecture Series 
  
  
• Culture Core Values and Chinese Modernity
  A Session in the Open Forum of Asian Cultural Co-operation Forum 2007 (ACCF 2007)
  Co-organised by The Chinese Civilisation Centre, The City University of Hong Kong with
  Home Affairs Bureau, The Government of The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
  
  
• Hong Kong Book Fair 2007
  Two volumes edited by Chinese Civilisation Centre, China: Five Thousand Years of History and Civilization and The Complete Annotated Collection of Chinese Tea Books (in Chinese), have been listed on the "Critics' Recommendation”- 60 recommended titles - of the Hong Kong Book Fair 2007.