Book Exhibition and Reception
A book exhibition and a reception will be held in the library to launch the "Friends of the Library". Mr. Roderick Woo, an ex-council member of the University, has generously donated over 8,000 volumes of books to the Library since 2000. We are honored to have Mr. Woo as our honorary friend of the Library. The reception will be held in the Library with details below:
Date: 24 June 2004 (Thursday)
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Venue: Library Lobby, CityU
A selection of the donated books will be on display from 24 June 2004 to 12 July 2004 in the Library Lobby. These donations cover a broad range of subjects, thus showing Mr. Woo's wide reading interests and personal love for books. There are books on law, overseas Chinese, China, Hong Kong, fine arts, oriental and western literature as well as autobiography and biography. Among them are notable works by Nobel Prize laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners. Some of the items are pre-1900 publications which have already gone out of print and are difficult to obtain from the retail market. The donated books are undoubtedly valuable additions to our Library holdings.
Dongpo qi ji 東坡七集
(in traditional thread-stitched binding)
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Complete works of Su Shi 蘇軾, which covered a great variety of subjects and were written in many different styles, including letters, essays, records, memorials, epitaphs, prose-poems and verse. |
Pre-1900 Publications
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14 items were published before 1900 and one of the titles, Encyclopaedia Britannica in 3-volume set, dated back to 1771. |
Law
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Being a lawyer,
Mr Woo has a good collection of legal books
and it is of no surprise to find
some established legal titles which cover different aspects of the
discipline in his donations. Important texts include:
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Award Winners
Reputation of the authors is one of the criteria for selecting books for
display.
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Autobiography/Biography
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Selected works include a fairly wide spectrum of personalities:
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Fine Arts
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These include
catalogues published by/for famous museums like National Gallery
(London), Musée du Louvre and State Hermitage (St. Petersburg).
There are a number of titles on impressionist paintings by painters like Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro and Edgar Degas. There is also a strong emphasis on Chinese calligraphy, art and paintings of different dynasties. |
Oriental Literature
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Nearly 2,000 received volumes (24%) fall into this broad subject category and most of the books are on classical and modern Chinese literature with some on Japanese works. Titles selected for display were written by notable literary authors such as Zhang Henshui (張恨水), Ba Jin (巴金), Liu Zaifu (劉再復), Xiao Qian (蕭乾), Wang Anyi (王安憶), Ryunosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介) and Yukio Mishima (三島由紀夫). |
Western Literature
| Books on western literature constituted another 20% of the total received. Apart from selected titles by British and American authors, works by literary authors in Russia, Germany and France are also included. |
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Hong Kong
| Books on Hong Kong are intentionally grouped together to give users an alternative look at our living place, not as usual from the political or economic perspectives, but from the cultural and ecological aspects - learning from the local history, customs and culture down to the flora and fauna of our countryside. |
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China
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This includes a mixture of books on Chinese philosophy, culture and history written by some of the renowned scholars in Chinese cultural studies like Qian Mu (錢穆), Mou Zongsan (牟宗三), Nan Huaijin (南懷瑾) and Fu Peirong (傅佩榮).
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Overseas Chinese
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The Library is fortunate to receive more than 20 titles in one donation on such a specific topic. The publications have a wide geographic coverage, which ranged from the nearby Japan, Southeast Asia (Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia) and Asia Pacific (Australia and Papua New Guinea) to a number of major American cities/states (Hawaii, San Francisco, New York and Mississippi). |
Media Resources
| The donation also features a rich collection of music ranging from jazz, classical, country to pop music as well as a good variety of different genres of movies such as feature films, fiction films and documentaries. |
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All are welcome!
All further information, please email to lb@cityu.edu.hk