Trekking through the University of Hong Kong are paths to many spaces - rooms full of learning, benches for conversations, escalators and hallways the arteries to yet more places. Cut across the maze of constructed classrooms of the city's oldest university, there leads a slope up into the forest. Nestled in the tropical overgrowth, a small bungalow continues to be a haven in the hillside 130 years on. Established in 2008 by the Environmental Protection Department and The Uni

As part of Hong Kong University's Interdisciplinary Lunchtime Seminar, Dr Anna Grasskamp will present research on "Chinese" shells which were exchanged across the world via maritime networks. Although lower in material hierarchy than pearls or corals in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the polished shells from Southeast Asia engraved with Chinese motifs were considered treasures in the sixteenth-century cabinets of curiosity in different parts of Europe. This talk traces the shel

Ann Shaftel first discovered the art form of the thangka on a school visit to the museum. For nearly five decades, Ms. Shaftel has worked in the conservation of Buddhist diaspora art in monasteries and museums. Besides working with private collectors, museums, universities and monasteries, Ms. Shaftel also teaches internationally. Her work in Treasure Caretaker Training www.treasurecaretaker.com won the prestigious Digital Empowerment Foundation’s Chairman’s Choice award. Ms

The University Museum and Art Gallery opens a window into their permanent collection in its latest exhibition of 20th-century Chinese paintings. From masters of the classic genres of landscape and bird-and-flower paintings to luminaries of Hong Kong's New Ink movement, the exhibition draws strength from its anthological approach by bringing together representative works by over 50 artists whose personal histories connect them to Hong Kong and whose creative contribute to the