HKUST Library Services

Colloquium on Information Science:
HKUST Library Series no. 6 - 6 June 2002
Celebrating Special Collections : Scholarship and Beauty

Lectures: China In Maps

9:15am - 10:45am

Lecture Theatre G

Zhang Longxi (張隆溪教授)
Title: Maps, Poems, and the Power of Representation
Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation & Director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies
City University of Hong Kong
Roderick M. Barron
Title: China in Maps: Columbus to Kangxi
Antique Map Specialist, Kent, England

Opening Ceremony

10:45am - 11:30am

HKUST Library

Library Special Collections Room

Exhibition:
China in Maps - A Library Special Collection
地圖中國 - 圖書館特藏展

Officiated by

Mr. David Ting
Head, Office of the European Commission
European Union

Lectures: History of Science and Technology

11:30am - 1:00pm

Lecture Theatre G

Fung Kam Wing (馮錦榮教授)
Title: A Documentary Journey From al-Farghani and al-Battani to Christoph Clavius and Matteo Ricci (from the 9th to 17th Centuries) [in Putonghua]
從法甘尼和白塔尼到丁先生及利瑪竇 (從第九世紀到十七世紀)的文獻之旅
Associate Professor, Department of Chinese
The University of Hong Kong
Director, The Chinese Society for the History of Science and Technology, Beijing, China
Jonathan A. Hill
Title: Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts
Specialist in Rare Science Books, New York, N.Y.

For information, please contact Alice Ho
(Phone: 2358-6707 Fax: 2358-1043 Email: lbalice@ust.hk).