Film Screening | Ageless China (Fr. Bernard Hubbard, SJ, and Fr. William Klement, SJ, 1949) 電影紀錄片：永恆中華
Film Screening | Ageless China (Fr. Bernard Hubbard, SJ, and Fr. William Klement, SJ, 1949) 電影紀錄片：永恆中華
27
Jun
This rare 16mm color film – including original sound narration by filmmaker Fr. Bernard Hubbard – takes the audience through postwar China in 1947–1948, including rare scenes from Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Yangzhou and Chinese Catholic communities related to these cities.
About the Film:
This rare 16mm color film – including original sound narration by filmmaker Fr. Bernard Hubbard – takes the audience through postwar China in 1947–1948, including rare scenes from Beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Yangzhou and Chinese Catholic communities related to these cities. A Q&A session with Prof. Joseph W. Ho, the rediscoverer of this film, will follow immediately after the screening.
This will be the first time in nearly 65 years that this film will be seen in its entirety by a public audience, anywhere in the world.
About the Speaker:
Joseph W. Ho, Associate Professor of History, Albion College, Michigan
Joseph W. Ho is Associate Professor of History at Albion College, Michigan, and a Center Associate at the University of Michigan’s Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies. He is a historian of modern East Asia, Sino-US encounters, and transnational visual culture and media. Ho is the co-editor of War and Occupation in China: The Letters of an American Missionary from Hangzhou, 1937–1938 (Lehigh University Press, 2017) and the author of Developing Mission: Photography, Filmmaking, and American Missionaries in Modern China (Cornell University Press, 2022). In 2024–2025, he will hold fellowships at Stanford University and the University of Michigan, as well as the EDS-Stewart Distinguished Research Fellowship at Boston College’s Ricci Institute for Chinese-Western Cultural History. He is currently preparing two new books: Time Exposures: Catholic Photography and the Evolution of Modern China (Hong Kong University Press), co-authored with Anthony E. Clark, and his next monograph, Bamboo Wireless: Mediating the Cold War in Asia.
Details:
Date: Thursday, 27 June 2024
Time: 19:00 – 21:00 (GMT+8)
Location: Fátima Auditorium, University of Saint Joseph Ilha Verde Campus
Language: English
Organised by Faculty of Religious Studies and Philosophy, Xavier Centre for Memory and Identity
Moderated by Prof. Stephen Morgan
*This is a free event and open to the general public
