History Seminar by Professor Joseph TING Sun-pao

Professor Joseph TING Sun-pao, one of the most distinguished experts of Chinese and Hong Kong history and the former Chief Curator of the Hong Kong Museum of History, has been the History and Heritage Education Consultant of Ying Wa since 2014.  Thanks to the coordination of the Civic Education Committee and the History Department, a seminar was held in the afternoon assembly on 16th November.  Professor Ting analysed the history of some prominent figures who were buried in Hong Kong in different cemeteries since the beginning of the colonial period, demonstrating the characteristic of the co-existence of different ethic cultures in local history.  According to Professor Ting, these cemeteries in Hong Kong deserve a significant place in the world’s heritage list as they represent an indispensable part of the Sino-British interactions from a global context from the 19th to the 20th century.