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17/08/2019
As the old saying goes, “People rarely live to be 70”. So how does Josephine SIAO, now aged 71, struggle for learning? She started her acting career as a child star at the age of six. In the 1960’s, she became sworn sisters with six other actresses of Cantonese films, including Connie CHAN and Nancy SIT, who were affectionately known as “The Seven Princesses”. At the prime of her career, Josephine chose to take a break from the film industry to study in the United States. After graduation, she gave up her previously established image and played vividly the well-liked yet grotesque character “Plain Jane”. In 1995, her exceptional performance in “Summer Snow” even earned her the city’s Golden Bauhinia Award, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award, Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, as well as Taipei’s Golden Horse Award, rendering her a grand slam winner. Utilising her clout, she established the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation with a view to advocating protection of children from sexual abuse. Despite suffering from severe hearing problems in recent years, she remains passionate about life, dedicating herself to everyday self-learning and self-improvement.
Let us have a glimpse of Josephine’s legendary past and explore what she has symbolised during different times in Hong Kong. We will also learn from her how we can live a fruitful life and achieve “lifelong learning”!
Host: LAW Wing-chung
Guest Host: Edward LAM
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70+1-Josephine Siao
As the old saying goes, “People rarely live to be 70”. So how does Josephine SIAO, now aged 71, struggle for learning? She started her acting career as a child star at the age of six. In the 1960’s, she became sworn sisters with six other actresses of Cantonese films, including Connie CHAN and Nancy SIT, who were affectionately known as “The Seven Princesses”. At the prime of her career, Josephine chose to take a break from the film industry to study in the United States. After graduation, she gave up her previously established image and played vividly the well-liked yet grotesque character “Plain Jane”. In 1995, her exceptional performance in “Summer Snow” even earned her the city’s Golden Bauhinia Award, Hong Kong Film Critics Society Award, Silver Bear at Berlin International Film Festival, as well as Taipei’s Golden Horse Award, rendering her a grand slam winner. Utilising her clout, she established the End Child Sexual Abuse Foundation with a view to advocating protection of children from sexual abuse. Despite suffering from severe hearing problems in recent years, she remains passionate about life, dedicating herself to everyday self-learning and self-improvement.
Let us have a glimpse of Josephine’s legendary past and explore what she has symbolised during different times in Hong Kong. We will also learn from her how we can live a fruitful life and achieve “lifelong learning”!
Host: LAW Wing-chung
Guest Host: Edward LAM17/08/2019收看 -
On Time and Growth ─ Edward LAM
Birth, ageing, illness, and death are inevitable stages in everyone’s life. As time passes bit by bit, the four stages, connected by growth, progress accordingly. But what does time do to us exactly? And what does growth mean to us? Perhaps we all have vastly different interpretation, vision or experiences from each other. So how did Edward LAM, who pays attention to “time” and cares about discussions on “growth”, experience time and grow up?
Edward began artistic creation in his teens. He started out with “weaving across words” in a television station, and later co-founded “Zuni Icosahedron” with Danny YUNG, who greatly inspired him. Then, he established his own theatre company “Edward Lam Dance Theatre”. The seemingly smooth journey was in fact unplanned. He merely followed the pace at the time. Faced with insecurity while doing so, what does Edward think about growth, and what advice would he give to young people on this topic?
Host: LAW Wing-chung10/08/2019收看 -
The Tycoon of All Times– Richard LI
Richard LI, the son of the Hong Kong business magnate LI Ka-shing. Despite the wealth and power of his family, Richard LI chose to set up his own business, which covers financial services, technology, multimedia, communications and real estate. Concerning these industries, LI has his unique insight. This time, he will have a talk with the new generation of the city. Through LI’s sharing of his relationship with his family, we will have a better understanding of the inner world of this tycoon, and the foresight of the entire society’s future development from the perspective of the business sector in Hong Kong.
Host: LAW Wing-chung03/08/2019收看 -
‘Is “goddess” a tiring title?
With a gorgeous face, a sweet smile, and a rebellious personality, professional actress Karena LAM is a wonderful wife and mother as well. Not only has she won multiple film awards, but she is also a mother, a curator, an artist, a photographer, and a volunteer, among other identities. What exactly does it take to become a revered ‘goddess’? How much do women have to do in order to attain the right outcome?
Did a ‘goddess’ use to be human too? Is a ‘goddess’ simply doing what ordinary people cannot do?
Looking from another perspective, ‘goddess’ may just be the same as the titles ‘modern woman’ and ‘career woman’, in terms of being a way our society exerts control on women and of being an expectation of how they should behave, prompting women to be occupied daily with making themselves resemble a ‘goddess’. How many of them genuinely want to be a ‘goddess’? And how many of them manage to throw off the shackles and be true to themselves?
Through the dialogue with Karena, we wish to understand more about the ‘goddess’, appreciate her good qualities and achievement, while getting to know the real her. Perhaps, ‘goddess’ is no longer out of reach.27/07/2019收看 -
Slow Down And Smell The Roses
Appointed as the 40th Dean of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong at the age of 40, Professor Gabriel LEUNG is the second youngest to take the job since the establishment of the University’s LKS Faculty of Medicine 131 years ago. A former politically appointed official, he has worked as the Under Secretary for Food and Health as well as the Director of the Chief Executive’s Office. Before joining the government, Professor LEUNG engaged in large-scale studies in public health medicine, including the “Children of 1997” research project, through which he provided medical evidence for implementing the prohibition of indoor smoking and for promoting breastfeeding. He is a reputable figure across governmental organizations and the academia.
This time, Professor LEUNG will share his journey and converse with the new generation. Together let us look forward to the city’s prospects in medicine and social development, while searching for the silver lining in a future full of challenges.
Host: LAW Wing-chung20/07/2019收看 -
Behind the Mustache
Two years ago, John TSANG resigned as the Financial Secretary (FS) and later announced his candidacy for the Chief Executive (CE) post. With an image of being relaxed and having a good sense of humour, he led the opinion polls all the way. However, the Election Committee chose Carrie LAM, our current CE, over him and he eventually lost the election.
TSANG had been in charge of Hong Kong’s finance for 10 years. He had been the FS since 2007, and he is the longest-serving FS since the handover of Hong Kong’s sovereignty. He migrated to the US with his family at the age of 13, and he was a tearaway in his early years. He has learnt Chinese martial arts and fencing, played in bands, and even participated in the American civil rights movement. He has also worked as an architect. Subsequently, he went to Harvard University to study public administration. There he met former CE Donald TSANG, who encouraged him to return to Hong Kong to apply for the post of Administrative Officer. TSANG has worked for Chris Patten as the Private Secretary to the Governor, served in Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office, London, and took up the post as the head of a disciplinary department (Commissioner of Customs and Excise), etc. His career in the Government provided a sharp contrast to the colourful experience at his young age.
During his tenure as CS, TSANG was labelled a “layabout” and a “Scrooge”, yet he was one of the very few senior government officials in the SAR government to have high popularities. He says that he believes in free market, our system and the rule of law, but at the same time he describes himself as a person without a specific ideology. There seems to be some sort of a contradiction between the two. He demonstrates that he is an open-minded person, which is rare in the pro-establishment camp … which him is the real him?
Through this talk, we will learn more about TSANG’s growing background and experiences, and how these have affect his values and life direction today. As of the future of Hong Kong, what views does TSANG have? Are they optimistic or pessimistic?
Host: LAW Wing-chung13/07/2019收看
