Photos tagged 'victoria park'

April: Anti-Japan March Contributed by Chris Lee...

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:28:46 GMT

April: Anti-Japan March
Contributed by Chris Lee

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About 12,000 Hong Kong people marching from Victoria Park to the
Central Government Offices, to protest against Japan approved a
textbook that critics say glosses over the brutal Japanese occupation
of China from 1931 to 1945, including the Nanjing massacre of 1937.

They also oppose Japan's bid to become a permanent member of the UN
security council, as well as its occupation of the Diaoyu Islands.

Photo by hkfringe club

About 150 South Korean Farmers come to Victoria Park to protest against the...

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:50:40 GMT

About 150 South Korean Farmers come to Victoria Park to protest against the WTO policies on farming

Contributed by Chris Lee

For the story behind the WTO: http://www.23hq.com/Memory_capsule/story/438836

Photo by hkfringe club

About 150 South Korean Farmers daub their faces with anti-WTO slogan....

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:49:46 GMT

About 150 South Korean Farmers daub their faces with anti-WTO slogan.
Location: Victoria Park.
Contributed by Chris Lee.

The Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference was held in Hong Kong, China, 13–18 December 2005

I am so naive to believe that WTO is good and play fair for all country before they host the meeting at Hong Kong. Even, Hong Kong Government also put on TV CM to HARD sell how good it is.

It' sound good, until I meet Korean Farmers. They use a lot of methods to tell us how bad and unfair for others country beside US and Europe Countries.

Beside, the anti-WTO messages, Hong Kong people learn there is more than one method to voice out their message, not just marching for Victorial Park to Central Government Office every year.

Every time I think of WTO, I just remember the slogan from Korean Farmer:

Down! Down! WTO!

For the story behind Chris's photoblog: http://www.23hq.com/Memory_capsule/story/438836

Photo by hkfringe club

Flower Market, Lunar New Year 2006 Contributed by: Ka Lung NG, Filmmaker and...

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:13:26 GMT

Flower Market, Lunar New Year 2006
Contributed by: Ka Lung NG, Filmmaker and PhD student at HKU.

One of the family tradition starting from my mom and dad is the night before chinese new year, which is called the 30th night, the family has a full dinner together and we always choose a movie to go to, then after the movie we will head to the Victory park for the flower market.

And supposedly the children should stay up as late as possible on that night because the saying goes that parent live longer if children stay up. The 30th night always make me very happy and feel the warmth of the family and being in the city like Hong Kong, with lots of people going about a certain tradition. It is exactly like the Christmas eve, where you always have anticipation of a long wonderful evening with friends and family.

And being in Hong Kong, there is this strange mix of western influence and chinese festivity, because we always choose a western film, and those days almost always the big budget disaster film or Star Wars, so in the cinema I have this great feeling of being transported far far away and yet knowing well that we will be among the crowds soon at the flower market. THis give me the feeling that I am part of something, of being in the city, part taking a great urban experience, but of course I was smaller and didn't know how to articulate that wonderful feeling, I believe it inspires me to make film too, part of the experience of the cinema in the city is not so much the film itself but the re-entering into the urban crowd after the screening, I always feel a sense of communion with strangers walking out of the theatre into the crowd, into the night still bustling with activities in the street, the hawkers with food stand and the night cafe.

That no matter what kind of cinematic thrill I have experience, there is a rejoice in entering reality, a feeling of fullness and being taken care of somehow. And going to the flower market is the epitome of that experience. It is forgetting being the individual and just be with the crowd, it is the moment I don't mind being in the most crowded place on earth.

Photo by hkfringe club

Flower Market, Lunar New Year 2006 Contributed by: Ka Lung NG, Filmmaker and...

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:12:58 GMT

Flower Market, Lunar New Year 2006
Contributed by: Ka Lung NG, Filmmaker and PhD student at HKU.

Photo by hkfringe club

Flower Market, Lunar New Year 2006 Contributed by: Ka Lung NG, Filmmaker and...

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:12:23 GMT

Flower Market, Lunar New Year 2006
Contributed by: Ka Lung NG, Filmmaker and PhD student at HKU.

Photo by hkfringe club

VictoriaPark4June2005. Contributed by David Clarke. For this memory capsule I...

Sun, 29 Jan 2006 09:53:26 GMT

VictoriaPark4June2005. Contributed by David Clarke.

For this memory capsule I have chosen a photo of an event that is itself about memory, the annual June 4th memorial rally in Victoria Park. I took this photo myself at the 2005 rally, one of many I have attended. On this occasion, as on others, I was struck by the number of young children that had been brought by their parents to take part in the rally. Clearly many people are determined not just to remember the tragedy of the violent repression perpetrated by the Chinese state in Beijing on 4th June 1989, but to pass on that memory to children who weren’t even born when it happened. The June 4th rally is about memory, about looking back, but also about the future, about looking forward, since it is about the aspiration for democratic government in China and Hong Kong. When this memory capsule is dug up will democracy have long been a reality in China? Will the story of the 1989 democracy movement be a recognized part of the historical record, or will it have been erased from view? One of the things I like about Hong Kong is its freedom of expression, and the willingness of Hong Kong people to peacefully take to the streets in exercise of their political rights. Hong Kong is the only place in China at this point in time where such an open commemoration of June 4th 1989 can take place.

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