XN000022-1993-09-11+12 — Page 7

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1993

6

HK MAPPING BOOK WINS TOP UK AWARD

THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE VOLUME OF HONG KONG MAPS EVER PUBLISHED, TRACING THE CHANGING FACE OF THE TERRITORY FROM ITS EARLIEST

DAYS, HAS WON THE PRESTIGIOUS BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S DESIGN AWARD 1993.

THE BOOK, MAPPING HONG KONG

A HISTORICAL ATLAS, WAS A COMBINED EFFORT BY THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES, WHO EDITED, DESIGNED AND PUBLISHED THE WORK, AND AUTHOR, MR HAL EMPSON, A FORMER SENIOR CARTOGRAPHER WITH THE GOVERNMENT.

IT WAS DESIGNED BY MISS LORRAINE CHOI HON-YU OF THE GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES.

THE AWARD WAS RECEIVED BY THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT OFFICE IN LONDON, MR DAVID TSUI, DURING THE BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY'S SYMPOSIUM DINNER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SWANSEA LAST NIGHT (SATURDAY).

IT IS GIVEN FOR THE MOST OUTSTANDING MAP, OR APPROVED CARTOGRAPHIC WORK, PRODUCED IN A SPECIFIED YEAR, WHICH DISPLAYS HIGHEST QUALITY OF DESIGN IN RELATION TO THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH INTENDED.

THE

IT IS

SINCE ITS PUBLICATION EARLIER THIS YEAR, MAPPING HONG KONG A HISTORICAL ATLAS HAS RECEIVED LAVISH PRAISE FROM BOOK REVIEWERS IN HONG KONG AND IN BRITAIN.

"

IT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED AS "STUNNING", A CAPTIVATING PICTORIAL STUDY OF GEOGRAPHICAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY" AND **A MUST FOR HISTORIANS, GEOGRAPHERS, CARTOGRAPHERS, ACADEMICS AND ANYONE INTERESTED IN HONG KONG'S HISTORY AND GROWTH".

FROM HONG

MUST SOCIETY KONG'S SURVEY

HIS TENURE,

AND

BUT

COMMENTING ON THE AWARD FROM HIS HOME IN FISHBOURNE, WEST BRITISH CARTOGRAPHIC SUSSEX, MR EMPSON SAID THE

HAVE

BECOME

CARTOGRAPHERS ACCUSTOMED TO MAPPING OFFICE GAINING AWARDS, WHICH STARTED DURING HE HAD "NOT EXPECTED TO BE EVEN MORE INTIMATELY INVOLVED IN GAINING ANOTHER ONE FOR HONG KONG."

"HAVING PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN THIS PRODUCT, I тоо AM VERY PROUD OF THE RECOGNITION RECEIVED, HE SAID.

**

"AFTER WORKING IN HONG KONG MAPPING FOR 22 YEARS, I HAD LITTLE BUT ONCE I TROUBLE WITH THE HISTORY FROM THE BRITISH POINT OF VIEW, DELVED INTO THE OLDER CHINESE AND PORTUGUESE PERSPECTIVES POINTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION BY DR ELIZABETH SINN OF THE HONG KONG UNIVERSITY I SOON REALISED THAT I HAD LITTLE IDEA OF THE

AND WAS

IMMENSITY

OF THE TASK.

||

FOR

A MAJOR PROBLEM WITH THE PROJECT HAD BEEN IN SELECTING WHICH MAPS TO LEAVE OUT, AS ENOUGH FASCINATING MATERIAL IS IN EXISTENCE THE PUBLICATION OF SEVERAL ATLASES.

/"THE PRE-1840