A Chinese New Year Lunch on 20th February, 1999 at
Lee Hu Fook Restaurant, Gerard Street, London
The Friends are grateful to Professor Hugh Baker, Professor of Chinese at SOAS and a well-known friend of the RAS in Hong Kong, for making the premises available for our functions, and it is hoped that when circumstances allow it will be possible to continue to meet there, which also enables us to put on light refreshments.
Such an auspicious start has enabled the committee to look further ahead and two more immediate events are:
a) A trip to northern France led by Mr. Keith Stevens, "World War I Battlefield Tour - The Chinese Connection," in mid-May 1999
b) A lecture by Dr. Dan Waters on Saturday, 29th May, 1999 on present day Hong Kong, at SOAS
For the Friends to exist and to continue to flourish, the group needs strong and dedicated personnel to move it forward. The Friends are very fortunate to have attracted some well-known names to their ranks. Besides Mr. Keith Stevens mentioned above and renowned, inter alia, for his knowledge of and publications on Chinese gods, this report cannot be complete without paying tribute to the organising abilities of Ms. Julia Barry (Treasurer), Mrs. Anita Wilson and Mrs. Rosemary Lee (Activities Secretaries). Their dedication in ensuring that the Friends move forward is invaluable.
This report is being written on a mild February morning in the United Kingdom, overlooking green fields and the River Orwell estuary, with a herd of deer in the background. It is a superb view, but in the far background there are the Felixstowe docks, with their tall cranes thrusting out into the North Sea. These docks are owned by Hutchison (Mr Li Ka-shing) and one cannot, even if one wished, which we do not, forget the Hong Kong connection even in this part of the world. Such tangible sights only help to perpetuate memories of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Branch of the RAS. It is therefore with great confidence for a successful future this year and beyond that the Friends send greetings to members of RASHKB at your annual general meeting.
David Gilkes (Chairman)
March, 1999
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A Chinese New Year Lunch on 20th February, 1999 at
Lee Hu Fook Restaurant, Gerard Street, London
The Friends are grateful to Professor Hugh Baker, Professor of Chinese at SOAS and a well known friend of the RAS in Hong Kong, for making the premises available for our functions, and it is hoped that when circumstances allow it will be possible to continue to meet there, which also enables us to put on light refreshments.
Such an auspicious start has enabled the committee to look fur- ther ahead and two more immediate events are:
a
A trip to northern France led by Mr. Keith Stevens, "World
War I Battlefield Tour - The Chinese Connection," in mid-M. World
b)
1999
A lecture by Dr. Dan Waters on Saturday, 29th May, 1999 on present day Hong Kong, at SOAS
For the Friends to exist and to continue to flourish, the group needs. strong and dedicated personnel to move it forward. The Friends are very fortunate to have attracted some well-known names to their ranks. Besides Mr. Keith Stevens mentioned above and renowned, inter alia, for his knowledge of and publications on Chinese gods, this report can- not be complete without paying tribute to the organising abilities of Ms. Julia Barry (Treasurer), Mrs. Anita Wilson and Mrs. Rosemary Lee (Activities Secretaries). Their dedication in ensuring that the Friends move forward is invaluable.
This report is being written on a mild February morning in the United Kingdom, overlooking green fields and the River Orwell estuary, with a herd of deer in the background. It is a superb view, but in the far background there are the Felixstowe docks, with their tall cranes thrust- ing out into the North Sea. These docks are owned by Hutchison (Mr Li Ka-Shing) and one cannot, even if one wished, which we do not, forget the Hong Kong connection even in this part of the world. Such tangible sights only help to perpetuate memories of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Branch of the RAS. It is therefore with great confi- dence for a successful future this year and beyond that the Friends send greetings to members of RASHKB at your annual general meeting.
David Gilkes (Chairman)
March, 1999
xxvii
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