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Topic 1 Hong Kong Comic World 香港漫畫世界 (p.12)
Worksheet
Introduction
Layout of Exhibition Hall
1. Draw a floor plan of the layout of this exhibition
2. Describe the carpet design. Is it effective? Do you like it? Why?
Ans: Well known comic covers are shown in the carpet.
Comics in the movies
3. When did comics first for children? Name 2 titles.
Ans: Children’s Paradise /Little Angel’s
4. Where could children read such comics?
Ans: In a barber shop
1860-1920 - Origins
5. In which country did comics first appear? In which year?
Ans: 1841 London.
6. When did comics first appear in in Hong Kong?
Ans: 1867
1930s - The wind from Shanghai and Guangzhou
7. What kinds of newspaper included comics in 1930?
Ans: 1)The King Sheung Daily News
2)Wah Kin Yat Po
3)Sing Tao Daily
1940s - War,Peace and Poverty
8. What were comics about in the 1940s? Hint : Did the writers make any
comments about society or politics?
Ans: Social & political commentaries
1950s - Consolidation and Creation 凝聚與創作
9. Which comics were about social issues? Name five comics.
Ans: Sister Land/Kiddy Cheung /young master/big chu/The man in a suit
1960s - A blossoming Scene
10. When did comics first go on sale in Hong Kong?
Ans: 1960
11. What was the most popular?
Ans: Old master Q
12. Give two examples of comics that have been translated into Chinese.
Ans: 007 Justice League of America
1970s - Ku Fu Fever and Animated Cartoons 功夫熱潮與動畫卡通
13. When did the Kong Fu comics become popular in Hong Kong?
Ans: 1970
14. Which Kong Fu films became box hits?
Ans:The Young Friend//The Dragon and Tiger Gate
1980s -1990s - The issue of 1997 九七回歸
15. When have the film and the content of the comic book diversified?
Ans: 1980-1990
16. Which comic do you like most? Why? Write a paragraph about your
favourite comic.
1. Romance and love story
2. Science Fiction Adventures and Detective Stories
3. Sex and Violent Stories
17. Chose a comic writer and write a few lines about him/her.
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Topic 2a Cantonese Opera Heritage Hall 粵劇文物館
The origins of Cantonese Opera
1. In which dynasty did Cantonese Opera become popular in Guangdong?
Ans: Ming Dyansty
2. When did the language shift from Mandarin to Cantonese?
Ans: Early 20s century
Red Boat and Cross Mountain Troupes 紅船及過山班
3. Who were the Red Boat and Cross Mountain Troupes?
4. Who lived on the Red Boat?
Ans: Chinese Opera Troupes
5. Why did they live on the boat?
Ans: As they always staged and performed near the delta of the Pearl River
Cantonese opera in Hong Kong
6. Name some famous Chinese Opera Troupes and their leading characters
Post-War Development 戰後的發展
7. What was the name of the organization of the Chinese Opera artists?
Ans: Chinese Artist Association of Hong Kong
Cantonese Opera Around the World 粵劇在東南亞及美洲
8. In which cities is Cantonese opera performed?
Opera stage at Zumiao of Foshan 彿山的廟戲台
9. What can we see in the middle of the exhibition? Draw a picture.
Ans: a replica of the Chinese Opera Stage at Zumiao of Foshan
Painted Faces in Cantonese Opera 粵劇臉譜
10. Which characters would have their faces made-up?
Ans: Comedian Roles
11. What is the name of a pre-opera show in Chinese Opera?
Ans: The joint investiture of a prime minister by 6 kingdoms.
12. What is the purpose of this pre-opera show ?
13. Describe one of the characters in this show.
The bamboo Shed Theatre 粵劇戲棚
14. What is the stage made of?
Ans: bamboo, wood, palm leaves
15. Which theatre was the most important for staging Chinese opera in Hong Kong?
Ans: Lee Theatre
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Topic 2b Cantonese Opera Heritage Hall The artist in Chinese
Opera
Dressing Rooms
1. What did the artist put in their dressing room?
Ans: Personalize clothes boxes to store their costumes and headgear.
Cantonese Opera costumes 粵劇服飾
2. What factors affect the costumes design?
Ans: Sex , Role , Plot , Personality, Environment and Occasion
Gods in Cantonese Opera 角色
3. Which god in the Chinese Opera is on display in this exhibition?
Ans: Wah Kwong
Musical Instruments and Music 樂器與言樂
4. What are the two forms of music in Chinese Opera?
Ans: Vocal music and instrumental music
5. Draw a picture to show an example of a musical instrument.
The Libretto 劇本 (Dialogue)
6. What are the two types of early librettos?
Ans: 1) full scores with fixed dialogue
2) a story outline that requires the artists to improvise off stage
Vocal Performing Style
Stage Props 道具
The Gods of Cantonese Opera 戲神
7. Make a list of the six roles in Chinese Opera.
1) Man Mou Sang
2) Siu Sang
3) Jing Yan Fa Dan
4) Yee Bong Fa Dan
5) Chou Sang
6) Mou Sang
8. In which movie did Fong Yim Fun use the sedan chair?
Ans: The Romance of Leung Chuk
9. How did a person become a Chinese Opera artist before 1920?
Ans: learnt from master
10. Where can a person learn Chinese Opera after 1998?
Ans: At the Chinese Opera Training Institute and the HK Academy for
Performing Art jointly organized a cer& diploma courses in Chinese Opera.
11. Who was the author of Lady Chung Mo Yin?
Ans: Lee Siu Wan and Tong Tik Sang
12. Name some famous Chinese Opera artists?
13. Which artists were popular from the 1920s to the 1950s?
14. Where could we see people singing songs from Chinese Opera?
Ans; amusement park /tea house / restaurants
Costumes: Foot wear 靴鞋
15. Draw a picture of the Manchurian shoes; and the embroidered green long boots with tiger
heads motif.
Headgear 頭飾
16. What type of head gear did the king and the noble people wear?
Ans: Hard headgear
17. What type of head gear was for common people?
Ans: soft headgear
18. Draw a picture of the head gear worn for the court councilor or aristocratic roles?
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Topic 3 Hong Kong Home: Multi-stories 家...春秋(p.14)
Our Homes...Our stories...Ourselves
1. What does the exhibition explore?
Ans: Over 100 years of housing and domestic life in HK
A century of innovation and change 百截變遷與發展
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1. Where did people live before the mid-19 century?
Ans: On or near the water
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2. Where did people live during the mid-19 century?
Ans: Low-rent tenements, rooftop houses temporary structures.
Squatters and Refugees Temporary Settlements 臨時居所
1. Why did thousands of refugees come to HK?
Ans: Because of the Civil War in China
2. How did they live? In what type of housing did they live?
Ans: Squatters on rooftops, balconies, alleys and hillsides, wooden houses.
A Comrador's Home: Life with more comforts 買辦的家
1. Who were the compradors?
Ans: They were the traders, the middlemen.
2. Who could live with more comforts at that time? Why?
Ans: The compradors because they were wealthy.
Living on the sea 海上居民
1. Where did many people in Hong Kong live before the colonial period?
Ans: People in Hong Kong lived on the ocean water in sampans fishing boats and junks
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The view from Tai Ping Shan to Victoria Peak (19 Century)太平山上下
1. Who lived at the top of Victoria Peak?
Ans: The Foreign expatriates
2. Who lived in the middle levels?
Ans: The rich Compradors
3. Who lived around the foothills? (at the bottom of Victoria Peak)
Ans: The local Chinese
Resettlement Estates - 1960s & 1970s 徙置區
1. Where did the government build the resettlement estates? For whom?
Ans: Yu Kwong, Tin Wan and Shek Pak Wan for the fishermen.
2. Why did the government build large public estates for the homeless in 1953?
Ans: Because of the fire in Shek Kip Mei in 1953.
3. How big was a flat in the public resettlement estates?
Ans: 19 square meter per unit with only 2.4 square meters for each person, shared
toilets, bathrooms and laundry rooms
4. What did older people and children do to earn extra money? (income=money)
Ans: They made plastic flowers, toys and Christmas decorations.
5. Name some estates built by the government in the 1960s and 1970s?
Ans: Lok fu estate, Cheung Shan Estate, Wong Chuk Hang estate, Jordan valley
Estates, Yiu Tung estate, Yiu Tung Estate.
The Industrial home 工業之家
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1. What were the local traditional Chinese homes called in the early 20 century?
Ans: ‘Tang Lau’
2. Where were these homes found?
Ans: Sheung Wan, West Point, WaiChai and Yau Ma Tei.
3. What were these traditional Chinese homes like? (3 things)
Ans: They were only few stories high.
Several families usually occupied each unit.
The interior of each unit was divided into multiple cubicles by thin partitions.
4. What examples (exhibits) from a Tan Lau are part of the exhibition?
Ans: Bunkbed, partition screen, food kit, tin toys (3 piece) and sewing machine
Dream homes
1. What was the most common form of housing in the 1960s?
Ans: Squatter’s huts, villages and resettlement estates.
2. What was the ideal home like?
Ans: plenty of space, western styles and modern fashionable décor.
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Images of a safe home 家居安全
1. Look at the government posters about home safety. What did these posters teach
people? Ans: fire safety, home invasion, child –proofing,
domestic hazards and the safe use of electricity.
Images of an ideal home 安居之家
Mei Foo
1. What was the name of the private estate built in the early 1970s?
Ans: Mei Foo sun Chuen
2. Describe this type of estate. Give examples of two features.
Ans: Large scene wallpaper and tinted glass mirrors to create a sense of nature
and space.
The use of furniture sets and plastic household items
The future 前瞻
Show Flat
1. By the 1990s, what did private developers use to attract buyers to buy their flat?
Ans: promotional conferences, publicity functions including parties and
camivals), decorated show flats.
Contemporary house designs
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1. In the 20 century, who or what did houses in Hong Kong imitate?
Ans: European and American designs
2. Make a list of the items on display in the product development glass cabinet?
Ans: Zaga modular knob rack
Nidus wine rack
Travel case
Folding stool
Compact discrack
‘Genie’ rotating alarm clock
‘Bobo and lili candle holder
‘Gulu’ brush
‘sirena’ hanger
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Contemporary Interior designs of the 21 century
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1. Write a few lines about contemporary interior designs of the 21 century?
Ans: The traditional Chinese styles with a touch of nostalgia.
A rich variety including:
Spatial flexibility, without barriers between rooms’
Minimalism with a focus on functionality and purity of design
High-tech environment that combine comfort with advanced audio-
visual
installations
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4a New Territories Heritage Hall 新界文物館(P.18)
Introduction
Natural Environment
Our location and climate
1. Where is HK?
Ans: Located at the southern part of the Asian and bordens the South China sea
2. What is the weather system?
Ans: tropical & subtropical
Natural hazards
3. What are the natural hazards affecting Hong Kong?
Ans: Typhoons & Rainstroms
4. What are the results of hazards?
Ans: floods and landslides
Life in prehistory
5. How many ancient rock carvings are there in HK?
Ans: 8
The Quest for food
6. What did prehistoric people use to catch fish?
Ans: anchors holes and spearheads
Food Resources
7. What kinds of food did prehistoric people eat?
Ans: fruit/fish/animals
Food Preparation and Processing
8. How did prehistoric people prepare their food?
Ans: cut off their heads/had their bodies/dried smoked/ salted
Food Consumption and Exchange
9. What was used to ranser goods?
Ans: between the shore and large vessels
Trade and Coastal Defence
Trade: from Tang to Ming Dynasties (618-907)
10. What kinds of good were mainly traded in the Ming Dynasty?
Ans: Porcelain/beads
Trade: Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
11. What was smuggled that actually affected the history of HK?
12. What did China export to other countries during Tang and Ming?
Ans: silk/ceramics/tea
Chinese: Merchant ship: exercise and customs, trade goods, barge 駁艇
13. Where were the 4 customs offices in HK in 1644?
Ans: Kap Shui Mun/Kowloon City/Fat Tau Chau/Cheung Chau
Life on the fishing boats
14. What do we call the early fishing families?
Ans: floating people
Apparel 服飾
15. What did the fishermen wear to protect them from the sun?
Ans: round-top bamboo hats
Earth god 土地
16. Why did the shack dwellers worship?
Ans: Earth God as he could warn off evil and spirits
Sampans 舢舨 and Types of Early Fishing Boats 漁船種類
17. What were the 4 main methods of fishing?
Ans: trawing/seining/gill netting/long lining
Maintenance of fishing boats and implements 漁船,漁具的保養維修
18. What were fishing nets made of?
Ans: hemp/jute
19. What did fisherman do with their nets after returning from sea?
Ans: wash nets with fresh water/hang them out to dry in the sun/ Once a year. Put ducks egg
while on them dry them
20. What did fishmen put on their boats to prevent it from leaking?
Ans: tong oil
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21. What are net made of today?
Ans: Nylon
22. What were the 3 main fishing implements?
Ans: fish barrels/fish basket/shrimp Scuuce barrel
Life in a village
Major clans in the New Territories
23. In which areas did Hong Kong fishermen live?
Ans: Cheung Chau/Tai O /Castle Peak Bay/ Tai Po
Lineage organization
24. Which 2 groups of farmers lived in HK before 1984?
Ans: Puntis/Hakkas
The arrival of the Hakkas
25. Why/When did Hakkas move to live in HK?
Ans:During Yongzheng Quianlong, the court encouraged people to reclaim wastelands for
farming
26. What did Hakka people wear?
Ans: Men and women wear black or blue tops/trousers for working in the field/women have
headgear or head cloths
27. What is the traditional snack food of the Hakka people?
Ans: Hakka dumpling
Ancestral Hall and Lineage Life 祠堂與宗族活動
28. What is in the centre of the Exhibition Hall?
Ans: Ancestral hall
29. What is an ancestral hall?
Ans: a centre for worshipping their ancestors
30. What function were carried out in this hall?
Ans: Lantern Lighting Ceremony/Spring and Autumn ancestral worship
31. What kinds of shops can we find in this hall?
The arrival of Puntis 本地人遷入
32. Why/When did the Puntis move to live in HK?
Ans: some like living conditions and climate,some fleed from a war-torn china
Festivals 節慶
33. What are the major festivals in the New Territories?
Ans: Chinese New Year/Ching Ming/Dragon Boat/Mid-Autumn/Chung Yeung
34. What activities do they have?
Ans: Parades / Cantonese Opera / Taoist rites
Weddings 婚禮
35. What were the major things to do during a marriage ceremony?
Ans: three comments and the six rites
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Topic 4b New Territories Heritage Hall
Life under British rule
1. When was Hong Kong under the British rule?
Ans: 1842-1997
2. When were the New Territories under the British rule?
Ans: 1/7/1898----30/6/1997
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3. Where and when was the 1 New Territories police station set up?
Ans: 1899 in Tai Po
District Office 理民府
4. What were the main duties of the district office?
Early engineering and construction 早期主要建設
5. Draw a map to show the 3 regions in the N.T. District map of 1948
6. What is the new name for district office?
Ans: Home affairs department
7. What were the two main constructions when the British took over the N.T.?]
Ans: Tai Po Road & the Kowloon Canton Railway
8. When was KCR built?
Ans: Started in 1906, completed in 1910
Colony armorial bearings 紋章
9. Draw a picture of the colony armorial bearings
Police station
Life in new town
The "new town" concept and why build a new town
10. Which district was the first garden city in Hong Kong under British rule?
Ans: Kowloon Tong
11. What was the original idea/concept of a new town?
(The original concept of a new town was to create …..)
Ans: Ideal living environment and modern industrial developments
The development of new towns
12. When and why did the HK government start to build new towns?
Ans: After the Second World War, Massive influxes of immigrants cause urban
area were crowded.
Planning and management -people, plan and organizations
13. What disaster made the HK government start a full-scale public housing initiative?
Ans: the fires at Shek Kip Mei
14. Which were the first, second and third groups of new towns?
Ans: Tsuen Wan, Shatin, Tuen mun
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Tai Po/Fanling/Sheng Shui (2 )
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Tseng Kwan O/Tin Shui Wai / Tung Chug (3 )
15. What is the aim of a new town? The aim is to create a…..
Ans: a balanced and self contained community
16. What is the biggest problem in new towns?
Ans: Public transportation system
17. What are the two departments responsible for town planning?
Ans: The Committee on Planning and Land Development
The Town Planning Board
Population Changes
18. In 1996, how many people were living in new towns?
Ans:2.9 million
New Challenges
19. What are the three major projects being carried out in the new territories?
Ans: a) Disneyland
b) Port development
c) West Rail
Environmental Protection
20. What is the new name for HK?
Ans: HK Special Administration Region
HK Disneyland
21. Where will Disneyland be built in HK?
Ans: At penny’s bay on Lautau Island
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Airport Core 核心 Programme
22. In the Airport Core Programme, which projects are closely related to the future of the
NIT?
Ans: Chek Lap Kok Airport
Airport railway
Lantau link
North Lantau Expressway
Route Three
Tung Cheung New Town.
The HK Special Administrative Region
23. When did Hong Kong become part of China?
Ans: July 1, 1997
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