Charitable act:
Museum of History Assistant Curator Osmond Chan shows the tablet Lockhart presented to the Tung Wah Hospital in Hong Kong in 1920.
Charitable act:
Museum of History Assistant Curator Osmond Chan shows the tablet Lockhart presented to the Tung Wah Hospital in Hong Kong in 1920.
Post- war expo on show
April 22, 2014
The Museum of History is hosting an exhibition on the New Territories and Weihaiwei after the First Sino-Japanese War, the first of a series to mark the 120th anniversary of the conflict’s outbreak.
Featuring over 100 artefacts on loan from the National Library of Scotland related to Sir James Stewart Lockhart, a former Hong Kong Colonial Secretary and Commissioner of Weihaiwei, the exhibition showcases the changes in the two places during the early 20th century.
They include a complimentary tablet with the words "Ke yi liao ji" (curing people of hunger) presented by Lockhart to the Tung Wah Hospital in Hong Kong in 1920, thanking them for relief support for famine victims in Weihaiwei.
Another item on display is a cartoon The Situation in the Far East showing the separate spheres of influence of the major powers in China, drawn by a revolutionary in Hong Kong in 1899.
A 1929 map of Hong Kong showing the naming of a street in Wan Chai after Lockhart and a letter to the former official notifying him of the arrangement is also among the exhibits.
The exhibition will run until June 9. Click here for details.
