HKU Libraries' Reading Club to hold book talk on "Kong Kids: A Nightmare for Parents and Teachers"

Born between the mid 90s and early 2000s, 港孩 ("Kong Hai" or "Kong Kids") are epitome of a mix of a material culture in the home environment and the information explosion in the global environment.

Date: 4 February 2010 (Thursday)
Time: 7:15-9:00 pm
Venue: Special Collections, 1/F, Main Library, HKU
Speaker: Ms Wong Ming Lok
Moderator: Professor Lui Tai Lok ，Dept of Sociology, HKU
Language: Cantonese (Simultaneous Interpretation to English)

Registration: https://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2010_2.html

About the speaker:

Ms Wong Ming Lok was born in Hong Kong. She is a freelance educator, and has offered training for students in over 20 schools/institutions in the past 3 years in areas of debating, current affairs analysis, English drama education etc. 

Wong was an administrative officer for the HKSAR Government from 2001-2005, campaign manager for the 'Alan Leong CE Election Campaign Office' from 2006-7 and is now a columnist in Ming Pao, part-time host in RTHK and part-time lecturer in the Hong Kong Shue Yan University.

Media contacts: Ms Carmen Tsang, HKU Libraries (Tel: 2859-2211)