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Memories of a Bygone Era: Resettlement in Hong Kong 1950-1972

  • Past Rotating Exhibits
    • Refugee and Renaissance Man: Solomon Bard (1916-2014) and His 60 Years in Hong Kong
    • Tram Tales: 120 Years of Hong Kong Tramways
    • Hong Kong Memories: Miniatures & Photographs of Old Hong Kong Streetscapes
    • Japanese War Propaganda, 1931-1945
    • Memories of a Bygone Era: Resettlement in Hong Kong 1950-1972
    • On the Verge of Metropolis: Squatters in Hong Kong
    • Art of War: Chinese woodcuts from Yan’an ca. 1944
    • The Art of Literal Articulation: Translation Manuscript of Jin Ping Mei and Xiyou Ji
  • Permanent Exhibits
    • Defence: THE BATTERY
    • Refuge: THE MATSHEDS
    • Royal Engineers: THE MESS
    • Shelter: THE SQUATTERS and THE COTTAGES
    • Royal Hong Kong Police Force: THE CELL and THE SAFE HOUSE
    • Education: THE UNIVERSITY

The Univeristy of Chicago Presents | Memories of a Bygone Era: Resettlement in Hong Kong 1950-1972

In the early post-war years, recurrent squatter fires and problems associated with squatting had gradually threatened to disrupt the urban framework in Hong Kong. The government was forced to embark on an unprecedented large-scale resettlement program. Initially, the emphasis was geared toward the eviction of squatters and the rehousing of as many of them as possible in permanent accommodation - at high densities and low standards. Government officials, making referencing to the sheer quantity of the resettlement blocks constructed, often described the program as a glorious achievement. Others, horrified by the tedium of the design, the density of the population and the poverty of the environment in these estates, blamed the government for its misguided housing policy. Either way, the resettlement experience had become one of the most important shared memories of ‘home’ for many Hong Kong people.

The exhibition provides a window for a bygone era when resettlement estates constituted a unique urban Hong Kong landscape. Read more

Date:   Exhibition extends to December 3, 2021
            Monday – Friday, except public holidays 
Time:   10:30 – 16:00 
Venue: Block A, The Hong Kong Jockey Club University of Chicago Heritage Courtyard and Interpretation Centre

 

 

 

 

The University of Chicago
The Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust

Heritage Courtyard and Interpretation Centre

 

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