The University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong collaborates with the Ferenc Hopp Museum of Asiatic Arts in Budapest to present an exhibition and publication featuring early photographic images by Dr Dezso Bozóky. Poised to learn more about Asia and to experience China first-hand, naval doctor Bozóky (1871–1957) travelled to the East during the first decade of the twentieth century, recorded his journey in a hitherto unpublished diary and photographed and self-developed hundreds of images that today present rare visual resources of the former colonial city and its busy and world-famous Victoria Harbour. In an ever more developing Hong Kong, Bozóky’s beautiful black-and-white and hand-coloured pictures present historic documents that allow us to re-trace their master’s steps and offer insights into the bustling merchant town, culturally mixed society and lush natural landscape that he encountered. Bozóky’s images displayed a foreign world to his compatriots at home where they formed a treasure trove of information in early 1900s Budapest, just as they do today.

Poon Chan-leung joined the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre in 1991. He has performed in more than 100 productions, including I Have A Date With Spring, Three Sisters, The Crucible, and The Importance of Being Earnest. The Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies awarded him Best Supporting Actor for Black Elk Speaks in 1995 and for A Small Family Business in 2005. Poon is also a talented film actor whose credits include An Umbrella Story, The Legend of the Mad Phoenix and Love a la Zen. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor in 1997 at both the Golden Horse Awards and the Hong Kong Film Awards for his performance in The Legend of the Mad Phoenix.