Making History Enjoyable : "Animated Chinese History for Curious Minds" Project
- 2019
- Feature Story
- Research Centre for Chinese Literature and Literary Culture
"Animated Chinese History for Curious Minds", a project hosted by the Research Centre for Chinese Literature and Literary Culture (RCCLLC), aims at giving primary school students happy learning experiences of the subject. The series of 10 animated videos features the life story of 10 legendary Chinese historical figures from different eras, professions and vocations, including Confucius, Qu Yuan, Zhang Qian, Zhang Heng, Du Fu, Sun Yat-sen, Cai Yuanpei and others. This project is generously funded by Ning Po Residents Association and supported by Modern Educational Research Society, Ltd. and Commercial Radio Hong Kong.
To promote the project and the learning of Chinese history and culture, the project team has organised many activities to engage the public. The Hong Kong Primary School Chinese History and Culture Quiz utilised the test app Edu DynamiX for the first round of the competition, attracting around 190 schools and 4,400 participants. The final of the competition took place on The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) campus in December 2018, and all participants had a joyful and exciting learning experience. For secondary school students, speech training was given to two schools to immerse young adolescents in the sonic beauty of the Chinese language and culture. From November 2018 onwards, the project has begun to organise public lectures on Chinese historical figures. The first lecture, given by Dr Leung Cho Nga, former Assistant Professor of the Department of Social Sciences of EdUHK, took place in the Hong Kong Museum of History. The second lecture titled “Kang Youwei and Modern Chinese Utopia”, to be delivered by Academician Wang Fan Sen (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) took place on 28 February 2019.
The videos, in Cantonese, Putonghua and English, together with the teaching materials are all available for download from the project website (http://www.eduhk.hk/chihistoryanime/).
The first public lecture was delivered by Dr Leung Cho Nga and hosted by Professor Leonard Chan, Director of RCCLLC.
The final of Hong Kong Primary School Chinese History and Culture Quiz held in December 2018 was full of excitement and laughter.
