Talks

THE TALKS

Through decades of transformation, thriving industries and black markets, Hong Kong’s story is filled with rich diversity, intrigue and evolution. Each of Jason Wordie’s talks offers a lifetime of stories pieced together to create an informative yet enthralling narrative guaranteed to entertain as much as educate.

19th Century Urban Evolution

The Smoke of Heaven

Triads in Hong Kong

Flower Boats & Working Girls

Private Lives – Women in 19th Century Hong Kong

Women in the 20th Century – A Hong Kong Perspective

Hong Kong in Transformation: Life in the 1950s

Decade of Challenge and Transformation: Hong Kong in the 1960s

Decade of Redevelopment: Hong Kong in the 1970s

Hong Kong in its Regional Context

Hidden Diversity – Hong Kong’s Ethnic Minority Communities

Pirates of the Pearl

A View of the Peak

Water in Hong Kong: The City that shouldn’t exist

Much More than a Fishing Village

How Hong Kong Became – and Un-became – ‘a barren rock’

Hong Kong’s Fishing Industry