Click the above title to get more info of this exhibition. Attracted by its advertisement around the Hunghum Tunnel while i was on the bus to HK Island. Been there today with my friends, stunning decoration but...
i wonder why the English descriptions are so inconsistent... some of them used present tense, some used past tense and some even future tense... feels like the whole thing is divided by different parts and each were done by different people, to be clear it looks like a student group project to me without someone who edits the whole thing to look like one... Besides, my friend discovered that there're some problems with their Chinese descriptions as well... the days we read History textbooks we all read English books so i'm not pretty sure the Chinese translation of most of the terms (well the Mother Language Teaching policy comes too late to me...) but as far as i know royal means 皇家 but they use 王家... looks like Wong's family to us... and they use 攻占 instead of 攻佔. dunno if i was wrong but it just looks weird...
And one that bothers me most is that when they talk about Napoleon, they use Bonaparte most of the time, so... okay i know Napoleon's name is Napoleon Bonaparte... but when i saw Bonaparte i was thinking, is that the Bonaparte that i've studied??? Napoleon Bonaparte? Or another Bonaparte?? and don't think people in HK knows Bonaparte means Napoleon actually... Especially in one of the timeline/chart, they use Bonaparte for all other events and issues except once he crowned himself Emperor... once again i feel like... are they talking about the same person!!?? in the chart it's like "18xx Bonaparte was elected as Consulate. 18xx Napoleon crowned himself King" ... !!!???!!! if they are talking about Napoleon Bonaparte the whole time then why they didn't keep using Bonaparte or Napoleon or Napoleon Bonaparte!?? if they're not the same person then what's going on with this Bonaparte and Napoleon Bonaparte? how they're related? why they're in the same timeline/chart!!???
In all... maybe i'm not educated enough... maybe i dun have much common sense in history... so i'm not sure if my thoughts are reasonable but i truly really think that this exhibition is not seriously made... bad presentation... but the decoration is still stunning though...
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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