As part of the celebrations to commemorate the centenary of the 1911 Revolution and the 100th anniversary of The University of Hong Kong, an exhibition is held at the University Museum and Art Gallery to trace the development of China in the past two centuries through the legacies of the Xu Family in Southern China.
Beginning from the late Qing period, through the Republican era to the present, members of the Xu Family served in multiple capacities that made them influential in charting the destiny of the Chinese nation. They include Qing mandarins; Chinese diplomatic corps; revolutionary military commanders; a martyr general; celebrated poets; wives of a literary giant and outstanding scientist. In addition, there are important educators and pioneering engineers through the successive episodes of the Opium War, the Taiping Rebellion, the Reform Movement of 1898, late-Qing Constitutional Monarchy, 1911 Revolution, Sino-Japanese War, up to the formation of New China.
This fully-illustrated publication accompanying the exhibition focuses on the saga of the Xu (Hui) family.