Film-screening-cum-sharing – “Lest We Forget: Nanjing Massacre 1937”
Film-screening-cum-sharing – “Lest We Forget: Nanjing Massacre 1937”
The Hong Kong University Graduates Association (HKUGA) and Hornell Hall of HKU, together with Toronto-based ALPHA Education1 and WongAvery Asia Pacific Peace Museum (APPM), will organise a film-screening-cum-sharing event in HKU at 3:00pm on 13 December 2025 (Saturday) titled “Lest We Forget: Nanjing Massacre 1937”.
ALPHA Education and the APPM were founded respectively in 1997 and 2024 in Toronto by a group of Hongkongers emigrated to Canada. ALPHA Education is a non-profit and registered charity in Canada, under which the APPM was launched and is operated. They promote a critical-historical inquiry of World War II in Asia, dedicating to education and peace. The APPM is a project of ALPHA Education, taking seven years in the making from launching to opening.
This event is also supported by Our Hong Kong Foundation and the Maritime Silk Road Society.
The film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking will be screened at the event. The film debuted in 2007 in Toronto, Nanjing and Hong Kong and it won multiple awards. It was initiated and produced by ALPHA Education through fundraising.
A Chinese-American, Iris Chang (1968-2004) authored The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997). The book was on the US New York Times best-seller list for 10 weeks and was translated into 17 languages. It was considered the first, full study in English of the Nanjing Massacre, drawing significant attention and discussions.
The film was about the young Iris Chang’s journey of bringing the darkest reaches of humanity to light and how Iris Chang righteously and courageously continued to speak the historical truths thereafter.
The Executive Director of ALPHA Education, the Hong Kong-born Ms Flora Mei- ling Chong, will share at the event the stories of a group of Canada-emigrated Hongkongers in promoting peace education for over two decades through the history of World War II in Asia and how it has won the support of local education authorities, teachers, youngsters, universities and the government. Besides, Messrs Tony Hon-yiu Lau (a practising lawyer in Hong Kong and a HKU graduate who interned at ALPHA Education for two months in 2014) and Jacky Tze-hei Lam [a current Year 3 HKU student in the bachelor course of Social Sciences (Politics and Public Administration; Criminology) who also interned at ALPHA Education for two months 11 years after Mr Lau, i.e. in 2025] will share how they were deeply moved by their internship experience and have since continued the mission of peace education.
Students of the HKU will also distribute hand-made boutonniere to event participants (as long as stock lasts). The Chinese violet cress is also known as Zijin Grass. It blossoms in early spring and signifies peace.
The Hong Kong University Graduates Association (HKUGA) and Hornell Hall of HKU, together with Toronto-based ALPHA Education1 and WongAvery Asia Pacific Peace Museum (APPM), will organise a film-screening-cum-sharing event in HKU at 3:00pm on 13 December 2025 (Saturday) titled “Lest We Forget: Nanjing Massacre 1937”.
ALPHA Education and the APPM were founded respectively in 1997 and 2024 in Toronto by a group of Hongkongers emigrated to Canada. ALPHA Education is a non-profit and registered charity in Canada, under which the APPM was launched and is operated. They promote a critical-historical inquiry of World War II in Asia, dedicating to education and peace. The APPM is a project of ALPHA Education, taking seven years in the making from launching to opening.
This event is also supported by Our Hong Kong Foundation and the Maritime Silk Road Society.
The film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking will be screened at the event. The film debuted in 2007 in Toronto, Nanjing and Hong Kong and it won multiple awards. It was initiated and produced by ALPHA Education through fundraising.
A Chinese-American, Iris Chang (1968-2004) authored The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997). The book was on the US New York Times best-seller list for 10 weeks and was translated into 17 languages. It was considered the first, full study in English of the Nanjing Massacre, drawing significant attention and discussions.
The film was about the young Iris Chang’s journey of bringing the darkest reaches of humanity to light and how Iris Chang righteously and courageously continued to speak the historical truths thereafter.
The Executive Director of ALPHA Education, the Hong Kong-born Ms Flora Mei- ling Chong, will share at the event the stories of a group of Canada-emigrated Hongkongers in promoting peace education for over two decades through the history of World War II in Asia and how it has won the support of local education authorities, teachers, youngsters, universities and the government. Besides, Messrs Tony Hon-yiu Lau (a practising lawyer in Hong Kong and a HKU graduate who interned at ALPHA Education for two months in 2014) and Jacky Tze-hei Lam [a current Year 3 HKU student in the bachelor course of Social Sciences (Politics and Public Administration; Criminology) who also interned at ALPHA Education for two months 11 years after Mr Lau, i.e. in 2025] will share how they were deeply moved by their internship experience and have since continued the mission of peace education.
Students of the HKU will also distribute hand-made boutonniere to event participants (as long as stock lasts). The Chinese violet cress is also known as Zijin Grass. It blossoms in early spring and signifies peace.
