Macau participates in Hong Kong Book Fair

Macau is represented at the 2017 Hong Kong Book Fair. According to a statement issued by the Cultural Affairs Bureau (IC), more than 800 local publications will be presented at the celebrated book fair.

The purpose of the Macau Pavilion at this event is to introduce the region’s culture to Hong Kong and foreign readers.

The 28th Hong Kong Book Fair opened on Wednesday at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. The event is one of Asia’s largest book fairs, and attracted nearly 1.02 million visitors to its 2016 edition.

On July 19, the IC held a ‘New Books Release Presentation,’ featuring “The Great Doctor – Sun Yat-sen and Family in Macau” in conjunction with a lecture at the fair.

The book was launched last year to mark the 150th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen’s birth.

The Macau Foundation will also hold a ‘New Books Release Presentation’ today, focusing on the “Association of Piety and Longevity Kong Tac-Lam” from the series “Macau Wisdom Collection.”

Based in Macau, the Association of Piety and Longevity Kong Tac-Lam in Macau set up the first female-only Buddhist schools in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Through the schools’ efforts, the “Palm-leaf manuscripts” of Buddhism spread to the territory and were later listed on UNESCO’s “Memory of the World Register” in 2016, together with other Buddhist heritage documents.
Aside from the Hong Kong Book Fair, the IC and Macau Foundation have also participated in the Taipei Book Fair for several years.

To help mainland Chinese readers gain a deeper understanding of Macau culture, the IC also collaborated with the Macau Foundation to participate in the 27th National Book Trading Expo, which ran from May 31 to June 3 in the city of Langfang, Hebei Province.