Library to host lecture on Chinese history

Goffstown Editor — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 21:04:00 GMT

This fall is all about China in seven New Hampshire communities participating in the Big Read based on Amy Tan’s novel, “The Joy Luck Club.”

Perspectives, part of the Friends of the Whipple Free Library, provides this fascinating look at China over the past 100 years.

Harrison Sacket Elliot was a theologian and educator who began his career as secretary to the bishop of China from 1905 to 1908, also serving as a correspondent for the Associated Press.

His photographs provide a striking visual history of China during that period. In the 1980s his daughter, Asian scholar Jean Johnson, traveled in China and photographed many of the same places, highlighting both continuity and change over the century that had passed.

On Friday, Oct. 19, Jean Johnson will present a slide show of these photographs and a lecture comparing and contrasting the China of her father’s time with the present. Join for an evening of stunning photography and commentary. Refreshments will be served.

This program is free and open to the public. All are welcome. This program will be held at the New Boston Community Church at 7:30 p.m. following the community supper.

The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the Institute of Museum and Library Services and Arts Midwest.

For more information, call Whipple Free Library at 487-3391

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Library to host lecture on Chinese history