{"id":1319213,"date":"2024-08-12T16:38:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkadc.tecturasystem.com\/event\/along-chinas-coast-dezso-bozokys-travel-photography-1908-1909\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T16:38:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:38:31","slug":"along-chinas-coast-dezso-bozokys-travel-photography-1908-1909","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/event\/along-chinas-coast-dezso-bozokys-travel-photography-1908-1909\/","title":{"rendered":"Along China&#8217;s Coast: Dezs\u0151 Boz\u00f3ky&#8217;s Travel Photography 1908-1909"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the success of UMAG\u2019s 2016 exhibition Pictures of the Past: Hungarian Photographer Dezs\u0151 Boz\u00f3ky in Hong Kong, the Museum is now presenting a larger group of photographs that Dezs\u0151 Boz\u00f3ky took along China\u2019s coast from 1908\u20131909. A naval officer with the Austro-Hungarian Navy, Boz\u00f3ky first left Hong Kong for Canton before travelling to Fujian province, Shanghai and Beijing, documenting the countryside and cities, along with their inhabitants.<br \/>\nThe photographer\u2019s interest in nature and architecture and, above all, the Qing dynasty street scenes and people he met, continue to transmit the excitement and wonder of this early European traveler in a country and culture so far from his own. UMAG\u2019s 2019 exhibition records an abundance of impressions from areas of China that have undergone phenomenal amounts of social and economic change.<br \/>\nFor 70 of the years since Boz\u00f3ky\u2019s journey along China\u2019s coast, Hungary has had a diplomatic representation in Hong Kong\u2014a history that our project celebrates with this exhibition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","location_type":[350136],"event_category":[373317,373499],"area_type":[350138],"event_language":[],"series":[],"event_category_other":[],"class_list":["post-1319213","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","location_type-indoor-en","event_category-visual-arts-en","event_category-visual-arts-photography-en","area_type-local","search-detail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/1319213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1319213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"location_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location_type?post=1319213"},{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=1319213"},{"taxonomy":"area_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/area_type?post=1319213"},{"taxonomy":"event_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_language?post=1319213"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1319213"},{"taxonomy":"event_category_other","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artseventsdb.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category_other?post=1319213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}