陳教授在中文大學建立「環球健康及人道醫學」(global health and humanitarian medicine) 專題學科。為了令學生可以學以致用,她和團隊走訪過百條內地偏遠、受貧窮和天災影響的少數民族小村莊,尋找適合作實地教育及研習的基地。本書收錄了那十多年在國內建構實地體驗學習模式過程中發生的小故事。這些年來,靠着各團隊成員的參與及付出,再加上一點點運氣,克服了在旅途上遇上的種種千奇百怪的困難。過程中,陳教授更發掘了多位出色而有決心、有教育下一代使命、在書內被稱為「雞腳英雄」的好老師。
How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do sucheveryday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Integrating architecture and history, this book invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive firsthand historical materials. As the readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes, the book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history. -------------- This book is a robust and in-depth study of the market building history of Hong Kong since the 1840s and contributes to a holistic un