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Hong Kong Literature
Hong Kong literature is 20th-century and subsequent writings from or about Hong Kong or by writers from Hong Kong, primarily in the poetry, performance, and fiction media. Hong Kong literature reflects the area's unique history during the 20th century as a fusion of British colonial, Cantonese, and sea-trading culture. It has mainly been written in Vernacular Chinese and, to a lesser extent, English. Genres Hong Kong fiction and performance (including Cantonese opera, television, plays, and film) are many and varied, though only a few film and theatrical works were widely known internationally until the late 20th and early 21st century. Hong Kong's ''wuxia'' () martial arts fiction is one of Hong Kong's most famous exports, and provided many internationally recognised films and televisions programmes during the latter half of the 20th century, almost single-handedly bringing Hong Kong literature out of relative obscurity towards a global audience. Development Many modern ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Colonial
The British Empire was composed of the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. It began with the overseas possessions and trading posts established by England between the late 16th and early 18th centuries. At its height it was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, of the world population at the time, and by 1920, it covered , of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its constitutional, legal, linguistic, and cultural legacy is widespread. At the peak of its power, it was described as "the empire on which the sun never sets", as the Sun was always shining on at least one of its territories. During the Age of Discovery in the 15th and 16th centuries, Portugal and Spain pioneered European exploration of the globe, and in the process established large overse ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xu Xi (writer)
Xu Xi (born 1954), originally named Xu Su Xi (许素细), is an English language novelist from Hong Kong. She is also the Hong Kong regional editor of Routledge's ''Encyclopedia of Post-colonial Literature'' (second edition, 2005) and the editor or co-editor of the following anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English: ''Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing'' (2008), ''City Stage: Hong Kong Playwriting in English'' (2005), and ''City Voices: Hong Kong Writing in English Prose & Poetry from 1945 to the present''. Her work has also been anthologized internationally. Hong Kong magazines such as ''Muse (Hong Kong Magazine), Muse'' run her writings from time to time and her fiction and essays have appeared recently in various literary journals such as the ''Kenyon Review" (Ohio), ''Ploughshares" (Boston), The Four Quarters Magazine (India), ''Ninth Letter" (Illinois), ''Silk Road Review" (Oregon), ''Toad Suck Review" (Arkansas), ''Writing & Pedagogy" (Sheffield, UK),''Arts & Letters" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hon Lai-chu
Hon Lai-chu (, born 1978) is a Hong Kong writer. She has authored eight books in Chinese and won numerous awards, including the Hong Kong Biennial Award for Chinese Literature for fiction, Taiwan’s Unitas New Writer’s Novella first prize, and the Hong Kong Book Prize. Her books have twice been named to the list of Top Ten Chinese Novels Worldwide, in 2008 and 2009. Hon's clean, absurd and abstract style has been compared to Franz Kafka, and her intensely psychological stories often reflect her characters’ inner struggles for freedom, against the futility of attempts to find meaning in everyday existence; to Hon’s characters, the “way out” lies in transformation that comes from overturning established identities. Writing career Hon's 2006 story ''The Kite Family'' (《風箏家族》), first published as a novella, won the New Writer’s Novella first prize from Taiwan’s Unitas Literary Association and the extended version was named one of 2008’s Books of the Year b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chua Lam
Chua Lam (also known as Mandarin: Tsai Lan, Cantonese: Choi Lan, Teochew: Chùa Lāng) (simplified Chinese: , traditional Chinese: , born 1941 in Singapore) is a Singaporean columnist, food critic, and occasional television host based in Hong Kong. He was also a movie producer for the Hong Kong movie studio Golden Harvest. Career Media career Chua was a producer of several movies for Golden Harvest, including several films for Jackie Chan. Notable films include '' Mr. Nice Guy'' (credited as executive producer), ''Thunderbolt'' (credited as producer), ''Sex and Zen'' and ''City Hunter'' (credited as producer). Chua is primarily known in Japan as a judge on the Fuji TV series ''Iron Chef''. Writing career Chua was a columnist on ''Oriental Daily'' in Hong Kong. Chua later switched to writing columns for the Next Media's publications, namely '' Next Magazine'' (on movies and a restaurant guide), ''Apple Daily'' and ''Eat and Travel Weekly''. All columns have continue ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Tsao
Chip Tsao (born 17 August 1958), also known by his Chinese language pen name To Kit, is a multilingual Hong Kong-based columnist, broadcaster, and writer. His writings are mostly in Chinese. He is well known for his sarcasm and wry sense of humour. Family and education Tsao's family traces their roots back to Guangxi. His father was the vice chief editor of ''Ta Kung Pao,'' a leftwing newspaper in Hong Kong, whilst his mother was also an editor of the same paper. His maternal grandfather was a journalist of the ''Pearl River Daily''. He was raised in Hong Kong's Wanchai district, and began reading early in his life. Tsao attended Pui Kiu Middle School and later Lingnan Secondary School in Hong Kong. During this time, his writing was once published in ''The New Evening Post''. In 1983, he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts, BA in English and European Literature from the University of Warwick. Then he completed a Postgraduate Diploma in International Relations from the London School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dung Kai-cheung
Dung Kai-cheung, a Chinese-language fiction writer born in Hong Kong in 1967. He received his B.A. and M. Phil. in comparative literature from the University of Hong Kong. He is an author, journalist, playwright, and essayist. He has been described as Hong Kong's most accomplished writer. He works as a part-time lecturer at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and mainly teaches Chinese writing. His wife, Wong Nim Yan works as associate professor at the Chinese department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university and .... His most important novels include "Atlas," "Histories of Time" and other award-winning books. “Atlas” is the first of his novels to have been translated into English and Japanese. Unlike other local Chinese writers, Dung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wong Bik-Wan
Wong Bik-wan (Cantonese pronunciation) or Huang Biyun (Mandarin pronunciation, ; born 1961) is a Hong Kong writer. She has received multiple literary awards in Hong Kong, and is cited in ''The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature'' as a major contemporary writer. Early life Wong was born into a Hong Kong Hakka family. She did part of her high school in Taiwan. Education and early career Wong graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a BA majoring in journalism and communication in 1984. She then worked as a screenwriter for TVB for a year. In 1987, she studied French and French literature at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. In 1988, she travelled to New York to work at a Chinese-language press in New York. She then received her MA degree in criminology under the Department of Sociology in the University of Hong Kong. Meanwhile, she also obtained a Diploma of Legal Studies in the HKU School of Professional and Continuing Edu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xi Xi
Hsi Hsi/Sai Sai/Xi Xi (; 7 October 1937 – 18 December 2022) was the pseudonym of the Hongkongers, Hong Kong author and poet Cheung Yin, "Ellen"/ (). She was born in Shanghai, and moved to Hong Kong 1949, at the age of twelve. She was formerly a teacher and had been a Hong Kong-based writer. Her works are also popular in Taiwan and mainland China. She had become a rather well-known figure to many secondary school students in Hong Kong. This was due in particular to one of her essays, "Shops" (店鋪), which was adopted as reading material for the Chinese Language paper in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE) by the HKEAA, Hong Kong Examinations Authority of the time. In 2019, Hsi Hsi was the recipient of the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature. Childhood Hsi Hsi's ancestors came from Heungshan, Chungshan/Hsiangshan/Heungshan, Kwangtung (now Zhongshan, Guangdong). She was born in Pudong, Putung, Shanghai, where she would go on to attend primary school. H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Xiaosi
Lu Wei-luan (; born 1939), better known by her pen name Xiaosi (), is a Hong Kong essayist, educator, and scholar. She also writes under the pseudonyms of Mingchuan (明川) and Lufan (盧颿). Her major publications include ''Talk on the Way''《路上談》(1979), ''Moving in Daylight Shadows''《日影行》(1982), and ''Notes from Discipleship'' 《承教小記》(1982). Lu has been an eminent researcher of Hong Kong literature for decades and holds an honorary position at the Hong Kong Literature Research Centre of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was also invited to be the columnist of two Hong Kong newspapers, the ''Sing Tao Daily'' and the ''Ming Pao''.盧瑋鑾：小思老師 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Library, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. 2010. Retrieved 2 November 2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Jefferies
Alan Jefferies (born 1957) is an Australian poet and children's author currently living in Brisbane. Biography Alan Jefferies grew up in Cleveland on the Queensland coast. He published his first poems in 1976 and since then his work has appeared in magazines and newspapers in Australia and overseas. He holds degrees in Communication and Writing from the University of Technology, Sydney and for many years worked as a librarian and teacher at the Workers’ Educational Association, Sydney. Between 1982 and 1992 he lived in Coalcliff south of Sydney in housewhich was a meeting place for writers, poets, artists and musicians. (Coalcliff days) In 1998 he moved to Hong Kong where he lived for almost ten years. He was one of the initiators of a spoken word event called OutLoud, which takes place on the first Wednesday of each month at the Fringe Club in the |
Larry Feign
Larry Feign (born December 5, 1955) is an American cartoonist and writer based in Hong Kong. Feign is best known for his comic strip '' The World of Lily Wong''. Education and early career Feign is from Buffalo, New York. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, graduating with a B.A. in 1979, and received an MFA in Creative Writing from Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon in 2012. His earliest comic-strip character was known as "Hoiman the Mouse", which he created as the mascot for ''Dum'', a mimeographed magazine produced a few times per year with several collaborators in primary school. Later he co-created a strip called "Billy Wizard", which began as a collaboration in high school with Jon Tschirgi. Billy Wizard became the mascot of a bootleg vinyl record label, "Wizardo Rekords". He and Tschirgi also formed a rock band which released one LP record in 1976 under the name The B. Toff Band, and a 45 rpm single in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Bradley (novelist)
Rebecca Bradley is a Canadian novelist and archaeologist, with a doctorate in archaeology from the University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola .... She was selected for the gift-child Berg Science Seminars program while living in Vancouver, B.C. She is best known for her fantasy trilogy consisting of ''The Lady in Gil'' (1996) and its two sequels ''Scion's Lady'' (1997) and ''Lady Pain'' (1998, all published by Gollancz). While previously living in Hong Kong, Bradley wrote two books of short stories, ''Hong Kong Macabre'' and ''Hong Kong Grotesque'' (both published by Hong Kong Horrors), and co-wrote ''Temutma'' (Asia 2000, 1998) with Stewart Sloan. Both ''Temutma'' and the ''Gil'' trilogy have also been published in German translations. In 2007 Bradley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
