Student Translation Project
HKBU 2016
Translating Hong Kong contemporary literature
In her academic work Dr Mary Wong explores the various relationships between film and literature. Consequently, her short story "Obsession" (迷情), is inspired by the movies "L’Avventura" and 'Blow-up", directed by the Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. As in the film, the short story creates a mysterious, film-like atmosphere, intertwined with a feeling of emotional alienation.
Project 1
April 2016
Raccoon is Ge Liang's first collection of short stories set in Hong Kong. As an "outsider" from Nanjing, he describes the life of common people in the city. In his short story Raccoon, the typhoon transit is interpreted as an encounter between human and the nature, which inspires one to rethink his/her daily life.
Matthew Cheng won the first Young Writers' Debut Competition, and is the awardee of 2012 Hong Kong Arts Development Awards (Art Criticism). He is the author of one poetry collection and the editor of "An Anthology of Hong Kong Poetry of the 1950s", among others. Here you can read two of his poems with impressions from two US cities.
Chan Hay Ching's short story "Shanghai Po Po" was first published in February 2015 edition of HK Magazine. It is has also apeared as part of the short story collection called "不再狗臉的日子". The story describes the "lives" of "the seven sisters," and how they see Hong Kong through the "eyes" of a chain of restaurant.
Project 2
April 2016
Project 3
April 2016
Project 4
April 2016
Project 5
April 2016
Project 6
April 2016
Chris Song is a Hong Kong poet and poetry translator with two collections of poetry and more than twenty books of poetry translation. He was awarded the Premio Modiale di Poesia Nosside in 2013. Read a selection of his poems.
Yin Ching's short story "The Savour of the Shrimp Roe"《蝦子香》 comes from the collection of short stories under the same name published in September 2012. The collection has won the Biennial Award presented to the best book of the prose writing category in HK.
Project 7
April 2016
Read Derek Chung's poem dedicated to the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. Derek Chung has received several Awards for Creative Writing in Chinese, and was elected to be the 2015 Artist of Literary Arts.