Translated Work
父親
Title:
Father
Genre:
Fiction
Chinese Book Title:
Book Title:
Page Numbers:
74 - 82
First Publication Date:
2008
Publisher:
Research Centre for Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language:
Monolingual (English)
Synopsis:
Through this story, the readers can have a glimpse of the living environment in public housing states. The protagonist's father runs a popular mahjong parlour in his own home. The residents keep their doors open and the sound of mahjong tiles fills the air.
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Author
Name:
NG, Virginia Suk-yin 伍淑賢
Alternate Name:
NG, Suk Yin ; NG, Virginia Suk Yin
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Gender:
Female
Biography:
Born in Hong Kong, Ng received her BA in comparative literature from The University of Hong Kong. She began writing short stories in the 1980s and often writes about the life in contemporary Hong Kong. In 2014, she published the collection Chinse title missing People from the Mountain.
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Translator
Name:
HEWITT, Duncan 胡登肯
Gender:
Male
Translator Biography:
Hewitt studied Chinese at The University of Edinburgh and formerly worked as an editorial assistant at the Research Centre for Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was a BBC correspondent in China from 1997 to 2002 and is currently a writer and translator based in Shanghai.
Editor
Name:
HUNG, Eva 孔慧怡
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Born in Hong Kong, Hung received her doctorate at the University of London. She was the Director of the Research Centre for Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and editor of the literary journal Renditions. She has translated works by Wang Anyi and Eileen Chang into English.
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Name:
IP, Sherlon Chi-yin 葉志研
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Ip received her BA and MPhil in Translation from the University of Hong Kong. She joined the Research Centre for Translation, The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2003 and served as Managing Editor of its magazine Renditions. Her research focuses on the translations of traditional Chinese literature into English and German.
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Source Text Reference:
收入《素葉文學》第44期，1993年4月，頁14-16 [題：父親之三]。
收入《我們不是天使：香港短篇小說選》(1996)，頁86-95。
Published Date of Source Text:
1993
Target Text Reference:
Hong Kong Stories: Old Themes New Voices, Renditions Paperbacks, pp.15-28