Translated Work
拆建中的摩囉街
Title:
Demolition on Cat Street
First Publication Date:
2005
Publisher:
Hong Kong International Literary Festival & Chameleon Press
Author
Name:
LEUNG, Ping-kwan 梁秉鈞
Alternate Name:
也斯 ; 心猿 ; Ye Si ; Xin Yuan
Birthplace:
Guangdong, China
Biography:
Born in 1949, Leung was one of Hong Kong's best-known cultural icons. A versatile writer, his works ranged from poetry to novels, including《布拉格的明信片》 (Postcards from Prague) (1990), 《半途:梁秉鈞詩選》(Mid-way: Leung Ping Kwan's Poetry Collection and 《後殖民食物與愛情》(Postcolonial Affairs of Food and the Heart).
Translator
Name:
CHEUNG, Martha Pui-yiu 張佩瑤
Translator Biography:
Born in Hong Kong in 1953, Cheung taught at a number of universities, specialising in Literature and Translation Studies. Her translations of Chinese literature into English include Han Shaogong’s Homecoming? and numerous works of Hong Kong poets such as Leung Ping Kwan. She also co-edited anthologies including An Oxford Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama and Hong Kong Collage: Contemporary Stories and Writing.
Editor
Editor Biography:
Born in Scotland in 1956, McKirdy spent his childhood in Hong Kong. He arrived in England for the first time as a twenty-year-old and stayed for five years before deciding to permanently move to Hong Kong. He has published a number of poetry collections, some of which depict the relationship between the colonisers and colonised in British Hong Kong in the 1960s. He also co-edited multiple anthologies and is one of the organisers of the group Poetry OutLoud Hong Kong.
Link to Editor biography:
Editor Biography:
Gordon is editor of the Asian Review of Books. A publisher and entrepreneur, he has been active in technology, culture and international trade and investment. He is the co-author of The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565–1815. He has been a resident of Hong Kong since 1985.
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Source Text Reference:
收入《中國學生周報》第1122期,1974年4月20日,第7版 [題:拆建中的摩囉]。
收入《半途——梁秉鈞詩選》(1995),頁21-22。
收入《帶一枚苦瓜旅行》(2002),頁80,82。
Published Date of Source Text:
1974
Target Text Reference:
Travelling with a Bitter Melon (2002), pp.81,83