Father

Fiction

45 - 52

1997

Research Centre for Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Monolingual (English) (Occasionally Bilingual (Chinese-English))

Through this story, the readers can have a glimpse of the living environment in public housing states. The protagonist's father runs a popular tied parlour in his own home. The residents keep their doors open and the sound of mahjong tiles fills the air.

NG, Virginia Suk-yin 伍淑賢

NG, Suk Yin ; NG, Virginia Suk Yin

Hong Kong

Female

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.

HEWITT, Duncan 胡登肯

Male

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.

HUNG, Eva 孔慧怡

Hong Kong

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.

POLLARD, David 卜立德

England

Pollard served as Professor of Chinese at the University of London from 1978 to 1988 and Professor of Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1988 to 1997. He has written extensively on modern Chinese language and literature as well as on aspects of translation. Among his translations are The True Story of Lu Xun and Zhou Zuoren: Selected Essays.

收入《素葉文學》第39期復刊14號，1992年11月，頁2-4。 收入《素葉文學》第42期復刊17號，一九九三年二月，頁12-15。 收入《素葉文學》第44期復刊19號，一九九三年四月，頁14-16。 收入《我們不是天使：香港短篇小說選》(1996)，頁86-95。

1993

(First publication)