Translated Work
紅格子酒舖
Title:
The Red Chequers Pub: excerpts
Genre:
Fiction
Page Numbers:
73 - 82
First Publication Date:
1997
Publisher:
Research Centre for Translation, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Language:
Monolingual (English) (Occasionally Bilingual (Chinese-English))
Synopsis:
The story traces the experience of a small group of friends from the early 1970s, when they participated in Protect Diaoyu Islands Campaign in Hong Kong, to the early 1990s, when they had to make major decisions about their future because of the 1989 democracy movement in China and its aftermath. The author sets her characters against an overshadowing backdrop, yet manages to highlight their lives as individuals.
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Author
Name:
KAN, Mo-han 簡慕嫻
Alternate Name:
辛其氏 ; SUNG, Kei-shi ; XIN, Qishi
Year of Birth:
1950
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Gender:
Female
Biography:
Born in Hong Kong in 1950, Kan is a writer whose work has been published in newspapers and literary magazines. Her publications include the novel《紅格子酒舖》(The Red Chequers Pub), as well as the essay collection 《每逢佳節》[Every Festival].
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Translator
Name:
POON, Cathy 潘靜嫻
Gender:
Female
Translator Biography:
Poon studied translation at the University of Hong Kong and received her MA from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her translations include Chinese Ceramic Pillows: the Mr and Mrs Yeung Wing Tak Gift and Chinese Archaic Jades from the Kwan Collection. She also translated the two stories “Watching the Sea” by Chan Po Chun and “The Ghost Festival“ by Xin Qi Shi published in Hong Kong Collage, ed. Martha Cheung.
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:
POLLARD, David 卜立德
Birthplace:
England
Editor Biography:
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.
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Source Text Reference:
收入《素葉文學》第26期復刊號，1991年7月，頁2-5頁。