Translated Work
廿年
Title:
Twenty Years
Genre:
Fiction
Book Title:
Page Numbers:
242
First Publication Date:
2017
Publisher:
Blacksmith Books
Language:
Monolingual (English)
Synopsis:
This autobiographical fiction depicts the changes of the city and the protagonist's state of mind over twenty years, from 1997 to 2017, during which she witnesses the Handover ceremony as a reporter, experiences the absurdity of local politics and worries as a mother. She admits that democratic movements always consist of givers and takers, but she is also anxious about the fact that her two sons are likely to be the givers fighting for universal suffrage and the future of Hong Kong.
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Author
Name:
SO, Mei-chi 蘇美智
Alternate Name:
SO, Mei Chi
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Gender:
Female
Biography:
So was born in Hong Kong and received her degrees at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Lancaster University in Britain. She worked as a journalist and editor at a number of local publications and was awarded the Human Rights Press Award. She is now working as an independent journalist.
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Translator
Name:
LAI, Suzanne
Gender:
Female
Translator Biography:
Lai is a Hong Kong-based translator whose works have been published in HONG KONG 20/20: Reflections on a borrowed place.
Editor
Name:
PEN Hong Kong Anthology Editorial Committee
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
PEN Hong Kong is one of the 148 centers of PEN International. Founded in 2016, it is a multilingual society of Hong Kong-based writers, poets, publishers, editors, translators, journalists and academics, aimed at promoting literature and defending the freedom of expression in Hong Kong.
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Name:
HO, Tammy Lai-Ming
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Tammy Lai-Ming Ho is the founding co-editor of the literary publication Cha: An Asian Literary Journal and an editor of the academic journal Hong Kong Studies. Having been named Visiting Scholar at the University of St Andrews, she is also a recipient of the Young Artist Award in Literary Arts presented by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council.
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Name:
NG, Jason Y.
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Jason Y. Ng is a Hong Kong-based lawyer, university professor and writer. He is the bestselling author of Hong Kong State of Mind and No City for Slow Men. His latest tome, Umbrellas in Bloom, is the first book available in English chronicling the 2014 Occupy movement.
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Name:
SARAN, Mishi
Birthplace:
India
Editor Biography:
Mishi Saran was born in India and spent the first 10 years of her life in New Delhi. Since then, she has lived in Switzerland, Indonesia, the United States, China, Hong Kong, and Korea. Following an undergraduate degree in Chinese Studies from Wellesley College, she worked in Hong Kong as a news reporter and as a freelance writer.
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Name:
SCHAFER, Sarah
Editor Biography:
Graduated from Syracuse University, Sarah Schaefer has been a writer at various news agencies. She served as one of the executive committees at PEN Hong Kong, where she co-edited an anthology about post-colonial Hong Kong. She is currently Senior Global Digital Editor at the UNHCR.
Name:
WONG, Nicholas
Birthplace:
Hong Kong
Editor Biography:
Nicholas Wong is the author of Crevasse , the winner of Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry. He is also the recipient of the Hong Kong Young Artist Award in Literary Arts, Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize and Renaissance Foundation Prize (Literary Arts). Wong has contributed writing to the radio composition project “One of the Two Stories, Or Both” at Manchester International Festival 2017, and the catalogue of the exhibition “One Hand Clapping” at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
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