Editors

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.

Huang is a retired Canadian professor who translated for the book An Anthology of Chinese Short Short Stories.

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.

Mike Ingham has been teaching English Studies as a member of the English Department at Lingnan University since 1999. Mike is a founder member of Theatre Action, a Hong Kong based drama group that specialises in action research on more literary drama texts. His current work focuses on intermediality studies between poetry and art song forms and is also co-writing a study of Hong Kong documentary film based on findings of a recent research project.

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.

Kit Kelen is Professor of English at the University of Macau where he taught Creative Writing, Children’s Literature and Poetry related courses since 2000. Volumes of Kit Kelen’s poetry have been published in various languages. The most recent of Kelen’s English language volumes is A Pocket Kit. At the time of publication, Kelen had a painting exhibition Imagen de Nada showing at the University of Minho in Braga.

Lai studied at the University of Hong Kong and the University of Bristol. She taught English Literature and Translation at the University of Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Baptist University until her retirement in 2004. She has translated works of a number of local authors, including Leung Ping-Kwan (Ye Si) and Xiao Si into English. In 2009, she was awarded “Outstanding Translator Award” at the Eighteenth Hong Kong Stage Drama Awards by the Hong Kong Federation of Drama Societies.

Lam has been a member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists since 1984. She obtained her MA degree from City University in 1997. At the time of publication, she was working with the Hong Kong Arts Centre as Education Programme Director. She organised the First Hong Kong International Poetry Festival in January 1997.

Born in Hong Kong in 1934, Lau went to Taiwan and the United States for his postgraduate studies in literature. He taught at a number of universities in Hong Kong, Singapore and the United States. His publications include 《吃馬鈴薯的日子》 [Days of Eating Potatoes] which records his student life in the United States.

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.

Minford is a sinologist and literary translator. He is known for his translation of Chinese classics such as The Story of the Stone and The Art of War. He also translated Louis Cha's The Deer and the Cauldron and a selection of Pu Songling's Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio.

Aili Mu is a Professor of Chinese at Iowa State University. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1996. She teaches courses on Chinese language, translation, Chinese cultural tradition and China today. Her research focuses on Chinese short-short stories. Her published scholarship on the genre has earned her a Franklin R. Buchanan Prize from the Association for Asian Studies (2018).