List of Translators

Tai received her degree in law from the University of Michigan. She practiced law in New York and taught modern Chinese literature at Harvard University before becoming a freelance translator. She is the translator and editor of Spring Bamboo, a collection of Chinese stories in the eighties.

Tam is Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published books and articles on modern Chinese literature, comparative studies of the theatre, and Western literary theory.

Tam studied translation at the Hong Kong Polytechnic and received his MA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. A member of the Institute of Linguists, he worked as a professional translator before joining the Research Centre for Translation as associate editor in 1995.

Torgeson was a PhD Candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University at the time of publication.

Tsim was born in Hong Kong and graduated in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong. She did postgraduate studies in Victorian literature at the University of Manchester. While working in London, she spent some time doing research about the May Fourth Movement and modern Chinese writers. She also translated King Hu's Lao She and His Times.

Tsui is a Hong Kong-based translator whose works have been published in HONG KONG 20/20: Reflections on a borrowed place.

Turner is the author of the poetry collection Not Moving, and the translator of Lu Xun’s collection of prose poetry, Weeds. His essays and reviews can be found in Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel, Hyperallergic Weekend, Music & Literature, Cha, and other journals. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and co-translator, Haiying Weng.

Tam is Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in comparative literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has published books and articles on modern Chinese literature, comparative studies of the theatre, and Western literary theory.

Haiying Weng is from Beijing. She is co-translator, along with Matt Turner, of Hu Jiujiu’s collection Fog, Yan Jun’s poetry collection 100 Poems of 1000 Elephants, Chan Chi Tak’s Hong Kong Lights, and several other titles, along with essays by art critic Ou Ning. She worked at the Tang Center for Early China, at Columbia University, and lived in Brooklyn at the time of publication.

Wickeri obtained her Master of Fine Arts in Fiction at San Francisco State University. She has been the editor of Chinese Theological Review since 1985, and the translator of the magazine Renditions . She has translated a number of short stories by Mo Yan, including “Explosions”, “The Flying Ship” and “The Cat Specialist”. Her translations also consist of works by Eileen Chang, Wang Pu and Xiao Si.

Wilcoxon is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his PhD in English from Yale University. He has published articles on Hong Kong students' perception of American literature.

Born in Hong Kong in 1946, Wong received his PhD in East Asian Studies from The University of Toronto in 1992. During his college years in the 1970s, he co-founded the poetry club 詩風社 [Shi Feng She]¸ and its magazine. He has published a number of poetry and essay collections. He was Chair Professor of Translation at The Chinese University of Hong Kong until his retirement.

Wong received her MPhil in English from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and was Administrative Executive at the Hong Kong Productivity Council. She has published articles on modern Chinese literature.

Wong received her PhD in Humanities in 1999, and joined the English Department of The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include comparative poetics, literary and critical theories, and post-colonial studies. Her works appeared in journals such as New Literary History, the Keats-Shelley Review, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature and Chung Wai Literary Monthly. Her translations have been published in Renditions and The Chinese PEN.

Wong received her PhD from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She was a senior instructor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong at the time of publication, where she taught courses in literary theory, women in literature and Hong Kong literature.

Yang was born in 1922 and graduated from the Catholic University of Peking. He was one of the oldest interpreters and translators of English Language in the People's Republic of China. He went to Yan'an in the early 40s and sebsequently held various posts in the diplomatic service. He then taught English for thirty years, and was Associate Professor of English at the Tianjin Foreign Languages Institute at the time of publication.

Yau received his BA in English Studies and Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong and was awarded the M.Phil. in Comparative Literature in 1996. He later pursued a doctoral degree in translation studies and examined the translation of local modernist fiction in the 1950s. Yau has translated works by mainland Chinese and Hong Kong writers. In 2018, he published History of the Adventures of Vivi and Vera, the translation of a novel by Dung Kai-Cheung about the life in Hong Kong in its final decades as a British colony.

Yeung is a Hong Kong writer and photographer. Her publications include Hong Kong SOHO and Walking on the Melting Point . Since 1988, she has been a journalist and photographer. Having visited and written about Europe. Asia and the Americas, she has also published two books Why do People in Norwich Look Young? and Will Hong Kong Continue to be a Place with Good Luck? .

Yip was Professor and Chairperson of the Department of English Language and Literature at Hong Kong Baptist University at the time of publication. She received her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She has published extensively on gender and modern literature.

Born in Nanjing in 1928, Yu fled to Taiwan in 1949 and received university education there. After publishing his first poetry collection in 1952, he co-founded a poetry society with other young authors and went to the United States in 1958. He arrived in Hong Kong in 1974 and joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he nurtured aspiring writers and produced many of his best-known works.

Yue worked as Managing Editor of Renditions from 1973 to 1976, and taught translation at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the University of Hong Kong. She has published various translation works, including four books on Kunqu opera in the series Writings on the Theory of Kun Qu Singing.

Born in 1953, Yuen co-founded the literary magazine 《綠角》 [Green Corner] and started writing in secondary school under the influence of the civil-rights era. He studied in Canada and France, and returned to Hong Kong in the 1980s. After publishing his poetry collection 《你還有沒有寫詩》[You haven’t started writing poems], he founded No Hurry Story Workshop and devoted himself to storytelling.

Ching received her PhD in English from the University of Michigan. She was Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has published research on Ezra Pound and modern poetry.

Zhang was Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong at the time of publication. He received his PhD in English from the University of Alberta, Canada. He has published articles on modern fiction and Asian American literature.

Born in Guangzhou, Zhang received her BA in English Language and Literature from Shenzhen University. She is genuinely interested in literature and participcated in a lot of literary activities and translation projects.