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GOLDFISH
From childhood memories, fairytales, taboos, deep-rooted faiths to translated truths, Jennifer Wong's dream-like and surreal second collection reveals the changing landscapes of Hong Kong and modern China.
Jennifer Wong is a Hong Kong born poet. She has taught creative writing at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and , in 2012, she was writer-in-residence at Lingnan University...

In the 23rd century, fossil fuels are exhausted and Earth depends on energy from a swarm of solar power satellites. Conditions are harsh in the space stations that serve this network and some of the crews rebel. They move away from Earth orbit and build their own colonies, the ‘Seven Dwarfs’, meant for life, not labour. The real beginning of the Space Age has come at last.
But Earth does...

The Hong Kong Marrow Match Foundation was established as a charity in 1991 to set up and run a registry of potential unrelated marrow donors for patients with life-threatening blood diseases who do not have suitable donors among their relatives.

The charity was thrust into the public spotlight immediately it was formed when a young Chinese boy called Gordon arrived in Hong Kong with his...

I consider Karl Taro Greenfeld one of the most interesting writers of his generation.
-William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and Spook Country

With lines like "We are at the stage in our great socialist experiment when we are no longer sure who should pay who," Karl Taro Greenfeld's stories summon up the truth of our current world.
-Xiaolu Guo, author of A Concise...

In January 2011, Harvard Professor Harry Lewis gave a series of four talks and lectures in Hong Kong, anchored by an invitation from the Chinese University of Hong Kong as Sir Run Run Shaw Visiting Scholar. The four lectures gathered in this volume are:

"Approaches to General Education": Lee Hysan lecture, delivered at Chinese University of Hong Kong

"Civic Education in the Information...

We share the same genes
although we speak a subtle different tongue
of generations and geography and time.
Both still drawn to the sound of the sea
that lies between us.

In Accidental Occidental, a unique collage of words and images, David McKirdy spins an Asian tapestry of people, places and impressions.

A madness fostered by too much distance and too...

This collection is a meditation on the modern city and the creative life. The bilingual poems featured here are inspired by the ways in which the English and the Chinese languages intertwine and take root in the Asian cities of Hong Kong and Singapore.

Born in Singapore, Eddie Tay is a long time resident of Hong Kong. He is an assistant professor at the Department of English at the Chinese...

Mani Rao’s poetry has featured in anthologies by Penguin, WW Norton and Bloodaxe, and has been translated into French, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. She lives between India, Hong Kong and the USA. Ghostmasters is her eighth book, and collects poems published in: Zoland Poetry, XCP, Washington Square, Wasafiri, Tinfish, Softblow, Indian Literature, Almost Island, 91st...

"This is impersonal poetry. Nothing here is about me." Using the established poetic forms of the villanelle and the sonnet, "Snowblind from my Protective Colouring" gives us dialogues from many characters, some imagined some real, as they confront and express their lives and relationships. From the un-named She and He of 'Everything in Life is Contagious' who address with romantic imagination or...

Let us have a fair hearing at last for the Twelfth Fairy who has so long been unjustly libelled with sending the Sleeping Beauty to oblivion on her sixteenth birthday. The Lady Melicia has never denied that she played a part in this unhappy affair but, in her defence, has a question for her accusers: Do you really believe in fairies?

The retelling of a classic fairy tale is set to a...

the moon looks down at its reflection in the water below: surrounded by cliffs, and framed in points of light. moments of realisation are connected through sea and sky. miss moon's class is a dialogue with a constantly shifting Other, moving through cornwall, wales, hong kong and australia but always located in myth and in memory.

viki holmes was born in st. austell, cornwall, in 1975 and...

Larry Feign is well-known to every Hongkonger as the creative genius behind the Lily Wong comic strip and books. The eagerly-awaited 'Hongkongitis' is Larry's first new book in several years

Hongkongitis is ... an incurable affliction that causes one to secretly love Hong Kong while complaining loudly about it.

While everyone else in Hong Kong was out doing real jobs, writer and cartoonist...

Jennifer Wong, born and brought up in Hong Kong with an Oxford education in English Literature, has been published in various poetry journals locally and overseas. Summer Cicadas, her debut collection straddling Hong Kong and Oxford, is a refreshing, poetic journey of homelands, cultural upbringing, and personal identity. It is a moving account articulating the powers and transitions of youth and...

Sir Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, Chairman of Hopewell Holdings, can be said to personify the driving ambition behind East Asia's rapid economic rise in the latter part of the 20th century and its dramatic collapse in 1997.

Today, Wu is one of Asia's best-known entrepreneurs and this book traces the birth of a family dynasty. Beginning with the creation of the famous Hong Kong taxi service by Wu�s...

An Indian-Malay boy tackles difficult words for his spelling bee while swimming; Sea Gypsy girls venture to the big city with their artist cousin; a Japanese-American waltzes in her family's temple; an Arab grieves for his lost Russian wife... In these stories which span Asia from Japan and Hong Kong to Malaysia and Yemen, Wes Stevens brings an enigmatic, evocative ... and laconic new voice to...

From the turbulent sixities through the nineties here is a history of Hong Kong told through fiction by one of Hong Kong's top writers.2nd edition includes a critical reading guide for English Teachers and students by Lingnan University's Mike Ingham.

A collection of short stories and essays explores what it means to be an overseas Chinese.

In January 1972, I, Rose Kho, Went to college in the United States. By May of'74, I came home with my BS in political science and a minor in mathematics. I married my childhood sweetheart Paul Lie in the summer of'77. Gordie says it was those early American years that really changed my life.

Set against the Asian and international airline world, Hong Kong Rose rewinds through a...

Chinese Walls takes readers along invisible walls between members of a Indonesian-Chinese family. Daughters of Hui is a novella of contemporary Asian women.

Welcome to Bangkok. Half Miami, half Beirut, and all Blade Runner country after midnight.

In LAUNDRY MAN Jake Needham takes you behind Thailand's smiling face and introduces a hero you have to cheer for, the urbane and straight-shooting Jack Shepherd. Once a high-flying international lawyer, a renowned expert on global money laundering, Jack has happily swapped the fierce intrigue of...

A skeptical young woman joins a feng shui consultancy - but finds her boss Mr. Wong specializes in a certain type of problem premises: scenes of crime. Then the local Union of Industrial Mystics discovers a runaway teenager destined for death, and the assignments fo from weird to bizarre.

Original, fast-paced and laugh-out-loud funny, The Feng Shui Detective series turns the crime genre on its...

Hong Kong stories written and published over the last thirty years, this book has been long in the making.

Nury Vittachi's latest novel is a detective story with a twist, for the sleuth is neither a police officer, nor a down-at-heel PI, nor even a mediaeval monk -- CF Wong is a geomancer, an expert in the Asian discipline of Feng Shui.