Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (Ed. Tammy Ho)

Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology (Ed. Tammy Ho) is published by the Department of English (now School of English) of The University of Hong Kong. Professor Shirley Geok-lin Lim serves as its consulting editor. The launch of Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology took place on 8th March 2006 during the Man Hong Kong Literary Festival of that year. View a picture of Tammy & Shirley here.

Praise for Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology:

'Boundaries between life and death, love and indifference, selfishness and selflessness, foreign and Chinese, dissolve in the efforts to come to terms with, or just pinpoint, or even criticise, that one finds here; and even as one attempts to read this as a collection of Hong Kong Poetry, the East and the West that meets here begs the question of universality, especially in a timeless place, producing the inclusion of a brilliant piece of sustained writing that is as Yorkshire as a pudding but similarly a product of this collection's process.'
--Lawrence Gray, Chairman of the Hong Kong Writers' Circle

'This innovative anthology, selected with wit, craft and sensitivity, brings together a community of new and award-winning writers associated with the University of Hong Kong. A fine addition to the growing body of creative writing published in Asia.'
--Madeleine Marie Slavick, poet-photographer, and author of Delicate Access and Round--Poems and Photographs of Asia

'Heartening. This anthology adds a necessary showcase of the present generation's creative work. If Hong Kong is to establish its place in the world's literary landscape, it will be because new local talent continues to ascend. The emerging writers included here are smart, sensitive, serious. If even a few of these mature into true voices for our city, then this fine editorial effort will be much more than just one university department's output. The future of our literary culture depends on publications like these.'
--Xu Xi, author of six books of fiction, including The Unwalled City and Overleaf Hong Kong and co-editor of two anthologies of Hong Kong writing in English.'

Contents

Introduction / Tammy Ho			9
	Identity
		Sometime(after William Stafford) / Shirley Geok-lin Lim		15
		Englishes / Kerr Li Ming Yat		15
		So your name is Chan...something..wing? / Samuel Yuk Wing Chan		16
		Boy / Steven Dyson		18
		My name / Kerr Li Ming Yat		19
		Self-portrait / Eddie Tay		20
		Falling leaves in Hong Kong / Grace Sze Fong		21
		Primary school / Akina Lam Chi Ting		21
		Casey and the funshine band / Casey O'Donnell, O'Donnell, Casey		22
		Every day / Grace Sze Fong		25
		Foreign teas / Marina Ma		26
	Hong Kong and other places
		Twelve nights - selected Hong Kong places in the form of Haiku / Arthur Leung		29
		Hong Kong abode / Grace Chin		31
		The new apostles' creed / Simone Yeung Sze Man		33
		My city(Hong Kong in spite of sars)		34
		Ask me / Casey O'Donnell, O'Donnell, Casey		37
		A celebrity with diabetes / Jean Tsui Kam		38
		Tram / Agnes Chan Sun Yee		38
		Last to go / Vivian Sum		39
		Pokfulam / Gary Hui Kar Hin		45
		New Territories / Jacqueline Law Yuen Chi, Law, Yuen-chi, Jacqueline		45
		Sabbath in Hong Kong / Simone Yeung Sze Man		46
		Tofu / Gary Hui Kar Hin		46
		Metropolis / Tina Yeung Moon Ki		47
		Bricks and snow / Page Richards		48
		Morning / Jacqueline Law Yuen Chi, Law, Yuen-chi, Jacqueline		49
		A labourer of time / Samuel Yuk Wing Chan		50
		Korean flag / Agnes Chan Sun Yee		51
		A trip to Rome / Eva leung		53
		Cetral / Eva leung		54
		Feng Shui / Shirley Geok-lin Lim		54
	Lovers and genealogy
		Unmapped / Wendy Gan		57
		Promise / Grace Chin		58
		The third person / Tammy Ho		58
		Life is only once, like a leaf / Eddie Tay		59
		To wring words from a man / Tammy Ho		61
		Yours / Sandy Wong		61
		The tattooed lady / Suzanne Hermanoczki		62
		Housewives / Rosanna Lau Hoi Wah		65
		For Mei Jie / Arthur Leung		66
		The in-between / Eva Leung		67
		Funerals / Eddie Tay		68
		Mother, mother / Iris Yeung Ka Wun		70
		My colourful family / Gigi Leung Wai Chi		70
		The funeral / Jacqueline Law Yuen Chi		71
		On Chung Yeung festival / Jean Tsui Kam		71
		My third daughter-in-law / Josephine Cset		72
		That April morning / Casey O'Donnell		75
		Snapshots at a funeral / Candice Ng Sheung Pui		76
		Grey / Rosanna Lau Hoi Wah		76
		A visit to the cemetery in Chung Yeung festival / Akina Lam Chi Ting		77
		His t-shirts / Tammy Ho		78
	Fables
		Afterlives / Kerr Li Ming Yat		81
		A writer's life / Samuel Yuk Wing Chan		81
		The dream of midnight summer / Tina Yeung Moon Ki		82
		A poetess / Jean Tsui Kam		83
		Cliche / Samuel Yuk Wing Chan		83
		Eye / Simone Yeung Sze Man		84
		Senility / Grace Chin		85
		Death / Yingyu		85
		The one who got lost / Charis Lee		87
		The mirror / Laura Frings		91
		Sleep / Rosanna Lau Hoi Wah		91
		Period detail / Steven Dyson		92
		Weiyou Dushu Gao / Candice Ng Sheung Pui		101
		Under this roof / Iris Yeung Ka Wun		102
		The wandering girl / Jean Tsui Kam		102

Hong Kong U Writing: An Anthology has been reviewed in:
South China Morning Post
HK Magazine
Asian Review of Books

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