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People
Au Man-fung, Bernice (區文鳳)
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Jason Chan (陳守賢)
- Jason Chan has worked in the local media for years including Channel V, Rojam, Hong Kong Network TV, etc. Now he devotes his time in drama performance and writes "short short stories". His publications include Dare to Live, Dare to Work & Love, Puzzle In A Second (to be released this July). He was a special guest in Kenneth Hwang's talk, "Learning Writing From Advertising - Co-relation Among Commercials, Prose and Short Short Stories", at the booth of Hong Kong Arts Development Council in the 2001 Hong Kong Book Fair.
Jolland Chan (向雪懷)
- Jolland Chan, also known as Mr. Xiang Xue Huai, is a veteran in the Hong Kong music industry. He started his career in the music industry in the 1970's when Hong Kong local music was playing an increasing prominent role in the cultural life of Hong Kong. His first worked in Polydor Records Company, one of the well-known record companies at that time, and later started writing Cantonese pop song lyrics. He adopted the name "Xiang Xue Huai" in his lyrics writing career. He has written more than 800 Cantonese pop song lyrics. Amongst them, there are many awarded-winning golden hits sung by artists such as Leon Lai, Shirley Kwan, Lui Fong, Vivian Lai, etc.
Chan Kam-cheong (陳汗)
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Chan Kit-yee (陳潔儀)
Chan Siu-hung, Natalia (洛楓)
Chan Tak-kam (陳德錦)
- Assistant Professor of Chinese Department , Lingnan University. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Chang Hui-ching (張惠菁)
- Born in Taipei. She holds a B.A. in History from National Taiwan University and a M.Sc. from the University of Edinburgh, UK. Since the publication of her first novel in 1997, she has now authored a total of six books, including novels and collections of short stories and of essays. She is also a recipient of several prestigious awards, such as Taipei Literature Award, United Daily News Literature Award, and China Times Literature Award.
Chau Siu-cheong, Simon (周兆祥)
- Simon is at present the Programme Head of the Translation Department, the Hong Kong Baptist University. He received his M.A. degree from the University of Hong Kong, and later received Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the Scotland University, Edinburgh. He is the Director of the Produce Green Foundation and has dedicated to research and promotion of environmental education. He writes columns in various newspapers and has published over 90 works of his writings and translations.
Mable Cheung (張婉婷)
- Film Director of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Choi Ka-ping (舒非)
- Writer, Editor. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Chor Wai (韋婭)
- Writer. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Chu Pu-sun (阿濃)
- Famous writer of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Chu Siu-cheung (朱少璋)
- Writer, Language Instructor of Language Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Chu Yiu-wai (朱耀偉)
- Associate professor in the Department of Chinese and Program of Humanities at Hong Kong Baptist University. His recent publications include Otherness Machine: Postcolonial Hong Kong Culture; A Study of Hong Kong Popular Lyrics; A Study of Hong Kong Popular Band/Groups; In the Name of Law: Postcolonial Hong Kong Legal Culture (co-authored with Sin Wai-man), Hong Kong Literature- Cultural Studies and A Study of the "Chinese Songs Campaign" in Hong Kong.
Fung Lai-chi (馮禮慈)
- Pop music critic of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Ho Fu-yan (何福仁)
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Ho How-sim (何巧嬋)
- Famous children literature writer. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Hon Lai-chu, Coco (韓麗珠)
- Hon was born and raised in Hong Kong. Her first fiction collection The forest of drainage system was published in 1998 and her works have been published in Literature Century, Hong Kong Literature and Writers.
Huang Chan-lan (黃燦然)
- Writer, Editor of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Hui Tik-cheong (許迪鏘)
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Kenneth Hwang (黃擎天)
- Kenneth Hwang studied at the St. Paul's Co-Educational College and graduated from the University of Toronto. He has been a copywriter working for clients like Cathay Pacific, PCCW, etc. Now he devotes himself in book writing and participates in cultural activities and volunteer work such as lecturing at secondary schools, selecting and writing comments for student articles submitted to Ming Teens. He lectured Metro 997's "Advertising Lessons" in summer, 2001. He is the Publicity Consultant for the China Polar Museum Foundation, assisting Dr. Rebecca Lee to organize the "2002 HK University Student Trip to North Pole", which is going to depart this August. He is a columnist at www.Netvigator.com and www.Chinesebooks.com. He also hosts a working lady interview column in Sisters Magazine. His movie script The Murder Writer was selected as one of the twenty scripts by the Hong Kong Screenwriters Association's "Independent Scriptwriting Project".
Kong Li Chi-ho (江李志豪)
- Writer. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Kwan Lai-shan (關麗珊)
- Writer, Editor of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Kwan Muk-Hang (關夢南)
- Writer, Editor. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Kwan Sau-king (余非)
- Writer, Editor. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Alex Law (羅啟銳)
- Script-writer, writer of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Michael Lee (李俊文)
- He is the chief editor of many science fictions and magazines including Fashion and Beauty, Chinese Opera and also Science and Science Fiction Generation.
Rebecca Lee (李樂詩)
- Writer and photographer of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Lee Wai-choi (李偉才)
- He got his Ph.D. in New Wales University and received the Hong Kong Ten Outstanding Person Award in 1985. He was the senior officer of Hong Kong Observatory. He is now the Curriculum Development Officer of the University of Hong Kong Space. He loves science fictions and science even in childhood times. He spends many years in promoting science fictions. His publications are more than 15 science fictions and science related books.
Lee Yee (李怡)
- Writer, Editor. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Leung Ping-kwan (梁秉鈞)
- A poet, born and raised in Hong Kong. He teaches literature and film studies at Lingnan University and has published critical works such as Hong Kong Culture (1995) and Hong Kong Literature and Cinema(2002). He has also published more than ten volumes of poems, including bilingual editions such as: City at the End of Time (1982), Foodscape (1997), Clothink (1998) and the most recent one: Travelling with a Bitter Melon(2002). He was writer-in-residence in Berlin in 1998 and has two volumes of poems translated into German. He also writes fiction and has published a novel and four collections of stories, among them the collection Iles et Continents was translated into French and published by Gallimard recently. He was awarded The Hong Kong Urban Councils Biennial Award for Literature in 1991 (Fiction) and 1997 (Poetry).
Priscilla Leung (梁小衛)
- Priscilla graduated from the Music & Fine Arts Department of the Hong Kong Baptist College (University) majoring in Vocal Performance in 1989. She has started her career in arts administration and became a freelance artists in 1996. In the past years, she has performed in many Hong Kong and overseas productions of "Theatre Fanatico". Besides, she also worked as vocal coach for different theatre groups. She has also collaborated with artists from Hong Kong and Taiwan in projects including improvisation singing of poems, vocal music for video, dance theatre and other stage productions. Her recording includes "Love of Three Orange", music by Liu Shi Ling and "666 Turns for Strangers in the World". Got a 3-month grant from the Asian Cultural Council, Priscilla has been in New York for cultural exchange activities in 2000. In 2000 and 2001, she has cyber concerts with a Netherlands band, "Snowcrash" for the media festivals held in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. She has also performed in a Hong Kong opera "Dreaming Plum Blossoms Away" in late November, 2000 and a dance theatre performance in Taipei in December. She has recently worked closely with poets.
Leung Sai-wing (梁世榮)
- Writer, Associate Professor of Department of Applied Social Science, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Li Shun-yan (李純恩)
- Writer. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Liao Ping-hui (廖炳惠)
- was born in Yun Lin, Taiwan, and is currently a Professor at National Tsing Hua University. His publications include Jie-guo lun-wen ji (On Deconstruction), 1985; Xin-si yu yi-si-xin-tai (Form and Ideology), 1990; Paul Ricoeur, 1993; Fei-gu xiandai (Modernity in Revision), 1994, and Ling-lei hsien-tai-ching (Alternative Modernities), 2001; and he is also the editor for Fei-gu xiandai wenhua xiangxiang (Reconsidering the Cultural Imaginary of Western Modernity), 1995; Wenxia falu yu quanshi (Interpreting Law and Literature), 1996; Wenxia rentong yu ju-ti-xin (Literature, Identity, and Subjectivity), 1997; as well as Jindai Taiwan mei-shi yu wenhua rentong (Art and Cultural Idenity in Modern Taiwan), 1998, etc.
Liu Yi-chang (劉以鬯)
- Born in 1918 original named as "Liu Tung-yi"(劉同繹) in China, he is one of the most renown and prolific writers in Hong Kong. He graduated from the St. John's University in Shanghai. He worked as editor and chief editor in several newspapers and magazines in Chongqing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Malaysia. In 1994, he was selected as one of the writers of the Writer-in-Residence Programme organized by the Urban Council of Hong Kong.
He started publishing his works since 1936 and major novels include: The Drinker, Inside the Temple, Sorry, Wrong Number, Heaven and Hell, He has a Sharp Knife, Island and Peninsular, and The Opposite. The Experimental Novels by Liu Yi-chang won The Forth Bi-yearly Award of the Hong Kong Chinese Literature. Besides, his novels had also won Awards in mainland and Hong Kong. He was awarded the Honorary Medal by the Hong Kong SAR Government in 2001 for his remarkable achievement in Hong Kong literature.
Jackal Lo (盧國強)
- He has worked for a local comic company and then became a scriptwriter. He already written more than 40 books and most of them are science fictions. His novels are sold in Hong Kong and Taiwan and some of them are in series.
Lo Kwok-jim (盧國沾)
- Lyrics writer of Cantonese pop songs. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Lo Wai-luen (盧瑋鑾)
- Born in 1939, she is the Professor of Department of Chinese Language & Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Besides, she is also a writer. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Lo Wai-luk (盧偉力)
- Writer, Assistant Professor of Department of Cinema & Television, Hong Kong Baptist University. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Luo Yi-jun (駱以軍)
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Mui Cheuk Yin (梅卓燕)
- Mui Cheuk Yin received training in Chinese classical and ethnic dance in Hong Kong. She joined the Hong Kong Dance Company from 1981-90 as principle dancer. In 1985, she won the Hong Kong Young Choreographer Competition and received a scholarship to study modern dance in New York. Upon returning to Hong Kong, she created works Awakenings in a Dream, Cursive Script and the Diary Series. She became an independent choreographer/dancer/teacher in the 1990s.
- She took part in the International Choreographer's Programme at the American Dance Festival and performed in Hawaii East & West Centre. She was often commissioned by CCDC, the Hong Kong Dance Company and The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts to create new works. Her major works include Fragrant Garden, Water Music, E-motion, As Quick as Silver, Stories about Certain Women, Eulogy, la grace, Between Bow and String and Of Grandeur and Desolation, Kinetic Body Operatics, Pink Lily and October Red. Mui is now an internationally renowned solo artist.
- She has been invited to many international arts festivals including Hong Kong Arts Festival (1994, 2001), Belgium International Arts Festival (1994), Lisbon Culturgest (1995), Re:Orient Dance Festival in London (1995), Hong Kong Festival at the Berlin Tacheles (1996), la Biennale du danse de Val-de-Marne (1997), Ein Fest in Wuppertal (1998), Venice Biennial Dance Festival (1999), Dancing-World Festival in Copenhagen (2000), the Lyon Biennale de la Danse (2000) and China Modern Dance Festiva 2001. In 2000, Mui was invited by Pina Bausch & Folkwang Tanzstudio to choreograph Whispering Colour and to perform as a guest dancer in The Rite of Spring with Tanztheatre Wuppertal.
- Mui was awarded the "Dance Ambassador" (2000) and the "Hong Kong Dance Awards 2001" by the Hong Kong Dance Alliance and named the "Outstanding Woman" by Wai Yin Association (2001). She was the Resident Choreographer of CCDC from 1996 to 1998 and is currently its Associate Choreographer.
Ng Hon-yuen (畢華流)
- Writer. Details please refer to Chinese version
Pak Kam-Fai (白錦輝)
- Born in Hong Kong in 1965. He studied library management in England and now works in the imaging department of a Hong Kong newspaper. He is the Chairman of Hong Kong Science Fiction Club.
Poon Kim-ying, Janny (潘金英)
- Janny Poon received her Bachelor Degree (Honors) from the University of Hong Kong, and Master Degree from University of East Asia. She is a high school teacher and a part-time instructor in the Open University of Hong Kong. She writes columns for children publications in her spare time. She has also been invited to give speeches on reading and creative writing, and being the panel judges for various writing contests. Her recent publications are The Warm Days, My Star Schoolmate, At the Turn of the Century, etc.
Poon Ming-chu (潘明珠)
- Pearl Poon graduated from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She later studied in Tokyo, Japan and received the Bachelor Degree in Arts. She is at present the Chairperson of the Hong Kong Children's Arts Society. She has enjoyed writing with her sister, Janny since she was at teenage. They both have written more than 40 works of prose, fiction and fairy tales. Pearl won the "Little Flowers Literature Award" in Shanghai in 1997, and won the Hong Kong governmental awards in children's literature in many occasions. She represented Hong Kong to attend a number of children literature conferences in Asia, presenting dissertations in English, Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
Quanan (崑南)
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Weslie Siao (蕭志勇)
- Weslie is a teacher and he had got many Poem and Literary awards. His works include Time Traveler, Future Winter Nights, One Traveler.
So Hing Keung (蘇慶強)
- Born in Hong Kong, Mr. So is a prolific photographer who has held numerous solo and group shows since the late eighties in Paris, Berlin, New York, Halifax and Hong Kong. He was awarded a photographic fellowship from Asian Cultural Council for a research trip to the USA in 1995. He was also winner of Judges and Gold Awards at the Biennial Hong Kong Institute of Professional Photographers Awards in 1997 and 1999. He was awarded a one-year Fellowship for Artistic Development by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council in 1998. So Hing Keung obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Photographic Design from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and currently teaches photography part time course at the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Peter Suart (彼德小話)
- Born in Jamaica, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England, Peter Suart is a writer, a picture maker, a musician, and a theatrical performer. He graduated with an honours degree in Illustration at Brighton Polytechnic in 1984 and works chiefly in watercolour and pen, occasionally with collage and cut paper.
- From 1985 to 1999 Peter worked mainly in the performing arts field. He was also a part-time lecturer on Music for Dance at the Hong Kong academy for Performing Arts. As a result of Suart's Hong Kong experiences, he speaks Cantonese as fluently as his native English.
- Last year, Suart authored and illustrated two children's books, Where is The World? and The Storm, and will the soon-released The Love of Learning.
- Suart has lectured on book illustration with the Hong Kong Arts Centre and at a 'Meet the Author' session organized by the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators, and has conducted a number of author talks at schools in Hong Kong.
Sun Gan-lu (孫甘露)
- born in Shanghai in 1959. He published his first literary works in 1986. His publications include: Respiration (novel) (The French version has been published); Visiting the Dreamland (Collection of Novelettes and Short Stories) and Dancing on the Ceiling (Prose). His works have won many Literary Prize of mainland.
Sun Ganlu is also one of the representative writers of avant-garde literature which sprang up in the middle of the eighties of the twentieth century in the Chinese literary world, just after the Cultural Revolution, with the aim of revolting against the traditional Chinese concepts of literature. As a writer, he has wide influence in the Chinese literary world.
Albert Tam (譚劍)
- He is active in both virtual and real worlds, especially in computer and novels. He loves arts and classical music. His major studies are futurology, internet culture and trend. He has published many science fictions in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Tang Siu-Wai (鄧紹偉)
- He was majoring in science in secondary school and studied social science in university. He loves science fictions, science films and always engages in different kinds of science fictions related activities.
Tang Wai-hung, Thomas (鄧偉雄)
- Born in Hong Kong in 1946, he was graduated in Journalism Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained a Master degree in Historical Studies, The University of Hong Kong. He has been editor and scriptwriter of Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited for more than 20 years. He is also a famous lyrics writer. He is now the consultant of The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Chief consultant of Macau Asia Satellite TV, Chief consultant of Bright Time International Art Auctioneer's Ltd.
Tsao Chip (陶傑)
- A famous writer of Hong Kong. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Wang Xiao-ming (王曉明)
- Director of Center for Contemporary Culture Studies(CCCS) of Shanghai University; Professor of Modern Chinese Literature of Shanghai University / East China Normal University. His works include: Myth of Half - face (1999), Selected Works of Wang Xiaoming (1997), The Cold Face of Reality -- a Biography of Lu Xun (1993), Quests and Inquires (1991), Undercurrents and Whirlpools (1990), etc.
Wong Chi-ching (黃子程)
- Graduated in the Chinese University of Hong Kong and received his Ph.D. in The University of Hong Kong, Wong is currently the Assistant Professor in the Department of Chinese and Bilingual Studies of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research is focus on the essays (雜文) of Hong Kong and he is also an renowned columnist.
Wong Chu-wah (李洛霞)
- Writer. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Wong Kin-yuen (王建元)
- He obtained a Ph.D. degree from the University of California, San Diego in Comparative Literature in 1979. He became a lecturer at the UCSD campus before he joined the Foreign Languages and Literature Department of the National Taiwan University as Associate Professor in 1981. He has been with the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1985, and is now Professor and Department Head of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies, and also Director of Centre for Cyberculture Research and Development under the Research Institute for the Humanities, CUHK. Professor Wong has published books on Comparative Poetics and Hermeneutics, and his latest book The Cultural Post-human will be published soon.
Wong Kwok-bun, Laurence (黃國彬)
- He received his B.A. (England and Translation) and M. Phil. (English) from the University of Hong Kong and his Ph.D. (East Asian Studies) from the University of Toronto. He taught in the Department of English Studies and Comparative Literature
Wong Leung-wo (王良和)
- Writer, Lecturer of Chinese Department , Hong Kong Institute of Education. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Wong Wai-leung (黃維樑)
- B.A.(1st Class Honours) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong; Ph.D. from Ohio State University, USA. He was a professor and taught Chinese Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was also the visiting professor at various universities in mainland, Taiwan and USA; Literature advisor of Leisure and Cultural Services Department, HKSAR Government. He has published more than 20 books.
Wong Yan-kwai (黃仁逵)
Wu Yin-ching (胡燕青)
- Writer, Assistant Professor of Language Centre, The Hong Kong Baptist University. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Nelson Yan (甄偉健)
- Graduated in CUHK majoring in English. Later, he got a BBA and MSc. degree in The Open University of Hong Kong and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University of respectively. He has published many ghost stories and science fictions in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Yang Xiao-hui (楊曉暉)
Michelle Yeh (奚密)
- Born in Taipei, Michelle Yeh received her BA in English from the National Taiwan University and her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Currently she is Professor of Chinese in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Davis, as well as Chair of the UC Pacific Rim Research Program. Her major publications include: Modern Chinese Poetry: Theory and Practice since 1917, Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (edited and translated into English), No Trace of the Gardener: Poems of Yang Mu (translation into English), Essays on Modern Chinese Poetry (in Chinese), From the Margin: An Alternative Tradition of Modern Chinese Poetry (in Chinese), Frontier Taiwan: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry (edited; English and Chinese editions), Iconography of the Sea: Poems of Derek Walcott (translation into Chinese).
Yip Siu-tak (葉紹德)
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Yip Tak-fai (葉輝)
- Writer, Editor. Details please refer to Chinese version.
Xu Zi-dong (許子東)
- Ph.D. (HKU), MA.(ECNU, UCLA); currently the Associate Professor of Department of Chinese, Lingnan University; Honorary Research Fellow of Fudan University; Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Theoretical Studies in Literature and Arts. Publications include: A New Study on Yu Dafu, Hangzhou: Zhejiang wenyi chubanshe, 1984; Impressions of Contemporary Chinese Literature, Shanghai: Sanlian shudian, 1987; Notes on Contemporary Chinese Fiction, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 1997; The Collective Memory to Disremember: An Interpretation of Fifty Works of Contemporary Chinese Fiction Related the Cultural Revolution Beijing: Sanlian sudan (SDX & Harvard -Yenching Academic Library), 2000; [Ed.] Anthology of Hong Kong Short Stories, 1994-95; 1996-97; 1998-99, Hong Kong: Joint Publishers Co., 2000-01.
黎彼得
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