Book Launch: Horizon Hong Kong
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Horizon Hong Kong: A Book Launch
Join us as we welcome visiting writer Xu Xi and learn more about her latest short story collection, Horizon Hong Kong at The Theatre Centre in Toronto. Canadian novelist and translator Kim Echlin will be moderating the event.
One of Hong Kong’s leading English writers, Xu Xi investigates and invigorates the transnational, transcultural, and translingual dimensions of her beloved city in these 22 stories covering the 1960s to the present day.
Written against the backdrop of tremendous political change—from Hong Kong’s transformation from a British colony to a Chinese Special Administrative Region in 1997 to the political turmoil of the 2014 Occupy Hong Kong protests and the 2019 Polytechnic University occupation—Xu’s stories capture the intimate realities of lives led and choices made under the shadow of a city that looms large in our imagination.
, an Indonesian-Chinese-American from Hong Kong, has published 16 books and edited 4 anthologies of English Hong Kong literature. A writer-in-residence at Arizona State University, City University of Hong Kong, and University of Iowa, Xu has directed two international MFAs. She held the Jenks Chair in Contemporary Letters at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts. A diehard transnational, she now lives between New York and the rest of the world.
is an award-winning Canadian novelist, translator, editor and teacher. She has written seven novels. She has travelled around the world for her research. Her new collection of essays, Tell Others, reflects on literature and witness. She is a board member of PEN International.
*Limited copies of the book will be available for purchase
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