Publisher Description

Like her mentor, the late celebrated Hong Kong author PK Leung, Natalia completed her PhD studies at the University of California, San Diego, which hasgiven her a leg up in terms of visibility and familiarity with the North American academic community. Without writing overtly political verse, her poems engage directly with the current turmoil in Hong Kong (and broader China) politics and society. Apart from her university work, she is the guest anchor of Radio Hong Kong's Performing Arts program. Her recent publications in Chinese include Flying Coffin, which received the 9th Biennial Award for Chinese Literature (Poetry) in 2007, and Butterfly of Forbidden Colors: The Artistic Image of Leslie Cheung, which received the Hong Kong Book Prize as well as the 2008 "Best Book of the Year" award.

Author Biography

Natalia Chan: best known for her award-winning poetry collection, Flying Coffin, Dr. Chan is a prolific Hong Kong poet, fiction writer and cultural critic. Her specializations are Hong Kong literature and film, gender and queer studies, as well as urban cultural studies.Eleanor Goodman: translates and writes fiction, poetry, and literary criticism. Her work has appeared widely in publications such as PN Review, Fiction, The Guardian and on The Best American Poetry website. She has lectured at Yale, Northeastern, & Beijing University, and is currently a Research Associate at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University

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Competing Titles

Notes on the Mosquito Xi Chuan 9780811219877 18.95 New Directions 2012

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Like her mentor, the late celebrated Hong Kong author PK Leung, Lok completed her PhD studies at the University of California, San Diego, which has given her a leg up in terms of visibility and familiarity with the North American academic community. Without writing overtly political verse, her poems engage directly with the current turmoil in Hong Kong (and broader China) politics and society. Apart from her university work, she is the guest anchor of Radio Hong Kong's Performing Arts program. Her recent publications in Chinese include Flying Coffin, which received the 9th Biennial Award for Chinese Literature (Poetry) in 2007, and Butterfly of Forbidden Colors: The Artistic Image of Leslie Cheung, which received the Hong Kong Book Prize as well as the 2008 "Best Book of the Year" award.

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