[Webcast Only] Zero Point Beijing 北京零公里
VIEW EVENT DETAILSAfternoon Discussion with CHAN KOONCHUNG, sinophone writer and WONG NIM-YAN, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, CUHK
- Sunday, November 15th, 2020
- Discussion 14:00, Close 15:00
- Free Admission; Conducted in Cantonese
In this latest novel, author Chan Koonchung sends his 14 year old protagonist to the netherworld for a magical realist journey in search of truth across 800 years of Beijing’s history. The book’s title refers to a plaque in Tiananmen Square reading “Kilometre zero point of highways of China”, which signifies both the starting point of all highways in the country, and also the nucleus of power in a centralised China. Chan discusses truth, ideology and interpreting history through fiction with Wong Nim-yan, associate professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the director of Hong Kong Literature Research Centre.
Chan Koonchung is a sinophone writer from Hong Kong who has lived in Beijing for 22 years. He is the Writer of the Year at 2013 Hong Kong Book Fair. His novel The Fat Years has been translated into 13 languages.
Wong Nim-yan is an associate professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include Hong Kong literature, women literature, political discourse analysis, and archival study. Her work of Late Style: Discourses on Three Hong Kong Women Writers (2007) won the recommended award of the tenth Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature (Literary Criticism). She has recently focused on discursive studies of Hong Kong literature in the 1990s and has edited various anthologies including The Collection of Hong Kong Literature: Novels, 1942-1949 (2015).
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