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Prof. Nicholas Y. H. WONG 王學權教授

Translation Programme

Assistant Professor

BA (Col), MA (Chic), PhD (Chic)

852-39171952

852-28581334

Rm 825, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Chinese-English Translation, Global Chinese Literatures, Media and Modernity in China and Southeast Asia, Poetry and Poetics, Resource Extraction Literary Politics, Transnationalism and Diaspora

Type Date Title

Translation

2021

Huang Chong-kai 黃崇凱. “Ramón, Adolfo, Ernesto, and Che” <拉蒙、阿道弗、埃內斯托還有切> (2020). English translation of and introduction to the Taiwanese writer’s novel, New Formosa《新寶島》(2021) (chapter excerpt). Renditions Vol. 96, CUHK, 101–128.

Translation

2021

Chan Yeong Siew張永修. “Searching for a Tiger” <尋虎> (2019). English translation of the Chinese-Malaysian short story. Practice, Research and Tangential Activities (PR&TA) issue 1, “Migrations.” https://www.pratajournal.com/searchingforatiger

Translation

2020

A Leng阿楞. “The Sea Lion that Jumped over Terraced Fields” <跳梯田的海獅> (2019). English translation of Cantonese-Mandarin speculative fiction. Transpacific Literary Project, Asian American Writers’ Workshop, “Monsoon Notebook,” under pen name Zhou Sivan. https://aaww.org/the-sea-lion-that-jumped-across-terraced-fields/

Book Talk

2021

Discussant with Jeremy Tiang on State of Emergency: A Novel. Conversations on Literature, Series II: Singapore and Malaysia (2021 文學對談系列二:聚集新馬). School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and City Book Room. 18 September 2021

Book Talk

2021

Discussant with Li Zishu 黎紫書on Land of Floating Customs《流俗地》. Conversations on Literature, Series II: Singapore and Malaysia (2021 文學對談系列二:聚集新馬). School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and City Book Room (in Mandarin). 24 July 2021.

Book Talk

2021

Discussant with Alfian Sa’at on Malay Sketches; Tiger of Malaya; A History of Amnesia. Conversations on Literature, Series II: Singapore and Malaysia (2021文學對談系列二:聚集新馬). School of Humanities at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and City Book Room. 4 July 2021.

Book Talk

2021

Organizer and Moderator of “Sanmao’s Stories of the Sahara: On Cultural Identity and Decolonization.” Guest visit by translator Mike Fu to course, “Fiction and Film in Contemporary Chinese Societies,” HKU. 25 February 2021.