Lion Rock: Contemporary Writing from Hong Kong

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Wong Yi is a Hong Kong writer, librettist, and editor for the literary journal Fleurs des lettres. She graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor of Social Sciences in Psychology and Comparative Literature, and holds a Master of Arts in English from King’s College London. She has won numerous literary awards, including the 2018 Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artists (Literary Arts). In 2020, she was named one of the “20 most anticipated young Sinophone novelists” by the Taiwanese literary magazine Unitas. She is the author of four short story collections—Ways to Love in a Crowded City (2021), The Four Seasons of Lam Yip (2019), Patched Up (2015), and News Stories (2010). Wong Yi also is a columnist for several periodicals and hosts a radio program on RTHK Radio 2. Her work is translated into English by Jennifer Feeley.

Albert TAM: Born in 1972 in Hong Kong, TAM is a genre fiction writer. He has a degree in computer science and earned his MBA from the University of Bradford. His notable works span various genres and have earned him many awards in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China. He is best known for his Humanoid Software series, which won the Best Saga Novel at the 1st Xingyun (Nebula) Awards in China in 2010. His stories and novels have won or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Sun Ya Literature Award for Youth Adults and Children, the Ni Kuang Science Fiction Award, the Comic Ritz Million Novel Award, the Chiu Ko 30th Anniversary Two-Million Novel Award  and others. His work has been translated into Englisy by Mary King Bradley.

Yip Hiu-man graduated from Lingnan University’s Chinese Department in 2004 and after working in the publishing industry, now works as a freelance illustrator and a writer. At the 32nd Youth Literary Awards in 2005, she won first prize in the Open Fiction category. Her recent work primarily focuses on nature writing and plant-related fields, continuing her practice as both an artist and writer to promote awareness of the natural environment. Her works include the short story collection Killing the Bandits, the illustrated volumes In Search of Flowers and In Search of Flowers II: Notes on Hong Kong’s Native Plants, followed by the animal-themed volume In Search of Them: Notes on Hong Kong’s Wild Animals. Her work has been translated into English by Tammy Lai Ming Ho.

Sai Cho is a Hong Kong poet whose poems have appeared primarily in Hong Kong’s Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine and Autumn Cicada Poetry Journal, as well as Taiwan’s Toilet Paper+. His work has been anthologized in Selected Poems by Post-80s Poets from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Selected Poems from Toilet Paper, Hong Kong Poetry 2011, and Hong Kong Poetry 2012. He is the author of the poetry collections The Beach Is as Quiet as a Stopped Clock and Not Even the Sound of Flowers Blooming. He received the Third Autumn Cicada New Poet Award and serves as publisher of Voice & Verse Poetry Magazine and Musical Stone. His poems have been translated into English by May Huang.

Lam Sam-wai is a novelist who holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the University of Hong Kong Department of Comparative Literature. Her first novel, White Dirt (2016), tells a story of the collapse of a middle-class family in Hong Kong. In the novel, she poignantly uncovers what is hidden beneath the everyday and explores the conflicts between generations. She currently works as an editor at City Magazine. Her work has been translated into English by Natascha Bruce.

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Lion Rock: Contemporary Hong Kong Writing brings stories and poems by five of Hong Kong's contemporary literary stars to English-language readers, in translation by five acclaimed, award-winning translators. Over the past decade, this new generation has produced daring, provocative work that captures the everyday textures and existential concerns of the wider Hong Kong society. They turn a sharp eye on the anxieties shaping contemporary Hong Kong: the pressures of urban density and precarious housing, generational rifts over identity and belonging, the quiet erosion of collective memory, and the search for meaning amid rapid social and political change. Rather than offering polemic, their stories and poems dwell in the granular, lived experience of these shifts—rendering the city's uncertainties through intimate, often quietly unsettling detail.

Lion Rock has been assembled to mark the 70th anniversary of Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU). The five Hong Kong–born authors in the anthology were all featured writers in HKBU's International Writers' Workshop (IWW) between 2021 and 2025. Considered one of the most prestigious writers' residencies in Asia, the IWW has hosted more than 150 writers from over 60 countries since its founding in 2004.

Inhalt

LION ROCK: Contemporary Hong Kong WritingTable of Contents Introduction: K.C. LO, “Amidst the Lion Rock”

EVA WONG YI (stories) translated by Jennifer Feeley

Secret Rendezvous Pier

Stand a Little Bit Closer

Overseas Bride

Lam Yip’s Amulet

ALBERT TAM (stories) translated by Mary King Bradley

The Taipei National Palace Museum’s Qianlong

Bloodline murderer

HUMAN IP (story) translated by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

Cow Mui

KEITH LIU (poems) translated by May Huang

Selected Poems

SAMWAI LAM (story) translated by Natascha Bruce

Dance Studio

Notes and Acknowledgments

Editor & Translator Biographies