Marvels of a Floating City
Marvels of a Floating City
By Xi Xi
Edited by Eva Hung
1999, 1997
142 pages
ISBN 962-7255-18-1
Xi Xi, Hong Kong's foremost fiction writer, eloquently conveys the mood of the city during the 1980s in this collection of short stories. In the first half of the decade, the Chinese and British governments negotiated Hong Kong's fate, occasioning intense soul-searching and close scrutiny of their society among the general population.
The old and the new, the real and the fantastic, Western culture and local perception are skilfully woven together here to create narratives of the hopes, anger and fears which gripped the people of Hong Kong in this crucial period of their history.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements — vii
Introduction — ix
Marvels of A Floating City translated by Eva Hung — 1
The Story of Fertile Town translated by Eva Hung — 29
The Fertile Town Chalk Circle translated by John & Esther Dent-Young — 65
Review(s)
Review(s)
'Xi Xi is now one of the most familiar and best translated of the Hong Kong writers; Marvels of a Floating City confirms her versatility in reconceptualizing that harried and hurried corner of the globe.'
—World Literature Today
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EDITOR(s)
Eva Hung, the editor, was born and educated in Hong Kong. She received her B.A. and M.Phil. degrees in translation from the University of Hong Kong and her Ph.D. from the University of London.