Hong Kong Trilogy (2013 Revised Edition)

The short story collection "Hong Kong Trilogy", released in 2007, is about the mixed generation of baby boomers, who were born in the 1950s, grew up in the 1960s, and debuted in the 1970s, taking the lead in the new Hong Kong drama. The three protagonists are all Hong Kongers. The author Chen Guanzhong uses traditional romance stories and sophisticated human relationships to describe the deep psychology of a certain corner of Hong Kong. The expanded edition of "The Hong Kong Trilogy" launched at this year's book fair includes two new novels: "A Night Banquet" and "The Day I Got Hit in the Head by a Book", plus the original two short stories and one novella. This is the author's Hong Kong story spanning more than 30 to 40 years.

Chen Guanzhong said: "The Hong Kong Trilogy has its origins and predecessors. The Banquet of the Year was originally published in the student newspaper of the University of Hong Kong in April 1974. That was my last semester before graduation. With the final exams approaching and the thesis swamped, I somehow wanted to write about the stories of Shanghainese people who came to Ningbo from my parents' generation. I must have read too much of the diaspora literature of Chinese writers who drifted to Taiwan. I had no intention of doing this. I wanted to write a fantasy fable, but I unexpectedly wrote "The Day I Got Hit in the Head by a Book" in March 2008. Because of the mysterious death of Luo Zhihua in the Green Bookstore, because the upstairs bookstore in Hong Kong returned to the Middle Ages of scholars forever, and because I didn't return north, I had a vague feeling that the old feelings of Hong Kong would eventually fade away - the first year of the new normal of "prosperity" in China. "

2013-07-01

牛津大學

268

9780193999183