About the Speaker
Chan Koonchung is a sinophone writer living in Beijing. He is the Writer of the Year at the 2013 Hong Kong Book Fair. His 2009 novel “The Fat Years” has been translated into 13 languages. His 2013 novel “The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver” is available in English and Dutch. His 2015 novel, “The Second Year of Jianfeng: An Alternative History of New China”, has been selected as “Ten Chinese Novels 2015” by Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly) of Hong Kong, and “Twenty Chinese Novels 2000-2015” by National Culture and Arts Foundation of the Republic of China. He is also the author of fictions “Nothing Happened”, “The Story of A President”, “Hong Kong Trilogy”，as well as many non-fiction books including “My Generation of Hongkongers”, “Marxism and Literary Criticism”, “Notes on a Hybrid City”, “Hong Kong’s Unfinished Experiment” , “Afterwards”, “Chinese Celestial Imperialism and Hong Kong”，and “Living Out the Contradictions of Our Time”.
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