Chinese Literature and Culture Magazine - Volume 11 - December 2017

In this issue

As a special Chinese territory with a colonial past, Hong Kong has a character both the same as and different from that of the Chinese continent. In this collection, we shall be able to have a glimpse of Hong Kong new writing and the life and culture of Hong Kong people.
A small volume as it is, compiling it is no easy task. I am very thankful to four Hong Kong authors—Wu Yin-ching, Chan Hay Ching, Eric Lui Wing Kai, and Liu Waitong—for allowing their works to be translated and published, and four excellent translators—Huang Yu, Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Audrey Heijns, and Li Bo, who live in Hong Kong or have Hong Kong experience to enable them to understand the culture and language of Hong Kong people—for their dedication to translational excellence.

The Tale of Fabric Street
translated by Huang Yu (Heidi)

The alleys have disappeared, the private histories are now blurred, but the scrolls of emotion are waiting to be measured by the ruler of memory.

My grandfather died at 94. Before his departure he had been silent for three months, fasting, living on a plastic feeding tube, and leaving no word behind. News came at dawn that he was gone. He left our lives in the lightest way possible, like a piece of scribbled scratch paper fleeing from the worm-eaten
window frame, quietly disappearing under the stern gaze of broad daylight, with red paint falling off in bits and pieces.
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