The Best China Essays from Hong Kong edited by John Minford

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minford, John, editor.

Series:

Hong Kong Literature Series

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Chinese essays--China--Hong Kong.

Chinese essays.

Hong Kong (China)--In literature.

Hong Kong (China).

China--Hong Kong.

Hong Kong (China)--Literary collections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : CHINESE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2020.

Summary:

"The Best China," an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the Best Chinese Tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has always characterised the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, always civilised, and buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom. -- From Amazon.

Contents:

Front Cover

Half Title Page

Full Title Page

Copyright

Series Editor's Preface

Acknowledgements

Translations

Table of Contents

Introduction

Section I. Forerunners

Sir John Francis Davis, 'The Poetry of the Chinese'

Karl Gützlaff, 'Nymphs of Perfect Beauty'

James Legge, 'The Colony of Hongkong: Reminiscences of a Long Residence in the East'

Wang Tao, 'On James Legge &amp

Hong Kong'

Johannes Nacken, 'Chinese Street-Cries of Hongkong'

E. J. Eitel, 'Hongkong: Haven of Refuge, Home of the Free'

James Dyer Ball, 'The Bamboo'

Cecil Clementi, 'The Singsong Girls of Canton'

Sun Yat-sen, 'I Got My Ideas in Hong Kong'

Section II. More Recent Times

Liu Ts'un-yan, 'Cutting Grass'

Liu Ts'un-yan, 'A Mongol Bannerman in Hong Kong'

Anthony C. Yu, 'Days of 15 Shelley Street'

Stephen C. Soong, 'Somerset Maugham and My Father'

Louis Cha, 'That Little Brat Trinket'

Margaret Ng, 'The Many Faces of Louis Cha'

Lee Yee, 'Going in Opposite Directions: Louis Cha and Me'

Jimmy Lai, 'Freedom and Information'

Lee Yee, 'Back in the Year 1984'

Liu Yichang, 'This Time I Just Want to Entertain Myself-Preface to The Drunkard'

David Hawkes, 'Memories of Wong Siu-kit'

Timothy Mo, 'Fighting Their Writing: The Unholy Lingo of RLS and Kung Fu Tse'

Leung Ping-kwan, 'The Walled City of Kowloon'

Leung Ping-kwan, 'The Sorrows of Lan Kwai Fong'

Leo Ou-fan Lee, 'A Conversation with Mahler in Paradise'

Xi Xi, 'The Drawer'

San Su, 'Paying One's Last Respects Is Both a Source of Anguish for the Living and an Insult to the Dead'

Ha Gong, 'Getting High' and Other Essays

Xiao Si, 'Loneliness among the Mountain Flowers-Xiao Hong in Hong Kong'

Tung Chiao, 'Raising the Bamboo Curtain' and Other Essays

Chip Tsao, 'Memento Mori'

Other Works in the Series

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789882371972

9882371973

OCLC:

1228116269