The Hong Kong Book Fair begins tomorrow. You can find the complete list of events here in English and Chinese, but Bruce Humes has narrowed down the topics of interest, which I re-post here:
July 18
尋找華人推理小說的線索
Speaker: 紀蔚然 (Taiwanese writer on suspense novels)
人性‧文化‧制度
Speaker: 資中筠 (Zi Zhongyun, Chinese scholar and translator)
武俠小說與武俠電影 — 雷鋒還是雷人?
Speaker: 温瑞安 (Malaysian-born wuxia author Wen Jui on martial arts novels and cinema)
July 19
什麼是文學的經驗?
Speaker: 格非 (Novelist Ge Fei: What is ‘literary experience’? )
父親與民國
Speaker: 白先勇 (Pai Hsien-yung: My Father and the Republic of China)
July 20
烽火大地、永恆之旅
Speaker: 張翠容 (Cheung Chui-yung, HK travel writer)
內地與香港的文化衝突與融和
Speaker: 馬立誠 (Ma Licheng: HK and the Mainland—Cultural Conflict and Synthesis)
July 21
Talks on and Multilingual Reading of Leung Ping-kwan’s Poetry
Recitations by西野由希子, Sonia Au(待定), and 也斯, and talk by the always-controversial Professor Wolfgang Kubin
鄉音已改──小說家的世界觀
Speaker: 黎紫書 (Lin Baolin, female writer born in Malaysia, on the distance between authors and their homelands)
女作家的香港煙霞
Speaker: 張曼娟 (Taiwanese novelist Chang Man Chuan)
為什麼總要問創作人靈感從哪來?
Speaker: 彭浩翔 (HK author and director: Why question the source of an artist’s inspiration?)
July 22
如今的文學與寫作
Speaker: 馮唐 (Feng Tang, Beijing novelist published in French and in Hong Kong (不二), on contemporary literature and writing)
生活與閱讀
Speaker: 黃春明 (Huang Chunming, Taiwanese short story writer, and author of The Taste of Apples that lampooned the fascination of the island’s modern youth with their former occupiers, the Japanese)
愛是修養自己的旅程
Speaker: 素黑 (Hong Kong female author and columnist)
July 23
廢物•人渣•垃圾：城市書寫的邊緣視野
Speaker: 馬家輝 (Hong Kong journalist Ma Ka-fai on scum, rubbish and urban writing)
如秋水長天
Speaker: 慕容雪村 (Murong Xuecun, controversial Chinese novelist, and author of Absurdities of China’s Censorship System
報導綠色
Speaker: 陳曉蕾 (Chen Xiaolei on “green” reportage)
我們這個時代的怕和愛：談中國電視劇
Speaker: 毛尖 (Mao Jian: Chinese TV Dramas—Fear and Love in our Era)