Date：22 November, 2025 (Sat)
Time：2:30 – 4:00pm
Venue：Quarryside Function Room 1-3 (Address: 20 Hoi Shin Lane, Quarry Bay)
Speakers：Ms Cheung Yuen Man (Author of The Uneven Treetops)
Discussant：Dr. Chau Man Lut (Writer, Assistant Professor of Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, EdUHK)
Moderator：Dr. Yip Cheuk Wai (Director of Research Centre for Chinese Literature & Literary Culture, EdUHK)
Language：Cantonese
Registration link：https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeUbFuwUxvZTHaNUM1srrJDrtm6Clf9LsEBnBban3aemGumVg/viewform?usp=header
*Free of charge
Event overview
In this opening ceremony, the Hong Kong writer Cheung Yuen Man will read excerpts from her essay collection The Uneven Treetops, the featured book of One City One Book Hong Kong 2025/26, followed by discussions with guest speakers and the readers.
Speaker’s bio
Cheung Yuen-Man is a Hong Kong writer and language tutor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the author of the essay collections The Uneven Treetops (2022) and You Are Here – Stories of Campus Cats (2020); and the novel collections Farewell & together(2025), Those were the Cats (2019), Dust in the Wind (2017) and Sweet Honey (2004). Those were the Catsand Dust in the Wind won the Recommendation Award of the Chinese Literature Biennial Award. She was also awarded the Jury Prize of the Times Literary Awards (2013), the First Prize of the Joint Literary New Talent Award (2012), and the Merit Award of the Hong Kong Literary Awards for Fiction (2010).
Join us for an evening of readings and discussions on The Uneven Treetops— the featured title of One City One Book Hong Kong 2025/26.
Date: 28 January 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:30 PM -8 PM
Venue: WLB211, The Wing Lung Bank Building for Business Studies, Shaw Campus, Hong Kong Baptist University
Speakers: CHEUNG Yuen Man, Jeffrey CLAPP (EdUHK), SONG Ge (EdUHK)
Moderator: Robert TSATURYAN (HKBU)
Language: English
*Free admission, registration required.
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Event details:
In this event, our speakers will read excerpts from both the original and the English translation of selected essays from Cheung Yuen Man’s collection The Uneven Treetops, the featured book of One City One Book HK 2025/26, followed by discussions on essay writing, reading and translation.
All are welcome!
About One City One Book Hong Kong:
One City One Book Hong Kong is a community reading programme initiated by The Education University of Hong Kong. Each year, we encourage as many people as possible to read and discuss a single book. By planning and hosting activities related to the year’s book, and by collaborating with other organizations, we aim to promote literature, reading, and civic engagement. We encourage everybody in Hong Kong to pick up a book, pass it along, and multiply the joys and the insights of reading together.
Speakers’ Bio:
CHEUNG Yuen-Man (張婉雯) is a Hong Kong writer and language tutor at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She is the author of the essay collections The Uneven Treetops (2022) and You Are Here – Stories of Campus Cats (2020); and the novel collections Farewell & together (2025), Those were the Cats (2019), Dust in the Wind (2017) and Sweet Honey (2004). Those were the Catsand Dust in the Wind won the Recommendation Award of the Chinese Literature Biennial Award. She was also awarded the Jury Prize of the Times Literary Awards (2013), the First Prize of the Joint Literary New Talent Award (2012), and the Merit Award of the Hong Kong Literary Awards for Fiction (2010).
Jeffrey CLAPP is Associate Professor of Department of Literature and Cultural Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong. He focuses on digital humanities, media studies, and contemporary literature in English. His previous writing has appeared or will appear in College Literature, Contemporary Literature, Critique, Life Writing, Mosaic, Partial Answers, Post45, Textual Practice, Texas Studies in Literature and Language, and elsewhere. For several years, he explored the capacities and affordances of social annotation technologies for teaching literature. And he is a co-founder of the large-scale community reading project One City One Book Hong Kong.
SONG Ge (宋歌) is Assistant Professor in Linguistics and Modern Languages at The Education University of Hong Kong. His interests include sociolinguistics, translation studies, and AI in language and media. Recent work appears inInternational Journal of Multilingualism, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Language and Intercultural Communication, and China Perspectives. He is first‑named editor of the Multilingual Education Yearbook 2025, and author of the book Diversity and Hybridity: A Stroll through Hong Kong Culture (多元與混合：香港文化漫步).
Robert TSATURYAN is a lecturer at the Academy of Language and Culture, Department of Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies, Hong Kong Baptist University. He has published essays and translations in English and Chinese inChinese Literature Today, Fleurs des Lettres, Voice & Verse and in edited volumes such as Voiced and Voiceless in Asia(2023), Ethics in the Zhuangzi: Dialogues on the State of the Field (2024), among others. He has also translated Lu Xun into Armenian.
(in Chinese only)
那些貓狗們：故事工作坊
日期：2026年2月8日（星期日）
時間：下午2時至3時
地點：上環樂古道50號One Bite Design 2樓活動室
講者：貓珊 Maoshan Connie（繪本創作者）
語言：廣東話
名額：15位
報名連結：https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeLJbrDjIlCoNeJOsKab5-ms_wYL2IeXwSgou9Cr-cPXLw7fg/viewform?usp=header
*費用全免，額滿即止
活動簡介
香港教育大學「我城我書2025/26」社區閱讀計劃的年度選書為香港作家張婉雯的散文集《參差杪》。其中，〈貓族的瑪雅文明〉一文邀請讀者反思幫助街貓的方式及倫理意義。是次活動，我們邀請了本地繪本創作者貓珊，從動物救助的親身經歷出發，帶領參加者從文學中的動物故事走進繪本中的動物故事。
*故事工作坊結束後，參加者可現場報名我們的加料活動（名額有限）。貓珊將帶領部分參加者步行至動物慈善組織LAP的貓中心，沿途觀看並思考鋪頭貓的生活環境。
講者簡介
貓珊 Maoshan Connie
大學時期主修建築，其後修讀兒童文學。一直希望能以插畫，把有意思的信息跟世界分享，曾經創作生死教育、樹木保育、特殊需要人士等議題的繪本及藝術作品，並一直於動物慈善機構LAP當暫託家庭及教育工作統籌的義工。曾出版繪本書籍包括：《最後的告別》、《獅子山下的黃大獅》、《我們都值得被愛》、《通往大嶼山的慢船上》及《大耳嘴角》等。
(in Chinese only)
線上讀書會：鼠目豈止寸光——張婉雯《參差杪》的邊緣視角
日期：2026年3月11日（星期三）
時間：下午7時30分至9時
講者：陳子謙（香港作家）
主持：鄒文律（香港作家、香港教育大學文學及文化學系助理教授）
形式：Zoom視像會議
語言：廣東話
報名連結：https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdU9M0T2BVmEbVHNYWm1CED39hBV2rC_6xZRAl3J1DTNDDDfA/viewform?usp=header
【活動簡介】
張婉雯以小說見稱，其散文也同樣精彩。本活動將探討散文集《參差杪》的邊緣視角：人與獸、男與女、本地華人與少數族裔的互動中，權力關係如何盤根錯節？張婉雯在批判中不忘自省，堅持在鮮活的生命經驗中探問越界的可能。
【講者簡介】
陳子謙
覬覦詩，天性卻親近散文。著有詩集《鬼火與人形》、《豐饒的陰影》，散文集《學習微笑》、《怪物描寫》，編有描畫聲音記憶的文集《耳窩》。現於《明報》時代版撰寫專欄「飄流窗口」。
【關於「我城我書」】
「我城我書」是一個社區閱讀計劃。每年，我們都鼓勵盡可能多的人閱讀和討論一本書。通過規劃和舉辦與年度圖書相關的活動，並與其他組織合作，我們旨在促進文學、閱讀和公民參與。我們鼓勵香港人拿起一本書，傳下去，一起增加閱讀的樂趣和感悟。
