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.
