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).
