• XU XI •
author - editor - teacher

upcoming events & workshops 2008

MAY & JUNE in HONG KONG: New Book Events for EVANESCENT ISLES (click links above)

Monday June 2 (time tba) Seminar at City University

Tuesday May 27 Noon M@the Fringe: Literary Lunch

Friday May 23 5:30 - 7 pm Foreign Correspondents Club,
*****book launch * book launch * book launch*****
hosted by Hong Kong University Press


APRIL
Wednesday Apr 30 6:30 pm at Helena May, Hong Kong: 'Author in the Library' speaking on FIFTY-FIFTY.

recent events 2007 - '08 (partial)


2008

APRIL
Lingnan University Library: Book reception for FIFTY-FIFTY.
Lingnan University Public lecture 'The Story of My Life is the Story of the Story' (preview of EVANESCENT ISLES)

MARCH
Book Launch for FIFTY-FIFTY & Man Hong Kong Literary Festival moderator.

FEBRUARY
Literary Lunch: In conversation with author Ian McEwan, Hong Kong.
AWP conference panel chair "The Soundtrack of Prose" New York City.

JANUARY
Pacific University MFA residency guest writer, sponsored by Silk Road journal.


2007
NOVEMBER
Stockholm University fiction workshop
Nonfiction Now! Conference at the University of Iowa "Travel Writing: To Simmer or Not To Simmer" Panelist
Man Asian Literary Prize Reading, Hong Kong

OCTOBER Literary Lunch: Panel chair in conversation with British authors Helen Cross and Peter Jinks M@ the Fringe, Hong Kong

SEPTEMBER: Ubud Writers Festival (see link above)

MAY writing workshop for AUTHORS AT LARGE in Hong Kong/Macau with author Robin Hemley

MARCH appearances at the BEIJING LITERARY FESTIVAL, the HONG KONG LITERARY FESTIVAL and the 2007 AWP CONFERENCE, ATLANTA

Chateau de Lavigny International Writers Residency
Summer 2005 Photo L to R
top: Andrew Zawacki, Beate Rygiert, Daniel Bachmann
bottom: Mila D Aguilar, Sindiwe Magona, Xu Xi



books

(1) Novel
The Unwalled City (2001)
An insider's look at contemporary Hong Kong
Hong Kong Rose (1997) 2nd edition, 2004
Love, and lust, unrequited and transformed in two of the world's great cities
(2) Collection
Overleaf Hong Kong (2004)
Stories & Essays of the Chinese, Overseas
History's Fiction (2001) 2nd edition, 2005
Stories from the City of Hong Kong
(3) Compendium
(4) Anthology
CITY VOICES (2003)
Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 - Present
Anthology
City Stage (2005)
Hong Kong Playwriting in English


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