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Monkey in Residence & Other Speculations, pub date: Nov 1, 2022 and other titles

Bloomsbury UK/USA

The Art and Craft of Asian Stories: A Writer's Guide and Anthology, co-authored with Robin Hemley (2021)

Penguin

Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy for a City (2017)

C & R Press, USA

That Man in Our Lives (2016)

HKU Press, Hong Kong

Interruptions with photos by David C Clarke (2017)

Two anthologies of Hong Kong Writing in English (2003 & 2005)

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Collection

This Fish is Fowl: Essays of Being (2019)

Transnational and feminist perspective of a contemporary "glocalized" American life.

Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories (2018)

Sometimes what is remembered is best forgotten. The protagonists cannot help but recall their former Hong Kong existence, one that shimmers with beauty and pain.

Interruptions (2016)

Ekphrasitic essays in conversation with photography by David Clarke

Access Thirteen Tales (2011)

The persistence of wounds that will not heal

Evanescent Isles (2008) - 2nd ed. forthcoming

Essays: from my 'city-village'

Overleaf Hong Kong (2004)

Of the Chinese, Overseas

History's Fiction (2001 & 2005)

The City of Hong Kong: Stories

Memoir

Dear Hong Kong: An Elegy For A City (2017)

A “Dear John” letter to her city-home

Novel

That Man In Our Lives (2016)

The political & personal balancing of power when a protagonist vanishes

Habit of a Foreign Sky (2010)

When life goes into free fall.

The Unwalled City (2001)

An insider's Hong Kong

Hong Kong Rose (1997) 2nd ed (2004)

Love and lust, unrequited and transformed in two of the world's great cities

Compendium

Chinese Walls (1994) & Daughters of Hui (1996) New ed., 2002

Chinese sex now

Anthology

The Queen of Statue Square (2014)

In, from and of Hong Kong’s past, present & future

Fifty-Fifty (2008)

New Hong Kong Writing

City Stage (2005)

Hong Kong Playwriting in English

CITY VOICES (2003)

Hong Kong Writing in English 1945 - Present

Fifty-Fifty

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