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SUMMARY: Utopia\, Dystopia and Uchronia – From ‘The Fat Years’ to ‘The Seco
 nd Year of Jianfeng: An Alternative History of New China’
DESCRIPTION: About the Speaker: Chan Koonchung is a sinophone writer living
  in Beijing. He is the Writer of the Year at the 2013 Hong Kong Book Fair. 
 His 2009 novel “The Fat Years” has been translated into 13 languages. His 2
 013 novel “The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver” is available  in
  English and Dutch. His 2015 novel\, “The […]
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <p><strong>About the Speaker:</strong><br /><
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 h="232" height="300" /></a>Chan Koonchung is a sinophone writer living in B
 eijing. He is the Writer of the Year at the 2013 Hong Kong Book Fair. His 2
 009 novel “The Fat Years” has been translated into 13 languages. His 2013 n
 ovel “The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver” is available  in Engl
 ish and Dutch. His 2015 novel\, “The Second Year of Jianfeng: An Alternativ
 e History of New China”\, has been selected as “Ten Chinese Novels 2015” by
  Yazhou Zhoukan (Asia Weekly) of Hong Kong\, and “Twenty Chinese Novels 200
 0-2015” by National Culture and Arts Foundation of the Republic of China.He
  is also the author of fictions “Nothing Happened”\, “The Story of A Presid
 ent”\, “Hong Kong Trilogy”，as well as many non-fiction books including “My 
 Generation of Hongkongers”\, “Marxism and Literary Criticism”\, “Notes on a
  Hybrid City”\, “Hong Kong’s Unfinished Experiment” \, “Afterwards”\, “Chin
 ese Celestial Imperialism and Hong Kong”，and “Living Out the Contradictions
  of Our Time”.</p><p>Please RSVP <a href="http://goo.gl/forms/N2IUwZ9CVW" t
 arget="_blank">here</a>. Light refreshment will be provided for registered 
 participants.</p>
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