David McKirdy was born in 1956 in Scotland and grew up in Hong Kong, where his father worked at the Hong Kong & Whampoa Dock Company. He arrived in England for the first time as a twenty-year-old and stayed for five years before deciding to permanently move to Hong Kong.
is a poet, translator and editor based in Hong Kong. He has published four collections of poetry and many volumes of poetry translation. Song won the 2013 »Extraordinary Mention« of the UNESCO-recognized Nosside World Poetry Prize from Italy. More recently he won the Young Artistʼs Award of 2017 Hong Kong
Chen Danyan was born in Shanghai in 1958. From 1978 to 1982 she studied Chinese Literature at the Eastern China Normal University. After completing her degree she worked as a reporter for the ‘Children’s Epoch Magazine’. In 1972, Chen was published in ‘Shanghai Youngsters’ Prose published in 1984 won her – among
Chen Jianghong was born in the Chinese port city Tianjin in 1963 and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. He studied painting from 1979 to 1982 in his home town and completed his studies in Beijing in 1987 at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts. He has lived since
Cao Wenxuan was born in 1954 in the Chinese pr ovince of Jiangsu. His superior importance as a writer and his leading involvement in the discourse of literature for young readers have shaped writing for children and young people in China over the last twenty years. The genre having been
Brian Castro was born in Hong Kong in 1950. His mother was of Chinese-English descent and his father was born to a family of Spanish, Portuguese and English merchants who settled in Shanghai at the turn of the 20th century. Castro was sent alone to Australia in 1961 to boarding
Bei Dao, literally “Northern Island”, was born Zhao Zhenkai in Beijing in 1949. He studied Chinese linguistics and literature, and until 1987 he edited various Chinese newspapers and literary journals. During the Beijing Spring (1978-80), he and the poet Mang Ke founded the underground literary magazine “Jintian” (“Today”) which he
Ai Weiwei (born 1957), artist and Artistic Director of CAAW (China Art & Archives Warehouse), lives in Berlin. Weiwei has dedicated himself not only to fine arts, but also to architecture, photography, and filmmaking. In April 2011 he was sentenced to 81 days imprisonment for his support to other human
