Leung Ping-kwan
Leung Ping-kwan ( Chinese 梁秉鈞 / 梁秉钧 , Pinyin Liáng Bǐngjūn , Jyutping Loeng 4 Bing 2 gwan 1 , born April 20, 1949 in Jiangmen District Xinhui , Republic of China ; † January 5, 2013 in Hong Kong ) was a Chinese poet , author and Literary scholar . He lived and worked in Hong Kong.
Life
Leung received a bilingual (English / Chinese) education in Hong Kong and received his PhD from the University of Southern California in San Diego California in the USA . His beginnings as a poet began in the 1960s when he published his first of a total of 11 volumes of poetry under the pseudonym Ye Si ( 也 斯 , Yě Sī , Jyutping Jaa 5 Si 1 ). Novels, short stories, travelogues and essays followed.
Leung's activities have included translations, literary reviews and scholarly work on literature, cinematography and the culture of Hong Kong. When he died, he was a professor of the Chinese language at Lingnan University in Hong Kong.
honors and awards
- 1997: Participant in the Berlin artist program of the DAAD .
- 2012: Honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich .
- 2012: Author of the Year at the 2012 Hong Kong Book Fair.
Publications
- poetry
- 1987: Islands and Continents .
- 2010: as paperback: Hong Kong University Press, ISBN 978-9622098442 .
- 1992: City at the End of Time . Bilingual, the English text by Gordon T. Osing. Twilight Books Co., University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
- 2000: Dongxi (East-West).
- 2000: Strange Poems of Birds and Flowers , Poems; translated by Wolfgang Kubin . Goethe Institute, Hong Kong.
- 2000: From politics and the fruits of the field , poems; translated by Wolfgang Kubin. DAAD, Berliner Künstlerprogramm, Berlin, ISBN 3-89357-059-4 .
- 2002: Traveling with a Bitter Melon , anthology. Bilingual, the English text by Martha PY Cheung. Asia 2000, Hong Kong.
- 2009: Von Jade und Holz , poems; translated and with a comment by Wolfgang Kubin. Drava Verlag, Klagenfurt, ISBN 978-3-85435-596-0 .
- Novels and essays
- 1988: three fish .
- 1994: City Memoirs - City Stories .
- 2000: Postcards from Prague .
- 2002: Walking in Berlin , Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, ISBN 0-19-593834-8 .
- 2009: Postcolonial Affaires of Food and Love
- City culture in Hong Kong
- 1995: Hong Kong Culture , Xianggang wen hua, Hong Kong.
- 2008: With Martin Zeller, photographer: The Diagonal Mirror: Space and Time in Photographing Hong Kong . Essays by Leung Ping-kwan and Heinz Stahlhut with a foreword by Wolfgang Kubin. Kehrer, Heidelberg, ISBN 978-3-939583-88-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Death of the poet Leung Ping-kwan in Neue Zürcher Zeitung of January 10, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leung, Ping-kwan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ye Si (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese poet, author and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jiangmen , Republic of China |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th January 2013 |
| Place of death | Hong Kong |