To Pierce the Material Screen: An Anthology of 20th-Century Hong Kong Literature (Vol. II, Essays and Poetry) a form that has flourished

a form that has flourished and taken on a uniquely local flavour

and pirated once in Hong Kong while in serialization in Modern Literature 現代文學

especially in the last half-century

By Bian Zhilin

and her translation of the poems of Li Qingzhao

To Pierce the Material Screen: An Anthology of 20th-Century Hong Kong Literature (Vol. II, Essays and Poetry) a form that has flourishedEdited by Eva Hung with the assistance of Chi yin Ip 2008 xii + 252 pages ISBN 978 962 7255 35 2 The perception of Hong Kong as materially successful and culturally marginal is a common one. The city, sheltered from the Chinese political tsunamis, has in fact developed a distinctive character that is reflected in her literary scene. It has been a safe haven for writers on the run, a cradle for genres unwelcome to the Beijing government, a battleground