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HKUL Book Talk - On Skeleton Women and the female spy in China

04 Feb 2013

 

Theme Book: Skeleton Women
Speaker/Author: Dr Mingmei Yip
Moderator: Ms Evelyn Ng (Co-Convenor of Women's Studies Research Centre, HKU)
Date:  7 February 2013 (Thursday)
Time:  7:15 - 9:00 pm
Venue:  1/F Special Collections, Main Library, HKU
Language:  English
Registration: http://lib.hku.hk/friends/reading_club/bt2013_01.html

About the Talk
Qin musician and novelist Mingmei Yip’s new and fourth novel is Skeleton Women, a Chinese phrase for femmes fatales. The novel tells the story about three women -- Camilla, a nightclub singer who has been forced to become a spy, Shadow a magician who jumps naked off a tall building, and a gender-ambiguous gossip columnist. All must scheme in order to survive the gang wars in lawless 1930s Shanghai.

In this event, Dr Yip will discuss the theme of her novels (with focus on Skeleton Women), how she incorporated Chinese culture into her work, and how she got published by a major New York Publisher. 

Following the talk, Yip will read excerpts from Skeleton Women and Song of the Silk Road, and sign copies.

About the Speaker/Author
Mingmei Yip grew up in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States in 1992.

Her debut novel, Peach Blossom Pavilion, tells the story of the last in the Chinese tradition of poet-musician-courtesans, published by Kensington in 2008, is now in its fifth printing. Her new and fifth novel will be Nine Fold Heaven, coming out June 2013. Mingmei's Chinese Children's Favorite Stories, which she both wrote and illustrated, was published in 2004 by Tuttle. Her new and second children's book is Grandma Panda's China Storybook, coming out March 2013.

Mingmei received her Ph. D. from the University of Paris, Sorbonne. In Hong Kong, she held faculty appointments at the Chinese University and Baptist University and has published over forty scholarly articles.

For more information about the author, please visit http://www.mingmeiyip.com

Media Contact:  Ms. Carmen Tsang, Tel: 2859 2211 / Ms. Marina Yeung, Tel: 2859 8903