Bøger i Hong Kong Literature Series serien

For several decades Xi Xi has been widely known for her award-winning poetry and fiction. This time, she has chosen to write about the teddy bears she began making in 2005, after treatment for cancer, in order to improve the mobility of her right hand. The book offers fascinating insights into Chinese culture.

One of the first full-length stream-of-consciousness novels written in Chinese, The Drunkard has been called the Hong Kong novel, and was first published in 1962. As the narrator, a writer at odds with a philistine world, sinks to his drunken nadir, his plight can be seen to represent that of a whole culture degraded by the forces of history.