Xi Xi won the 2019 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and travelled to the University of Oklahoma, in the United States, to receive it. She was nominated for the award by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming, Associate Professor of English at Hong Kong Baptist University. At the awards ceremony, Dr. Ho gave a speech, which can be read here. Xi Xi’s acceptance speech, later published in an issue of Chinese Literature Today, is excerpted below:
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- Recognition
- 2019, March