- Translations
- 1997
“Hong Kong is one of the most cosmopolitan places in the world, and her culture is therefore varied and broadly based. The multicultural strands of Hong Kong’s everyday life are woven into the works of her creative writers. . . . Xi Xi is many ways representative.”
Eva Hung. “Introduction,” Marvels of a Floating City (Renditions Paperbacks, 1997), p. x.
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The “musical” scene on ‘My City’
When reading Xi Xi's "My City", I came across at chapter nine a passage on death and funeral, which is rarely touched on by critics, and the "musical" scene in the passage left a...
Yanyi’s reflections on ‘My City’
While I was impressed by “citizenship only” and the funeral train in my first reading of the book, My City’s being chosen as the book for 2020 by “One City One Book” makes it...
Bidisha Banerjee comments on ‘My City’
What I enjoyed most about reading Xi Xi’s My City, is the quaint charm with which she imbues everything she delineates, even the most mundane things like moving house, wrapping things in plastic, or...
Lucinda News comments on ‘My City’
“Xi Xi’s writing is both child-like and highly challenging. In My City, you are shown Hong Kong as if refracted through a prism. The city is there, but you never see it head on....
Hawk Chang comments on ‘My City’
"In my reading of Xi Xi's works, I am particularly impressed with her double identity as a narrator. On the one hand, we perceive an objective speaker who is skillfully detached from the story....