Xi Xi Butterfly Drawing
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The map geolocates events in Xi Xi’s life and works. Places that have been important to Xi Xi are coming online first. Layers that document her local writing and her allusions to Hong Kong places are coming soon.
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Selection of geolocated events of Xi Xi’s life.

Xi Xi at the Newman Prize banquet.
  • The University of Oklahoma, 660 Parrington Oval, Norman, United States

Xi Xi won the 2019 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature.

Xi Xi won the 2019 Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and travelled to the University of Oklahoma, in the United States, to receive it….
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  • The Chinese University Of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong

Xi Xi donated her Georgian dollhouse and her handmade bears for the Water Margin series to the special collection of Hong Kong Literature, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

CUHK has provided a number of photos of the new permanent exhibition, including images of Xi Xi and her Georgian dollhouse and the interior…
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Xi Xi with Su Yeh friends in the 1980s
  • 38 Ship Street, Wan Chai, Hong Kong

Su Yeh Publications was founded.

Xi Xi and her friends founded Su Yeh Publications, and soon began producing books and a literary journal, Su Yeh Literature. In 2014, after…
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Xixi Teachers Primary School
  • 8 Farm Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Xi Xi started her career as a teacher at Farm Road Government Primary School.

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Xixi just entered the Normal University (late 1950s)
  • 42 Gascoigne Road, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Xi Xi began studying at The Grantham Training College, which is now part of The Education University of Hong Kong.

In 1957, Xi Xi entered The Grantham College of Education. After graduation, she taught in government primary schools, mostly at the Farm Road Government Elementary…
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Xi Xi at Heep Yunn Secondary School, 1950.
  • 1 Farm Road, Ma Tau Wai, Kowloon, Hong Kong

Xi Xi and her parents settled in Hong Kong. She began studying in Heep Yunn School a year later.

Xi Xi settled in Hong Kong with her parents in 1950. Her father worked in a dock company in Shanghai. He participated in football…
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sign illustration by Xi Xi

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