Fiction After Protest:
Hong Kong, Memory, and
Translation in Everyday Movement
Lo Schiavo, Getty Study
Join the Center for Asia Pacific Studies for a conversation with author Gigi Leung and translator Jennifer Feeley about Leung’s book, Everyday Movement.
In Everyday Movement, Leung turns the aftermath of the 2019 Hong Kong protests into fiction, tracing how crisis enters domestic life, private memory, language, and the body. Rather than presenting protest only through scenes of public confrontation, the stories attend to what remains afterward: suspicion, silence, displacement, anger, tenderness, and the difficulty of carrying on.
Together, Leung and Feeley will explore the responsibility of carrying Hong Kong stories across languages, the challenges of translating Cantonese-inflected Chinese into English, and the role of fiction in preserving memory when public narratives are contested or suppressed.
About the Center for Asia Pacific Studies
Since its founding in 1988, the Center for Asia Pacific Studies has bridged the Pacific with programs that spark conversation and promote teaching and research on the peoples and cultures of the Asia Pacific region. Each semester, the center organizes events and facilitates people-to-people exchanges on topics important for our understanding of the Asia Pacific region both historically and today.