Chinese Creative Writing Studies

This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in research in Chinese writing. It covers recent trends such as cross-media practices, pedagogy in creative writing in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, specifically, and looks at how Chinese classical culture brings new interpretations to creative writing within a global context. Consisting of 14 chapters by established scholars and experts, writers, and poets working in various genres within the Chinese writing tradition, the volume presents data accrued from personal reflections, classroom teaching, video games, museum studies, radio dramas, TV series, and cyber-literature. The book includes leading Chinese leading scholars’ reflections on research and the field, providing an omnibus perspective on theories of creative writing. It focuses on the interconnection between Chinese creative writing and pedagogy, and examines different writer-training methods in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, offering a comparative perspective that deepens the understanding of institutional effects on the development of creative writing. It unpacks the interaction between Chinese creative writing and multimedia, and ascertains the possibilities of incorporating media studies into writing practices. It also presents new interpretations of Chinese classical culture assets to new creative or literary manuscripts, such as TV series adaptation and Internet literature. Relevant to researchers, teachers and students working Chinese creative writing and Chinese literature, it is also a landmark text in exposing English-speaking creative writing scholars to the wealth of Chinese creative writing, in English.

Rebecca Mo-Ling Leung received her B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in Chinese from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Hong Kong. She is currently Head of Creative Arts cum Associate Professor of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University and Director of the Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture. She has published numerous papers in renowned journals such as Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies and Bulletin of the Department of Chinese Literature, National Chengchi University. She published books titled Chinese Creative Writing and Transmedia Practice (2022), Imagination and Shaping: Eileen Chang in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taiwan Newspapers (2022), Visuality, Gender and Power: The Imaginations in Novels from Liu Na’ou, Mu Shiying to Eileen Chang (2018) and The Studies of Chinese Humanities in the Digital Era (2018). Her research interests lie primarily in the area of Chinese modern literature, Chinese contemporary literature, and cultural and film theory. Apart from academic research, she is also enthusiastic about creative writing. She obtained the prestigious ＂Unitas Award for New Novelists＂ in Taiwan in 2002. Her novel A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments 02.21 was published in Taiwan in 2021.