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"Because of understanding, there is compassion." "We can't go back." "After seeing him, she became very low, so low that she was in the dust." "Long is hardship, short is life." "Life is a gorgeous robe, crawling with fleas." You may be familiar with these quotes, or you may fall in love with Eileen Chang because of them. But do you really understand Eileen Chang? Did you know what Eileen Chang was most afraid of? What was her favorite food? What divination method she liked most? Have you ever written a letter to Wong Kar-wai? Do you look at Li Shangyin's poetry from a Freudian perspective? Can you write a sentence like "I do my best and damn the rest / Do my damnedest and the rest be damned"? When you read Eileen Chang's letters, essays, and notebooks written to friends, you’d discover that her inner world is so rich and complex. Let's follow the author into Eileen Chang's inner world, reacquaint ourselves with works such as "Little Reunions" and "The Rice Sprout Song," and learn about her life from Shanghai to Hong Kong to the United States.
- AuthorFung Wai-kan
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2018
Foreign domestic helpers leave their hometowns and come to Hong Kong to work, and each of them has a story. This book is to let readers get to know these strangers living in their homes, and to understand the lives of Filipino domestic helpers under the historical forces and family structure.
- AuthorSo Mei-chi
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2015
In the year 2050, the bizarre city is a maze. The world is so beautiful that it makes people cry, but also panic as well. She’s a rich girl. He’s a thousand-year-old turtle. She has always lived on land. He has spent his whole life in the ocean. What fate brings them together? What force puts their lives in danger? Is this a tragedy? A fable? Or... will humans, like them, think that the good times will go on forever until everything is destroyed and then they will miss it? Or will we make the right choices when we still have time to change our fate?
- AuthorMichelle Fung
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2017
This is the first work published by Liu Yichang. The story is narrated in the first person: On an autumn evening, a painter walked into a cemetery and was immersed in a dreamlike meditation, faintly hearing his lover calling him. He brought back ninety-nine oil paintings from abroad, and wanted to complete the hundredth painting and hold an exhibition of his work. He stayed at a lakeside hotel. On the fourth night, it rained heavily, and a young girl appeared in his dream. The next night, he completed a portrait in front of the window amid rain, and the girl he painted was surprisingly similar to the one in his dream. He was excited and couldn't sleep all night. He turned on the light and saw a beautiful woman in her thirties sitting on the sofa. She looked like the woman in the painting. The two of them couldn't help but talk, and their conversation was confusing. The painter wandered through the quiet and narrow streets on a rainy night, and accidentally discovered a photo of the girl he met for the first time in the studio -- she was the woman in his dream. After inquiring, he learned that she was the wife of the local richest man. She was the orphaned young girl Qiu Dan whom he met on Christmas Eve more than ten years ago in a small coffee shop. They danced together again on New Year's Eve at a masquerade. The prelude to a human drama has since begun... Is it a comedy? Is it a tragedy? It's not for me to say, please read and decide for yourself. The author once revealed that this book was inspired by an Austrian novel, and was his trial writing in his spare time when he was editing the "Huai Zheng Literature Collection". The first chapter of the book was published in 11th and 12th issues of the magazine "Happiness" in September 1947. It was edited by Wang Bo and printed in two colors by Shanghai Global Publishing House. The illustration is drawn by Guo Jianying (1907-1979), a famous cartoonist in Shanghai and senior of St. John's University. In 1949, his novel was adapted into a film by Cathay Film Studio, with Xu Changlin as the screenwriter, Tang Xiaodan as the director, and Jin Yan and Qin Yi as the leading actors, causing a sensation at the time. The book was first published in October 1948 by the Huai Zheng Cultural Society founded by the author and distributed by the Tongye Bookstore in Shanghai. In December 1951, the Tongye Bookstore in Hong Kong reprinted it and sold it through the World Publishing House. It has been out of print for more than a century. In order to introduce the ground-breaking predecessors to young readers who love writing and let them understand that creation comes from life and there is no easy way, we have reprinted this precious work to commemorate Mr. Liu Yichang, who passed away on June 8, 2018.
- AuthorLiu Yichang
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2018
As a woman, you have to suffer a lot. Esther Lee uses Cantonese-style prose and simple language to describe the unfortunate experiences she learnt from her female friends over the years. Shakespeare has a famous saying: "Weakness, thy name is woman!" It seems to draw the boundary of ability for women. But as a woman, can you only be a weak person? "Weakness" and "strength" don’t need to be binary opposites, but a growth process. Each story in this book seems to be an account of incidents, but it is also a process of gaining growth. Even if you are in trouble, as long as you adjust your mindset and try to make changes, you can start a new life and become an independent and strong person. From a weak and helpless person suffering from oppression, to an independent and self-reliant strong person, it takes the courage to confront cruel reality. Although they went through unfortunate experiences, some of them will passively accept reality, but some will bravely set new boundaries for themselves. The word "woman" has always been a cover-all label for all women. Whether you are strong or weak depends not on your gender, but on your mindset. This book pays tribute to countless ordinary women, because they live to prove the meaning of life.
- AuthorEsther Lee
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2022
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Why is it that some people can tell the same ghost story in a mundane way, while others can make it hair-raising? The human heart is made of flesh, and regardless of how old or new the horror scenes are, once you master the formula of ghost stories, the tale can be as terrifying as you desire!
- AuthorPan Qicong
- PublisherExtraordinary Publishing House
- Publication Date2021
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