Jacqueline Leung

Apply to translate Prose from Hong Kong with the fabulous @jacqlyy.bsky.social & Poetry from HK with me! 🇭🇰

The Origin of Love and Nightmares Hong Kong has become an apt prism through which to probe the skin tissue between state violence and victimization, and the widening wounds to personal freedom.

New at PB, @arghpoetica.bsky.social reviews Hon Lai Chu’s “Mending Bodies,” translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social, which tells the story of an unnamed, imaginary city where the government tries to salvage its failing economy through physical conjoinment.

Want to read more about government incentivized surgical conjoinment? All of our books, including Hon Lai Chu's MENDING BODIES, translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social are 30% off (40% off if you're a member) for our CAT Days of Summer Sale! www.catranslation.org/shop/book/me...

The Tyranny of Togetherness: Dystopia, Identity, and the Body in Hon Lai Chu’s Mending Bodies, by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho “In the spirit of Orwell and Atwood, but with a distinctly Hong Kong sensibility, the narrative explores how conformity can be achieved not through force but through carefully cultivated desire.”

@worldlittoday.bsky.social ‪has a fantastic review of Mending Bodies. Thank you ‪@myetcetera.bsky.social‬ for such a thoughtful reading. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

Today in the ARB: Angus Stewart reviews “Mending Bodies” by Hon Lai Chu, tr from Chinese by Jacqueline Leung @twolinespress.bsky.social asianreviewofbooks.com/mending-bodi...

How translators of Hong Kong literature are rewriting the script More English readers are asking for translated literature – and in Hong Kong and beyond, the art of translation is taking off.

“Mending Bodies is such an immersive book; Hon’s literary world is very emotional, it’s violent and contemplative, and there’s a certain rhythm to it.” @jacqlyy.bsky.social spoke to @karenklcheung.bsky.social about translating Hon Lai Chu's MENDING BODIES: www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...

TODAY: Visit us at (booth #92) at #baybookfest. Books (& deals!) from our publisher @twolinespress.bsky.social at the Bookworm Block Party & see Hon Lai Chu, author of MENDING BODIES, & translator @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬ on the Stories of Tomorrow panel. ➡️ www.catranslation.org/event/bay-ar...

"To me, Hong Kong is always a place that is disappearing and reappearing"--Hon Lai Chu

Thanks to everyone who came out to the launch of MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai Chu, translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬, with ‪@seelight.bsky.social‬, co-presented by The Ruby and On Waverly!

Come meet Hon Lai Chu and me at #baybookfest and support Two Lines Press!

Poster for the session described in the post: "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" at the Bay Area Book Fest, Hotel Shattuck Plaza, Sunday June 1 at 12:30 pm

Bay Area! I'm going to be IN you May 30-June 3 for the Bay Area Book Festival

On the panel "Stories of Tomorrow: Speculative Fiction" with @anitafelicelli.bsky.social, Hon Lai Chu, @jacqlyy.bsky.social, moderated by @janeciab.bsky.social 12:30 Sunday, June 1

www.baybookfest.org/session/stor...

The Watchlist: April 2025 - Words Without Borders From a dystopian novel from Hong Kong to Canadian graphic fiction, Tobias Carroll recommends this month's top releases in translation.

A dystopian novel from Hong Kong, Canadian graphic nonfiction, new poetry from Palestine, and more: Tobias Carroll on this month's notable releases in translation. Read the April Watchlist: buff.ly/f8TRkNG

Mending Bodies is out! A novel about conjoining your own body with another person, oppressive systems, and the complex relationships we form—whether saccharine admiration or bitter interdependence—with those we hold dear.

Thank you!!

Here’s Wasafiri’s latest issue with writing about the climate, peripheral spaces, and migration, etc. Also includes my translation of three poems by Louise Law

Hello! Twitter lingerer moving over to Bluesky…

(All the while, US TikTok moves to XHS somehow)

Here!