Paul French & Julia Kuehn | Launch of China Revisited

Hong Kong International Literary Festival

Join RTHK producer and presenter, Annemarie Evans as she converses with Paul French and Julia Kuehn on the Launch of China Revisited

Underground Theatre, The Fringe Club

Hong Kong International Literary Festival 2023

The Festival is back in person! With over 100 international & local speakers and over 100 events for adults & children, we are back with an extravagant celebration of world-class storytelling.
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China Revisited is a new series of rediscovered travel writing on Hong Kong, Macau and Guangdong Province. Originating from the Victorian, Edwardian and Interwar periods, the writing has been largely forgotten, invariably dismissed for perpetuating cliches and stereotypes, yet the historic accounts are revelatory. Join RTHK producer and presenter, Annemarie Evans as she converses with curator/author Paul French and Professor <a href="https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/46/Professor_Julia_Kuehn" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Julia Kuehn</a> of Hong Kong University about the works, the history of travel writing on Hong Kong and Guangdong, and how best to appreciate and understand these historic works.

Historian <a href="https://twitter.com/chinarhyming" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Paul French</a> was born in London and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. He has contributed to many publications around the world, including the China Economic Quarterly and The Guardian and has written various books about China. His novel <a href="https://bookazine.com.hk/products/9780241957172?variant=32624325099606" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Midnight in Peking</a> was a New York Times bestseller, and this and his most recent book, <a href="https://bookazine.com.hk/products/9781787470347?variant=32413773561942" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir</a> are currently being developed as movies. He is a regular contributor of long-reads to the South China Morning Post weekend magazine and broadcasts often on RTHK3. He is currently working on a biography of the year that Wallis Warfield Spencer, later the Duchess of Windsor, spent in China (1924/1925) for publication in 2024<a href="https://hk.linkedin.com/in/julia-kuehn-b4581a156" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Julia Kuehn</a> is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Hong Kong. She publishes on nineteenth-century women’s, popular and Empire novels as well as travel writing, focusing especially on Hong Kong and China. Her edited collections include: A Century of Travels in China (2007), Travel Writing, Form, and Empire (2008), China Abroad: Travels, Subjects, Spaces (2009), Diasporic Chineseness after the Rise of China (2013) and New Directions in Travel Writing Studies (2015). Julia was on the Board of the Man Asian Literary Prize (2007-2012) and is was the Co-Chair of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival.Annemarie Evans is a British print journalist and broadcaster who has made Hong Kong her home for the past 27 years. She currently co-hosts the evening news programme “Newswrap” on Radio 3, RTHK, and has produced and presented the weekend culture and history programme “Hong Kong Heritage” on Radio 3 since 1998. Annemarie regularly writes features for the South China Morning Post and other publications and previously has been a stringer for the BBC World Service and has written for a number of international newspapers.