Evolving Genders

Chan, Kelly Kar Yue completed her undergraduate degree and her master’s degree both in the discipline of Translation and Interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong. She then finished her Ph.D. in Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She is currently an associate professor in language and translation at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on culture and translation, and literary translation. Her research interests include literary translation, women’s studies in classical Chinese society, classical Chinese literature (poetry), and translation of Cantonese opera.Lau Garfield Chi Sum obtained her Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is an assistant professor in Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She is responsible for courses in English Language and Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of interest include Modernism, Psychoanalytic Criticism and Comparative Studies..

• Gender Perspectives and Women’s Pain in the Writings of Xue Fucheng (1838-1894).- Gender Stereotyping: Metamorphosis of Womanly Roles in Cantonese Opera Plays.- Negotiating domestic space in early 20th China.- “Voicing Queer Outcasts: Homosexuality and Mental Health in Mu Cao 墓草’s Qi’er 弃儿 (2005)”.- Who Raises Children?: A New Family Building in And the Baton was passed.- The Tragic Rebirth of the Race of Angels: Korean Sexism through Cho Nam-Joo’s Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982.- Shifting Expectations: Gender, Caregiving, and Resistance in Asian Literary Films.- Asian Elitism, Gender Differences, and Hawk-Dove Games: the Hell of Good Intentions in the 3 Body Problem Trilogy.- Gendering Scapegoating: Social Exclusion of Women as Sacral Cleansing in Valmiki’s Ramayana.- The Fox, the Woman, and the Cyborg: Gender, Identity, and Power in Ken Liu’s Good Hunting.