Kit Fan & Jeremy Tiang in Conversation at JF Books in Washington DC

Food, Connection, and Identity: Cooking Across Hong Kong, London, China, and Taiwan

Writers Kit Fan and Jeremy Tiang explore family connection, heritage, identity, and cooking across Hong Kong and London, China and Taiwan. In Kit Fan’s novel Goodbye Chinatown, Michelin-starred chef Amber grapples with home and family across London, Shanghai, and Hong Kong in a vibrant tale of migration, politics, and food that also offers a cautionary message for Taiwan. Jeremy Tiang’s upcoming translation of Ping Lu’s To the East of the East explores cross-strait relations in a layered literary thriller by one of Taiwan’s most influential contemporary authors.

About the Speaker

Kit Fan is an award-winning UK-based novelist, poet, and critic from Hong Kong. He is the author of two novels, Diamond Hill and Goodbye Chinatown. His poetry collections have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes, and his honors include the Northern Writers Awards and the Times/Stephen Spender Poetry Translation Prize.

About the Moderator

Jeremy Tiang won the Singapore Literature Prize for his novel State of Emergency and was shortlisted for the same prize for his short story collection It Never Rains on National Day. He has translated over thirty books from Chinese.

本場對談中，作家 Kit Fan 與譯者 Jeremy Tiang 將從飲食出發，談家族連結、文化傳承與身份認同如何橫跨香港與倫敦、中國與台灣。在 Kit Fan 的新作《Goodbye Chinatown》中，主角 Amber 在倫敦唐人街打拚為米其林星級主廚，故事往返於倫敦、上海與香港之間，是一則關於移民、政治與食物的故事，也為同樣處於中國陰影下的台灣留下一則警世寓言。Jeremy Tiang 即將出版的平路《東方之東》英譯，則以一部層次豐富的文學驚悚小說，處理兩岸關係的複雜糾葛。