Xu Xi (許素細), one of Asia’s leading English language novelists and author of seven books of fiction and essays, including The Unwalled City (2001), Hong Kong Rose (1997), Chinese Walls (1994), Overleaf Hong Kong (2004), History’s Fiction (2001) and Daughters of Hui (1996) performed a reading at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on May 26th, 2009. A Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, the city was home until her mid-twenties, after which she led a peripatetic existence around Europe, America and Asia. She now inhabits the flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong and New Zealand.
As part of asian Heritage month in Canada, which coincides with Asian-American History Month in the US, the I.K. Barber Learning Centre celebrated the event by having Xu Xi as its special guest.
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