Globalized Life: Choices My Mother Never Had

Guest lecture by Xu Xi

Xu Xi is the author of six books of fiction, including

Overleaf Hong Kong (2004),

The Unwalled City (2001),

History’s Fiction (2001),

Hong Kong Rose (1997). According to reviewers, her work explains "the paradox that is Hong Kong" and avoids "the-sex-and-drug-and-triad stereotypes . . . portraying the city more accurately and realistically for it." Her "new and innovative diasporic global language" is "uncluttered" and "arrestingly poignant."

Until 1998 Xu Xi pursued a career as a marketing executive with various multinationals. She holds a MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and teaches on the Masters of Fine Arts fiction faculty at VermontCollege in Montpelier. She inhabits the flight path connecting New York, Hong Kong and New Zealand.