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Xi Xi. Marvels of a Floating City and Other Stories. Eva Hung, ed. Hong Kong. Research Centre for Translation, Chinese University of Hong Kong. 1997. xix + 106 pages, ill. $14.95. ISBN 962-7255-18-1.
Xi Xi is now one of the most familiar and best translated of the Hong Kong writers; Marvels of a Floating (:it., confirms her versatility in reconceptualizing that harried and hurried corner of the globe. The sampling here contains three works, effectively in three genres, all sym-- bolically investigating dormant paradoxes of Hong Kong's status that began to surface in anticipation of the transition from London to Beijing rule on 1 July 1997. But whereas the numerous books of speculative journalism and political analysis about the hand-over all became passe on that date, Xi Xi's images will live on, even if Hong...