Leung Ping Kwan, born in 1949 in Hong Kong, studied French and English in the U.S., where he also obtained a doctorate in Comparative Literature. He now teaches at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. Leung is one of Hong Kong’s leading men of letters, a literary, film and culture critic, a professor of Chinese Literature and a contemporary Chinese language poet of the first rank. He has published more than ten volumes of poems, including bilingual ones such as Travelling with a Bitter Melon. He is also an active translator and critic who has introduced Eastern European, French, American underground and Latin American Literature to the Chinese reading public. [Read]