Chen Baozhen (Chan Po Chun) 1953-

Chen was born in Hong Kong and received her M.Phil. in contemporary Chinese literature from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her collection of short stories Zhao fangzi 找房子 [House-hunting] won the inaugural Hong Kong Biennial Awards for Chinese Literature (Fiction) in 1991. Chan's other publications include the essay collection Kuangpeng guaiyou 狂朋怪友 [Crazy friends] (1994), the novel Guangchang 廣場 [The square] (1997), and the short story collection Gaixie shenhua de shidai 改寫神話的時代 [The age for rewriting myths] (2004). Chen is an associate professor of Chinese at the Hong Kong Baptist University.

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