Exploring the Intersection of Creative Writing and Creative Arts in Asia

Über den Autor

Rebecca Mo-Ling Leung is currently the Associate Professor of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Hong Kong Metropolitan University, Associate Dean and the Director of the Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture. She received her BA, MPhil, and PhD in Chinese from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and obtained Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of Hong Kong. She has also been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Modern History at Academia Sinica in Taipei. Her research interests primarily revolve around Chinese modern literature, Chinese contemporary literature, cultural & film theory and creative writing studies. She has published numerous papers in renowned journals such as Bulletin of the Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, Bulletin of the Department of Chinese Literature National Chengchi University, Router: A Journal of Cultural Studies, and Chinese Modern Literature. She also published books titled Chinese Creative Writing Studies; Chinese Creative Writing Studies: Theory, Pedagogy and Practice; Chinese Creative Writing and Multimedia in Practice; Imagination and Shaping: The Newspaper Coverage of Eileen Chang in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; and Visuality, Gender and Power: The Imaginations in Novels from Liu Na’ou, Mu Shiying to Eileen Chang etc. Dr. Leung was awarded the Siu Siu-Pui Charitable Foundation Outstanding Research Publication Award (Gold Prize) by Hong Kong Metropolitan University in 2025 for the thesis “Cannibalism and Feudal Ethics” and “The Cannibalistic Nature of Feudal Ethics”: An Examination of the Process of Interpreting Lu Xun’s A Madman’s Diary.” Apart from academic research, she is also enthusiastic about creative writing. She obtained the prestigious “Unitas Award for New Novelists” in Taiwan in 2002. Her novel A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments 02.21 was published by Linking Publishing Company in Taiwan in 2021.