Kin-Ling Tang received her Doctor of Philosophy degree in Cultural Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This book originated from her dissertation, which was based on a six-year research in the rural town of Mui Wo situated on Lantau, the biggest outlying island of Hong Kong. Prior to her PhD, Tang obtained a master’s degree from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris in France, and a master’s degree in Translation and Interpretation from City University of Hong Kong. Triliterate in Chinese (Putonghua and Cantonese), English and French, she is an experienced writer, editor and translator. She is currently Lecturer at the Department of Linguistics and Modern Language Studies of The Education University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in cultural studies, development, globalisation and politics of translation. Her latest project investigates how the Chinese translation of Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities contributes to localism discourses in Hong Kong.
