FONG, C. F., Gilbert

Gilbert C. F. Fong is the Provost and Professor of Translation at Hang Seng Management College in Hong Kong. An acclaimed translator and literature scholar, he is known for his English translations of the plays by Gao Xingjian, which were published in The Other Shore, Snow in August, Escape and The Man Who Questions Death, Of Mountains and Seas, and City of the Dead. He also translated into Chinese the poems by contemporary poets Anne Waldman and Major Jackson and several plays for performance on the Hong Kong stage.