Lau, Chi Sum Garfield obtained her PhD in English Language and Literature from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is an Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She is responsible for courses in English Language and Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of interest include Modernism, Psychoanalytic Criticism and Comparative Studies.Chan, Kar Yue Kelly completed her undergraduate degree and her master's degree both in the discipline of Translation and Interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong. She then finished her PhD in Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She is currently an Associate Professor in language and translation at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on culture and translation, and literary translation. Her research interests include literary translation, women's studies in classical Chinese society, classical Chinese literature (poetry), and translation of Cantonese opera.

• Part I Grief and Melancholy in the Chinese Literary Contexts.- Chapter 1 Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: “The Heartbroken Poetry”.- Chapter 2 Representing Melancholy Love: “Aiqing xiaoshuo” in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Media Culture.- Chapter 3 Mourning does not Become Beiju: Forging a Tragic Spirit of Grief and Heroic Resistance in Some 1920 Chinese (she-)tragedies.- Chapter 4.- Translating China for the Gazing eyes – A Case Study of The Battle of Chosin.- Part II: The Triggering of Melancholic Loss from the Cross-cultural Perspective.- Chapter 5 Melancholy across the Multiverse: The Everything Bagel and the Loss of Self in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022).- Chapter 6 The Grief of Losing and the Melancholy of Being: A Journey of Dream and Awakening in Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son.- Chapter 7 Poetics of Loss in Esperanto: Mao Zifu Writes on his Wheelchair.- Chapter 8 Mourning the Lost Self in Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese Food Naked and LuLu Wang’s The Farewell.- Part III The Various Forms of Grief and Melancholy in Contemporary Hong Kong Discourses.- Chapter 9 Words on Display: Chinese Funeral banners and Wreath Messages through a Geosemiotic Lens.- Chapter 10 Covering the Grief of Leaving: A Study of News discourse on Hong Kong Emigration Wave.- Chapter 11 Melancholy in Narratives of Early Career English Teachers in Hong Kong.

Lau, Chi Sum Garfield obtained her PhD in English Language and Literature from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is an Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She is responsible for courses in English Language and Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of interest include Modernism, Psychoanalytic Criticism and Comparative Studies.Chan, Kar Yue Kelly completed her undergraduate degree and her master's degree both in the discipline of Translation and Interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong. She then finished her PhD in Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She is currently an Associate Professor in language and translation at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on culture and translation, and literary translation. Her research interests include literary translation, women's studies in classical Chinese society, classical Chinese literature (poetry), and translation of Cantonese opera.

• Part I Grief and Melancholy in the Chinese Literary Contexts.- Chapter 1 Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: “The Heartbroken Poetry”.- Chapter 2 Representing Melancholy Love: “Aiqing xiaoshuo” in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Media Culture.- Chapter 3 Mourning does not Become Beiju: Forging a Tragic Spirit of Grief and Heroic Resistance in Some 1920 Chinese (she-)tragedies.- Chapter 4.- Translating China for the Gazing eyes – A Case Study of The Battle of Chosin.- Part II: The Triggering of Melancholic Loss from the Cross-cultural Perspective.- Chapter 5 Melancholy across the Multiverse: The Everything Bagel and the Loss of Self in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022).- Chapter 6 The Grief of Losing and the Melancholy of Being: A Journey of Dream and Awakening in Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son.- Chapter 7 Poetics of Loss in Esperanto: Mao Zifu Writes on his Wheelchair.- Chapter 8 Mourning the Lost Self in Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese Food Naked and LuLu Wang’s The Farewell.- Part III The Various Forms of Grief and Melancholy in Contemporary Hong Kong Discourses.- Chapter 9 Words on Display: Chinese Funeral banners and Wreath Messages through a Geosemiotic Lens.- Chapter 10 Covering the Grief of Leaving: A Study of News discourse on Hong Kong Emigration Wave.- Chapter 11 Melancholy in Narratives of Early Career English Teachers in Hong Kong.

Lau, Chi Sum Garfield obtained her PhD in English Language and Literature from Hong Kong Baptist University. She is an Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Metropolitan University. She is responsible for courses in English Language and Literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her areas of interest include Modernism, Psychoanalytic Criticism and Comparative Studies.Chan, Kar Yue Kelly completed her undergraduate degree and her master's degree both in the discipline of Translation and Interpretation at the City University of Hong Kong. She then finished her PhD in Classical Chinese Literature at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. She is currently an Associate Professor in language and translation at Hong Kong Metropolitan University, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses on culture and translation, and literary translation. Her research interests include literary translation, women's studies in classical Chinese society, classical Chinese literature (poetry), and translation of Cantonese opera.

• Part I Grief and Melancholy in the Chinese Literary Contexts.- Chapter 1 Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: “The Heartbroken Poetry”.- Chapter 2 Representing Melancholy Love: “Aiqing xiaoshuo” in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Media Culture.- Chapter 3 Mourning does not Become Beiju: Forging a Tragic Spirit of Grief and Heroic Resistance in Some 1920 Chinese (she-)tragedies.- Chapter 4.- Translating China for the Gazing eyes – A Case Study of The Battle of Chosin.- Part II: The Triggering of Melancholic Loss from the Cross-cultural Perspective.- Chapter 5 Melancholy across the Multiverse: The Everything Bagel and the Loss of Self in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022).- Chapter 6 The Grief of Losing and the Melancholy of Being: A Journey of Dream and Awakening in Lao She’s Mr Ma and Son.- Chapter 7 Poetics of Loss in Esperanto: Mao Zifu Writes on his Wheelchair.- Chapter 8 Mourning the Lost Self in Mei Ng’s Eating Chinese Food Naked and LuLu Wang’s The Farewell.- Part III The Various Forms of Grief and Melancholy in Contemporary Hong Kong Discourses.- Chapter 9 Words on Display: Chinese Funeral banners and Wreath Messages through a Geosemiotic Lens.- Chapter 10 Covering the Grief of Leaving: A Study of News discourse on Hong Kong Emigration Wave.- Chapter 11 Melancholy in Narratives of Early Career English Teachers in Hong Kong.