Found in Translation? Atlas and the Re－mapping of Hong Kong Sinophone Literature*

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香港研究 ›› 2026, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (1) : 4. DOI: 10.65961/hks-2026-5-004

Found in Translation? Atlas and the Re－mapping of Hong Kong Sinophone Literature^*

Gavin Tse Wing-hin

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Found in Translation? Atlas and the Re－mapping of Hong Kong Sinophone Literature^*

Gavin Tse Wing-hin

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This article focuses on interrogating the significance of the English translation of Hong Kong Sinophone writer Dung Kai-cheung’s 董啟章 Atlas: The Archaeology of an Imaginary City (henceforth abbreviated as Atlas), published by Columbia University Press in 2012, in particular the role of translation in shaping the reception and circulation of Dung Kai-cheung’s works on a global scale. This article focuses less on engaging in close inter-textual analysis of Dung’s works predicated upon the interrogation of the source text and its translation, but instead tries to foreground the intricate and complex process of translation by situating it as a transnational transfer, in particular paying attention to the power dynamics between different linguistic communities and the symbolic capital of English. Moreover, this article seeks to shed light on future research directions by situating Atlas as symptomatic of a wider trend: how the proliferation of English translations over the past decade helps to “expand the visibility of Hong Kong literature” (Mattison 152).

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Gavin Tse Wing-hin. Found in Translation? Atlas and the Re－mapping of Hong Kong Sinophone Literature^*[J]. 香港研究. 2026, 5(1): 4 https://doi.org/10.65961/hks-2026-5-004

Gavin Tse Wing-hin. Found in Translation? Atlas and the Re－mapping of Hong Kong Sinophone Literature^*[J]. Hong Kong Studies. 2026, 5(1): 4 https://doi.org/10.65961/hks-2026-5-004

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