The frame for the following interview with Professor Wong Kin-yuen(王建元) was provided by what may be called, in explicitly prescriptive terms, the “Hong Kong generation, 1967-1984”-a brief and unique pivot point attending the globalization of late-twentieth century comparative literary and cultural studies, with a Chinese focus, as it emerged in the Western(primarily American)academy. In the aftermath of Deng Xiaoping’s(Second)Open Door Policy of 1978, both late-colonial Hong Kong(administered by the United Kingdom)and The People’s Republic of China(PRC)were equally committed to the normalizing of relations between China and the West in the context of a broader rebalancing of the geopolitical order in Asia. Set against this historical backdrop, the purpose and aim of the present interview was to understand more effectively the personal motivations and collective capacities of this scholarly and expatriate “Hong Kong generation” as its members experienced PhD studies abroad, at the University of California at San Diego, and as recollected by one of its members.