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Everyday Movement, Gigi L. Leung's powerful, award-winning novel, follows two young women in Hong Kong as democracy begins to crumble around them. Against the backdrop of the city's pro-democracy protests, the novel explores friendship, family, love, belonging, patriotism, and the meaning of democracy. Fiery and tender, Leung's writing captures the heartbreak and turmoil of a city undergoing profound change. The English translation is by Jennifer Feeley. Join Yiwen Liu for a conversation with Gigi Leung and Jennifer Feeley about literature, translation, and Hong Kong's long tradition of cultural responses to political turmoil.
Gigi Leung is a novelist and poet from Hong Kong who now lives in Taipei. She is the author of The Melancholy of Trees and Everyday Movement, both originally written and published in Chinese. The English edition of Everyday Movement, translated by Jennifer Feeley, was published by Riverhead Books in February 2026. Her work has received major literary honors, including the Golden Tripod Award for Literature and the TSMC Literary Award, and was also a finalist for the Taipei Literary Award.
Dr. Jennifer Feeley is the award winning translator of Gigi L. Leung's Everyday Movement; Xi Xi's Mourning a Breast, Not Written Words: Selected Poetry of Xi Xi, and Carnival of Animals: Xi Xi's Animal Poems; Tongueless by Lau Yee Wa; Chen Jiatong's White Fox series; and Wong Yi's Cantonese chamber opera libretto Women Like Us. She is currently working on a new translation of Xi Xi's My City, along with Gigi L. Leung's The Melancholy of Trees. The recipient of the 2017 Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize and a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship, she holds a PhD from Yale University.
Moderator: Dr. Yiwen Liu is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto. She is currently writing a book on literary and screen representations of Hong Kong's resistance culture.