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Jacqueline Leung

@jacqlyy.bsky.social

Writer and CH-EN translator. Translation editor, The Offing. Mending Bodies out April 2025 (Two Lines Press).

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Jennifer Feeley@jenniferfeeley.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Apply to translate Prose from Hong Kong with the fabulous @jacqlyy.bsky.social & Poetry from HK with me! 🇭🇰

American Literary Translators Association@littranslate.bsky.social · 11mo ago

📣 The 2026 Emerging Translator Mentorship Program submission portals are open! The ALTA Emerging Translator Mentorship Program is designed to establish and facilitate a close working relationship between an experienced translator and an emerging translator. Apply by 11/30: buff.ly/cpduT69

Public Books @publicbooks.bsky.social · last yr.

New at PB, @arghpoetica.bsky.social reviews Hon Lai Chu’s “Mending Bodies,” translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social, which tells the story of an unnamed, imaginary city where the government tries to salvage its failing economy through physical conjoinment.

The Origin of Love and Nightmares

Hong Kong has become an apt prism through which to probe the skin tissue between state violence and victimization, and the widening wounds to personal freedom.

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Two Lines Press@twolinespress.com · last yr.

@worldlittoday.bsky.social ‪has a fantastic review of Mending Bodies. Thank you ‪@myetcetera.bsky.social‬ for such a thoughtful reading. worldliteraturetoday.org/blog/book-re...

The Tyranny of Togetherness: Dystopia, Identity, and the Body in Hon Lai Chu’s Mending Bodies, by Tammy Lai-Ming Ho

“In the spirit of Orwell and Atwood, but with a distinctly Hong Kong sensibility, the narrative explores how conformity can be achieved not through force but through carefully cultivated desire.”

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Two Lines Press@twolinespress.com · last yr.

“Mending Bodies is such an immersive book; Hon’s literary world is very emotional, it’s violent and contemplative, and there’s a certain rhythm to it.” @jacqlyy.bsky.social spoke to @karenklcheung.bsky.social about translating Hon Lai Chu's MENDING BODIES: www.scmp.com/postmag/cult...

How translators of Hong Kong literature are rewriting the script

More English readers are asking for translated literature – and in Hong Kong and beyond, the art of translation is taking off.

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Two Lines Press@twolinespress.com · last yr.

"To me, Hong Kong is always a place that is disappearing and reappearing"--Hon Lai Chu Thanks to everyone who came out to the launch of MENDING BODIES by Hon Lai Chu, translated by @jacqlyy.bsky.social‬, with ‪@seelight.bsky.social‬, co-presented by The Ruby and On Waverly!

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Jacqueline Leung@jacqlyy.bsky.social · last yr.

Mending Bodies is out! A novel about conjoining your own body with another person, oppressive systems, and the complex relationships we form—whether saccharine admiration or bitter interdependence—with those we hold dear.

Two Lines Press@twolinespress.com · last yr.

Happy pub day to Mending Bodies by Hon Lai Chu, translated by Jacqueline Leung. Alienation and interdependence take new and unsettling forms (literally) in this wholly original work of Hong Kong speculative fiction.