Jennifer A.

Interested in how residents discussed Hong Kong’s new status after 1 July 1997 after coming to the city in October 1997, Jenny pursued a PhD in applied linguistics on the discourses of democratization in post-handover Hong Kong with a focus on metaphor. In 2020 she had an essay published in the Journal of Future Studies “Hong Kong’s Unlikely Hope: That Its Future remains Its Past”. Her first book was for Lexington Books in 2022: Discursive Change in Hong Kong: Socio-political Dynamics, Metaphor, and One Country, Two Systems. She is currently working on a manuscript for Palgrave Macmillan: Hong Kong’s Second Return: A Critical Discourse Study of the National Security Law and its Aftermath. Jenny also has poems, reviews, and essays that have been published in Verse & Voice, Cha, and the Mekong Review. Her prose/poem “A Tale of Space in the City” was published in 2023 in Making Space – A Collection of Writing and Art (Cart Noodle Press/Dept. of English, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and pieces performed in Hong Kong Players “Corona Monologues” (2020) and Hong Kong Stories’ “Community” (2020).