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Jennifer Feeley
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Chinese-English Literary Translator
Xi Xi 𝑴𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 | 𝑪𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒔 | 𝑵𝒐𝒕 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔
Lau Yeewa 𝑻𝒐𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔
Chen Jiatong 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒙 series
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Just received my advance copy of 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦𝑑𝑎𝑦 𝑀𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 by Gigi L. Leung 梁莉姿 (tr. by me), a powerful novel about the everyday lives of ordinary people during the 2019 Hong Kong protests, out from @riverheadbooks.bsky.social on Feb. 10, 2026. Thank you @ohanzhang.bsky.social for your brilliant editing!
Cover of advance proofs of the novel Everyday Movement by Gigi L. Leung, translated by Jennifer Feeley. The cover image is of purplish-pink flowers burning. Back cover of Everyday Movement that gives a brief description of the book, short blurbs, and biographies of the author and translator. The author Gigi Leung's letter to English readers explaining the background of writing the book. Table of contents for Everyday Movement. The book is divided into three parts. Part One: New Town Vendetta Train Life During Wartime Sai Mui, Baby Girl Terrain of Skin and Flesh Part Two: Panda Part Three: The Final Class Snoopy Friends The Outside World Be a Girlfriend
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Having spent the past couple days recording the English audio guide for the Xi Xi Space, I have a newfound respect for voice actors & people who record audiobooks.

My shortcomings as a voice actor aside, I’m very excited that the Space will open next month & that I can be there for its launch ✨
Voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi Space Voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi Space Deleted voice memo recordings for the Xi Xi Space, which reveal the limitations of my work as a voice actor
October 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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When your dog insists on being wrapped in a heated fluffy pink blanket and napping on your lap while you work.
A reddish-brown Shih tzu-Yorkie mix sprawls out on her human’s lap, snuggled into a heated fluffy pink blanket. A keyboard and part of a book are visible in the background.
March 16, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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I didn’t expect to stumble upon an entry for Ray Romano in the Pleco app #🀄️📚
A screenshot from the Pleco dictionary app shows an entry for actor Ray Romano, US actor and comedian, born in 1957.
March 6, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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When your dog co-opts your workspace
The reddish-brown head of a small dog rests atop a desk, using an external keyboard as a pillow. A laptop computer with a rainbow keyboard sits in the background. Will the human get any work done? We know who’s the boss here.
February 27, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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We had some visitors to this morning’s fitness classes 🐕
A golden retriever puppy is sprawled on a purple exercise mat, chewing a plastic water bottle.
February 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Happy Year of the Snake! 蛇年大吉！🐍
A reddish-brown Shih tzu-Yorkie pooch has been forced by her human to wear a stylish canine-style cheongsam adorned with splashes of pink, blue, red, and yellow flowers on a white background, her fur pulled back into two pigtails festooned with red bows. In protest, she sticks out her tongue. The tail of her toy snake is in the background, and scary-faced toy dumplings in the foreground. She is plotting her revenge to be exacted later. A reddish-brown Shih tzu-Yorkie pooch bows her head, showing off her two pigtails festooned with red bows. Having just devoured the treat with which she has been bribed, she's in the process of licking her lips. In front of her are her neon-green-and-black-striped toy snake and smiling toy dumpling. She's calculating how many more treats she'll receive in exchange for putting up with the annoying human photographer's shenanigans.
January 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Perhaps you need this today, too #dogsofbluesky
A reddish-brown Shih tzu-Yorkie mix is sprawled on the back of a couch, wearing heart-shaped sunglasses and yawning. Behind her is a cloudy picture window overlooking a snow-covered lake.
January 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The dog has decided the scarf-in-progress is her blanket. Who am I to contest? 🧣
A multicolored knit scarf-in-progress has been hijacked by a small dog with reddish-brown fur who is using the scarf as a blanket to warm her up on a chilly evening. Her head and upper body are poking out from underneath the scarf, and she’s using the pattern and notes as a pillow. Who will ultimately get to keep the scarf—human or canine?
January 21, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Hopology HK希望學 is publishing a series of children's picture books based on Xi Xi's 西西 poetry. First in the series is 《可不可以說》𝘾𝙖𝙣 𝙒𝙚 𝙎𝙖𝙮, based on one of Xi Xi's most beloved poems, and illustrated by 廖倍恩 Joanne Liu of All Things Bright & Beautiful.

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A colorful cover of a book titled 《可不可以說》 by beloved Hong Kong author 西西， illustrated by 廖倍恩. Whimsical images adorn the cover, including a large, plane-shaped white bird ("Bird Express") with animal passengers poking their heads out of the windows, a sideways coconut tree with monkeys hanging off of the trunk, and a robin's egg blue sky fading into a a stretch of daffodil yellow, pink lemonade-colored mountains, and a turquoise sea with cotton candy- and lemon-colored heart-shaped blobs floating in it. It is a joyful, chaotic scene. An advertisement for a colorful book titled 《可不可以說》 by beloved Hong Kong author 西西， illustrated by 廖倍恩. Whimsical images adorn the cover, including a large, plane-shaped white bird ("Bird Express") with animal passengers poking their heads out of the windows, a sideways coconut tree with monkeys hanging off of the trunk, and a robin's egg blue sky fading into a a stretch of daffodil yellow, pink lemonade-colored mountains, and a turquoise sea with cotton candy- and lemon-colored heart-shaped blobs floating in it. It is a joyful, chaotic scene. The cover is set against an orange-colored sky with a brilliant green hill below. A caption announces that this book is the first in a Xi Xi poetry picture book series, and then there are fragments of lines of the poem from the book adorning the orange sky: "可不可以說 一架飛鳥 一管椰子樹 一頂太陽 一巴斗驟雨?" There's also a list of names of famous writers, scholars, editors, picture book illustrators, and actors endorsing the book, including 陳智德, 何福仁, 林嘉欣, 柯佳列, 陳慧, 陳又凌, 海狗房東, 葉雲平, and 廖偉棠.
January 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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The wonton noodles are a nod to her childhood nickname growing up in a Cantonese family in Shanghai & the chili pepper a tribute to her beloved character 麥快樂 in 𝑀𝑦 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 who gifts dried chilies to his friends to dispel sadness and ward off vampires. We also wore 🌶️ bracelets made the previous night.
Three wrists festooned with colorful handmade chili pepper friendship bracelets in honor of Xi Xi's beloved novel My City.
December 8, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Spent the morning paying respects to Xi Xi at Diamond Hill Garden of Remembrance with my Xi Xi family. We spruced up her plaque (which lists her incorrect birth year, which should be 1937) & added new toys, including a bowl of wonton noodles and a chili charm.
Memorial plaque reading 張彥女士 07.10.1938––18.12.2022 and featuring a black and white portrait of Xi Xi. Note that the year of her birth is listed incorrectly and should be 1937. The plaque is adorned with miniature toys, including a light-up creature, a bowl of wonton noodles, a chili pepper charm, a cat pin based on one of Xi Xi's drawings, a ceramic cat, and something that might be a small rock. A group of Xi Xi's friends gathered at Diamond Hill Garden of Remembrance to pay their respects to her, posing in front of the garden where her ashes were scattered, with a hillside cemetery in the background. Xi Xi's friends standing in front of the dim sum restaurant Serenade 映月樓 that is housed in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
December 8, 2024 at 3:59 PM
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They even have a shelf full of Xi Xi 西西! 🦋 (photo taken by Christopher Mattison)
Shelf full of Xi Xi 西西 books in Chinese
November 18, 2024 at 7:18 PM
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Ordered this miniature bowl of wonton noodles to bring to Xi Xi’s memorial site at Diamond Hill Garden of Remembrance next month. Her childhood nickname in Shanghai was “Wonton Noodles” because of her Cantonese background 🍜
Miniature bowl of wonton noodles made from polymer clay, fimo & ceramic Miniature bowl of wonton noodles made from polymer clay, fimo & ceramic
November 18, 2024 at 5:19 PM
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The Goethe Institut Hong Kong is sponsoring 3 Xi Xi-themed events in December

//In the second December after Xi Xi’s departure, Goethe-Institut Hongkong is pleased to collaborate with many of Xi Xi’s friends in organizing a series of 3 talks.//

Register here: www.goethe.de/ins/hon/en/b...
Poster for Reading Xi Xi events at the Goethe Institut Hong Kong. Features a drawing of Xi Xi and a teddy bear, and photographs of 7 speakers.
November 15, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Chicago friends! Join May Huang, Tammy Ho & me next week for Translating the Multilingual Symposium at the University of Chicago. ✨
Register here:
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Poster advertising Translating the Multilingual Symposium with May Huang, Jennifer Feeley, and Tammy Lai-Ming Ho. November 22, 3:00 pm, Joseph Regenstein Library 122, University of Chicago
November 14, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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This passage I just translated from Xi X's 𝑀𝑦 𝐶𝑖𝑡𝑦 feels timely. See below, in my very rough, in-progress translation, along w/ Xi Xi's accompanying drawing of the bottom of a 👟 from the p.o.v. of a soccer ball about to be kicked.
(Note: "football" = soccer; this is for a UK press)
Then there’s the story of a certain football team called the Foul Players. Every time they played, they won. In truth, their skills were only so-so. McGlee had watched enough football to easily spot the difference between true talent and underhanded tricks. The team would kick and hit their way through every match. When the referee’s back was turned, they’d shove their opponents to the ground, catch the ball with their hands, or bite their rivals; once, they went so far as to kidnap the opposing team’s goalie and have one of their own players impersonate him. Naturally, they won. Their opponents were Gentlemen United and the Fair Players, who always abided by the rules and believed in sportsmanship. Up against the Foul Players, they didn’t stand a chance. You’d think the Foul Players would’ve felt ashamed about their dirty tactics, but no! To them, this seemed the only way to be honorable and grand, so they strutted onto the field like heroes. But what really made McGlee want to unleash a string of choice words was that every single one of them ended up in the Football Hall of Heroes. This picture shows Xi Xi's drawing of a shoe from the perspective of a soccer ball.
November 13, 2024 at 5:53 AM