Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories

First edition

Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories is a 2018 collection of short stories by Xu Xi, published by Signal 8 Press. The book has eleven stories total.

Xu Xi wrote the collection before she planned to move to the United States, and the title indicates her goodbye to Hong Kong. Richard Lord of the South China Morning Post stated that since the book has its principal characters have a "deeply conflicted relationship" with Hong Kong itself as well as the book having elements of familial issues, the question of a person's identity, sexual issues, and "verbal cruelty", it is of the typical style of the author.[1] The book specifically includes content about the identities of Hong Kong people.[2]

  1. ^ Lord, Richard (2018-06-04). "Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories". South China Morning Post'. Retrieved 2018-11-30.
  2. ^ Yang, Jing (Nanjing Normal University) (September 2018). "Insignificance: Hong Kong Stories by Xu Xi". World Literature Today. Retrieved 2018-11-30.