Xi Xi was born in Shanghai, and moved to Hong Kong at the age of twelve.
15 Facts About Xi Xi
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Xi Xi's works are popular in Taiwan and mainland China.
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Xi Xi had become a rather well-known figure to many secondary school students in Hong Kong.
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Xi Xi was born in Putung, Shanghai, where she would go on to attend primary school.
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Xi Xi thus believed that 1938 was her year of birth over the course of her life, until she consulted family documents following the death of her sister in the 2010's, and found out that she was actually born in 1937.
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Xi Xi's father worked at Kowloon Motor Bus Company as a ticket checker.
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Xi Xi was a pioneer in the field of experimental film in Hong Kong.
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Xi Xi illustrated the serial with her own drawings, attached along with each publication in the newspaper.
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Xi Xi enjoyed travelling; she visited many countries in Eastern Europe, as well as Turkey, Egypt, Greece, and, most frequently, mainland China.
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The collection won Xi Xi the Recommended Novella Prize, the highest honour in the United Daily News 8th Novel awards.
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Xi Xi expressed her nostalgia towards her childhood, and the reminiscence towards the disappearing old shops due to the drastic urban development.
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In 2009, Xi Xi published the essay and photograph collection, The Teddy Bear Chronicles.
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Xi Xi donated the teddy bears sewn and photographed in the book to the Chinese University of Hong Kong Library in 2018.
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In 2016, a collection of poems by Xi Xi was published in English under the title Not Written Words, which received the Lucien Stryk Asian Translation Prize in 2017.
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In 2019, Xi Xi was awarded the Newman Prize for Chinese Literature and the Cikada Prize.