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26 ALUMNI 校友
Superb writer ties in childhood with tales
Mrs. Ching Yeung Russell
shares her experience in
creative writing with HKBU
community
楊青與浸大員生校友分享寫
作心得
Alumna Ching Yeung Russell, who majored in Ching Yeung Russell
Chinese Language and Literature at Hong Kong was born in Guangdong and was
Baptist University, never thought she would write raised by her maternal grandmother. At the After marriage,
in English. age of 12, she moved to Hong Kong to be reunited Mrs. Russell has spent
Now, she is an plished writer in English. with her parents. After graduating from HKBU two years writing a 350-page
Her work, First Apple, received the Charlotte (then Baptist College), she enjoyed a year-long love story to her husband who is an
Award given by the New York State Reading teaching experience in a junior high school before American. However, he could neither understand
Association. It is also a Parents’ Choice Award getting married and emigrated to the United Chinese nor share her thoughts. Mrs. Russell
winner and has been translated into Japanese. States. knew that if she could not write in English, her
First Apple is one of the four books Mrs. Russell Recalling her Baptist days, she said: “Our husband would never read what she wrote.
has written, based on her childhood, set in a small classmates used to go hiking, rowing and having To streng