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Parkin, Andrew Terence Leonard was born on June 30, 1937 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Son of Frances Stanley and Mary Phyllis Maud (Stansfield) Parkin.
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Hong Kong Poems is the first-ever collection of poems about Hong Kong published in parallel English and Chinese texts. Appearing in the year when Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty, this collection offers insights into what Hong Kong was and is on the edge of becoming. The juxtaposition of an English-Canadian poet and a Chinese-Canadian poet allows the reader to enter a dialogue about Asian modernity, a state of being that the Hong Kong critic Ackbar Abbas has called "postculture."
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This book contains an introduction centred on migration, exile, «the other», and the experience of multicultural communities in the modern world, followed by three sections of original poetry. In Part I, poems deal with Britain, Canada, and China (mainly Hong Kong). In Part II the focus shifts to Australia and then Europe again (mainly France). Part III, entitled «Shards» presents fragmentary lyric voices suggesting the processes of cultural fragmentation and change. In each part the poems connect with individual experience, historical events such as the French, Russian and Chinese revolutions, myth and art. Multicultural experience as a modern reality, loss, regeneration and creativity are all major concerns in the poems. Their many artistic references include, among others, Apollinaire, Bonnefoy, Michael Bullock, Rosalía de Castro, Dante, Robert Desnos, Anne Frank, Li Po, Magritte, Albert Namajira, Sidney Nolan, Bill Reid, Laura Wee Lay Laq and Zhang Ji. From the experience of living in modern multicultural societies, the writer envisages the kind of international modernity that tries to preserve the dignity of individuals and humane values. Such modernity has emerged from cultures fragmented by revolutions, globalization, and rapid change. These poems occupy both hemispheres, inhabit temperate and tropical zones, and make cultural transfers across them.
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Parkin, Andrew Terence Leonard was born on June 30, 1937 in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England. Son of Frances Stanley and Mary Phyllis Maud (Stansfield) Parkin.
Bachelor with honors, Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, 1961. Doctor of Philosophy, Bristol (England) University, 1969.
Assistant master Cambridgeshire High School, Cambridge, 1961-1963. Assistant and library St. George's School, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, 1963-1966. Part-time lecturer College St. Matthias, Bristol, 1967-1969.
From assistant professor to professor English University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1970—1993. Professor, chairman department English Chinese University Hong Kong, Shatin, 1991-1993, 97-2000, director studies, chair English board studies, 1993-1994, English orator, 1995—2000, professor emeritus, honorary senior tutor Shaw College, since 2001. Part-time lecturer Hong Kong University, 1965—1966.
Chairman University British Columbia Essay Competition, 1986—1988. Visiting scholar department English Australian National University, 1988—1989. Honorary advisor Chinese Academy of Sciences, since 2000.
With Royal Air Force, 1956-1958.
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Trustee Shaw College Chinese University of Hong Kong. With Royal Air Force, 1956-1958. Member Modern Language Association, Canada Association Irish Studies (conference organizer 1977), International Association for Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, Chinese Canada Writers Association (lit.advisor 1989-1990), International Association University professors of English, Hong KongAssn.
Canada Studies (president), Writers Union of Canada, Oxford and Cambridge Club.
Married Christine Patricia George, June 14, 1959 (divorced 1989). 1 child, Benedict Stephen. Married Francoise Alice Marguerite Lentsch, April 28, 1990.