Programme: Master of Arts in Creative Writing

Student: Jiang Feng
Publication: Hushtopia (噓托邦)
Publisher: Guizhou People’s Publishing House (Oct 2023)

Student: Huang Chuan
Work: “Fragrance Office” (馥韻事務所)
Publication: Zhongguo Xiaoyuan Wenxue (中國校園文學) (Oct 2023, College Edition)

The literary works of a graduate and a student from the Master of Arts in Creative Writing programme were recently published in different channels. Fresh graduate Jiang Feng's experimental novel Hushtopia (噓托邦) was published in October 2023. It tells of an explorer who dies when trying to escape from a palace that he has mistakenly entered in the desert. His experience then attracts others to visit the desert and start their adventures. In the story, Jiang Feng adopts various cultural elements including Chinese classics such as the Yijing, Shijing, Book of Han, Journey to the West and Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, as well as the paintings of Manet, Caravaggio, Odilon Redon and Anselm Kiefer to reproduce the aura of classical art.

In the meantime, student Huang Chuan's suite of poems “Fragrance Office” (馥韻事務所) was selected by Zhongguo Xiaoyuan Wenxue (中國校園文學), a student literary journal run by the China Writers Association, for publication in the October 2023 issue (College Edition). Integrating elements such as mathematics, sardonicism, irony and humor, the poems provoke a rethink of natural and historical themes. Earlier, his fictional work “Seabird Principles” (鳧海定則) was also published in the March issue of Anhui Literature.