The 4th Hong Kong Literature Festival will be held from June 22 to July 14 as part of the celebratory activities for the 5th anniversary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the organizers announced Wednesday.
The festival, jointly organized by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, is aimed to promote reading and the Hong Kong Literature.
One of the highlights of the festival is the thematic exhibition -- "The Literary Bond of the Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong", which is jointly presented by the National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature.
Study rooms of three renowned Chinese writers Ding Ling, Xiao Jun and Duan Mu Hong-liang will be moved to Hong Kong from Beijing.
Precious literary materials of well known Chinese writers such as Lu Xun, Ba Jin, Mao Dun, Bing Xin, Cao Yu and others will also be displayed.
The exhibition will also feature traces of Chinese writers in various places of Hong Kong and the look of Hong Kong as described in their writings.
(Xinhua News Agency May 22, 2002)
