A Tale of Two Haunted Universities: Hong Kong Reader

by Anne Tso, Joanne Lo (Illustrator)

Overview

Ever wondered what a Chinese Halloween is like? Every year, Hong Kong people experience the Hungry Ghost Month, the seventh month of the lunar year. Legend has it that the door to hell is wide open during the seventh month, and all wandering spirits from the depths of the Underworld will roam around the Land of the Living. Believe it or not, children and adults alike should bear in mind ten taboos – do not swim in the middle of the night, do not open your umbrella at night, do not walk near walls in the dark…in A Tale of Two Haunted Universities, a brave and rebellious daredevil breaks the Hungry Ghost taboos and takes on an adventurous midnight trip to the old, dark and perhaps haunted campus of The University of Hong Kong (HKU), alone! Unguessed mystery and something lurking around HKU’s Lotus Pond are awaiting her in the dark.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781948210065
Publisher:	Alpha Academic Press
Publication date:	05/04/2020
Series:	Honk Kong Reader , #6
Pages:	22
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.25(d)

About the Author

Anna Tso, PhD, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at The Open University of Hong Kong. Interested in language arts and children's literature in Hong Kong, she has published research articles in peer-reviewed journals across Asia, Europe, the U.K., the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Her books include Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students (Springer, 2017)and Academic Writing for Arts and Humanities Students (McGraw-Hill Education, 2016). She does use her published books in her English language and literature classes. If the Hong Kong Children's Stories series is published, she will use it in her class and share it in the reading clubs she leads for the Hong Kong Public Libraries.

Book series illustrator: Joanne Lo was born in Canada and raised both in Toronto and Hong Kong. Growing up and living on a beautiful outlying island called Cheung Chau, she has a special love for nature, animals, art and one's spiritual growth. She began her career in creative media since graduating from university majoring in Cultural Studies and Visual Studies. She is the illustrator of Teaching Shakespeare to ESL Students (Springer, 2017), a book housed in the Yale and Harvard University Libraries and downloaded for over4,850 times since its publication. Currently, she is working on a funded children's book series about Hong Kong memories.