Gabriel Tsang

Gabriel Tsang
曾繁裕
Born
Tsang Fan-yu

1987 or 1988 (age 38–39)
Tai Po, Hong Kong
Education
Occupations
  • Writer
  • Scholar
  • Film critic
Years active2021–present

Gabriel Tsang Fan-yu (Chinese: 曾繁裕; born 1987/1988) is a Hong Kong writer, scholar, and film critic. He published his first novel Stand in 2010 while he was in university, and continued to write romance novels while working as a secondary school teacher before pursuing a PhD in comparative literature at King's College London. He is currently an assistant professor at Hong Kong Baptist University and a member of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society, contributing film reviews to The News Lens.

Early life and education

Tsang was born in 1987 or 1988 in Tai Po, Hong Kong.[1][2] He described his academic results as "poor" except for Chinese, in which he scored an A in the Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination.[3] He began writing poetry to pursue a female classmate in Form 4,[1][3] entering a writing contest co-hosted by Sing Tao Daily to attract her attention.[4] To his unexpectedness, he won the championship, although his classmate had already started dating someone else.[1][3] He discovered his passion for writing after the contest and began writing diaries and proses.[5] He initially aimed to study Chinese at Hong Kong Baptist University, but due to insufficient A-Level grades, he instead studied business administration at City University of Hong Kong.[1][3] He described himself as "not too interested" about business but remained passionate about writing during university, participating in various writing competitions.[3] He wrote his first novel Stand while he was on exchange to Nanjing University in his third year and published in 2010.[3] After graduation, Tsang taught at a secondary school and served as a writer-in-residence, during which he wrote the romance novels Low-Level Love and Silent Desire and Nothingness, inspired by his personal experiences as a teacher.[6][7] He then pursued a Master of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy in comparative literature at the University of Hong Kong and King's College London respectively.[7][8]

Career

Following the completion of his doctoral thesis, Tsang authored an AI-themed romantic sci-fi novel, Love in the Era of Post-human, inspired by the AlphaGo versus Ke Jie chess match,[9] and he published the novel in 2018.[10] Dung Kai-cheung, reviewing for Ming Pao, praised the novel's innovative approach of "attempting to explore a robot's perspective, imagining its thought processes and even emotional world";[11] while Lam Suet-ping of Fleurs des lettres described it as a "literary experiment" that "approached the world from a different angle, showcasing the phenomena beyond human limits".[12] After earning his PhD, Tsang taught at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou for several years, before returning to Hong Kong to teach at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2021.[3][6]

In 2022, he published Three, a short romance stories and essays collection.[3][6] Cheng Din-ho of P-articles praised the collection's exploration of love as more "pure" than his previous novels, noting the recurring tropes that run throughout the book emphasize "patience and tolerance in love".[13] In 2023, Tsang received the Award for Young Artist (Literary Arts) at the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.[14] He joined the Hong Kong Film Critics Society around 2024 and contributed film reviews to The News Lens.[15] He also published Chinese Educated Youth Literature: Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories, a scholarly study on 1980s Chinese youth intellectuals, in 2024.[16] He is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at HKBU,[10] teaching prose writing and Hong Kong literature.[4]

Bibliography

Year Title Original title Publisher Ref.
2010 Stand 日日 Red Publish [3]
2012 Low-Level Love 低水平愛情 [7]
2014 Silent Desire and Nothingness 無聲的愛慾與虛無 Wheatear Publishing
2018 Love in the Era of Post-human 後人類時代的它們 Spicy Fish Cultural Production [10]
2022 Three 三 [13]
2024 Chinese Educated Youth Literature: Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories N/a Routledge [16]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 梁凱婷 (28 August 2023). "【創作之路】追女仔孕育創作　浸大年輕作家曾繁裕奪新秀獎". Hong Kong Economic Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  2. ↑ Tsang, Gabriel. "未曾失格，同是負累──評《博士淪落人》". Fleurs des lettres (in Chinese). No. 25. Archived from the original on 14 October 2025. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 鄧穎欣 (28 August 2023). "好讀熱點｜浸大年輕學者奪文學藝術新秀獎　貼地寫詩講社會故事". HK01 (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  4. 1 2 蔡健行 (28 August 2023). "浸大學者曾繁裕︰AI難滿足創作求真". Sing Tao Daily (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  5. ↑ "浸大中文系老師︰AI創作故事缺真實感 難取代人類". am730 (in Chinese). 28 August 2023. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  6. 1 2 3 "寫作從經歷與想像出發". Discover HKBU (in Chinese). Hong Kong Baptist University. 28 August 2023. Archived from the original on 1 January 2025. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
  7. 1 2 3 王鼎煌 (28 August 2023). "為暗戀女神撰文 無心插柳成作家" (PDF). Wen Wei Po (in Chinese). Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 March 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  8. ↑ "Gabriel F. Y. TSANG, Prof". Hong Kong Baptist University (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 9 October 2025. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
  9. ↑ "「它太完美，我看不到希望。」－－專訪《後人類時代的它們》作者曾繁裕". Fleurs des lettres (in Chinese). No. 15. Archived from the original on 7 December 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  10. 1 2 3 譚梓瑤 (3 November 2023). "書與人生：AI愛在「後人類」時". Ming Pao (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 4 February 2026. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  11. ↑ Dung, Kai-cheung (7 March 2019). "董啟章專欄：後人類時代的我們". Ming Pao (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  12. ↑ Lam, Suet-ping. "人類如何想像後人類？—— 評《後人類時代的它們》". Fleurs des lettres (in Chinese). No. 14. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  13. 1 2 鄭淀濠 (29 June 2024). "愛慕頭髮與人妻的好人——評論香港作家曾繁裕的短篇愛情小說". P-articles (in Chinese). Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  14. ↑ 王玥晨 (28 June 2023). "香港藝術發展獎｜認識當代後起之秀 延續本地藝術發展". HK01 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2 September 2024. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  15. ↑ "五位浸大人獲香港藝術發展獎表揚". Campus Digest (in Chinese). Hong Kong Baptist University. 26 June 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
  16. 1 2 "新書試閱：知青的面貌 寫書的拼勁". Ming Pao (in Chinese). 26 February 2025. Archived from the original on 22 March 2025. Retrieved 20 February 2026.
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