Departmental Seminar: When Sleeping Women Wake: A Conversation with Emma Pei Yin
The Department of English cordially invites you to join our departmental seminar, When Sleeping Women Wake: A Conversation with Emma Pei Yin, to be organized on 11 November 2025 (Tuesday).
Date: | 11 November 2025 (Tuesday) |
Time: | 3:00pm – 4:00pm |
Venue: | CR002 Lecture Hall, G/F, Creative Humanities Hub, HSUHK |
Speaker: | Ms Emma Pei Yin, Author of When Sleeping Women Wake |
Registration: | Complete the online registration form to reserve a seat. Available on a first-come first-served basis. |
Remarks: | 1 iGPS unit will be awarded to undergraduate students who attend the seminar |
Abstract
Emma Pei Yin will discuss her remarkable and harrowing debut novel with Dr Jay Parker. It tells the story of three extraordinary women—a mother, her daughter, and their maid—are each forced on a journey of survival during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in World War II.
“A lushly romantic and impassioned story of women’s agency and resilience.”—Juhea Kim, internationally bestselling author of Beasts of a Little Land and City of Night Birds
At once monumental and intimate, When Sleeping Women Wake powerfully explores how ordinary people are capable of extraordinary things, and the unwavering hope that love can carry us through even the darkest of times.
Bio
Emma Pei Yin is an Australian Chinese writer and editor. She is the author of When Sleeping Women Wake, a historical novel set during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, exploring resilience, complicity and the cost of survival. The book has been published globally. She is also the founder of yinfluence editorial, an agency that works with PoC, queer and neurodivergent writers, connecting them with editors and mentors who understand the stakes of telling stories from the margins. She has been featured in The Canberra Times, Harper’s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Mekong Review and The Hong Kong Review. Emma is working on her second novel with her extremely barky dachshund, Lady, by her side.
For enquiries, please feel free to contact us at eng@hsu.edu.hk.
