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Honorary University Fellows

Mr John CHAN Koon Chung
2012 Honorary University Fellow
Mr John CHAN Koon Chung
Biography

Mr John Koon Chung CHAN is a renowned writer, critic and film producer. Born in Shanghai, he was raised and educated in Hong Kong. He graduated from HKU with a BSocSc degree in 1974, and continued to study journalism at Boston University in the US from 1974 to 1975.

In 1976, he founded the groundbreaking lifestyle magazine City, where he was the chief editor for several years and its publisher for 23 years. The magazine would set the standard in ‘cool’ and become the most avant garde cultural publication of its kind in the 1970s and 1980s. 

He started screenwriting in 1981 and went on to be a producer of more than 10 Hong Kong movies and 3 US movies. He is also one of the five founders of the Hong Kong Film Directors Guild.

Mr Chan has published more than a dozen books in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, including Hong Kong Trilogy, My Hong Kong Generation, Hong Kong’s Unfinished Experiment, Marxism and Literary Criticism and Bohemian China. His most recent novel, The Fat Years, has received critical acclaim worldwide and been translated into 13 languages.

Currently, Mr Chan lives in Beijing, and is the founder and chairman of Minjian International. He is a co-founder of the Hong Kong environmental group Green Power, and has served as a board member of Greenpeace International.

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