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THE (UNLIKELY) HONG KONGER

NEW BOOK

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2025 CALENDAR

THE HONG KONGER

2025 Calendar | The Hong Konger

12x12 inch square calendar

Hole for hanging

All Hong Kong public holidays, plus major international holidays, marked

Large space to schedule all your events and appointments

Notepad space for key dates and details

QR codes to compare The Hong Kongers to their New Yorker inspiration

A handy guide to find a Hong Konger dated with your birthday (or another significant date)

HK$190

Limited run of only 400 copies — get 'em while they last

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Events

The Eurasian Experience in Sophia Hotung's The (Unlikely) Hong Konger

🕰️ Wed 20 Nov • 6:30pm - 8pm

📍 Biblioteca, 23/F Club Lusitano, 16 Ice House Street, Central

Host: Eurasian Society

Format: Presentation, Q&A, mingling, free admission

Register: WhatsApp +852 6447 4042 to reserve a seat

I'll be focusing on the historical, cultural, and Eurasian aspects of the book in this cosy talk and Q&A with the Eurasian Society. I will also be selling and signing books and Make Your Own Hong Konger postcards.

Paths to Publishing with Sophia Hotung

🕰️ Wed 4 Dec • 6:30pm - 8pm

📍 American Women's Association, 2 Queen's Road West, Central

Host: Hong Kong Women in Publishing

Format: Presentation, Q&A, refreshments, mingling, ticketed event

Register: Email info@sophiahotung.com in the mean time to register interest

I'll be talking about how I publish books and how illustrations and mixed media help me get my writing out there. This is a small-group intimate event, where I'll be answering questions, selling and signing my new book The (Unlikely) Hong Konger, and chatting with audience members before and after. Tickets will be made available soon.

Visible Differences versus Invisible Disabilities with Jessica Chan and Sophia Hotung

🕰️ Wed 4 Dec • 1pm - 7pm

📍 Xiqu Centre, 88 Austin Road West, Tsim Sha Tsui

Host: TEDxTinHauWomen

Format: A full day and fair of speakers, vendors, and networking, ticketed event

Register: Get tickets here

Jessica and I don't agree on much when it comes to being diagnosed with health conditions. Jessica has achondroplasia. I have autoimmune diseases. Jessica calls herself "differently abled". I go by "disabled". Is there any common ground we can find? Can we pull together a roadmap to help you better act around, talk to, and include disabled and differently abled people? The short answer is yes... but come to our TEDx talk to find out how.

Author Talk & Book Signing | The (Unlikely) Hong Konger

🕰️ Sat 7 Dec • 11am - 1pm

📍 Kelly & Walsh, Shop 216, Pacific Place, 88 Queensway, Admiralty

Format: Drop in at any point

I'll be reading excerpts from my new book The (Unlikely) Hong Konger, signing books, and giving out Make Your Own Hong Konger postcards

Register

Feel free to disregard the events that you are not interested in.

Video Diaries

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Sophia Hotung is a Eurasian writer and illustrator from Hong Kong.  She is known for creating digital art that looks like fine art and mixed media, as seen in her The Hong Konger and Choreopolis collections.

Her work has exhibited at Wyndham Social, the Affordable Art Fair, Digital Art Fair Asia, Oi Ling Antiques, and has been featured in the New York Times, Tatler Asia, the South China Morning Post, and Sotheby’s magazine.

Sophia was recently awarded the South China Morning Post’s Spirit of Hong Kong Culture Award, named one of TimeOut Hong Kong’s five Future Shapers, and was named for two consecutive years as one of three finalists in Hong Kong’s American Chamber of Commerce’s Young Changemaker, Women of Influence Awards.

 

Sophia’s work is based in Hong Kong through her company Pangolin Society. Due to physical limitations from chronic disabilities, she works mostly from bed in San Francisco, while her team executes boots-on-the-ground operation in her hometown of Hong Kong.

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