RUPERT CHAN is a school administrator, award-winning playwright and lyricist, and a widely known flexible translator, author, radio host, and opera commentator. Many are in his debt for his English sur-titles and sub-titles for Cantonese operas and flicks. he's Chairman of administrators of the Chung Ying Theatre corporation and a Director of the Composers' and Authors' Society of Hong Kong (CASH). He has been an adviser on opera and drama to the Hong Kong Government's relaxation and Cultural prone division. "Chocolate's Brown research within the Bag" is Chan's moment publication in English. Chan got the Hong Kong Artists' Guild Playwright of the 12 months Award in 1990. He wrote the lyrics in Mandarin of "Nine areas making a song As One", composed by means of Professor Chan Wing-wah for the 1997 Hong Kong Reunification with China (sung through Warren Mok and Choir), which gained the main played unique neighborhood severe paintings Award from the Composers' and Authors' Society of Hong Kong. He bought the house Affairs Bureau certificates of Commendation for making remarkable achievements within the merchandising of arts and tradition in 2004.
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The Narrator of CHOCOLATE'S BROWN learn within the BAG is a thirty-three month outdated chocolate-coloured toy poodle, born in Australia and flown to Hong Kong on the market in a pet-shop. He has turn into a well-loved addition to a middle-class Hong Kong chinese language relations who take him all over, occasionally (when where is forbidden to canine) hidden in a bag. satirically, whilst zipped up within the pitch black darkness contained in the bag and of course moving into a brown research, he enters the vibrant global of goals, reviewing in them his earlier and current existence. As Chocolate tells his story, we examine his human family's conduct, historical past, spare time activities, schooling, professions, relationships, aspirations and recommendations. We meet his doggie acquaintances and know about the detailed international that Hong Kong dog-owners inhabit. without notice, we additionally partake of the small dog's knowledge and examine the key of happiness.
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"Rupert Chan has a mild, funny contact. pleasant. Witty." —Proverse Prize Judges, 2009.