LIU Waitong 廖偉棠 is author and photographer. He was born in Guangdong in 1975 and  emigrated to Hong Kong in 1997. He went to Beijing for a period of five  years in 2003 to study and to experience ‘bohemian life’ in the capital.  This resulted in the publication Bohemian China which he  co-authored with Yan Jun and Chen Guanzhong in 2004. Besides poetry, Liu  also writes essays and short stories and has won literary prizes in  Hong Kong and Taiwan, including the China Times Literature Award and the  United Daily News Literature Award.