Agnes Hung-Chong Chan obtained her first degree in Translation and Chinese from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 1994 and her master degree in English Studies from the University of Hong Kong in 1997. She edited the first volume of A Chinese Companion to Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations, which was published in 2001 by the Chinese University Press, Hong Kong. She has been working at the Centre for Translation Studies in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University since 1994.