Evelyn Chan was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where she taught for 13 years. Chan has published widely on the representations of work in the writings of Virginia Woolf and Joseph Conrad. She has also published essays and books on narratives of education in the humanities. This book combines her interests in narrative research and the meaning of work.
Sunny Wong is Clinician-Scientist and Associate Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. He received his MBChB with Honors at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and his D.Phil. in University of Oxford on human genetics and infectious diseases. He completed his clinical training in gastroenterology and endoscopy in the Prince of Wales Hospital Hong Kong. His main research interest is on gut microbiome, investigating the host-microbe interaction in digestive and metabolic diseases, and exploring this for discovery of novel biomarkers and therapeutics.