Part I Grief and Melancholy in the Chinese Literary Contexts.- Chapter 1 Epitomizing the Poignancy in Poetry and Cantonese Opera: "The Heartbroken Poetry".- Chapter 2 Representing Melancholy Love: "Aiqing xiaoshuo" in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Media Culture.- Chapter 3 Mourning does not Become Beiju: Forging a Tragic Spirit of Grief and Heroic Resistance in Some 1920 Chinese (she-)tragedies.- Chapter 4.- Translating China for the Gazing eyes - A Case Study of The Battle of Chosin.- Part II: The Triggering of Melancholic Loss from the Cross-cultural Perspective.- Chapter 5 Melancholy across the Multiverse: The Everything Bagel and the Loss of Self in Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022).

- Chapter 6 The Grief of Losing and the Melancholy of Being: A Journey of Dream and Awakening in Lao She's Mr Ma and Son.- Chapter 7 Poetics of Loss in Esperanto: Mao Zifu Writes on his Wheelchair.- Chapter 8 Mourning the Lost Self in Mei Ng's Eating Chinese Food Naked and LuLu Wang's The Farewell.- Part III The Various Forms of Grief and Melancholy in Contemporary Hong Kong Discourses.- Chapter 9 Words on Display: Chinese Funeral banners and Wreath Messages through a Geosemiotic Lens.- Chapter 10 Covering the Grief of Leaving: A Study of News discourse on Hong Kong Emigration Wave.- Chapter 11 Melancholy in Narratives of Early Career English Teachers in Hong Kong.