Chong was born in China in 1976. Her parents fled two years later to Hong Kong, taking her with them. Chong attended
St. Paul's Co-educational College before deciding to study psychology at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong. After graduating in 1999 she majored in play-writing at the
Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and then traveled to London to complete her master's degree at
Royal Holloway, University of London. After completing her formal education, Chong joined the
Chung Ying Theatre Company where she wrote her award-winning plays
Alive in the Mortuary (2003),
Shall We Go to Mars? (2005),
French Kiss (2005),
Murder in San José (2009) and
The Wild Boar (2012). In 2011 she worked with American composer
Huang Ruo to write a
libretto for an opera about
Dr. Sun Yat-sen. The completed work premiered at the
National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing and later was adapted worldwide after it was well received. ==References==