是荒誕又如何

by Chan Koonchung, 陳冠中

作者說，我們現在要回到「何為香港」的問題，「何為香港」即是「What is Hong Kong?」，後面包括「何時香港」、「何處香港」、「如何香港」或者「何如香港」，即是探問香港是怎樣做出來的。
這是一條香港唯一走得通的道路，非常艱難，也可能很漫長，但卻不是不可能的任務。只有破解偏執狂政局，我們香港人才可以結伴走到隧道的出口，共同體的政治才可能邁進良性循環的中道，拒絕最壞的選項，不因為固執單一教條所認可的最好而捨棄「包羅超廣泛利益」的較不壞選項。
我們面前的現實不容樂觀，甚至可以說是很險惡，但此刻我們仍要抱有希望。抱有希望，我們才會願意風雨同路，不離不棄，堅毅忍耐，專注於細緻而不粗暴的據理力爭。
香港人可能已經不相信明天會更好，但我們不能喪失想像明天的能力。
是荒誕，又如何？

Genres: Nonfiction

232 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2016

About the author

Chan Koonchung 陳冠中 (born 1952) is a Chinese science-fiction writer who has previously lived in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the United States. He currently lives in Beijing. He is the founder of Green Power (綠色力量), Green Garden Organic Farm (綠田園有機農場) and the Hong Kong Film Directors Association (香港電影導演會) among other organizations, and is currently on the international board of directors of Greenpeace. Previously, he worked as a reporter for the Hong Kong tabloid, The Star. In 1976 he co-founded City Magazine (號外) with Qiu Shiwen and Deng Xiaoyu and Hu Junyi. In the 1990s he worked as an overseas publisher for the mainland literary journal Dushu (读书）, published by the China Publishing Group (中国出版集团) and Life, Reading, and Innovation Bookstore (生活读书新知三联书店). In 1991 he played the role of Professor Liu Yuebai in Yan Hao and Xu Ke's adaptation of A Cheng's 1984 novel, The Chess Master. His dystopian novel The Fat Years (2009) was published in English by Doubleday in 2011. [1]

In his recent book, The Unbearable Dreamworld of Champa the Driver (2014), the Tibetan driver and lover of a Chinese businesswoman falls in love with her daughter. It is a satirical metaphor of the unbalanced relations between China and Tibet.

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rating upgraded to 3 stars.

Original review:

Don't get me wrong, I gave this non-fictional book 2.5 stars doesn't necessarily mean it is bad, it is just that I lost interest somehow and many of the author's topics failed to interested me.