什麼都沒有發生

by Chan Koonchung, 陳冠中

一九九八年七月一日，香港回歸中國一週年，放假一天，什麼都沒有發生。

你們大致猜到是什麼回事了吧。香港回歸一週年那天，我跟朋友像平常一樣吃了晚飯，大夥要去紅酒吧，我以不能喝酒為理由，獨自先回家。我已約了一個經常應我召的妹妹，在家門口等我。

有人說，香港人可能從來只會記得風花雪月的韻事；他們不要有「根」，不能在「同一點留得太久」，他們永遠只做「第二把手」、「打工皇帝」……

我們都是國際資本的香港的雇傭兵。
為誰？無所謂。
為何？錢是重要因素。
我們喜歡自己的專業形象。我們只愛自己。

一瞬之後，什麼都沒有發生……

Genres: China, Fiction

160 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 3, 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

[Nic Cheung · Rating 4 out of 5]

「沒有要做的事，沒有想做的事，沒有約會，沒有壓力，沒有對自己或他人的承諾。心情，說不上好壞，沒有事情可以影響我的心情，在我悉心安排下，什麼都不會發生在我身上，就算發生什麼，我也不在乎。到了這個境界，我承認是我的一項成就，幾乎用了一生才換回來的自由。」