Remembering is important to any society. It provides signposts of the past through which a community can better understand the present and make a prognosis of the direction of the future.
This book is about remembering, about remembering the events of the firs 1,000 days in Hong Kong under the sovereignty of China. During this period, the author notes that Hong Kong has witnessed a widening of the gap between the rich and the poor in the economic arena and an erosion of the independence of the judiciary in the political sphere. He worries that Hong Kong has become a city of individuals instead of a community of people. For Hong Kong to have a brighter future, he asserts that these trends must be altered from their present course.
The author is an ordained minister of the Hong Kong Council of the Church of Christ in China (CCC) who has been interpreting political and socio-economic developments in Hong Kong for more than a decade through the publications of the Hong Kong Christina Institute (HKCI) of which he is currently the director. After graduating from Hong Kong University and Yale Divinity School, Kwok Nai-wang served as a local church pastor in a slum area of Hong Kong from 1966 to 1977 and as the general secretary of the Hong Kong Christian Council (HKCC) from 1978 to 1988 when he founded HKCI. He has written 20 books in English and Chinese and has edited five others. He is also the editor of Reflection, a bimonthly theological journal produced by HKCI, as well as the author of the organization’s monthly English newsletter.
by Kwok Nai-wang
Published in August 2000 by the Hong Kong Christian Institute and Asian Human Rights Commission, 190 pages, Language: English. ISBN – 962-7471-50-X
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