History All Around Us--In Hong Kong for 1997 Like Venice in the Renaissance, where North African culture flourished; like Shanghai at the turn of the century, where foreigners ruled; like the splendors of the Dunhuang Caves, created in a region of China then under the control of a Tibetan regime--fin-de-si? cle Hong Kong will be remembered as a place half-Chinese, half-barbarian.
半唐番美學筆記當歷史就在身邊﹘﹘九七那年，我在香港正如北非文化滋長了歐洲文藝復興的威尼斯、洋涇濱成就了世紀初的上海、吐蕃統治奠定了敦煌的輝煌，半唐番將在後世的記憶中代表香港。