On the first Saturday in July, Mr. Tan and more than 200 fellow residents go to the city council building to attend a public hearing on a proposed "urban renewal project run by residents." Mr. Tan represented his father, a bedridden retired serviceman from Hunan Province who needs four people to carry him up and down the stairs in his wheelchair.
7 月的第一個星期六，譚先生代表父親──臥病在床、出入要 4 個人抬著輪椅上下樓梯的湖南籍退伍老兵──和其他兩百多名住戶，來到市議會，參加「自辦更新公聽會」。