Rebel City:Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire
規格介紹:出版日期:2020/07/01
作者:Zuraidah Ibrahim, Jeffie Lam
頁數:512
開數:無
ISBN:9789811218606
出版社:South China Morning Post World Scientific Publishing
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▍內容簡介:
從一個夏天到另一個夏天。
距離香港「反送中」百萬人遊行,轉眼一年過了。
「Be Water」成為許多香港人堅守家園行動的最高行動理念。這場運動永遠的改變了街頭上,成群穿著黑衣、戴著面罩香港年輕人「無懼」的生命。
夏日革命進入了冬天,歷經了如黑天鵝般降下的Covid-19,躲也躲不過北京通過國安法,讓一國兩制提早跛腳。這座城市面對世界的樣貌,也永遠被改變了。
香港《南華早報》 (South China Morning Post)的記者群,在反送中運動一周年之際,推出這本《Rebel City:Hong Kong’s Year of Water and Fire》,由執行副總編輯Zuraidah Ibrahim及香港政治線記者Jeffie Lam主編,將《南早》一群視香港為「家」的記者,見證這場記1997年香港回歸以來,對中國最嚴峻的政治危機,及過去一年在自己生活的家園裡「水裡來火裡去」的紀錄與觀察。
這本書呈現了這場運動的多個面相。提供給讀者,進一步了解香港如何經歷一場全球日益增加的「無大台」抗爭行動。同時也是一場由千禧世代香港年輕人,累積許久的相對剝奪感,從深層的內心被點燃,繼而無法阻擋的星火燎原。《南華早報》編輯群認為,香港反送中行動可說是回溯中東阿拉伯之春之後,近十年來最成熟的新世代抗爭行動。本書更集結了許多彰這座城市經歷抗爭後滿目瘡痍的景象,卻人們又不可思議的不斷回到街上。
這不會只是一場香港人的抗爭行動,這座《Rebel City》是所有人心中對極權最劇烈的反叛。
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▍內容簡介: Japan, the reigning economic giant of East Asia, and Vietnam, an industrializing socialist country in Southeast Asia with strong links to China, occupy worlds that seem not to intersect. Yet historical connections between the two countries date back at least to the fourteenth century, when a Japanese merchant community flourished in the city of Hoi An.As Guy Faure and Laurent Schwab point out, relations between the two countries have been greatly influenced by outside powers. In the late nineteenth century, confronted by Western colonialism, Vietnamese nationalists took refuge in Japan and sought inspiration from Japan's economic development and resistance to the West. During the Pacific War Japan's imperial army virtually occupied Vietnam, albeit under a treaty agreement with France. And American B52 bombers flew sorties during the Vietnam War from bases in Okinawa, which made Tokyo an enemy in the eyes of Hanoi. However, the new century has brought a growing convergence of interests and the beginnings of a new relationship based on an emerging convergence of interests.優惠價 880Goodbye, My Kampong! Potong Pasir, 1966 To 1975
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Alfian was the winner of the SPH-NAC Golden Point Award for Poetry and the Singapore Young Artist Award for Literature in 2001. His other publications include Collected Plays One, Collected Plays Two, Cooling-Off Day, the poetry collections One Fierce Hour, A History of Amnesia, and the short story collection Corridor which is in the midst of a second reprint. ▍插圖畫家簡介: About The Illustrator Shahril Nizam Ahmad is a visual artist based in Kuala Lumpur. He majored in Painting at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne, Australia. His work has been exhibited in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching, Yogyakarta and Melbourne and featured in KLue, August Man and Esquire Malaysia. He has designed several book covers and illustrated for Malaysian Politicians Say The Darndest Things Vol. 1 by Amir Muhammad, Heart & Soul by Bibsy Soenharjo and Malaysian & German Folk Tales and Legends. He periodically dabbles in poetry and has published a book of poems and illustrations titled If Only. Two of his poems from the aforementioned collection were translated into German and included in Tautan, an anthology of Malaysian and German poetry. ▍評價: Reviews “Malay Sketches is a refreshingly honest and insightful depiction of the less savoury realities of life in Singapore, an ostensibly multiracial and meritocratic city-state uncomfortable with its historical Malay core. The stories serve as a stark reminder of a complex and contradictory society that is at once dynamic and dastardly, progressive and oppressive, glittery and ghoulish.”- Associate Professor Lily Zubaidah Rahim,University of Sydney, author of 'The Singapore Dilemma: The Political and Educational Marginality of the Malay Community' “Alfian’s vignettes of Singapore Malay life are touching and funny, at once full of pathos and nostalgia. They illuminate a life that once was, and now, inevitably, with ‘progress’, what is. But ultimately they speak of dignity, quiet and undiminished.”- Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir, columnist,activist, author of 'In Liberal Doses' “The title is the key. Alfian Sa’at uses the name of a late-nineteenth-century colonialist project to frame a body of vignettes exposing the systematic politicisation of race, the socialisation of the Malays, and the individual Malay’s struggle to preserve a knowledge of community in modern Singapore.Cognitively exacting books – with such fragile themes – come once in a lifetime. Shahril Nizam’s beautiful drawings recognise the fact and rise confidently to meet this challenge. Malay Sketches is an unambiguous trailblazer.”- Gwee Li Sui, literary critic, poet, and graphic artist “Subtle, delicate, elliptical, these elegiac sketches are shot through with yearning and brightness. 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