Fifty-fifty

The personal... -- Is possibly political -- Witness -- Almost a love story -- Personal histories -- And a little real history -- Mapping moments -- Apocalypse now & then -- Ambivalent philosophies. "42 writers and poets ponder Xi Xu's burning question: What are Hong Kong's odds as it counts down 50 years of the S.A.R? Their stories, musings, essays and poems speak for the heart and mind of this extraordinary place to which we all belong. Enter these pages with an open mind. Above all, do not be literal."--Back cover.