Kan Fook-wing: In Retrospect, the Struggles Were Like Sowing Seeds

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. 1. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Radicalism and Its Discontents
7. 2. The Impossible Decolonization and the Radical Thought of Ng Chung-yin 27
8. 3. The Formation of Hong Kong’s Radical New Left, 1970–1974 51
9. 4. The Imaginary of Asia and World Consciousness in 1970s Hong Kong: The Case of The 70’s Biweekly 80
10. Part II: Aesthetic and Literary Counterpublics
11. 5. The Making of an Aesthetic Counterpublic in 1970s Hong Kong: A Visual Exploration of The 70’s Biweekly 111
12. 6. Film Criticism in The 70’s Biweekly 141
13. 7. A Critical Study of The 70’s Biweekly and Its Political Cinematic Practices 169
14. 8. The Erotic, the Avant-Garde, and the Anarchist Arts: The Imaginations and Representations of Radical Politics in The 70’s Biweekly 196
15. Part III: Interviews with Former Members
16. John Sham Kin-fun: I Admit We Were Making Trouble! 223
17. Wat Wai-ching: The Grassroots Member of The 70’s with Deep Love and Righteousness 235
18. Yeung Po-hi: The 70’s Was a Free Space 245
19. Kan Fook-wing: In Retrospect, the Struggles Were Like Sowing Seeds 253
20. Yuen Che-hung: Accumulating My Ignorance in the Years at The 70’s 259
21. Contributors 267
22. Index 269