Reflection on Existentialism in the Second Transition and Hong Kong

Zhang Bingliang, author of "Second Transition: Reflections on Hong Kong's 2020 Political Situation: Crisis and the Road Ahead" deserves our expectation, because as a university professor, he has been studying governance, public administration and public policy for a long time; because he was the policy director for five years. A close, first-hand experience of the operation of the so-called hot kitchen; because he had participated in the dialogue platform of the revision of the law and participated in the public co-signature, he did not stay out of the matter from beginning to end.

This book is about some books of different spectra published only last year, namely Ma Yue's "Community of Resistance: The Hong Kong Anti-Send Movement in 2019", Lu Dale's "Embarrassment: Hong Kong Society Has Not Entered the Issue of One Country, Two Systems" and Liu Zhaojia's "Thinking about the future of Hong Kong's One Country, Two Systems" also has some reference.

However, it focuses not only on the anti-amendment legislation and subsequent political changes, but also on the broader structural issues, from Hong Kong’s political system to the current international situation, asking "the East is not defeated, and the West will not fall", how Hong Kong’s self Place?

The book mentions "existentialism" at least twice, once to describe the influence of mainlanders on Hong Kong, and the other is the crisis faced by the two systems. The actual meaning may be more about life and death, not necessarily philosophical thoughts or psychological schools.

But no matter what, the problem that existentialism cares about in today's Hong Kong believes that there is no lack of resonance-how people face meaninglessness and thrownness in life, just like the absurdity of Xuexifus in Camus's writings. Life?

In an incomprehensible world, how can one pursue meaning so as to settle down?

Zhang Bingliang tried to "create hope" with reflection and truth...

Title: "Second Transition-Hong Kong 2020 Political Situation Reflection: Crisis and Road

Ahead

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Author: Zhang Bingliang

Publishing House: Zhonghua Book Company

Publication Date: July 2021

For details, please read the 290th "Hong Kong 01" Electronic Weekly Newsletter (November 8, 2021) "

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