50 Years of Hong Kong Mass Media

"The newspaper supplement pages of those years were truly a convergence of all schools of thought, truly appreciated on multiple levels, by both sophisticated elite and commoners alike. They were simply an encyclopedia.” Once a cultural worker contributing to supplementary pages of newspaper, the author Chan Ching-fung recounts the changes of those pages in the past 50 years, and also pays tribute to the predecessors of the newspaper industry. The book includes a special section on the "legend of the newspaper” whom people called Xia Gong. A number of stories were included to commemorate Mr. Chen Xiazhi. The author uses the opening text of each chapter as a lead-in, accompanied by commentaries that connect the people and incidents to the big picture at the time. Readers can savour each piece, and re-live the glorious moments of Hong Kong's newspaper history. This book is a reprint of "Looking Back on 50 Years of Media", renamed "50 Years of Hong Kong Media". It also includes additional writings introducing the development history of Hong Kong's leftist newspapers and discussing Jin Yong's short articles, as a commemoration.