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This book brings together the works of many local artists, including Jerry Cho, Pen So, Mickey, Liang Guangming, Liang Weijia, Bai Shui, Kam Siu-man, Cuson Lo, Cody Chow, and others. They use their brushes to depict their most unforgettable local industries from the past, such as rice shops, corner stores, fish stalls, sun-drying fish, back alley hair salons, joss paper shops, night soil men and women, Jin Ying the monkey street performer, and mahjong tile carving. In addition to vivid artwork, the book also includes interviews with some of the masters from these extinct industries, reviewing the prosperity and changes of those industries. In addition, the book also includes writings on the history of these industries, allowing readers to revisit Hong Kong’s past through art and words, to reminisce and rediscover those collective memories that we have gradually forgotten, or even disappeared.