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This book is planned by Hip Shing Hong Development Co., Ltd. It mainly focuses on the revival of obsolete industrial buildings in Wong Chuk Hang. The book also tells the development process of Wong Chuk Hang. Combining oral and documentary materials, this book organizes the content of the whole book with eight keywords, namely river valley plain, ancient village, early architecture, industrial area, public housing, recreation and entertainment, commercial area and revitalized industrial buildings. Following these eight keywords, readers can go from the ancient times of Wong Chuk Hang to today in one go. First, it starts with the geography and ancient settlements to understand the spatial and temporal background of early architecture. Then, it disseminate the interactive development between Wong Chuk Hang industrial area, public housing and recreation and entertainment facilities. Finally, it examines how Wong Chuk Hang injects new energy to the community under the policy of developing commercial areas and revitalizing industrial buildings.
- AuthorLau Chi-pang, Kenneth Wong Kwan-kin
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2015
In 2005, I saw his private collection of memorabilia at James Wong's home for the first time. That year, ideas to preserve Lai Tak Estate and Central Waterfront gained much currency, and "conserving local culture" had become everyone's passion. Preserving James Wong's cultural relics became an urgent task. James Wong, who was a songwriter, had unique ideas about cultural preservation. In his eyes, culture is life, and the task of cultural preservation is to remember daily footprints and tell good stories about ordinary people. Hong Kong's history is special, and the fate of ordinary people is intertwined with the sensibility of the times. He has also played a role in inheriting and renewing Chinese culture in the past by chance. Preserving local culture requires the highest standards to store relics, sort out memories, and tell the twists and turns of Hong Kong's story. James Wong's ideas are quite subtle. On the one hand, James Wong is the "object" of cultural preservation. Organizing his manuscripts and explaining his life is to faithfully follow the footsteps of this popular musician and restore the local history. On the other hand, James Wong is the "advocate" of cultural preservation. His creations and notes provide clues on how to achieve cultural preservation well in Hong Kong. From this perspective, James Wong is not only the material of history, but also the method of writing history. Using James Wong's method to preserve James Wong’s work and update James Wong’s contexts is the challenge of this book. This book focuses on Hong Kong pop music, divided into four chapters, and tells the moving stories through the cultural relics in the library.
- AuthorJames Wong
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2021
Volume 1: "James Wong on James Wong" This book examines James Wong's early life, revisits the formation of Hong Kong's local culture in slow motion from James Wong’s perspective, and records the collective history of common people in Hong Kong.
- AuthorNg Chun-hung
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2021
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From 1968 to 2004, James Wong wrote columns for different newspapers and magazines, with a total word count of over 10 million. The topics and styles of his writing were diverse. As a musician and writer, his personal experiences in songwriting and lyric writing naturally became the subject of his essays and critiques. This dual identity, unique to Hong Kong, gave his articles a special quality. First of all, James Wong's articles were written by James Wong. For him, advertising, writing lyrics, and making movies all had their own constraints. Only by working on the crossword puzzle in the newspaper every day could he let his mind run wild, and write about his true feelings. In addition, James Wong's articles were about Hong Kong. His column was full of his signature Hong Kong-style personality: he spoke his mind, had a friendly attitude, wrote about people and scenery, and painted vivid pictures with words. He also provided a monthly index of current events and historical events. His articles on popular culture were particularly unique, and for decades he closely followed every trend, recording how popular artists boldly explored and carefully created their own unique sounds during a time when Hong Kong’s development is not scripted. We carefully select his works on pop music, put them in order, let them have a discourse with each other, weave them together, and focus on the process and mysteries of "making Hong Kong-style pop music."
- AuthorJames Wong
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2021
Janet Lau understands that emotions have different levels, and they are like neural reflexes, just trying to convey messages to us and help us walk the path we should take. She saw friends, students, and family members around her affected by emotions, so she wrote this book to tell us that even though she seems happy, she has also experienced many lows. She hopes to help us understand ourselves, accept ourselves, and affirm ourselves through story sharing, yoga, meditation, and reflective exercises. She wants us to accept the "black" and "white" in life, learn to unconditionally care for ourselves and the people, things, and objects around us.
- AuthorJanet Lau
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2017
"The images collected in this book are all selected from photos taken by the author in the 1990s. Hong Kong experienced rapid development in the 1980s and he found that many familiar sights and people were slowly disappearing in the 90s, including old-style residential buildings, squatter areas, resettlement buildings, villages in the New Territories and outlying islands, as well as episodes of life on the street. Some of the sights themselves are not really anything to be proud of in Hong Kong, but they are all an important part of Hong Kong's history. At that time, I just wanted to document them before everything disappeared, and there may be some value as a record in the future."
- AuthorKo Tim-keung
- PublisherJoint Publishing
- Publication Date2016