Disorderly Classics

After "Market, Go to Hell", seventeen years of accumulated melancholy in Hong Kong

Poet Chan Mit moves to Taiwan, composing bitter and sharp poems about a Hong Kong in turmoil

Hong Kong offers a bitter smile but you wouldn't notice
It forever wears a face officially approved
—"Hong Kong's Kiss, and Its People"

"Forging gold into blades, molding earth into vessels, gushing breath into song"

—Introduction by Hung Hung

"What is the flavor of Hong Kong? No need to be self-conscious, 'The Scripture of Turmoil' is actually everywhere. From the critique of one era to the remembrance of the next; from singing praises to choked sobs, and much more, it's regrettable that only after leaving can one fully express. Hong Kong literature will not stop here, but after 'The Scripture of Turmoil', it must turn to the next chapter."

—Hung Hung, Recommendation Introduction

The prices of buildings soar

Working people think

Facing the world's madness but unable to go mad themselves

Cannot but become normal

—People in buildings always imagine madness

—"Elegy for a Building"

Where is the Hong Kong people dream of?

All ideals are left for the night bus to conquer

But the driver gives up on finding change—he has already given up enough

The Octopus card is strict, hateful, and only it cares

Everywhere it records the wandering of people, more untraceable than currency

—"Hong Kong Stop"

May Hong Kong return

In reality, it goes further away

Go, Hong Kong, go like a wave

All transformations sing praises, attesting to your stubbornness

Hong Kong, you should be stubborn

—"Hong Kong's Stubborn Secret Realm"