Remembering is important to any society. It provides signposts of the past through which a community can better understand the present and make a prognosis of the direction of the future.

This book is about remembering, about remembering the events of the first 1,000 days in Hong Kong under the sovereignty of China. During this period, the author notes that Hong Kong has witnessed a widening of the gap between the rich and the poor in the conomicarena and an erosion of the independence of the judiciary in the political sphere. He worries that Hong Kong has become a city of individuals instead of a community of people. For Hong Kong to have a brighter future, he asserts that these trends must be altered from their present course.