Lin Xi_Once Upon a Time_Taiwan Exclusive

Price: NT$330 ***This product ships to Taiwan only Author: Lin Xi Publisher: Bright Culture Dimensions: 130mm x 185mm Pages: 424 Publication Date: April 2014 ISBN: 9789888249381 [Content Summary] "Once Upon a Time - Lin Xi Before and After the 90s" (2014 Edition) chronicles the author's experiences of small incidents, encounters with ordinary people, and fleeting emotions in Hong Kong, both before and after the 1990s. Within these myriad details, one can glimpse the essence of a city and the spirit of an era. His past self and the Hong Kong of that time are inseparable, and one need not sever ties with the past. The people, events, and places within it remain. The scent of an era is not confined to one person. Whether you share this past with him, or his past is already your history. It was a long, long time ago. Why not brew a cup of tea (today's tea isn't brewed, it comes in bottles), light an incense stick (who burns incense these days? There are electronic incense sticks for online grave sweeping)... In any case, take a little, little, little bit of time to revisit the 90s, Lin Xi's past self, and Hong Kong through his words. Regarding "the past," Lin Xi suggests: "Let's all play this game: re-examine the past, as if watching someone else's play, observing the familiar yet strange protagonist with all sorts of expressions. Sometimes you find him truly cool, truly mysterious, truly odd, truly foolish, truly silly. But the back is a facade, the feelings are real; it's real people and real events. When my past self and my present self meet, will I feel embarrassed? Have the past hardships now faded into insignificance?" Everyone has a past, and everyone once envisioned who they would become in the future. If two versions of myself were to meet in the corridor of time, would today's me feel ashamed of yesterday's me, or would I disappoint the yesterday who believed in me?"