這本結集透過十一篇口述訪談與微觀史料，記錄了 1997 回歸以來香港人在政治巨變中的真實身影。受訪者橫跨學生、工人、專業人士至移民海外的港人，訴說他們如何在 2003 反廿三條、2014 雨傘運動、2019 反修例浪潮，以至 2024 本地國安立法等關鍵時刻，以音樂、罷工、急救、競選、組織工會等方式投入公民行動。這些片段呈現了香港社會從「政治冷感」到集體覺醒的軌跡，亦揭示家庭張力、流散身份與「回不去的故鄉」等複雜情感。透過發掘被忽視的民間記憶，作者重塑了一幅自下而上的香港歷史圖景，為官方敘事以外的「真香港」留下珍貴見證。（由ChatGPT o3 生成）
Blending eleven oral-history interviews with micro-historical analysis, this volume captures how ordinary Hong Kong people have negotiated—and shaped—the city’s turbulent political landscape since the 1997 handover. Interviewees range from students, trade-union organizers and nurses to emigrants in Canada and the UK. Their stories traverse watershed moments such as the 2003 Article 23 protests, the 2014 Umbrella Movement, the 2019 Anti-ELAB uprising and Hong Kong’s 2024 local national-security legislation. Whether composing protest songs, running strike lines, treating the wounded, contesting district elections or founding new unions, they reveal the city’s passage from reputed apathy to civic awakening, alongside the intimate strains of family division, diasporic identity and an ever-receding homeland. By retrieving silenced memories and everyday acts of resistance, the book offers a bottom-up history that challenges—and enriches—official narratives of Hong Kong. (Generated by ChatGPT o3)
