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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A political science fiction from Hong Kong's Sung Ming Chow, lecturer and activist, recently relocated to Vancouver, Canada; Musqueam. At the University of Brilliant Bastards in V-Port, students arrive from everywhere-and belong nowhere. Some cannot return home. None can find a place for themselves where their academic escape ticket has landed them. The sprawling, distinctive immigrant neighbourhoods of V-Port appear like a time capsule, spilling architecture and society through the 20th century. But Subin, Engle, Dehao, Kongyu and Balala don't see themselves in the relocated communities that originated from their own mother lands. They throw themselves into political theory: lectures, readings, late-night debates, and even virtual dialogues with sages from ancient worlds. In these new lands, they find something unexpected: nurture, relation, and responsibility. They are willing to believe there is a place for them, a promise, here. As old certainties fall away, a fragile question emerges. If a system of democracy could truly work here-among migrants, exiles, and the internally displaced Indigenous-might it work anywhere? Can artificial intelligence help? Set in a city suspended between memories and possibilities, Demotopia is today's story of human becoming-one which insists that, even amid disorientation and loss, even in exile, life will find its way. About the Author: Dr. Sung Ming Chow specializes in sociology and social history. A university lecturer and activist in Hong Kong, he has recently relocated to Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Chow is a member of the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society and also the founding member of C^Mind, a think-and-do tank devoted to cross-cultural collaborations. Their work includes the Chinese translation of "Lexeywa I pass the torch to you," by Beatrice Elaine Silver. It is the first Indigenous memoir of Indian Residential School to be translated into Chinese. Demotopia is his Sung Ming's full-length novel, and first original publication in English. Other titles from Sung Ming Chow: Catastrophe and Reconstruction: Human Future under the Impact of ChatGPT (2023)Dystopia: from Smart Revolution to Post-human Future (2022)The Coming of Post-employment Society (2018)Note: These three books, published in Chinese, form the "Smart Revolution Trilogy." They argue that it is not technology, but power and resource distribution which are the keys to the future of human civilization. Buying Brings Changes (2012)Sharing Cities (2014)Open Cooperativism (2017)The Genealogy of Hong Kong in Cinema (2023) Praise for Demotopia: "Undoubtedly, the themes are among my favourite subjects: artificial intelligence, evolution, humanity's sense of belonging, diaspora, and our own experiences and feelings-along with academia and theory. Yet the author is not seeking affirmation or intellectual comfort. Rather, through the form of a novel that accommodatesdiverse characters, and through an ordinary yet far-from-simple structure of dialogue, he invites us to search together for answers to the questions of our time: Who are we?Who will we become?What might we still become? This is an ambitious and profoundly serious novel." - Tsang Sui-ming Philosophy practitioner, Hong Kong diaspora Electromagnetic Print 2026 Vancouver, Musqueam ISBN 978-1-0674077-0-4 Fiction, Political Science 516 pages, soft cover This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. I suggest to you, dear reader, that roses have agency. They select us, seduce us with colour and scent and even the sound of their leaves rustling; with the exciting danger of the thorn. They appeal to our sympathy, vanity, longing, doubt. We give blood. I suggest that we use roses to represent Love because they do what Love does. Love and roses have complicated feeding habits. They feed on us. Love selects its own animals at auction, and you are one of them. You hope! You can expect to be rubbed with salt, soaked underwater, dressed in seasoning, seared. Parts of you will seem to be ruined, burnt, wasted, or chopped off. Why would you resist? I say to you, Beloved, that I'm sorry this story is so hard to tell. I've written letters to you, to bring you round to my way of seeing. There are poems - sometimes the most direct route is not straight. In my gardening logs, I have beaten the metaphor like a blanket. I borrow fairy tales, for reference, and include some of my own journal entries for transparency. From One to an Other. Excerpt: "When you accept, or finally notice, Love's agency in its own creation - and if you believe in the importance of love - then you can be confident about doing anything for Love. You can forgive yourself for saying such stupid, cheesy things to that other person. You see, they were not stupid: you said what love required to be said. It may seem embarrassing now, incomprehensible, but you were just communicating and you let yourself be guided by that force. The guy needed to hear it, for whatever reason, and Love is the ultimate chaperone.Wait, it's not true that you should do "anything" for love: not ALL is fair in love and war, and whoever originally said that was probably trying to promote sympathy for some totally unacceptable action he was planning out of spite, not out of love. Respect must prevail along Love's passage. The thing is, you must allow yourself to be used. One must allow oneself to be acted through; one must allow Love its little game, its large life, and its feeding habits. One must submit to becoming the food of Love, in this life. Why would you resist? Love knows best. You just admitted to believing in the importance of love and kept reading when I suggested Love is its own agent. I further suggest that shows reasonable doubt as to whether you know best, or Love does. And that you are better than passing-keen on Love, too." This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A political science fiction from Hong Kong's Sung Ming Chow, lecturer and activist, recently relocated to Vancouver, Canada; Musqueam. At the University of Brilliant Bastards in V-Port, students arrive from everywhere-and belong nowhere. Some cannot return home. None can find a place for themselves where their academic escape ticket has landed them. The sprawling, distinctive immigrant neighbourhoods of V-Port appear like a time capsule, spilling architecture and society through the 20th century. But Subin, Engle, Dehao, Kongyu and Balala don't see themselves in the relocated communities that originated from their own mother lands. They throw themselves into political theory: lectures, readings, late-night debates, and even virtual dialogues with sages from ancient worlds. In these new lands, they find something unexpected: nurture, relation, and responsibility. They are willing to believe there is a place for them, a promise, here. As old certainties fall away, a fragile question emerges. If a system of democracy could truly work here-among migrants, exiles, and the internally displaced Indigenous-might it work anywhere? Can artificial intelligence help? Set in a city suspended between memories and possibilities, Demotopia is today's story of human becoming-one which insists that, even amid disorientation and loss, even in exile, life will find its way. About the Author: Dr. Sung Ming Chow specializes in sociology and social history. A university lecturer and activist in Hong Kong, he has recently relocated to Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Chow is a member of the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society and also the founding member of C^Mind, a think-and-do tank devoted to cross-cultural collaborations. Their work includes the Chinese translation of "Lexeywa I pass the torch to you," by Beatrice Elaine Silver. It is the first Indigenous memoir of Indian Residential School to be translated into Chinese. Demotopia is his Sung Ming's full-length novel, and first original publication in English. Other titles from Sung Ming Chow: Catastrophe and Reconstruction: Human Future under the Impact of ChatGPT (2023)Dystopia: from Smart Revolution to Post-human Future (2022)The Coming of Post-employment Society (2018)Note: These three books, published in Chinese, form the "Smart Revolution Trilogy." They argue that it is not technology, but power and resource distribution which are the keys to the future of human civilization. Buying Brings Changes (2012)Sharing Cities (2014)Open Cooperativism (2017)The Genealogy of Hong Kong in Cinema (2023) Praise for Demotopia: "Undoubtedly, the themes are among my favourite subjects: artificial intelligence, evolution, humanity's sense of belonging, diaspora, and our own experiences and feelings-along with academia and theory. Yet the author is not seeking affirmation or intellectual comfort. Rather, through the form of a novel that accommodatesdiverse characters, and through an ordinary yet far-from-simple structure of dialogue, he invites us to search together for answers to the questions of our time: Who are we?Who will we become?What might we still become? This is an ambitious and profoundly serious novel." - Tsang Sui-ming Philosophy practitioner, Hong Kong diaspora Electromagnetic Print 2026 Vancouver, Musqueam ISBN 978-1-0674077-0-4 Fiction, Political Science 516 pages, soft cover This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …