This book aims to study the intellectual lives of three Hong Kong intellectuals by narrating
their lives as self-reflections on theories related to social margins. Drawing on insights from
Paul Ricoeur Hannah Arendt and Zygmunt Bauman the author analyses their narratives through
in-depth interviews. Their stories point to an interpretative understanding of the works they
had cursorily read when creating their historical narrations of Hong Kong from the 1970s to
2003. These stories of individual intellectuals together with their interpretations of what
they have individually read about various western theories challenge theoretical prescriptions
of historical contingent events in their narration. Such narration unfolds
self-characterizations of intellectuals the author interviewed and represents a neglected
social marginal which demands that immediate attention in the public through their intellectual
writings.
