The Best China: Essays from Hong Kong Edited by John Minford

**The Best China has been selected in the “Book Jackets and Covers” category for the 2021 Association of University Presses “Book, Jacket, and Journal Show.”** **此書入選2021年國際大學出版社協會書籍設計展的「封面／書衣設計」組別** It represents one of the finest traditions in Chinese culture: the tradition of creativity, of the freedom of thought, freedom of spirit and freedom of the imagination. These are the characteristics of Hong Kong literature. The Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the best chinese tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has characterized the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom. **Book Info** The Best China: Essays from Hong Kong Edited by John Minford Hong Kong Literature Series Series Editor: John Minford ISBN: 9789882371972 Binding: Hardcover Language: English No. of Pages: 368pp Size: 216 x 127 x 23 mm **Editor** / **Series Editor** John Minford is Emeritus Professor of Chinese at The Australian National University and Sin Wai Kin Professor of Chinese Culture and Translation at the Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. https://youtu.be/G6YFppGIfRQ