一毫无疑问,香港是一个国际性大都会(The Global City),但它的“文化身份”至今依然是一个触目的问题。这不仅因为香港一百多年的历史主线是由外来殖民者与本土被殖民者之间的冲突、妥协、抵抗和交融共同书写的,也不单由于它近二十年来社会情势的变化贯穿于“回归”祖国的喜悦与“大限”来临的惶恐之中,更重要的是,在以现 Without a doubt, Hong Kong is an international city, but its “cultural identity” remains a striking issue to this day. This is not only because Hong Kong’s historic main line of more than a hundred years has been co-written by the clashes, compromises, resistances and blending between foreign colonizers and indigenous colonists, and not only because of the social changes that have taken place in the past two decades, “Returning to” the joy of the motherland and the fear of the coming “Great Limit”, and more importantly,