Hong Kong is one of the world's greatest cities. It will be at the centre of some of the political and intellectual arguments of the century ahead. My own bet is that the success of Hong Kong's pluralist citizenship will come out on top whatever the challenges. Reading many of the contributions [in Hong Kong 20/20] confirms me in that view.

– Chris Patten, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, former Governor of Hong Kong and Chairman of the Independent Commission on Policing for Northern Ireland

Hong Kong 20/20 is a journey, both bleak and invigorating, through one of the world's most extraordinary political experiments twenty years after the handover. It is opinionated, combative, energising, and unlikely to be available in a Xinhua bookstore near you.

– Tom Phillips, China correspondent, The Guardian

Seldom before have so many of the clearest-eyed observers provided such a broad set of essays, poems, short stories and cartoons about Hong Kong's evolution. Anyone passionate about the city's future, or even just curious, should read it.

– Keith Bradsher, Shanghai bureau chief, The New York Times

'Borrowed place, borrowed time' was a phrase coined to describe colonial Hong Kong in the years before its return to China. Now a different clock is ticking, and it is twenty years since the 1997 handover. This collection of stories, poems, essays and cartoons is a vivid stock-taking of where Hong Kong is now, and where it may yet be going. These 'reflections' are themselves a reflection of the people of the city — diverse, spiky, resilient, always surprising, wonderfully talkative.

– Douglas Kerr, professor of English, University of Hong Kong