The kind of society I grew up in provided me with the natural soil to adopt integration thinking. […] Many Hong Kong people’s experience of Chinese Confucian culture was positive, and that of British culture not negative, despite its domination through colonial rule. What they experienced was not so much a clash of cultures as their mutuality. Through persistence, creativity, and pragmatism, the men and women of Hong Kong—both Chinese and British—turned what would otherwise be dogmatic antagonism into productive integration.
Joseph Chan
“Notes on the Methods of Philosophical Reconstruction,” 2012
In the end, the inspiration I need
lies in the intrepid belief in my own ideas.
Joseph Chan
Joseph C.W. Chan 