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New Release DiscountWe are pleased to offer a 20% discount at CUP website for Posters of 798, on or before 30 September, 2025千禧年伊始，幾個藝術家和畫廊進駐北京東北部廢舊閒置的798廠房，發起「再造798」 等一系列藝術活動，推動了中國當代藝術公共化、市場化的進程。短短數年間，吸引了大批藝術家和畫廊經營者進駐798，使其迅速蛻變為成國際矚目的文化創意產業園，在2008年北京奧運會期間達到發展頂峰。在經歷狂飆式發展和國際金融危機後，2012年後的中國藝術市場逐漸衰退。期間798也發生了歷史性的轉變，成為北京新地標。可以說，北京798藝術區見證了中國當代藝術從突飛猛進式發展，到市場衰退的全過程。本書彙集798黃金十年間（2002–2012）六十餘家藝術機構的近千張活動海報，作者亦對十六位藝術家、策展人和畫廊經營者進行深入訪談，提供了這段歷史的珍貴圖像與口述見證。The 798 Art District, born out of the repurposing of abandoned factory buildings in northeastern Beijing, became a symbol of China’s booming contemporary art scene in the early twenty-first century. Initiatives such as “Reconstruction 798” spurred the development of the art district, creating a public, market-driven hub of contemporary art that reached its zenith around the time of 2008 Beijing Olympics. This book documents 798’s remarkable pioneering decade between 2002 and 2012, capturing the art district’s heyday, as well as its subsequent decl

全書設兩大部分：・【最後的話別】作者啟程細說殯葬禮儀師工作中親歷的個案故事・【概說身後事】有關殯儀習俗、行業操作、相關社會現象及感受***直至生命盡頭，領悟永不嫌晚。人生本來就是無常；離別的因由，亦往往不是表面所看的直接簡單。作為殯葬工作者，為先人安排處理好後事外，還得顧及並體會主家心念所想。在最後的道別過程中，本書作者啟程曾遇見並經歷以下種種事況──・陪伴悲慟心痛的年輕媽媽送別早夭的兒子・直至蓋棺一刻都關心家屬對先人的未了心事・協助孝心女兒為愛美的老媽打造最漂亮的靈堂與石碑照片・給客戶解說「雙層棺材」與「灰位劏房」等種種千奇百怪之陰宅迷思・回答與修正那些A I無法說準的喪事疑問・絞盡腦汁構思主家所認為「死亡並不存在」的另類後事安排・解決懷疑因封神位而招來先人以外靈體之求助個案・達成主人疼惜愛寵猶如家人的葬禮心願禮成之後，對先人的思念當然不等如就此輕易放下。悼念往生者的最大意義，當是讓尚在世間的人們從中覺悟，明白如何——繼續好好處世，好好生活下去。***「有說『萬事皆空』，是否就可以一切隨緣？這方面沒有一個絕對準則，畢竟人生向來都是自身的演繹。民族英雄文天祥的說法是：『存心時時可死，行事步步求生。』這個處世方針當然合理。然而，筆者更喜歡的是馬克吐溫（Mark Twain）的名言：『人生中最重要的日子，是出生和找到生存意義的那天。』（"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."）筆者也想補充以下一句──Never too late to find it out till the last day of your life.」──啟程KC／本書作者

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