{"product_id":"demotopia-sung-ming-chow-9781067407704","title":"Demotopia: An exploration of democracy and artificial intelligence","description":"\u003ci\u003eA political science fiction from Hong Kong's Sung Ming Chow, lecturer and activist, recently relocated to Vancouver, Canada; Musqueam.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the University of Brilliant Bastards in V-Port, students arrive from everywhere-and belong nowhere.\u003cbr\u003e Some cannot return home. None can find a place for themselves where their academic escape ticket has landed them.\u003cbr\u003e The sprawling, distinctive immigrant neighbourhoods of V-Port appear like a time capsule, spilling architecture and society through the 20th century. But Subin, Engle, Dehao, Kongyu and Balala don't see themselves in the relocated communities that originated from their own mother lands.\u003cbr\u003e They throw themselves into political theory: lectures, readings, late-night debates, and even virtual dialogues with sages from ancient worlds.\u003cbr\u003e In these new lands, they find something unexpected: nurture, relation, and responsibility. They are willing to believe there is a place for them, a promise, here.\u003cbr\u003e As old certainties fall away, a fragile question emerges. \u003ci\u003eIf a system of democracy could truly work here-among migrants, exiles, and the internally displaced Indigenous-might it work anywhere? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Can artificial intelligence help? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in a city suspended between memories and possibilities, \u003ci\u003eDemotopia\u003c\/i\u003e is today's story of human becoming-one which insists that, even amid disorientation and loss, even in exile, life will find its way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Sung Ming Chow specializes in sociology and social history. A university lecturer and activist in Hong Kong, he has recently relocated to Vancouver, Canada.\u003cbr\u003e Dr. Chow is a member of the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society and also the founding member of C Mind, a think-and-do tank devoted to cross-cultural collaborations.\u003cbr\u003e Their work includes the Chinese translation of \"Lexeywa I pass the torch to you,\" by Beatrice Elaine Silver. It is the first Indigenous memoir of Indian Residential School to be translated into Chinese. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDemotopia\u003c\/i\u003e is his Sung Ming's full-length novel, and first original publication in English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOther titles from Sung Ming Chow: \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCatastrophe and Reconstruction: Human Future under the Impact of ChatGPT (2023)\u003cbr\u003eDystopia: from Smart Revolution to Post-human Future (2022)\u003cbr\u003eThe Coming of Post-employment Society (2018)\u003cbr\u003eNote: These three books, published in Chinese, form the \"Smart Revolution Trilogy.\" They argue that it is not technology, but power and resource distribution which are the keys to the future of human civilization. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBuying Brings Changes (2012)\u003cbr\u003eSharing Cities (2014)\u003cbr\u003eOpen Cooperativism (2017)\u003cbr\u003eThe Genealogy of Hong Kong in Cinema (2023) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDemotopia\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Undoubtedly, the themes are among my favourite subjects: artificial intelligence, evolution, humanity's sense of belonging, diaspora, and our own experiences and feelings-along with academia and theory.\u003cbr\u003e Yet the author is not seeking affirmation or intellectual comfort. Rather, through the form of a novel that accommodates\u003cbr\u003ediverse characters, and through an ordinary yet far-from-simple structure of dialogue, he invites us to search together for answers to the questions of our time: \u003cbr\u003eWho are we?\u003cbr\u003eWho will we become?\u003cbr\u003eWhat might we still become? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is an ambitious and profoundly serious novel.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Tsang Sui-ming\u003cbr\u003e Philosophy practitioner, \u003cbr\u003e Hong Kong diaspora \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Electromagnetic Print 2026\u003cbr\u003e Vancouver, Musqueam\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 978-1-0674077-0-4\u003cbr\u003e Fiction, Political Science\u003cbr\u003e 516 pages, soft cover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sung Ming Chow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1067407707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781067407704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Electromagnetic Print\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 1.15d","brand":"Sung Ming Chow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517190091007,"sku":"9781067407704","price":19.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11347813-de4a-4d74-b555-42436e8e0c67.jpg?v=1778730512","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/demotopia-sung-ming-chow-9781067407704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}