學者 Ackbar Abbas 在1997年出版《消失的政治》之前，曾臨時地將這本講述香港故事、後來成為他代表作的著作命名為《末代街市》。

「Emporium」（街市，商場或者百貨店）的拉丁語詞根意指一種旅程。這個販賣香料的碼頭，以及它在殖民時期的名稱「東方之珠」，指向著轉瞬即逝，指向著近在咫尺卻又即將離開，指向著主權缺失。《末代街市》交織著不同時空的離散景觀。它攜帶著「變異政體」的碎片，去往其它城市以及未知的將來。它是一系列超出自身的物件，透過信箋的形式進行研究、交流和講述故事。

這些拼湊的漂流物被藏匿在香港、新加坡、深圳、甲萬那端、尼美根、達拉斯的特定位置，等待你或其它人去發現，帶著它們繼續前行。它們是進入《末代街市》文獻與信箋檔案的鑰匙。如果你獲得了密匙，請登錄並繼續它們的旅程。

Before it was published in 1997 as The Politics of Disappearance, scholar Ackbar Abbas had tentatively titled what was to become his seminal work and story of Hong Kong The Last Emporium.

The Emporium is in fact a journey, and the stories of this fragrant harbour, even its colonial moniker as the ‘Pearl of the East’, have always been attached to the ephemeral, to that which nears but that also leaves—to its own non-sovereignty. This manifestation of The Last Emporium thus engages the shores of the diasporic through the flows of affect and economy, carrying the shards of the ‘mutant political entity’ outward to other cities and unknown futures. It is an expanded objecthood of the material—a research, dialogue, and storytelling narrated in the form of the epistolary address.

Collaged vessels have been cached at specific locations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Shenzhen, Cabanatuan City, Nijmegen and Dallas, for you and others to discover and carry forward, and further serving as keys enabling access to the Emporium’s repository of documents and correspondence. If you have a key pass, please log in to continue their journeys.