JAMES TAM  谭炳昌

Within a few weeks, I had filled two notebooks with personal observations and anecdotes collected from fellow inmates. They got jailed for many reasons. But behind legal technicality, one underlying cause dominated — money — that prolific mother of all evils accentuated by greed, desperation, or simple bad luck. Without money, Flower Lounge would be a very quiet place. Some stories are over-the-top fantastic, but that doesn’t necessarily make them false or irrelevant.