Lee Wei-man, 68, is an amateur astronomer and author of Origin of the Universe, which summarises a lifetime of scientific research and theoretical speculation.
His formal education ended in 1937 after primary school in Guangdong, when Japan invaded southern China. He began his working life as a pen craftsman in China and became a mechanic when he moved to Hong Kong in 1960. But he never let his work or the lack of a formal education interfere with his lifelong passion for astronomy.
New Territories public libraries have agreed to buy his Chinese-language book.
What's on your mind? You can say my mind is at ease after the publication of my book. For a long time, I was worried that all my scientific studies would be wasted when I died because I couldn't find anyone willing to publish my thoughts.
Now I hope a few people will read the book and learn something about astronomy and learn to love Mother Earth.
Is there a relationship between astronomy and environmentalism? If you think a lot about how natural phenomena work, you develop respect for nature. You realise technology shouldn't work against nature, as it does now, but should be in harmony with it. It doesn't take a genius to realise the exploitation of nature by technology is not only destructive but self-destructive for us.
