The title of this series borrows the title of a collection of interviews with the eminent Confucian scholar, Liang Shuming, Will Things Ever Get Better?. The Acrobat Series, and the Animal Series, of which the collection consists, probe into the “predicament” confronted by our humanity. The Acrobat Series is a metaphor for human’s social character – each of us is required to play our own role, as our condition is given in terms of relationships within a power structure. The Animal Series, on the other hand, is a metaphor for human’s natural character – the instinctive and caring side of human nature. In other words, the Acrobat Series is a metaphor for the social and exterior façade of human nature; and the Animal Series is a metaphor for the internal aspect of human nature that is masked by our social identity – true redemption of human nature lies therein.