Kin-ling Tang

★這段人生，究竟是喜是悲？ ★毀滅與混亂過後，是否會迎來重生── ★KAKAO評價滿分、觀看次數破億超人氣韓國小說 曾獨自離開阿格里奇的羅莎娜 為了將一切做個了結， 來到世界樹參加五大家族的和睦會， 並且與傑瑞米重逢。 但這場和睦會果然不如預想中順利， 阿格里奇與海伯里昂頻頻爆發衝突、 加斯東勒不堪的祕密遭揭開、 人偶尼克斯引發不安， 貝爾提烏姆的戰鬥人偶更突然出現， 血染世界樹…… 黑夜終將過去，黎明總會來臨── 在一切毀滅結束之後， 是否有機會重新開始？

★故事走向已無法預測，早已死去之人竟出現在眼前!? ★把妳剩下的時間給我吧。 ★正義化身女主角哥哥╳美艷毒蝶反派女角 ★KAKAO評價滿分、觀看次數破億超人氣韓國小說 離開阿格里奇後倒下的羅莎娜， 被卡西斯救起並帶往費德里安。 而將羅莎娜帶回費德里安的卡西斯， 逐漸壓抑不住想占有她的欲望…… 然而，故事中的其他男主角也接連找上門！ 白之魔獸師奧爾卡莫名入侵費德里安， 對羅莎娜表露出興趣； 黃之首長諾埃爾寄來「邀請函」邀請羅莎娜前往， 更附上一撮熟悉的金髮── 為了確認事情是否正如自己所想， 羅莎娜決定瞞著卡西斯， 獨自前往黃之貝爾提烏姆……

悲劇循環反覆，唯有愛， 是脫離深淵的唯一解藥── 高人氣同名網路漫畫原著小說精彩完結！ 復仇千金╳重生之謎，唯美揪心的浪漫奇幻力作！ 為了親手結束無盡的悲慘輪迴， 希莉絲選擇成為全知全能的大地之王。 豈料與詛咒一同消逝的， 除了欲望與悔恨，還有關於愛人的記憶…… 面對猶如陌生人的伊克西翁，希莉絲不明白， 為何對方眼中的痛苦與深情，會勾動自己的心。 她不禁認為，或許讓對方同樣遺忘自己， 會是對彼此最好的選擇。 然而，即使伊克西翁失去記憶， 潛意識仍一次次將他帶往希莉絲身邊。 刻印在靈魂中的命運不斷牽引著兩人， 在輪迴終結之前，他們能否創造出最後一次幸福結局？

★KAKAO評價滿分、觀看次數破億超人氣韓國小說！ ★正義化身女主角哥哥╳美艷毒蝶反派女角 ★重生穿進19禁小說中，變成反派女角!?不行──我要擺脫死亡結局！ 某天，我還活在現代， 但一睜開眼，竟看到陌生的世界── 不對，這世界有點眼熟…… 這不是我前一世看過的十九禁逆後宮小說的世界嗎？ 還作為其中的反派女配角──羅莎娜重生！ 在原本的故事裡， 羅莎娜出生的家族阿格里奇注定遭到女主角報復而滅門， 起因即是羅莎娜的父親兼阿格里奇的首長， 將女主角的哥哥──卡西斯綁架過來並凌虐致死。 他的死亡將觸發我的死亡…… 為了擺脫死亡結局， 我要使出渾身解數，救下卡西斯！

永滅的理想近在咫尺， 所有情愛註定成為遺憾── 高人氣同名網路漫畫原著小說！ 復仇千金╳重生之謎，唯美揪心的浪漫奇幻力作！ 悲慘人生不斷循環往復， 希莉絲遵從王的遺願，收集王之殘痕， 只為從不幸的輪迴解脫。 然而，希莉絲的心願即將達成， 意味著她與伊克西翁亦將面臨離別…… 眼看希莉絲意圖推開自己， 伊克西翁決定率先坦白心意， 相愛之人終於心意相通， 沒想到緊隨其後的竟是一場毀滅性的風暴── 貴族齊聚的狩獵祭上，變異怪物無預警入侵， 而怪物身上那些閃爍著危險紅光的碎片， 似乎與春之卡利基亞有關…… 為了查明真相，伊克西翁開始著手調查， 卻在嫌疑人當中，發現了他最不願懷疑的人──

只要能再次擁妳入懷， 即使萬劫不復，也甘之如飴── 高人氣同名網路漫畫原著小說！ 復仇千金╳重生之謎，唯美揪心的浪漫奇幻力作！ 詛咒的線索逐步串連， 喚醒了隨時光倒流而埋葬的過往。 每找回一段記憶，都讓伊克西翁更加確信， 他和希莉絲之間有著非比尋常的羈絆。 然而，同樣追逐著前世幻影的覬覦者， 卻在此時來到希莉絲身旁…… 出於無法解釋的直覺， 克里斯蒂安深信希莉絲註定屬於自己。 他無法忍受她對他不屑一顧， 反而與其他男人形影不離。 有生以來第一次，克里斯蒂安放棄無害的偽裝， 將獠牙指向四大家族之首的貝勒傑特家主， 而取代對方的第一步，便是奪下冬之帕爾韋農……

錯過的宿命迎來全新輪迴， 妄圖竊取命運者，必將付出代價── 高人氣同名網路漫畫原著小說！ 復仇千金╳重生之謎，唯美揪心的浪漫奇幻力作！ 作為四大家族之首的家主， 很少事物能真正在伊克西翁心中停留。 可是，理應算初識的春之伊諾亞登新家主希莉絲， 卻讓他的內心震盪不已， 彷彿靈魂在叫囂著就是她、他必須留下她。 伊克西翁無法解釋這份焦灼心情， 只能刻意接近希莉絲，強行讓彼此產生交集。 從四季之森的禁地探索， 到暗潮洶湧的王宮晚宴， 伊克西翁不遺餘力地協助希莉絲， 只為解開她身上的重重謎團。 孰料，他的行動成為命運的最後一塊拼圖， 使得塵封千年的古老詛咒重見天日……

凋零的玫瑰再度綻放， 這次重生，她將只為自己而活── 高人氣同名網路漫畫原著小說！ 復仇千金╳重生之謎，唯美揪心的浪漫奇幻力作！ 一直以來遭受家族厭棄的希莉絲， 第一次被哥哥正眼對待， 卻是要她替毫無血緣關係的繼妹赴死。 不斷重生卻不斷重複悽慘命運的希莉絲， 最後一絲希冀終於徹底破滅，就這樣迎來第七次死亡。 ──而她一睜眼，又回到了力量覺醒的那一天。 殘酷的父親、偽善的兄長、自私的繼妹， 還有把感情當作籌碼的假面未婚夫， 她對他們的所有期盼和奉獻， 只換得一遍遍被推入死亡深淵。 這一次重生，就輪到希莉絲先一步拋棄所有人── 然而，在新輪迴中理應回歸陌路的那名男子， 卻帶著似曾相識的執著目光，對她緊追不捨……

Tang Chun-I Lecture Series The Tang Chun-I Lecture Series is based on lectures and seminars delivered by distinguished scholars who are holding the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This professorship was initiated in 2003 by the Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in memory of the late Professor Tang Chun-I (1909-1978), a major figure in 20th century Chinese philosophy and the first Chair Professor of the Department of Philosophy. In Res Publica, Günter Zöller offers a concise and perceptive analysis of the influence that Plato’s Pepublic had on the political thought of three leading German philosophers rarely discussed together—Kant, Hegel and Fichte. He investigates how these three thinkers engaged with one of the founding texts of Western political philosophy to offer their particular interpretations of the forms and norms of the political organization known as the "commonwealth" or res publica. Professor Zöller c

This book is the second in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts. Looted in 1942 from the Warring States-period Chu tomb at Zidanku, Changsha, the manuscripts date to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BCE and are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. The monograph represents the culmination of almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. Volume One addresses the circumstances of the discovery of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts and the subsequent provenance history in China and the United States. Volume Two provides the first complete transcription of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts in their entirety together with reproductions of the original manuscripts. The transcription is accompanied by comprehensive annotations, with full paleographic and philological analysis of the texts. An English translation of the texts has been added by Professor Donald Harper. For the first time, the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts can

The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. Dating to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several texts concerning basic cosmological concepts, including one manuscript (Manuscript 1) with a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what is known from transmitted texts. This is the first in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. While the philological study and translation of the manuscript texts is the subject of Volume Two, this first volume presents the archaeological context and history of transmission of the physical manuscripts. It records how they were taken from their original place of interment in the 1940s and taken to the United States in

The Politics of Higher Education: The Imperial University in Northern Song China uses the history of the Imperial University of the Northern Song to show the limits of the Song emperors’ powers. At the time, the university played an increasingly dominant role in selecting government officials. This role somehow curtailed the authority of the Song emperors, who did not possess absolute power and, more often than not, found their actions to be constrained by the institution. The nomination mechanism left room for political maneuvering and stakeholders—from emperors to scholar-officials—tried to influence the process. Hence, power struggles among successive emperors trying to assert their imperial authority ensued. Demands for greater autonomy by officials were, for example, unceasing. Chu Ming-kin shows that the road to autocracy was anything but linear. In fact, during the Northern Song dynasty, competition and compromises over diverse agendas constantly altered the political landscape

The Assassin tells the story of a swordswoman who refrains from killing. Hou Hsiao-hsien astonishes his audience once again by upsetting almost every convention of the wuxia (martial arts) genre in the film. This collection offers eleven readings, each as original and thought-provoking as the film itself, beginning with one given by the director himself. Contributors analyze the elliptical way of storytelling, Hou’s adaptation of the source text (a tale from the Tang dynasty, also included in this volume), the film’s appropriation of traditional Chinese visual aesthetics, as well as the concept of xia (knight-errant) that is embedded in Confucian, Daoist, and Buddhist worldviews. There are also discussions of the much-celebrated sonic design of The Assassin: the nearly exclusive use of a diegetic film score is a statement on the director’s belief in cinematic reality. Underlying all the chapters is a focus on how Hou reinvents Tang-dynasty China in contemporary culture. The meticulous

Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang Dynasty. A Song dynasty critic once described Li He’s poetry as written in the “language of a demonic immortal” and filled with hallucinatory evocations of goddesses, beautiful courtesans, Buddhist visions, drunken nights, and corruption. As the scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes, “Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for our disconcerting times.” Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Keats. In the crystalline translations by the noted scholar J. D. Frodsham, the 1983 edition of this book has been out of print for decades.

The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the empires of the Tang and the Song dynasties. Breaking with previous scholarship on China's middle period, this edited volume presents individual studies that focus on the art, culture, and politics of the interregnum, challenging underlying assumptions about the unitary nature of dynastic culture and its value as a category of historical analysis. It understands these decades as a time of important transition in which the incipient cultural shifts of the mature Tang dynasty turned into the foundations of Song society. Consequently it highlights the complex narrative processes that gave birth to Song culture.

《我和我的火車和你》是收藏於《WORDS & THE WORLD詞與世界》盒裝叢書裡，此叢書由二十本袖珍版詩選組成，分別收錄來自二十位國際著名詩人的精選作品。

她寫／她畫 小說家 李維菁 ╳ 插畫家 Soupy Tang 最具文學性／藝術風格的大人故事繪本 一本屬於大人的故事繪本 一份送給自己的美好禮物 單身女子 忙碌工作 沒有烹飪天份 空蕩蕩的冰箱 冷凍食品 從週一到周日 一天一盒 是害怕一個人捧著碗？ 食物愈精緻面對空蕩蕩的小公寓愈孤單？ 小說家李維菁筆下的都會單身女子 纖細、敏感、寂寞、疏離 插畫家Soupy Tang的插畫 細緻、療癒、舒服、不膩 便利商店 罐頭 貓 女人 大人故事繪本 一場文學與藝術的優雅相遇 本書特色 1. 「大人國」書系首創他／她寫、他／她畫，結合知名作家與插畫家，共同創作一系列具文學性且繪畫風格多元的短篇故事繪本。 2. 小說家 李維菁 ╳ 插畫家 Soupy Tang首度跨界合作，推出全新精緻繪本故事《罐頭》，描述單身女子和她的便利商店。 3. 硬殼精裝書封設計，使用高級進口紙全彩印刷，書衣以特殊燙金處理，搭配素雅描圖紙腰帶，整體典雅精緻，值得珍藏。 4. 「大人國」書系未來將陸續推出吉本芭娜娜、村上春樹、安西水丸……等國際知名作家插畫家聯袂創作的短篇故事繪本。

The Jews first arrived in China during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD) and settled as businessmen, civil servants and professionals. They assimilated into Chinese society and lost their Jewish character. The next wave came in the mid-19th century with the opening of the treaty ports and settled in Shanghai. They went into trading, especially opium, and diversified into property, manufacturing, finance, public transport and retail. Another Jewish community settled in Harbin after the opening of the China Eastern Railway in 1903. They also prospered in trading and business. Both communities built synagogues, schools, social clubs and welfare institutions. During World War Two, 25,000 Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe took refuge in Shanghai, one of the few cities in the world open to them. Many received visas from Asian diplomats who defied their governments to issue them. The Japanese military refused the Nazi demand to carry out ‘the final solution’ of the Jews in Shanghai. After 1945, infl

．精選101首家傳戶曉唐宋詞，以創新手法翻譯為英語。 ．按原詞韻律押韻，保留神韻，鏗鏘和諧。 ．腳註解釋人名、地名、傳說、典故、隱喻及背，便於理解欣賞。

Le protagoniste Léo a une cicatrice chéloïde qui le dérange. Les cicatrices chéloïdes sont causés par une prolifération anormale, et peuvent faire mal et démanger. Elles peuvent être traité par l’injection de stéroïde, l’application des produits cicatrisants, et le port de vêtements compressifs. Léo n’aime pas M. Crabe qui ressemble aux cicatrices chéloïdes. Pourtant, grâce au « Temperature Reading », une approche psychologique de Virginia Satir, Léo apprend à bien s’entendre avec M. Crabe, à s’exprimer, à se connecter au soi et aux autres, et à soigner sa cicatrice chéloïde.

This historical fiction is based on the true story of Li Shimin (also known as Tang Taizong), the greatest sovereign in Chinese history. About 30 years younger than Muhammad, he grew up in a world of devastating upheaval that tore China asunder and was thrust into the role of a military commander in his father’s rebel army while still a teenager. In the process of vanquishing his enemies on the battlefield, he proved himself to be a great military genius. As emperor he encouraged critical suggestions by his court officials, which he often adopted, and lent support to the religions of his day, notably, Buddhism, Daoism, and Christianity. The international prestige he had won for Tang China was so high that the states of Central and North Asia honored him with the title of “Heavenly Khan.” Although his father founded the dynasty, it was his reign that laid the groundwork for a brilliant empire that was to endure for centuries. 本書根據史實，描述唐太宗李世民透過一場場的征戰，消滅敵軍，開疆闢土；同時鼓勵諫言，包容不同宗教，進而成就唐代偉大盛世

本書一開始先介紹電漿微觀動力模式、電子－正離子雙流體模式、與單流體電漿模式的基本方程式。接著介紹電子－正離子雙流體電漿與磁流體電漿中的線性波色散關係式。並於本書後段介紹電漿微觀動力模式中的線性波色散關係式。因為認識帶電粒子在相空間中的運動軌跡，將有助於了解電漿微觀動力模式中，波與粒子的交互作用，因此在介紹電漿微觀動力模式的線性波色散關係前，本書將先介紹如何分析帶電粒子在不同電磁場環境中，所可能出現的多重時間尺度的運動情形。

With an increasing concern of personal data privacy in Hong Kong and around the world, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (PCPD), Hong Kong publishes this third edition of Personal Data (Privacy) Law in Hong Kong: A Practical Guide on Compliance to provide practical guidance on the law of privacy, and the ways to protect personal data in everyday life. This third edition will guide readers through the recent developments of personal data privacy in the local, regional and global contexts with updates on recent Administrative Appeals Board and Court decisions, and investigation reports and materials from the PCPD. In addition, some most-concerned issues are discussed, such as ethical development and use of AI, the collection and use of personal data by employers during COVID-19, data protection under work-from-home arrangements, data security measures for ICT systems, guidelines on doxxing offences and data breach handling. This book will certainly provide read

本書主要研究中國的國家治理，總結了中國政府近些年的管理經驗，並將其理論化，以期為世界範圍內的社會治理做出特有的貢獻。本稿提到的中國管理經驗範圍較廣，包括中國農村地區的科技傳播與大眾意識的改變、中國的大型科技工程戰略的實施、大灣區（珠三角地區）的製造業發展科技創新、複雜和高風險疫情下中國的科技創新和公眾意識、中國的新基建與技術革命的關係、中國超大人口和人工智能發展之下的複雜政府管理經驗等。本書還通過論證《孫子兵法》中的科學意識和複雜系統理論、中國傳統的“無為而治”管理思想中的大眾認知和自我管理意識等，對這些經驗做了理論提升，希望將中國傳統文化中的社會管理思想加以理論化、科學化，從而使其走出國門、走向世界。總之，本書稿將向世界展現中國國家治理中處理超複雜問題的能力、中國科技創新和治理經驗的完美結合，以及中國深厚的傳統思想對現代治理的突出貢獻。

In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways in which the mass media—from photography and film to television and live streaming—has been deployed as a tool for controlling medicine and health, privileging those with power and authority from the early twentieth century to the present. Adopting anti-colonial and anti-capitalist perspectives, the contributors in this volume challenge the dominant mediations of health against the backdrop of imperialism, Cold War geopolitical tensions, and neoliberal capitalism. Collectively, they advocate for alternative understandings of medical culture through media productions that envision accessible and equitable healthcare practices.

Mindfulness and meditation, practices that are rooted in Buddhism, have become mainstream treatments in counseling and psychotherapy that provide evidence of successful outcomes among secular clients. However, for clients from non-Western backgrounds, dissociating mindfulness practice from the core Buddhist teachings can dilute the transformative power of these practices, causing cultural confusion and lowering the effectiveness of treatment. This book is the first to present Early Buddhist Teachings as a theoretical orientation for the millions of individuals affiliated with Buddhism to create a culturally congruent counseling model. Using original sources in Pāli, it explores key Buddhist concepts such as dependent co-arising, non-self, impermanence, and many others. The authors then compare them with Western psychological concepts, furthering ongoing dialogue between Buddhism and psychotherapy and fostering powerful integrations. This volume also demonstrates how to use the Buddhi

The Dragon King below the Jing River defied the orders of the Jade God of the Heavens and was executed. His ghost resented the Tang Emperor Taizong for not saving him, and dragged the Emperor to the Underworld. What would the Emperor see in the Underworld? Was he able to return to life? My Favourite Chinese Stories is a collection of three Chinese stories specially selected and retold in English for young readers. The first story is from Chinese mythology, while the other two are from classical Chinese literature. They are widely known to the Chinese people, and reflect, in varying degrees, some of the essential characteristics of Chinese culture. Each story is accompanied by beautiful full-colour illustrations drawn by Lo King-man as well as audio narration by the author Pamela Youde.

原來不屬活躍地震帶的香港，一直都有地震？ 位於香港島山頂和半山區的居民，其實正使用來自新界的食水？ 我們每天的用水到底又從何來呢？ 一道道問題，水知道但水不說，不如由本書告訴你。 《唯水是問》是一本有關香港水務的解答之書，除了重點介紹自香港開埠至日佔時期的本地水務開拓者和重要發展，亦從古今水務設施講解食水供應過程的種種由來，並挖掘出香港水務鮮為人知的奇觀異事，配上精美圖畫和豐富的古今圖片，從而將隱於歷史洪流的水務軼聞，整合成你我息息相關的香港故事。

This is the first collection of essays in English, contributed by well-known experts of Chinese literature as well as scholars of a younger generation, dedicated to the poetry of Du Fu, commonly regarded as the greatest Chinese poet. These essays are engaged in historically nuanced close reading of Du Fu’s poems, both canonical and less known, from new angles and in various contexts, and discuss a series of critical issues, including the local and the imperial; the body politic and the individual body; poetry and geography; perspectives on the complicated relation of religion and literature; materiality and contemporary reception of Du Fu; poetry and visual art; and tradition and modernity. Many of the poems discussed in this book were written in the backwater town of Kuizhou, far from Du Fu’s earlier residence in the capital city Chang’an, at a time when the Tang dynasty was going through devastating social and political disturbances. The authors contend that Du Fu’s isolation from

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting provides a comprehensive coverage of the broad spectrum of Chinese painting. Through an array of some 900 terms, it exhibits the history of Chinese culture, as interpreted by artists and portrayed in their work. In masterful detail, it describes not only the artistic implements and drawing styles, but also how these are influenced by changing cultural considerations over time such as religion, philosophy, intellectual ideas, and political developments. From the broad view of how the change of dynasties affected painting trends in both format and subject, to the smallest detail of the methods used to paint different styles of tree branches, this is a full compendium of the scope and depth of artwork from China. This volume features twelve chapters which • explore all major areas of art including techniques, implements and materials, inscriptions and seals, painting and mounting formats for all categories including landscape, bird-and-flower, figure

The Confucian revival which manifests itself in the Modern Confucian current, belongs to the most important streams of thought in contemporary Chinese philosophy. The Rebirth of the Moral Self introduces this stream of thought by focusing on the second generation Modern Confucians— Mou Zongsan, Tang Junyi, Xu Fuguan and Fang Dongmei. These scholars argue that traditional Confucianism, as a specifically Chinese social, political, and moral system of thought can, if adapted to the modern era, serve as the foundation for an ethically meaningful modern life. In this most timely monograph, Jana S. Rošker is visionary in anticipating the role Confucianism might serve as a world resource in reshaping a newly emerging cultural order for our own time and place. She brings the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the philosophical contributions of the second generation of Modern Confucians into clearer focus, and documents the inspiration their discourses have given contemporary scholars eng

Learning to Emulate the Wise is the first book of a three-volume series that constructs a historically informed, multidisciplinary framework to examine how traditional Chinese knowledge systems and grammars of knowledge construction interacted with Western paradigms in the formation and development of modern academic disciplines in China. Within this volume, John Makeham and several other noted sinologists and philosophers explore how the field of "Chinese philosophy" (Zhongguo Zhexue) was born and developed in the early decades of the twentieth century, examining its growth and relationship with European, American, and Japanese scholarship and philosophy. The work discusses an array of representative institutions and individuals, including FengYoulan, Fu Sinian, Hu Shi, Jin Yuelin, Liang Shuming, Nishi Amane, Tang Yongtong, Xiong Shili, Zhang Taiyan, and a range of Marxist philosophers. The epilogue discusses the intellectual-historical significance of these figures and throws into

Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural ‘attitude’. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how male writers, as they critique the outcomes of decades of market reform, also ask the same question: how best to be a man in the new postsocialist order? In this first full-length discussion of masculinity in post-1989 Chinese literature, Pamela Hunt offers a detailed analysis of four contemporary authors in particular: Zhu Wen, Feng Tang, Xu Zechen, and Han Han. In a series of insightful readings, she explores how all four writers show the same preoccupation with the figure of the man on the edges of society. Drawing on longstanding Chinese and global models of maverick and marginal masculinity, and responding to a desire to retain

“Tu Fu is ... the greatest non-epic, non-dramatic poet who has survived in any language.”—Kenneth Rexroth The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the “first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.” He merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of friendship, from closely observed landscapes to remembered dreams, from the evocation of historical moments to the wry lament over his own thinning hair. Although Tu Fu has often been translated, and often brilliantly, David Hawkes’ classic study, first published in 1967, is the only book that demonstrates in depth how his poems were written. Hawkes presents thirty-five poems in the original Chinese, with a pinyin transliteration, a character-by-character translation, and a commentary on the subject, the form, the historical background, and the individual lines. There is no other book qui

When Liu Bang, the eponymous protagonist of this novel, set out to conquer all under Heaven, he was already 47 years old. A medium-built, foul-mouthed peasant with a reputation as a ne’er-do-well, a womanizer, and a drunkard, who, though literate, never cared much about literature, he seemed to have a slim chance at success at a time when all the heroes in the realm contended for power and dominance. Against all odds, he defeated his rivals to found the Han dynasty, and quelled the numerous rebellions that challenged his rule. 本書以史實與故事兼容之手法，描述歷史人物劉邦以平民出身，卻能扭轉情勢爭奪天下的經過。 好評推薦 Praises for Heavenly Khan: An engrossing fictionalized history that examines an ingenious and powerful Chinese ruler.--Kirkus Reviews A new historical legend to stand alongside Alexander the Great and Napoleon.--San Francisco Book Review A deftly written and truly riveting work from beginning to end, Heavenly Khan: A Biography of Emperor Tang Taizong is an extraordinary and solidly entertaining story