Approximation Algorithms and Semidefinite Programming

Decision Making and Operations Research Techniques for Construction Management challenges the traditional empirical approach to problem solving and provides construction practitioners with a seasoned account to resolving day-to-day complicated issues in construction project management. With over 150,000 workers at different levels working at dispersed project sites throughout the territory, construction managers have to look for optimal solutions to minimize the costs and to maximize the efficiencies. This book provides scientific tools for practitioners to resolve some practical problems which are administered empirically at present and may lead to inconsistent results and human errors. The modern decision-making tools introduced in this book include Multi-criteria Decision-making Models, Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithms, Construction Simulation, Rough Set Theory and Advanced Statistical Techniques for construction. This book will serve as a useful companion for those m

Collected and Curated introduces Chinese art and material culture through the items from the permanent collection of The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong. As the oldest continuously operating museum in Hong Kong, UMAG serves as a significant venue for contemporary art exhibitions, and excels at collecting, documenting and teaching about local and regional artists and art forms, while fostering ongoing and new relationships. Regarded as an essential teaching resource, UMAG has expanded its collection and programming through generous donations from patrons and artists, along with support from the University of Hong Kong and the HKU Museum Society. Since 1953, curators and educators have leveraged this assistance to expand, display and teach with a collection that highlights artefacts ranging from Neolithic cultures (ca. 6500 BCE–ca. 1900 BCE) to the early kingdoms and dynasties of imperial China (ca. 1500 BCE–1911). UMAG has also gained a reputation f

電影除了在屏幕上的再現外，還有甚麼可能性？在數碼年代，電影與人工智能的關係是甚麼？本書回顧橫跨十三年的媒體藝術展覽CINEMA 2.0，展示電影作為思考與策展的方法。此展覽項目由媒體藝術家葉旭耀及策展人范可琪共同策劃，多年來嘗試探索當代科技與媒體文化，包括監控、演算法、後人類及遊戲等各種議題。 此書不單是展覽的紀錄，更試圖重溯電影，告別固有的概念，以跨學科及媒體考古學等方式重新探索電影與科技文化的關係。書中除了珍貴的展覽文獻，亦有重要的媒體藝術家邵志飛及羅海德等撰寫專文，擴展我們對當代文化的思考，同時引領我們走進新媒體藝術的世界。 Contemplating cinema beyond its traditional screen-based form, what other possibilities are there for cinema? In the digital age, what is the relationship between cinema, artificial intelligence, and algorithms? This book reviews the 13-year media art exhibition CINEMA 2.0, which showcases cinema as a method of thinking and curating. The exhibition, co-curated by media artist Ip Yuk Yiu and media art curator Kattie Fan, has covered key issues in contemporary technology and media culture, such as surveillance, algorithms, posthumanism and games. This book serves as more than a mere documentation of the exhibitions. It attempts to retrace cinema, bidding farewell to fixed concepts and exploring the relationships be

這本書不僅可以提高對字串比對問題的了解，也可以增加對演算法的修養。 這本書是介紹「字串比對」(String Matching) 的演算法。 假如我們有一篇有關二次世界大戰的文章，想要查詢 “希特勒” 這個名詞有沒有出現在這篇文章裡。如果有出現，那麼這串文字出現在文章何處？ ──這就是所謂字串比對的問題。 這本書介紹很多解決此問題的演算法，對於軟體工程師來說，這本書不僅可以提高對字串比對問題的了解，也可以增加對演算法的修養。

Build School創辦人暨執行長 吳典璋╱資策會資深講師 王淳平、林俊昌、蘇國鈞 聯合推薦! *增訂版，含微軟Introduction to Programming using HTML and CSS(MTA 98-383)國際認證模擬試題。 *快速上手網頁語法：使用大量範例輔助初學者學習HTML5與CSS，使初學者快速進入網頁開發領域。 *CSS3排版與動畫設計：以實際豐富的案例介紹CSS3特效、排版與動畫技巧。 *訓練JavaScript：從零開始學習JavaScript、由變數宣告、選擇結構、重複結構、陣列到函式，沒有艱澀的專業用詞，讓初學者不在害怕程式設計。 *jQuery互動應用：透過jQuery函式快速選擇元素進行互動、選取表單資料、呼叫動畫函式與替換樣式，打造酷炫的互動網頁。 *RWD響應式網頁：以全新的Bootstrap 4元件建立行動優先的跨平台網頁。 *跨平台行動網頁：建置支援ios,Android,Windows Phone的行動網頁。 *跨平台App設計：使用jQueryMobile與Cordova建製原生Android App，並部署到手機實機上。 *全端應用：整合前端Bootstrap與後端ASP.NET MVC，建製擁有CRUD功能的員工系統。

★ Amazon Best Seller No.1 ★《Excel Power Programming with VBA》被國外讀者喻為「經典權威」，造就無數工程師與職場相關工作者， 是每個學習VBA的人都要看的重量級巨作。 ★本書以最新修訂內容編製成國際中文版，全書經過再次審校，絕對是專業而實用的參考教本！ 架構嚴謹從函式入門、圖表設計、應用程式到表單開發 具系統性、標竿學習、傳承教學典範的EXCEL VBA著作 範例剖析、延伸運用以及技巧提點，不藏私傾囊相授 本書學習者為中心，摒棄華而不實的、冗長的解釋，呈現實用的示例、注意事項和訣竅，提供大量程式碼和示例範本，幫助你從資料分析人員蛻變為Excel程式設計專家。 Part I Excel VBA基礎知識 第I 部分介紹Excel VBA，為建立和管理Excel 子常式和函數提供程式設計基礎知識。第 1 章全面介紹Excel 應用開發方面的各種概念。第 2 章到第 6 章討論在進行VBA 程式設計時需要了解的各種知識。第 7 章則列舉許多有用的範例助你記起前面所學的VBA 知識。 Part II 進階VBA技術 第Ⅱ部分涵蓋一些VBA 進階程式設計技術。第 8 章和第 9 章討論如何使用VBA 來處理樞紐分析表和圖表（包括走勢圖）。第 10 章討論在與其他應用程式（如Word 和Outlook）互動時所採用的各種技術。第11 章介紹如何處理文件和外部資料來源。 Part III 操作使用者表單 該部分的 4 章內容主要介紹自訂對話盒（也稱為使用者表單）。第 12 章介紹建立自訂使用者表單的一些內建方法。第 13 章介紹使用者表單以及可供使用的各種控制項。第 14 章和第 15 章則列舉從基本到進階的自訂對話盒的大量範例。 Part IV 開發Excel應用程式 該部分講述建立導向使用者的應用程式的重要內容。第 16 章教你建立增益集。第 17 章和第 18 章討論如何修改Excel 的功能區和快速選單。第 19 章介紹向應用程式提供線上說明的幾種不同方法。第 20 章展示如何開發導向使用者的應用程式。第 21 章探討在進行Excel VBA程式設計時與相容性相關的一些資訊。 附錄 V VBA語句和函數 附錄是一份參考指南，列出作為VBA 中關鍵字的所有語句和函數。 適用

Travels and Revelations: 23 Essays by Zhang Chengzhi is about cultures which the author knows intimately. With sophisticated sensibility, he describes the tangible cultures of Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang in recent decades – the landscapes and cityscapes, the roads and waterways, the rural and urban dwellings, the working and living habits, and the outstanding symbols and totems. Like a traveller pausing before stunning scenery – the Mongolian grasslands, the yellow-earth plateaus, the Yellow River’s mighty gorges – he reflects on the intangible cultures that have made the Han, the Hui, the Mongolian and the Uyghur peoples who they are, and contemplates on their language usages, socio-political dilemmas, philosophical traditions, beliefs and biases and their religious aspirations. These essays show how deeply Zhang Chengzhi understands modern China’s painful evolution through war and revolution and how deeply he is attached to his Hui–Muslim roots. They also

On China-UK Relations has selected 117 speeches from over 700 Liu Xiaoming, Former Chinese Ambassador to UK, had delivered during his 11-year tenure in the UK. The contents spans multiple dimensions: China-UK relations, party and parliamentary exchanges, economic and trade relations, financial cooperation, science and technology coopera tion, ecological and environmental protection, subnational exchanges, cultural exchanges, spring festival celebrations, educational exchange, Confucius institutes, military exchanges, Chinese community, British friends, and understanding between China and the UK. This book contains Liu Xiaoming’s observations and reflections on China-UK relations: What kind of China-UK relationship do we need? How to develop stable and mutually beneficial China-UK relations? And how to enhance mutual understanding and recognition between China and the UK? More chapters are dedicated to introducing exchanges and cooperation in various fields between China and the UK.

In A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997, Florence Mok, Fung Chi Keung Charles, and other contributors analyse newly released archival records from the National Archives in London, the Government Records Service in Hong Kong, and other sources across the world. This documentary collection provides an updated and improved understanding of basic aspects of the city such as governance, economy, society, and culture. It also aims at investigating topics that are under-exploited in previous sourcebooks, such as race and diasporas, gender and familial relations, medicine and healthcare, and environment and natural disasters. Overall, this book offers an innovative and comprehensive long-term perspective of Hong Kong’s colonial history.

高效團隊的祕密，不在管理，而是「心理安全感」 5000＋高階主管的私人溝通表達教練羅建仁親解 獨家L.E.A.D.溝通技法＋NLP神經語言學心法 帶你打造卓越團隊，有效溝通、贏得人心！ 組織裡，我們每天都在溝通，為什麼還要學？ 以下場景，是否似曾相識？ 「你怎麼這連這個也不知道！」主管一提問就像在「質問」… 「是喔，但我不這麼認為！」下屬凡事唱反調，把「可是」當發語詞… 溝通就像是喝水，我們每天都在喝，但有時還是會被水嗆到。如果你的生活、職場，充滿這樣的情緒對話與無效溝通，或者主管氣場太強，開會現場總是現場空氣突然安靜──王牌溝通表達教練羅建仁 : 學好溝通，意味如果某天我們不小心被嗆到，自身就能撫平心情、繼續喝水。 讓羅老師揭開蘋果賈伯斯和矽谷教練比爾．坎貝爾，讓人願意追隨的「溝通」技巧；從皮克斯到谷歌頂尖團隊，如何以「高心理安全感」發揮創造力。 ●本書教你： 用NLP心法，讓對方願意接受我們的帶領； 學「L.E.A.D.」四大溝通技法，強化我們的帶領技巧。 ●你將學會： 傾聽（Listen）， 如何積極傾聽，還懂得回應，進一步建立自己的傾聽系統。 同理（Empathy）， 看穿口是心非，那些爭執背後沒說出口的情緒，與人連結。 提問（Ask）， 以提問取代命令，正確的提問心態，可引導對方自行改變。 指導（Direct）， 說真話、真心回饋與肯定，用建設性批評讓團隊破繭而出！ 領導者的最大挑戰，就是自己的盲點，這本書將帶領你進行有效自我覺察，真正啟動改變，帶領團隊邁向卓越。 ─本書特色─ 1.商周CEO學院明星講師分享 商周CEO學院「駐足思考 ®」合作10年課程講師，是華人區極少數結合MBA和NLP神經語言學背景之專業講師，台積電15年主管溝通表達課程講師。 2.以NLP學理，輔以獨家L.E.A.D.溝通系統 源自神經語言學（Neuro Linguistic Programming，NLP）的心法，透過Listen（傾聽）、Empathy（同理）、Ask（提問）、Direct（指導）4個溝通技巧，改變組織氣氛。 3.職場贏家的溝通表達能力先修班 為了讓學員課後有使用，課程所教才有用，針對L.E.A.D.溝通技巧，特別提供16篇的「小試身手」，以實際演練重點提醒，將書中所學應用在工作上，進而提升組織能力。 ─專文推薦─ 商周集團執

✧「傾聽」是讓人際相處更美好的最佳手段✧ ～日本國家資格職涯發展諮商師親撰～ 希望可以跟別人建立更深的關係？就是這本！ 【本書特色】 ◎人際心理講師教你好好觀察、好好聆聽、好好表達，好感關係由自己創造！ ◎7章零壓力好感傾聽分類✕100點人際傾聽要點，重點敘述條理分明超易讀！ ◎囊括基本傾聽要點與職場人際、咄咄逼人對象應對法則，傾聽就是「以守為攻」！ 「好希望可以透過談話，就能與他人相處融洽、沒有隔閡……」 「好希望他人願意對我敞開心扉暢所欲言，真心地喜歡我……」 ──如果這些願望都能實現，人生會變得如何呢？ 別擔心！就由講座受講人數超過1萬人的 日本高人氣職涯發展諮商師──藤本梨惠子， 幫你培養人際上的好感傾聽習慣，讓你內外兼美！ ✦✦「懂得傾聽」比「懂得說話」更重要✦✦ 為什麼我們的注意力全放在如何學會好好說話呢？ 自顧自地說個不停，反而會讓對方沒有機會開口， 使得自己未能獲得任何重要的資訊…… 此外，對方若未能汲取出話中要點，也將無所適從。 這時，我們就必須具備「傾聽力」， 從對談中找出自己希望獲得的資訊、話題。 透過對方的言談間獲得啟發，發現自己真正的問題所在！ ✦✦好的傾聽可以改善人際關係✦✦ 學習傾聽可以讓自己跳脫「必須想點話題跟對方聊」、 「必須想出一些建議」的思維，打開人與人之間的交流！ 透過傾聽，更深入地了解他人喜好與生活型態， 便能依據他人話語給予最適合的建言與回應，增加個人魅力！ 許多人都對「傾聽」不以為意， 然而，傾聽確實蘊含了強大的力量！ ✦✦讓對方感到一見如故的傾聽技巧✦✦ 人類對於未知的事物都有一種無法控制的恐懼， 因此要建立與陌生對象的安全感以及信任感， 最重要的就是找出或創造出彼此之間的共通點！ NLP（Neuro Linguistic Programming）心理學稱之為「同步（Pacing）」， 這是透過配合對方的呼吸、動作、說話速度建立信任的溝通技巧。 善於營造出輕鬆氛圍的人，都會與對方形成同步。 要與對方製造信任，就增加彼此之間的共通點吧！ 有人說，希望自己擁有神一般的影響力， 並感嘆不論再怎麼努力，還是得不到眾人的認可。 不過，請各位想一想，世上有哪位神祇會對人「喋喋不休」呢？ 所以，如果想如神一般擁有廣大的影響力， 就一定要具備傾聽能力，別無他法！ 詳悉人的心理，有助於更理解他人並更好的展現自己！ 本書便

Prof. William S-Y. Wang, an eminent linguist, has made significant contributions to the field regarding lexical diffusion, experimental phonetic studies, language simulation and modeling, and aging and language. To celebrate his 90th birthday, colleagues and friends worldwide have contributed over 30 articles to a two-volume Festschrift. The English volume includes topics such as Chinese language evolution, the relationship between language and music, and the brain processes involved in language production. This Festschrift is written by and for experienced language researchers and is also suitable for students of Chinese linguistics and those interested in Chinese culture, history, and neurology.

This book, the first of its kind in Hong Kong, offers insights from experts in healthcare and higher education both locally and further afield. Key learnings and recommendations are presented in three sections: disaster management and reconstruction, including what we can learn from past earthquakes; the importance of healthcare and emergency medicine in disasters and community events; and the way forward, in particular how technology and systems thinking can be used for disaster mitigation.

◆美國《財富》雜誌排名世界500強企業，大部分已引入NLP作為培訓課程。 ◆全球政商界名人、運動明星等，多數皆透過NLP尋求自我突破，提升個人成就。 你常常覺得心累嗎？ 總是為了人際關係感到困擾？ 不知道該如何甩開負向信念？ 運用NLP技術可從舊信念中早日解脫， 快速改善人際關係，突破自我限制，重塑一個無限可能的你。 專文推薦 唐道德 德派催眠雞尾酒療法創始人、ABNLP TRAINER與NLPU聯盟講師 實用推薦 陳威伸 NLP國際高階訓練師、赫威思專業訓練中心首席講師｜黃正頤 博智全球服務管理有限公司總經理｜謝文憲 兩岸知名企管講師、商周專欄作家____依姓氏筆劃序 Neuro〔神經＝五感〕 Linguistic〔語言〕 Programming〔程式〕 結合語言學與心理學的實用心理學。 神經語言程式學NLP是透過分析各領域中傑出人物的行為模式後，研究出如何使用大腦的方法。學會NLP，就能知道如何透過大腦操作，找出需要的資源改變自我，改善未來生活。 美國前總統柯林頓（Bill Clinton）、CNN著名節目主持人賴利‧金（Larry King）、高爾夫球名將老虎伍茲（Tiger Woods），甚至大導演史帝芬‧史匹伯（Steven Spielberg）等知名人士，都是透過學習NLP來自我突破，提升個人成就。 本書以情境漫畫實例結合主題文字的方式，讓您輕輕鬆鬆就能理解什麼是NLP。作者以簡單易懂的方式解說，只要讀過一遍就能將重點記在腦中，在學會如何運用NLP的基本技術後，便能重塑大腦迴路，成功解決種種問題。現在，我們一起跟著書中主角，一起學習NLP，體驗真實改變的可能！ ※本書為2014年3月出版之《弱點當然可以克服，驚人的NLP！》修訂改版。

Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History: Dialect and Text presents cutting-edge research into issues regarding prestige colloquial languages in China in their spoken forms and as well as their relationship to written forms and the colloquial literary language. These include the standard regional languages and prestige dialects of the past, the influence of historical forms of spoken Chinese on written Chinese, the history of guānhuà and the history of báihuà, proto-dialects and supra-regional common languages (koines), and their relationship to spoken dialects. The various studies in this collection focus on the dialect groups with the most substantial written tradition, including Mandarin, Wu, Min, and Cantonese, in north, central and eastern coastal, and southern China respectively. The contributors explore the histories of these dialects in their written and spoken forms, presenting a variegated view of the history and development of the regional forms, including their evoluti

Essentials of Contract Drafting and Negotiation for Construction Professionals is a practical and user-friendly guide to common practical contractual matters and is intended for construction professionals involved in contract drafting and negotiating. Knowing how to draft an effective contract is crucial in construction, particularly because of the complex and technical nature of construction projects. Divided into six chapters, this guide will enhance and refresh essential knowledge for lawyers and construction professionals who need to understand the principles of drafting and interpreting construction contracts, how to clearly identify and include key elements in these contracts, as well as how to avoid legal traps and pitfalls in contract negotiations and enforcement.

迴歸分析是一種統計學上分析數據的方法，建立解釋變數與反應變數之間的關聯性。由於現實環境中，所獲得的資料並非都是明確的數值(crisp value)，有些資料本身是模糊的(fuzzy)，致使傳統的分析方法難以使用。為了處理這類型的資料，Zadeh學者在1965年提出模糊理論(Fuzzy set theory)，將不確定性表達於資料型態上，許多學者遂將迴歸分析方法擴展至模糊環境中，做更廣泛的應用。此外，直覺式模糊集合(Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, IFS)為模糊理論之延伸，在歸屬度函數外，加入非歸屬度函數來衡量，因此直覺式模糊集合能表達更多資訊，較貼近於現實環境。本研究根據直覺式模糊集合與模糊迴歸理論，建立直覺式模糊迴歸模型，並利用兩階段法進行求解。 本研究採用迴歸係數為明確值、解釋變數與反應變數為直覺式模糊數(Intuitionistic fuzzy number, IFN)的迴歸估計式。由於所求解的迴歸係數為明確數值，可以獲得解釋變數與反應變數之間的確切關係，提供決策者更明確的決策資訊。本研究在前置階段會先取得直覺式模糊資料。然後是求解階段，採用兩階段法，第一階段先對原始直覺式模糊資料做解模糊化(defuzzified)，轉換成一組明確資料，接著將該資料做傳統最小平方法，求得一組明確的迴歸係數估計值；第二階段，在最小化總誤差量的目標下，根據距離測度建立一個數學規劃(mathematical programming)模型，並使用Arefi and Taheri學者在2015年所提出之範例，在反應變數觀察值與估計值差距最小的目標下，求解直覺式模糊調整變數(Intuitionistic fuzzy adjustment variable)，以減少模糊估計誤差。模式建構完成後，進行誤差值的分析評估，相較於舊有文獻之方法，本研究模型的誤差衡量指標有更理想的表現；而在模型的穩健度上，本研究之模式透過交叉驗證(cross-validation)後所得的結果，可以驗證明此方法之合理性。

In Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities, John Wei brings light to the germination and movements of queer cultures and social practices in today’s China and Sinophone Asia. While many scholars attribute China’s emergent queer cultures to the neoliberal turn and the global political landscape, Wei refuses to take these assumptions for granted. He finds that the values and pitfalls of the development-induced mobilities and post-development syndromes have conjointly structured and sustained people’s ongoing longings and sufferings under the dual pressure of compulsory familism and compulsory development. While young gay men are increasingly mobilized in their decision-making to pursue sociocultural and socioeconomic capital to afford a queer life, the ubiquitous and compulsory mobilities have significantly reshaped and redefined today’s queer kinship structure, transnational cultural network, and social stratification in China and capitalist Asia. With Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilit

Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate level textbook, which was intended to be used throughout the entire school year and designed mainly for students who have completed introductory courses of Chinese as a foreign language. This book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twenty-two lessons, covering a variety of cultural content, including customs and manners, holidays and festivals, poems and idioms, calligraphy and couplets, myths and legends, feng shui and superstitions, and historical relics and sceneries and many others. In every lesson, the authors have strived to maintain a clear topic and a coherent structure. They have also endeavored to keep the contents lively and achieve a fluent writing style while closely controlling the structure and grammar of every lesson.

Learning Chinese Language and Culture is an intermediate level textbook, which was intended to be used throughout the entire school year and designed mainly for students who have completed introductory courses of Chinese as a foreign language. This book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twenty-two lessons, covering a variety of cultural content, including customs and manners, holidays and festivals, poems and idioms, calligraphy and couplets, myths and legends, feng shui and superstitions, and historical relics and sceneries and many others. In every lesson, the authors have strived to maintain a clear topic and a coherent structure. They have also endeavored to keep the contents lively and achieve a fluent writing style while closely controlling the structure and grammar of every lesson.

【講重點系列帶你制霸考科】 刷考古題之前先讀懂這一本！ 面對考試不僅要會解題，更要有紮實基本功！ ★ 匯集補教名師多年教學經驗 ★ 章節編排由淺入深、吸收效率倍增 ★ 收錄各類經典題型、搭配詳解一點就通 這樣的你適合這本書： ☆ 新手入門 ☆ 加強觀念 ☆ 考前重點複習 ☆ 專業進修 你值得優質的書籍　這本書陪你一起成長！ 【講重點ｘ試題大補帖必勝組合】 講重點系列觀念解析 + 試題大補帖刷題練習 大碩教育提供你全方面的備考戰術！ 初階入門、加強複習都適用！ ★兩種系列一起閱讀　離上榜之路更近一步★ 本書內容共分為八大單元，依序為基本概論、Digital Logic數位邏輯、Operation System作業系統、System Program系統程式、Programming Language程式語言、Data Structure資料結構、網路、Datebase資料庫等重點觀念。 本書除了重點整理計算機概論的相關理論之外，更蒐集歷年高普特考試題，強化基本觀念，讓考生在短時間內以最高的效率深入計算機概論的領域，輕鬆掌握命題趨勢。

For so many around the world, it was in the cinema that they saw their first glimpse of martial arts. Through the films of Lau Kar Leung, among others, they came to appreciate the power and skill of many kung fu techniques. However devotees and practitioners of kung fu and Hung Kuen were aware of the much longer tradition of these arts and in particular, the contribution of both the Lam family and the Lau family. In 2009 the Hong Kong Government endeavoured to identify and recognize forms of intangible cultural heritage. It was this awareness of a vibrant part of Hong Kong history and culture which led to the creation of the Hong Kong Martial Arts Living Archive, and from this the exhibition, Lingnan Hung Kuen Across the Century: Kung Fu Narratives in Hong Kong Cinema and Community. In the exhibition and this companion book, the histories of the Lam and Lau families are traced, and their role in preserving and creating new stances and forms and bringing Hung Kuen to a wider audience th

Eclectic and experimental in style this poetry collection and its stylistic range reflects the diversity of research in the field of medicine. The topics examined range from health economics and specific diseases to biological mechanisms and technology platforms used in research. Some also provide a lens to the feelings and pressures of patients and doctors, whilst others delve into the workings of the mind. Several have layers and patterns for the reader to discover as an allusion to the process of research itself. It starts with the key to successful research—collaboration and fellowship and ends on a reflection of humanity and the humbling of mankind gained through service to others. As such the collection epitomizes the path that transforms passion into perfection and enshrines the drive of the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong to gain and apply knowledge and understanding for the benefit of all.

Democracy on Trial is an attempt to begin to negotiate the problem of writing about and understanding democracy and social movements in Taiwan, and what they can tell us about a place and country that for me is both home and the field, an object of study and yet also an area of hope and engagement.

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of the People's Republic of China. Delving deep into the world of cabarets, nightclubs, and elite ballrooms that arose in the city in the 1920s and peaked in the 1930s, the book assesses how and why Chinese society incorporated and transformed this westernized world of leisure and entertainment to suit its own tastes and interests. Focusing on the jazz-age nightlife of the city in its "golden age," the book examines issues of colonialism and modernity, urban space, sociability and sexuality, and modern Chinese national identity formation in a tumultuous era of war and revolution.

A renowned biomedical engineering expert, H K Chang is also a champion of cross-cultural exchanges that enhance understanding and build links among nations and countries. Having studied the social and cultural developments of China and other countries for the past forty years, he narrates in twenty-one articles here his thoughts about world civilizations, culture and life, society, education as well as science and technology, and invites readers to join him on his intellectual and sentimental journey.

014 第一回: Buffalo Chicken Wings 水牛 城辣雞翅 文法1：Imperative Sentences 文法2：Passive Voice 025 第二回: Apple Pie 蘋果派 文法1：So That 文法2：In Order To 034 第三回：chocolate chip cookies 巧克 力豆餅乾 文法1：Present participle phrases 文法2：Allow sb to do sth (Causative Verb) 045 第四回: Clam Chowder 奶酪蛤蜊湯 文法1：Relative Clauses (關係子句) 文法2：Inversion (倒裝句) 057 第五回: 烤肋排 Barbecue Ribs 文法1：Conditional Sentences 文法2：Participle Clauses 068 第六回：Macaroni and Cheese 奶酪 通心粉 文法1：Reduced Relative Clauses 文法2：Imperatives with Adverbs 079 第七回：Biscuits and Gravy 脆麵包和肉汁 文法1： Conditional Sentences 文法2：Mixed Conditionals 090 第八回 : Reuben Sandwich 魯賓三明治和肉汁 文法1：Relative Pronouns 文法2：Present Perfect

Noel Croucher was a legend in his own time – a raconteur, yet a recluse, conventional yet eccentric, extremely rich yet mean to himself. And all the while, he had a secret penchant for philanthropy. From simple beginnings in England, he arrived in Hong Kong at the turn of the century to live through eight decades of change on the China Coast. Mystery surrounded Noel Croucher. Seen as tightfisted by some yet loved by others, he endowed Hong Kong with its richest academic charity in the Croucher Foundation. He became Commodore of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and Chairman of the Stock Exchange. To many, he was a throwback to the glory days of empire. Yet he battled prejudice to get ahead in the colony. That era has now passed. This fresh look at the lives lived on the Coast – through Noel Croucher’s life story – brings out the realities of those times. Hundreds of interviews, thousands of letters and extensive research in Britain and Hong Kong, together with access to the unique Carl

The Sublime Object of Orientalism proposes that globalised Asian physical cultural practices such as taiji, qigong, yoga, and meditation can be understood by examining the intimate connection between Western orientalism and the Romantic aesthetic notion of the sublime. The book recasts ‘orientalist physical culture’ as practices animated by the sublime and argues that this relationship is stronger than has hitherto been recognised by commentators. Bowman combines new readings of philosophers and cultural critics such as Slavoj Žižek and Jane Iwamura with analyses of film, media, and Asian physical practices and their entrepreneurial forms to shed light on the quest to articulate a philosophy of orientalist physical culture. He also explores ways to make sense of orientalist physical culture in the contemporary world and evaluate the often-problematic ideologies that circulate around these cultural practices without either uncritically accepting their value or rejecting them outright.

當人人成為實驗品，「人性」已不知不覺消失無蹤！ 本書以宏觀視野，深入淺出，助你如何在「疫後」找回健康之路！ 2020年COVID-19把一切都改變了！後真相時代，我們應該如何自處？翻江倒海的全球大轉變，你又準備好了嗎？ ◎為什麼2020之後全球社會撕裂，人人自危；生活、生計、生存通通被打翻，難道就只是因為一隻病毒？病毒之外，究竟還有什麼驚心動魄的故事？ ◎為什麼應付疫情，醫療處置人人一樣，阻擋有效的藥物使用，只等待蓋世「實驗性疫苗」問世，接著威迫利誘人人打針，連孕婦、小孩也要納入執行？ ◎為什麼所謂的「大流行」已過去了，許多人卻出現極速癌症、免疫失靈、神經退化和失智加速，健康反而更糟糕？生活中，甚至多了一個「成人猝死症」(SAD)？！ ⛑︎︎ 面對當代文明急劇變化，世界又在進行「大重設」之時，我們的人性與健康， 正遭受史無前例的嚴峻挑戰！健康是你的生存事業，請務必親力親為！ ☢大覺醒時代：一隻病毒如何打開了「潘朵拉」盒子？ ☢五年過去，我們學到了什麼？看到的又是什麼？ ☢「群體形成精神病」到底是什麽問題？不要再掉入陷阱了！ ☢全新科技為什麽會帶來全新疾病？如何避免？ ☢PCVS是什麽？為什麽你要知道？可以怎麽辨？ ☢S-蛋白的魔咒：妥善處理，勢在必行的健康關鍵！ ☢你必須知道的疫後現象：極速癌症、免疫失靈、神經退化，心臟猝死！ ☢驟變的健康惡夢，如何扭轉乾坤？ ⛑ 病毒之外，我們要如何疫後逢生？ ✯用常理幫助自己，回歸身心靈法則。 ✯慎重過濾資訊，學習降低恐慌技巧。 ✯「心智懶惰」如何形成？有何對策？ ✯調整生活型態，避免增加額外環境毒素。 ✯重建免疫能力，由腸道健康開始。 ✯聚焦消炎解毒，打造百毒不侵身心！ ✯是營養，不是藥物帶來健康！ ✯「逢生之道」終極關鍵：覺醒與行動！ 「獻給全球無畏無懼的善良行醫者與痛失健康者！』 “Dedicate to Worldwide Courageous Healthcare Professionals and Those Who Lost Health!”

In this book, I trace the winding paths of my life: the fragile beginnings of childhood, the shaping of character and personality, the search for health and wholeness, the awakening of faith, the long seasons of formation, the call to consecrated life and priesthood, and the outward journeys of mission and ministry. Alongside the joys, I speak also of the shadows—the doubts and struggles, the inner conflicts and external storms that tested my roots. I share how I learned to make peace with what I could not change, and to integrate what once felt broken into something whole. Woven through these stories are the theoretical voices of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, theology, missiology and spirituality—threads of wisdom that helped me make sense of my experience, and that my experience, in turn, has made more real and whole. The narrative takes root in a landscape of critical reflection and scholarly inquiry, making the personal and the academic converse with each other—experience b

◎透過真摯的喃喃自語，紀錄在農地除草、持誦經文與平凡瑣事中，最純粹的退休日常與心靈觀照。 ◎以簡練優美的中英對照詩文，捕捉如幻夢境與生活掠影，將身體退化的苦楚昇華為悠然自得的處世智慧。 ◎溫馨紀錄與貓族兄弟及山林雅園的相伴點滴，藉此提醒讀者珍惜友伴，在獨處與社交間找回靈魂的安寧。 一個人的日子，依然有詩、有夢、有味道。 Even in solitude, life still holds poetry, dreams, and flavor. 一個人的日子，靜而不空。 在日常的光影裡，學會與孤單共處，也與自己和解。 時間變慢，心變得清亮； 世事雖遠，生活依然有味。 走過一段又一段平凡，終於明白—— 安靜，也是另一種豐富。 A life alone—quiet, yet never empty. Within the gentle rhythm of days, one learns to live with solitude and make peace within. Time slows, the heart clears; though the world drifts afar, life still holds its flavor. Through moments plain and passing, comes a simple truth— silence, too, can be full.

“In order to afford their readers optimal access to a text that has been poorly understood and unfairly denigrated over the years, in addition to their definitive English translation and their critical Chinese text, Ian Johnston and Wang Ping have provided us with the broadest interpretative context imaginable.” —ROGER T. AMES Peking University The Liezi is a work attributed to the Daoist Lie Yukou, who, according to the traditional account, lived during the later part of the fifth and first part of the fourth centuries BCE. This places him between the first wave of philosophers of the pre-Han “Hundred Schools” (notably Lao Zi, Confucius, Mo Di, and Deng Xi) and the second wave, from mid-fourth to the end of the third centuries BCE. Thus, he may be said to have responded to the former and prefigured the latter. The Liezi we have today is the recension by the Xuanxue (Dark Learning, third to fifth centuries CE) scholar Zhang Zhan and is accompanied by Zhang’s commentary, which is a ph

Travelogue of the Steppe Silk Road through China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and more, presenting the author’s modern-day experiences alongside ancient history.

The author traces several generations of family history to show that his father Lee Sik-pang was not only an accomplished artist, but also a well-connected covert operative first for the Republic of China in the 1930s and then for the Allies during World War II.

臨床療效是醫學的生命。離開臨床無醫學。了解醫學之演變與應用，對於臨床診療的實際，將有更深入的理解。 本書《臨床與基礎醫學交會之今昔》，由陳麒方、皮國立兩位教授學者主編，共收錄8篇文章以及1篇中醫臨床醫學雜誌論文總清單。文章作者群涵蓋醫藥衛生領域16位專家學者，文章主題包含：中醫癌症診治分析、婦幼醫學孕產用藥與轉骨探討、台灣系統化醫療肇始（日本時代的醫生免許規則等）、傳統醫藥領域的新技術肌筋膜脈學治療及其醫案、醫學書翻譯的研討等。另有目前發行時間最長的台灣中醫藥期刊《中臨醫誌》論文總清單920篇完整書目。本書對臨床醫學以及基礎醫學從治療、藥品、醫學演變、技術、文化發展等面向，都有論述，是一部相當有意義的中醫學術書。 This book "On the Interaction of Clinical and Basic Medicine" is edited by two scholars, Prof./Dr. CHEN Chi-Fang and Prof. PI Kuo-Li. It contains a total of 8 articles and a comprehensive list of articles in Taiwan Journal of Clinical Chinese Medicine (TJCCM). Group of the article covers 16 experts and scholars in the field of health from whole Taiwan. The topics of the article including: Exploring the Relationship between Dysfunction of the Four Major Functions of the Human Body from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Occurrence of Cancer, Research on the Safety of CM usage during Pregnancy, Development of CM Bone-Strengthening Formulae, Japanese-Rule

Qi-Deng Sheng was one of the most philosophically incisive creative writers on the Taiwan island in the 1960s and 70s, and one of the most controversial figures in local literary history. Criticism of his work is polarized, in a sort of tug of war between “collective consciousness” and “individual will” in the cultural landscape of a rapidly modernizing society. As the hive mind buzzed, Qi-Deng Sheng tuned out and listened to his inner voice. As he explains in the above quotation, he regarded writing as a creative process that differentiated the ego from the group, and reality from falsehood. In other words, he wrote to build a sanctuary for his individuality. On the one hand, he was committed to conveying his personal beliefs through his works, rejecting vulgarity wherever he found it: in social groups, cultural trends, even literary critics. On the other hand, he was dedicated to highlighting the antagonism between self and society––to spotlighting the poor, deprived, embattled, iso

A groundbreaking exploration of justice, democracy and Islamophobia, inviting us to reconsider our assumptions and build a more equitable future. Change has run amok! Technology advances by the minute, and much of what we think we know about the world fades in front of our eyes. How we are, how we know, how we live our daily lives—all shifting quicker than we can cope with. Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia’s tenth Prime Minister, asks how we might rethink ourselves for these confusing, uncertain and volatile times, and shape fairer, more sustainable futures. Anwar’s passion is rooted in experience: he spent, in total, over a decade behind bars after three separate miscarriages of justice, from his days as a student activist to his time as Leader of the Opposition. Alongside reflections on his time in prison are critical investigations into truth, justice, post-colonialism, Islamophobia, democracy and global order. Anwar assembles ideas from East and West, North and South, to explore how we c

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