香港城市大學出版社

co-published with Guangxi Normal PressThe Orient Explorer Collection is a series of interesting texts written by Westerners travelling in China in the 1800s and early 1900s. Each volume has been reprinted from scans of the original publication and is included under a particular theme.The box set focuses on the theme “Women Writers” and features seven books written by women from various walks of life. It is suitable for readers interested in early China depicted by women travellers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Each volume of the collection is to reignite interest and also to allow readers to explore how these books relate to the region today. With the Empress DowagerKatharine A. CARLThis book provides a sensational account of the author’s time with the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Chinese Court while painting her portrait for an exposition in St. Louis in the United States.978-962-937-405-1 • HK$278 / US$36Jan 2024 • 140 x 216 mm • 396 pp • PbA Woman in ChinaMary GAUNTThis

首次完整地輯錄了作者多年來所寫的二千多則「悟語」。這種「悟語」寫作有別於傳統的小品文、雜文及散文詩，它是一種「碎片寫作」、「片斷性思想札記」，是一些表面無序而不連續寫作的文字。作者通過這種「新文體」，以精粹凝煉的文字，評述中國四大名著―《紅樓夢》、《西遊記》、《三國演義》、《水滸傳》，並對古今中外的名著作出精闢的文學評論與文化批判，從歷史、文學、哲學、文化等層面有所反思及感悟，既與古典名著裏的靈魂