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Many excellent books have been written for administrators about motivating faculty. Some books have been written about being an academic. Books have been written about the reward system. Others have been written on improving student learning. Some books have been written on measuring effective teaching. Some books are written only for administrators; others, only for individual faculty. None have been written so as to integrate all of these and address them as a whole. This volume provides a timely discussion on the issues pondering in the minds of many newly recruited faculty and administrators—to uncover the real culture and offer suggestions on how to create a culture to nurture student learning; and to explore the issue of what is research-in-teaching. With improving student learning as the ultimate goal, the author suggests many concrete ways to change the teaching practice and, more importantly, the culture of a university. Readers will appreciate the eight inventories provided

Part memoir and part geographical and historical account, this book from 1914 is a window into China through the eyes of Mary Gaunt, an Australian author best known for travel books and fiction writing.

Even though molecular biology has long been a basic tool in biomedical research, scientists still face the question of why certain molecular biology methods are used for certain experiments. To unlock the mystery, one must first understand the principles behind the methods. Unfortunately, very few molecular biology books have successfully provided satisfactory explanations. This book intends to fill this void by offering topics ranging from basic knowledge to the current state of the art in applied molecular biology. The principles and applications related to each technique included in the text are all described in full detail.

Contemporary Chinese art is nowadays a subject area widely taught and researched in academic and non-academic publications, but it has not yet been studied by 'localizing' the research in specific cultural areas within the Chinese world. Selecting Hong Kong for a first such study was an obvious choice, since Hong Kong culture has had for already quite a long time very specific features which have put it apart from the generally accepted definition of Chinese national culture. Although it is not a survey of 'Hong Kong art,' as such a study would demand many more books, the works of about eighty artists working in Hong Kong (and sometimes outside) have been analyzed and contextualized in these pages.

Even though molecular biology has long been a basic tool in biomedical research, scientists still face the question of why certain molecular biology methods are used for certain experiments. To unlock the mystery, one must first understand the principles behind the methods. Unfortunately, very few molecular biology books have successfully provided satisfactory explanations. This book intends to fill this void by offering topics ranging from basic knowledge to the current state of the art in applied molecular biology. The principles and applications related to each technique included in the text are all described in full detail.

In 1842, the Qing Empire signed a watershed commercial treaty with Great Britain, beginning a century-long period in which geopolitical and global economic entanglements intruded on Qing territory and governance. Previously understood as an era of “semi-colonialism,” Stacie A. Kent reframes this century of intervention by shedding light on the generative force of global capital. Based on extensive research conducted with British and Chinese government archives, Coercive Commerce shows how commercial treaties and the regulatory regime that grew out of them catalyzed a revised arts of governance in Qing-administered China. Capital, which had long been present in Chinese merchants’ pocket-books, came to shape and even govern Chinese statecraft during the “treaty era.” This book contends that Qing administrators alternately resisted and adapted to this new reality, through taxation systems such as transit passes and the Imperial Maritime Customs Service, by reorganizing Chinese territory

Grounded in a desire to bring back to life rare items from the University of Hong Kong’s Fung Ping Shan Library that are entwined within the world of music and to place them in a context of books and images in American, British, and other Asian collections, Chinese Music in Print views the library as a repository not of information but of artifact, and then uses these artifacts as a means for generating scholarly narrative. It begins by assessing seminal texts in the Confucian canon set against the delicacy of the concubine and amanuensis Shen Cai’s calligraphy and poetry. Confucianism was itself a crucial aspect of courtly life, and an exploration of its ritual is the book’s second theme. Vernacular genres of opera and song are represented in the third chapter, while the Great Sage returns in the fourth for an exploration of the repertoire and richness of his favourite instrument, the qin. The final chapter ends the journey with discussion of the legacy of generations of Europeans who

2023年，香港中文大學迎來六十周年校慶。值此重要時刻，當反思大學使命—「結合傳統與現代，融會中國與西方」的歷史意蘊與時代價值。大學圖書館藉此難得機會，舉辦紀念展覽，展示館藏中日益豐富的西方漢學珍本。 本圖錄記錄了展出的藏書，並一一簡述概況，涵蓋從十五至十九世紀中葉的書籍、地圖和手稿。珍藏之中不乏最優秀的早期漢學著作。其中許多作品均由利瑪竇、湯若望等知名耶穌會教士撰寫，他們縱然人數不多，但在深入接觸近代早期中國社會與文化的過程中，一手創立了近代漢學，留下了近距離觀察中國的珍貴記錄。隨著這些傳教士的著作傳回歐洲，關於中國的歐洲書籍愈加準確詳細，歐洲人對中國的了解也與日俱增。本圖錄透過豐富的圖像，以及細緻的介紹和描述，呈現出一幅生動的早期歷史圖景，展現西方對中國持久而深入的興趣和理解，以及中西淵源的交疊與關聯。透過本圖錄，讀者亦可藉此思索如何更好地「結合傳統與現代，融會中國與西方」。 In 2023, The Chinese University of Hong Kong celebrates the sixtieth anniversary of its foundation. This occasion provides a moment for reflection on the historical and contemporary meanings of the university’s mission “to combine tradition with modernity and to bring together China and the West.” To this end, the celebrations include an exhibition of the University Library’s burgeoning collection of Western rare books about China, which is recorded and contextualized in this catalogue. This splendid volume features books, maps, and manuscripts from the fifteenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries.

"Arthur's depth and breadth of knowledge on growing food plants are beyond compare, both theoretically and practically. His love of plants in general, and growing vegetables in particular, is clearly evident in the quality and variety of vegetables he grows in his own garden. He is also an excellent teacher, who gives clear and detailed explanations for everything he demonstrates, both in person and in his inspiring books. Arthur’s hard earned experience is an invaluable source of information and he constantly researches and experiments to enhance understanding of growing food plants. This second edition of Growing Your Own Food in Hong Kong expands on the rich content of his first book on the subject. Whether you are a novice, experienced gardener or armchair student, it is an invaluable source of wisdom used together with the first edition or as a new arrival in your reference library."──Vivien Wallis, Long time Hong Kong gardener, Past Vice Chair, The Hong Kong Gardening Society 「他在

Summary This book is a written version of a lecture course that I have conducted over anumber of years at National Tsing Hua University on the subject of mathematical methods for physics In response to student requests, once and again, the main purpose of the book is devoted to motivate students to feel free to study mathematics independently The book is intended to provide advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physical science with the most fundamental tools and important background which they will need in the advanced studies It contains a lot of physical examples appearing in many remarkable reference books, or bursting out in my research career All examples have been carried out step by step as clear as possible Through the numerous illustrations readers may become familiar with the basic outlook of mathematical methods for physics, recognize the skillful techniques in general, and enable to apply or to extend to advanced problems

「風水」是個我們再熟悉不過的詞彙，不外乎在談論流年運勢、住宅格局和墓地選址，可是卻從未想過，風水曾經在地方政府的法律審判中，堂堂正正扮演斷案的決定性角色，官員要知曉風水的理論，才能解決層出不窮的訴訟；民間流通著各種風水知識，告訴你如何趨吉避凶，以免官司纏身；連造橋鋪路、店鋪開業，到大清帝國邁向工業化的路上，都有風水來攪局。 作者張仲思（Tristan G. Brown）教授，透過清代的縣衙檔案、官方奏摺、士人文集和堪輿指南等資料，以風水為切入點，重新思考中國法律、政治、科學、宗教、經濟史的課題，指出風水並非無憑無據的迷信，而是影響帝國上上下下的世界觀，有助於清帝國在面對人口不斷增長、資源日益減少的壓力下，維繫地方社會的穩定，並提高自身的權威與合法性。因此，唯有掌握風水在公共生活中的實況，才能深入理解當時中國社會的全貌！ 聯合推薦 巫仁恕　中央研究院近代史研究所研究員兼副所長 王鼎棫　挑興文化法律人權類主編 黃春木　建國中學歷史科教師 江仲淵　「歷史說書人 History Storyteller 」團隊創辦人 （依來函順序排列） 各方好評 張仲思的《風水之理》替中國法律史開創了新的局面……是本必讀的好書。──張萌，《美國歷史評論》（American Historical Review） 一直到二十世紀後半葉，人類學視角的引入和對西方中心論的反思，才在很大的程度上賦與了風水研究新的方向……（這本書）可以說是對這個新方向的繼承和開拓……最有特色的核心史料是清代的縣衙檔案，尤其是其中的訴訟檔案。這就使得風水研究與法律史正面相遇，給兩者都帶來了新的思考。──杜正貞，《法律史譯評》 非常出色……細緻周詳、精彩極了。──司昆侖（K. E. Stapleton），《精選》（Choice） 《風水之理》令人期待已久，非常引人入勝：本書挑戰了既有觀點、予人深思，給了我們諸多啟示。──孫曉雪（Wendy Xiaoxue Sun），《亞洲書評》（Asian Review of Books） 在工業革命的發生、資本主義生產模式的建立以及全球殖民主義大加擴展的年代間，就中華秩序所經歷的變化來說，是張仲思的研究讓我們得以重建這樣的過程。相對於經濟史家如喬凡尼．阿銳基（Giovanni Arrighi）、杉原薰（Sugihara Kaoru）、王國斌（Bin Wong）及費爾南．布勞