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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 regar

The fact that Snow did not sneak into “red China” to gather information constituting the basis of his Red Start over China all alone is in many instances isunderstood even by scholars.Mao Zedong’s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth.How the “Red Star” Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. Ishikawa Yoshihiro uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being.He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of not only

The younger generation — those under the age of 25 — accounts for more than a quarter of Hong Kong’s population. A much-misunderstood group, these people have special characteristics and needs, and so

A pioneering study of the genesis and films of the fifth-generation of Chinese filmmakers who emerged in the 1980s with films of startling originality. The making and meanings of films such as Judou,

Deng Xiaoping's death marked the end of an era in contemporary Chinese politics. The first generation revolutionary leaders have gone, and the third generation leaders are genuinely in power. At the s

The Lost Generation is a vital component to understanding Maoism. The book provides a comprehensive account of the critical movement during which seventeen million young "educated" city-dwellers were

The rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia, following the emergence of a new generation of filmmakers there, is among the most significant recent developments in global cinema. The advent of aff

Hong Kong's real estate market has always been a major source of wealth-generation not only for developers, but also for individual property-owners. This book provides the real estate market and the p

In the 1970s, as Hong Kong’s economy began to soar, the public started to place greater emphasis on cultural and artistic pursuits. The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) became a professional ensemble in 1974, providing high-quality musical entertainment for the public while also promoting classical music and nurturing the next generation of young musicians.Upon obtaining his master’s degree in the late 1980s, author Jimmy Shiu joined the orchestra as audience development manager from 1988 to 1994, working alongside the ensemble to cultivate Hong Kong’s musical landscape. On the orchestra’s golden jubilee, Shiu offers a warm narrative that reflects on 50 significant moments both on and off stage.The HK Phil is celebrated as one of Asia’s premier classical orchestras. During its 44-week season, the orchestra performs over 150 concerts in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong, and other international cities, reaching more than 200,000 audience members. In 2019, the HK Phil became the

A compilation of Ting Yin Yung's paintings and other artwork from his life in Hong Kong. University Museum and Art Gallery's exhibition is authoritative in its display of Ting Yin Yung's oil and ink paintings, watercolors, sketches, and seals, all of which cover the most productive decades of his working life in Hong Kong. The project is also highly community-centered, as the development of this project benefited greatly from the input of Ting's students, who continue to treasure their master's passion and the instructive lessons and conversations that nurtured a generation of local artists. A native of Maoming County in Guangdong province, Ting Yin Yung first studied Western painting in Tokyo at the Kawabata Painting School in 1920, and then at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts. He began working in mainland China in 1925, before emigrating to Hong Kong in 1949, where he developed his artistic practice as a painter, seal carver, and greatly admired teacher. Heavily illustrated in full colo

A pioneering and comprehensive study of recent Malaysian cinema. Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analyzing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the "Malaysian Digital Indies" have in recent years repositioned Malaysian cinema within the global arena. The book shines a new light on how politics and socioeconomics have influenced new forms and genres of the post-2000s generation of filmmakers and provides a clear picture of the interactions between commercial cinema and politics and socioeconomics in the first two decades of the new millennium. It also illustrates how the Malaysian Digital Indies functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Islamisation.

長達四十年，柯南．道爾爵士陸續寫下了這些也許他自己並不看重的文字。一百多年以來，數不清的讀者因為各自的理由，喜歡上了他筆下的這位神探，喜歡上了神探的醫生朋友，喜歡上了維多利亞時代倫敦的昏暗街燈，喜歡上了風光旖旎的英格蘭原野，喜歡上了各位蠢笨低能的探員，甚至喜歡上了神探的頭號敵人、智力與他一時瑜亮的莫里亞蒂教授。更有一些讀者對神探的演繹法如醉如癡，不遺餘力地四處尋覓他和他的朋友在現實中留下的蛛絲馬跡，以至於最終斷定，他和他的朋友實有其人。神探的身影在各式各樣的舞台劇、電視劇和電影當中反復出現，又在萬千讀者的記憶當中反復縈迴。我們真的應該感謝柯南．道爾爵士，感謝他不情不願抑或半推半就地寫下了這樣六十個故事，為我們的好奇心提供了一座興味無窮的寶山。六十個福爾摩斯故事，如同一幅七色斑斕的長卷，我們可以從中窺見另一個民族在另一個時空的生活，窺見一個等級森嚴卻不乏脈脈溫情的社會，窺見一個馬車與潛艇並存的過渡年代，窺見一個又一個雖欠豐滿立體卻不乏神采風姿的人，窺見一鱗半爪，商品化程度較低的人性。《福爾摩斯全集》譯註本全七卷，譯註者李家真前後耗時二十載翻譯，初版面世後又重新校訂潤飾，為的是不負作者雕龍文心，以酬讀者知音雅意。此帙成書已久，原文文本大致定型，慮或有脫漏異文，故採Random House、Oxford University Press、Wings Books等出版社等多家版本參照校譯。不較日居月諸，但期博覽遐觀，以求精審，以避訛誤。此譯與前賢譯本多有不同，非欲立異標新，實因原作文字所限，不得不然。為盡一己所知所能，如實反映作品原貌及時代特徵。書中一千五百餘條註釋，用意無非簡略說明相關歷史及文化背景，為讀者省卻翻檢參考書籍之勞。柯南．道爾爵士志趣宏遠，不以此著自矜，書中敘述遂屢有明顯謬誤，甚或自相矛盾。此類牴牾凡有發現，譯者亦盡己之力一一註明，其餘揣測懸想之偵探趣味，則留待讀者諸君自行發掘。（參見隨書附贈的百頁圖文彩色專冊《誰識福爾摩斯》）

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 introdu

A pioneering study of the genesis and films of the fifth-generation of Chinese filmmakers who emerged in the 1980s with films of startling originality. The making and meanings of films such as Judou,

In the early years of British colonial rule, Hong Kong went through an interesting and difficult phase of development, while a second generation of local Chinese was born as British subjects. Having r

This collection of tales record and preserves a part of the oral tradition of Chinese folk tales and legends still current among the older generation of immigrants who came to Hong Kong from various p