Computer Technology and Computer Programming

本研究主要為資通訊領域及各類智慧科技應用之關鍵技術專利分析。 智慧車方面，自駕車感測融合系統（Autonomous Vehicles Sensor Fusion System）匯聚多元的影像採集資料，可提供更精確的環境感知處理能力，並據此進行駕駛決策實現運輸載具自動駕駛。近年來吸引許多知名企業投入資源進行開發，像是Google、Waymo、Genearl Motor、Baidu、Microsoft、Intel、Uber等。其中自駕車新創企業Waymo為Alphabet（Google）旗下子公司，專注於自動駕駛相關硬體、軟體以及系統開發。 駕駛監測系統為車輛新興人機介面發展相當重要一環，因應各國法規強制安裝要求，近年來有相當大產品成長動能，並隨著自駕車產業與技術逐漸發展和演化過程，在人為與自動駕駛控制權轉換上扮演關鍵角色。 光達（LiDAR）具有高精確度、高辨識率等技術優點，透過雷射發射、接收以及演算法，光達系統可以精確測量周遭物體輪廓、距離、角度等訊息，主要應用包括：3D地圖測量、自駕車、無人機、自動化物流搬運車等，近年來吸引許多新創企業投入資源進行開發，像是Waymo、LeddarTech、Velodyne LiDAR、TriLumina、Quanergy Systems、XENOMATIX、Robosense、HESAI等。 智慧型手機方面，射頻模組作為收發訊號關鍵元件，特殊設計與製程使其成為寡占市場，然而近期可看到越來越多基頻晶片大廠試圖跨界進入。此外，全球邁入5G時代，為使網路能進一步提升，便開始思考毫米波等可產生高網速的頻段如何予以商用化。 衛星通訊技術（Satellite communication technology）利用太空中圍繞地球運轉的人造衛星作為中繼節點轉發無線電波，進行兩個或兩個以上局端或終端間的訊號傳輸，是一種無線通訊技術手段；低軌衛星則因為更靠近地球表面，具有路徑損耗小、傳輸效率高、延遲性低等優勢。近年衛星製造工藝、衛星產製模式與火箭發射技術演進，加上商業火箭產業逐漸成熟，低軌衛星通訊系統組網難度大幅降低，可為地面通訊系統所用，因而促成一波低軌衛星系統布建熱潮。 數位分身方面，該技術是將真實世界事物本體以數位化擬真方式達到虛實結合之目的，除了能夠進行數位模擬分析並呈現事物本體即時狀態之外，更重要的是藉此可對事物本體進行預測並提出決策建議

──內容介紹── In the10th year of the Showa era (1935), Dorian Gray was Twenty-year-old. He came to Taipei forInherit family business. He was a pure and kind-hearted young man who was full of curiosity and longing for the world, but when he discovered that his beauty was a power, he abused this power to cause his future to become miserable... ──本書特色── The prototype of the story is "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde (1854～1900).This is a composite text that combines Slash, Eroticism and Thriller, looking for a new meaning in contemporary Taiwan.

《情緒跟你以為的不一樣》作者、國際重量級心理學家暨神經科學家最新著作 一部關於大腦的小品，其重量卻讓你無法忽視！ Amazon　2020年編輯選書 BARNES AND NOBLE 2020最佳科學圖書 BEHAVIORAL SCIENTIST 2020注目圖書 AUDIOFILE MAGAZINE 2020 Earphones Award 得主 本書作者麗莎．費德曼．巴瑞特博士，曾獲得美國國家衛生研究院先鋒獎和2019年古根漢研究學者獎（每年全球僅二人），是國際知名的心理學家暨神經科學家。 有沒有想過你為什麼擁有大腦？巴瑞特博士為你揭開兩耳之間那塊巨大的灰色斑塊的神秘面紗。 在這七篇簡短的文章中（再加上一些些關於大腦如何進化的小故事），本書輕薄、有趣且易於閱讀，其中蒐集與使用的資料揭示了來自神經科學研究最尖端的開闊思路。 在這本書，巴瑞特博士將引領讀者學習大腦的來源、結構（及其重要性），以及你的大腦如何跟其他大腦協同工作，以創建你所體驗的一切。在這個過程中，你還會學習到如何消除那些決定你行為的流行神話，例如「蜥蜴腦」的思想（蜥蜴腦指的是人類負責維繫生命功能動作的腦部，是掌管吃喝拉撒睡、性慾、憤怒、恐懼、趨吉避凶的求生本能或動物性直覺，是人類從遠古遺留下來、最根深柢固、根本的記憶與本能。），以及所謂的「思想與情感」，甚至「自然與養育」（nature and nurture）之間的鬥爭。 作者提及，她撰寫本書的目的不是要你去思考人性是什麼，而是要邀請你去想想自己是什麼樣的人，或是想成為什麼樣的人。 【專業推薦】 臺灣大學心理學系暨研究所特聘教授　梁庚辰 輔仁大學心理學系副教授　黃揚名 泛科知識公司知識長　鄭國威 BBC Knowledge國際中文版總編輯　辜雅穗 本書作者別走蹊徑，從腦部演化的觀點切入與心智關聯性的問題。……面對這個複雜的腦與複雜的心智，可能還有無限驚奇在後頭，我建議以謙遜的態度去推敲它們。 ──國立臺灣大學心理學系暨研究所特聘教授　梁庚辰 在書中，巴瑞特教授用很淺白的說法破除我們對於腦運作的迷思，並且告訴大家人類的腦究竟是怎麼運作的。即使對我這個對於腦的運作不陌生的人來說，閱讀的過程也充滿震撼與衝擊。 ──輔仁大學心理學系副教授　黃揚名 本書以極具說服力的證據跟顛覆預設的詮釋方式，讓每一位讀過此書者的大腦更加了解它自己，以作

This ground-breaking edited collection draws together Australian historical scholarship on Chinese women, their gendered migrations, and their mobile lives between China and Australia. It considers different aspects of women’s lives, both as individuals and as the wives and daughters of immigrant men. While the number of Chinese women in Australia before 1950 was relatively small, their presence was significant and often subject to public scrutiny. Moving beyond traditional representations of women as hidden and silent, this book demonstrates that Chinese Australian women in the twentieth century expressed themselves in the public eye, whether through writings, in photographs, or in political and cultural life. Their remarkable stories are often inspiring and sometimes tragic and serve to demonstrate the complexities of navigating female lives in the face of racial politics and imposed categories of gender, culture, and class. Historians of transnational Chinese migration have come

典範與激勵 ──趙守博八十感恩親師尊長錄 Recollections With Gratitude Of My Parents & Teachers, Chiang Ching-kuo, Lee Teng-hui And Nine Other Taiwan’s Political Leaders With Whom I Worked 趙守博在本書表達他以八十之年， 對其雙親，和從小學、中學、大學以至留學期間的所有老師， 以及其從政生涯中的所有長官的感激之情，生動而感人。 在本書， 趙守博以直接追隨、接觸的體驗和近距離的觀察， 談論蔣經國、李登輝、謝東閔、連戰、李煥、林洋港、郝柏村、邱創煥、蔣彥士、宋時選和謝又華，並詳述與他們的互動關係； 本書也分析蔣經國捨林洋港而選李登輝當接班人的關鍵因素，也透露李登輝與林洋港、連戰和李煥之間的微妙關係和其演變； 是所有關心和研究台灣現代政治情勢演變與重要政治領袖的人所必讀。

馬文海Wenhai Ma 美籍華裔舞臺設計家，插圖畫家，美國伊利諾大學香檳院University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign戲劇系終身教授。 畢業於中國中央戲劇學院及美國Carnegie Mellon University，曾任教於美國杜克大學Duke University，內布拉斯加林肯大學University of Nebraska-Lincoln，普度大學Purdue University，香港演藝學院，中國中央戲劇學院及新加坡南洋藝術學院。著有Scene Design Rendering and Media（Focus Publishing, USA）及為多冊兒童繪本繪製插畫，包括Swan’s Gift, The Painted Fan, Younger Brother, Older Brother, Red Means Good Fortune以及Monkey King系列（美國、英國及加拿大出版），並在美國、中國大陸、香港、新加坡、臺灣、印尼等地為多種戲劇、歌劇、音樂劇設計布景及服裝。其散文曾多次在《中央日報》副刊以筆名「小木」發表。

～西方的身心修煉之道～ 西洋神祕學核心，闡述以生命之樹示現的十個「神之名」， 描述創造性進化過程背後的詳細藍圖。 ★二十世紀奧祕思想上最具見識的重要人物——荻恩．佛瓊親著 ★出版近80年，西方世界提供給世人最具吸引力的靈修傳統 ★一個台灣巫師的影子書 版主 丹德萊恩 推薦序 ★愛智者書窩版主、諮商心理師 鐘穎 導讀 【本書特色】 ◎卡巴拉經典著作，以清晰的筆觸將屬於猶太傳統思想的眾多元素，連結東、西兩方世界的哲學及後來的基督信仰洞見。 ◎突破《聖經》的英文欽定本眾多神之名一律譯成「神」的重大侷限，一一闡述以生命之樹的圖示現的十個「神之名」。 ◎十輝耀（Sephiroth）描述人類的進化活動背後的主要原型，對心理方面的運作深入探討，同時是具超越性質的形上學。 ◎納入佛瓊女士親筆寫就的額外章節、編輯為當代讀者製作的資料更新，以及能夠幫助內文理解的生命之樹插圖。 希伯來人的古老祕法傳統有三部經典。 其一，《律法與先知之書》，也就是我們所知道的《舊約聖經》； 其二，《塔木德經》，也就是對於律法書的學術評註； 其三，《卡巴拉》，也就是律法書在祕法層面的解釋。 古時候的拉比曾經說過， 第一本是傳統的身體，第二本是傳統的理性精神，而第三本則是傳統的永恆靈魂。 若要有所獲益，無知的人也許要閱讀第一本、博學的人則是研究第二本， 而智者則以第三本進行冥想。 荻恩．佛瓊是當時首次將這個「神祕傳統」向大眾廣傳的幾位大師之一。 她的《祕法卡巴拉》堪稱經典之作， 內文以清晰的筆觸，將屬於猶太傳統思想的眾多元素， 連結東、西兩方世界的哲學及後來的基督信仰洞見。 之前的幾位大師的闡釋通常晦澀到把原本的奧祕變得更加難懂， 然而荻恩．佛瓊的解釋既簡單、清楚，而且讓人容易領會。 卡巴拉可以視為是猶太人對於「多與一」（the Many and the One）矛盾論點的祕傳解釋， 即單一神性整體裡面所具有的複雜性與多樣性。 當《舊約》描述出某個人民緊密相繫的「揀選之民」文化在社會與心理層面的發展過程時，與之相輔的卡巴拉，則提供那藏在創造性進化過程背後的基礎構造之詳細藍圖。 《聖經》的英文欽定本有個重大的侷限，就是將希伯來文的眾多神之名一律譯成「神」。 而《祕法卡巴拉》則是一一闡述那以生命之樹的圖示現的十個「神之名」、 相應的性質或「輝耀」（Sephiroth）， 而它們代表人類的進化活動背後的主

The Landscape of Historical Memory explores the place of museums and memorial culture in the contestation over historical memory in post–martial law Taiwan. The book is particularly oriented toward the role of politics—especially political parties—in the establishment, administration, architectural design, and historical narratives of museums. It is framed around the wrangling between the “blue camp” (the Nationalist Party, or KMT, and its supporters) and the “green camp” (Democratic Progressive Party, or DPP, and its supporters) over what facets of the past should be remembered and how they should be displayed in museums. Organized into chapters focused on particular types of museums and memorial spaces (such as archaeology museums, history museums, martyrs’ shrines, war museums, memorial halls, literature museums, ethnology museums, and ecomuseums), the book presents a broad overview of the state of museums in Taiwan in the past three decades. The case of Taiwan museums tells us much

Empowered by Ancestors: Controversy over the Imperial Temple in Song China (960–1279) examines the enduring tension between cultural authority and political power in imperial China by inquiring into Song ritual debates over the Imperial Temple. During these debates, Song-educated elites utilized various discourses to rectify temple rituals in their own ways. In this process, political interests were less emphasized and even detached from ritual discussions. Meanwhile, Song scholars of particular schools developed various ritual theories that were used to reshape society in later periods. Hence, the Song ritual debates exemplified the great transmission of ancestral ritual norms from the top stratum of imperial court downward to society. In this book, the author attempts to provide a lens through which historians, anthropologists, experts in Chinese Classics, and scholars from other disciplines can explore Chinese ritual in its intellectual, social, and political forms.

This collection of selected works by Professor Albert H.Y. Chen shows the contours of the author’s scholarship as it developed over 35 years of his academic career, from 1984 to the present. The essays are divided into three sections which cover the three major domains of Professor Chen’s research. Part I covers the legal developments and controversies of “One Country, Two Systems” since the Hong Kong interpretation on “the right of abode” in 1999 to the anti-extradition movement of 2019. Part II shifts to focus on tradition and modernity in Chinese Law, including China’s Confucian and Legalist traditions and how the socialist legal system in China evolved and modernized in the era of “reform and opening”. Part III examines the transplantation of Western thinking and constitutionalism to East Asia in modern times and discusses the achievements and failures of these efforts. In conjunction with an introductory chapter that sets out the basic orientation and paradigm of these legal and c

Adaptive reuse refers to reusing an old building for a purpose other than which it was originally built or designed. This conservation approach has become increasingly popular around the world. However, there are few publications that focus on its application in Asia. This book fills this gap by looking at both unique and shared aspects of adaptive reuse in three Asian urban centers: Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore. Building on government policy documents and extensive field work, this book contextualizes adaptive reuse in each city and reveals the impetus behind a wide range of projects from revitalization in Hong Kong, commercial development in Shanghai, to community building in Singapore. The introductory chapter sets adaptive reuse within an international perspective, noting salient differences and similarities between Asia and other parts of the world. It also anchors the discussion within a regional perspective, focusing on the similarities and differences between Hong Kong,

人工智慧（Artificial Intelligence, AI）被譽為未來十年中最具破壞性的技術，輔以運算能力、資料量和資料多元性不斷提升，AI將可能創造出可觀的商業價值。各行各業無不積極導入人工智慧來改善用戶體驗、輔助決策以及自動處理和優化程序，降低經營的成本同時創造新的商業服務與營收。人工智慧技術如大軍壓境席捲各行各業，將為產業帶來革命性的變革。 此股科技風潮也吹向相對傳統的教育領域，而近幾年教學軟硬體翻新與數位化，也為AI進入校園創造合適的發展基礎，支持學校往智慧化方向邁進。智慧學習是台灣數位內容領域的重點推動產業，係指透過數位化科技或設備提供教學服務之教育科技（education technology）。台灣智慧學習產業根據主要服務型態可分為教學產業、軟體產業以及硬體產業三大範疇，各範疇涵蓋多元業者，近期亦有許多新創團隊加入，顯示該產業發展日臻成熟，並成為國家人才培育與友善教學環境打造的重要領域。 展望未來，教學產業擁抱新興科技（AR/VR/MR、人工智慧），培訓業者走向智慧化與集團經營；軟體產業亟需轉型為跨平台、跨載具與多功能的系統解決方案，其中教學平台為新創最感興趣領域；硬體產業則走向智慧教室與智慧校園的建置，並在全球STEM教育風潮下，STEM教具市場持續活絡，軟硬整合成下一階段關鍵。 2016年以來中國大陸掀起知識付費學習的浪潮，不論是用戶人數或市場規模都快速成長，儼然成為一種新的數位學習型態。有別於過去的線上學習，知識付費服務具備行動端為主、課程設計碎片化、單一媒介為主，以及網路圈關鍵意見領袖為師資等特徵，輕量化且多元靈活的課程內容符合忙碌現代人生活步調與習慣，讓他們能更有效率運用零碎時間，並提升學習的意願。 美國與中國大陸為教育領域兩大投資市場，過去20年美國一直扮演主導智慧教育投資市場角色，不過2018年智慧教育資本市場發生重大的板塊位移，中國大陸年度智慧教育投資總額超過美國，成為領域之新霸主，不僅顯示大量資金流向中國大陸的現象，預期也將影響未來幾年智慧教育發展走向與趨勢。 媒體方面，隨著網際網路改變民眾的媒體使用習慣，影響流行音樂產業，除了各式數位音樂應用興起，包括售票、旅館、場館也導入智慧化服務，然而如何更清楚掌握用戶輪廓，進而提供更即時的服務，成為數位化服務的下一個目標。觀察國外導入用戶數據的數位音樂產業服務案例，不僅能更具體掌握其商業

桑梓蘭 國立台灣大學外文系學士，美國加州大學柏克萊分校比較文學博士。曾任教於奧勒岡大學和史丹佛大學，現任密西根州立大學語言系教授。研究專長為現代中文文學，華語電影，性別研究，台灣研究。主要學術專著有 The Emerging Lesbian: Female Same-Sex Desire in Modern China (芝加哥大學出版社，2003；中文版《浮現中的女同性戀：現代中國的女同性愛欲》，台大出版中心，2014)，Documenting Taiwan on Film: Issues and Methods in New Documentaries (Routledge, 2012) 等。研究之餘，亦從事翻譯和創作。

王家豪 國際關係學者，專研俄中關係和俄羅斯亞太政策。莫斯科國立國際關係學院碩士，主修歐亞政治及經濟。曾於俄羅斯國際事務委員會和俄羅斯高等經濟學院出任實習研究員，亦曾赴俄羅斯遠東聯邦大學進行學術訪問。 羅金義 香港教育大學大中華研究中心聯席總監、社會科學系副教授，《香港社會科學學報》總編輯。近年有關亞洲研究的編著包括《老撾的地緣政治學：扈從還是避險？》、《盛世邊緣：東亞少數者的政治社會學》、《放寬一帶一路的視界：困難與考驗》、Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific等等。

一、新日本語能力試験基準に基き、作成します。 It's made based on JLPT. 二、新日本語能力試験N1の単語を網羅して、制覇できます。 Collect all the JLPT N1 vocabulary, and can be easily operated with one hand, making learning more efficient, this is an indispensable exercise for those aiming for the JLPT N1 exam. 三、多く練習するのを通して難しい問題でも早く完熟できます。 Even a difficult problem can become mature early through practicing much. 四、重なることなく、それぞれ違う多くの問題をしっかり練習するのを通して、使い方はもとより、どんどん会話能力も増進できるようになります。 The questions simulate the 4 questions of the JLPT N1 word problem test, and you will be able to familiarize with various vocabularies through practicing by constantly working on problems.

Developmental social work emphasizes interdisciplinary collaborations and believes it can accurately respond to the issues and the needs of our society. Therefore, more and more non-profit organizations are involved in this field. In Taiwan, the recent social issues, such as the poverty of young adults and the Long-term Care, all indicate a need for fresh thoughts and working methods. Responding to this need, “social innovation” has been seen as a way of developmental social work practice. Since 2015, Eden Social Welfare Foundation has collaborated with the Department of Social Work of National Taiwan University to hold three international conferences regarding developmental social work. We published two conference proceedings Developmental Social Work: Theory and Practice and Developmental Social Work: Advancing Policy and Practice. This book focuses on the theme of “social innovation” and contains various innovative ongoing cases of developmental social work. It also compiles lectu

Testimony to the emotional truth of their life together even in these increasingly trying times. The memoir Ordinary Days by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Yuk-ying Lee brings to this Hong Kong series an intensely personal touch, consciously echoing the great sentimental memoir of 18th-century China, Shen Fu’s Six Chapters of a Floating Life. With disarming candour, Leo and Esther lay bare their hearts so unreservedly, to share with us their story of love and suffering, charting in a series of memorable chapters their shared spiritual quest. This is a brave book. It lays bare in a most unusual way the heart and soul of a charming and highly cultivated Chinese couple, the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk-ying. It charts the love story of two individuals who are no longer young, and it also boldly breaks the taboo surrounding the twin topics of depression and suicide. Set partly against the recent backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s m

It represents one of the finest traditions in Chinese culture: the tradition of creativity, of the freedom of thought, freedom of spirit and freedom of the imagination. These are the characteristics of Hong Kong literature. The Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the best chinese tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has characterized the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom.

Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the area of investment analysis and portfolio management. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in security analysis, portfolio management, options, futures, and other related issues. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance, economics, and accounting and applied research in the financial community.

From the accomplished psychological professional and expert of social etiquette, celebrated blogger and social influencer, counselor and mentor, author and essayist Virginia Leung: [An Original Work] of the most captivating, awe-inspiring writing. Did you know that personality and attitude are the two deciding aspects of your fate? Be crowned with a halo now as I share my top tips for improving your mentality, analytical skills, perspective, mindset, communication, Adversity Quotient, social etiquette- and putting them all into practice! Epigraph For the state of things to change for the better, You must first change yourself for the better; For the state of things to improve even more, You must always be improving yourself even more! Preface Blind spots in our thinking, a lack of emotional intelligence or poor social skills- various problems, like these, admittedly drive away many opportunities. At times, one wonders whether these are foregone conclusions- or are they a result o

內容簡介： 1644年，南京一位名叫曹君義的出版商，印製了一幅獨特的世界地圖，他稱之為「天下全圖」。其雖沿襲了某些可上溯宋元時期的中國慣例，卻也借鑒了一幅由奧特柳斯（Ortelius）設計、耶穌會傳教士利瑪竇在南京印製的歐洲版世界地圖。現今在兩個國家圖書館中仍保存了曹君義版地圖：其一在北京，另一在倫敦。本書的兩個章節，原是發表在中央研究院郭廷以學術講座的講稿，每章即是以這兩本曹君義地圖中的一本作為出發點，去重建一段世界地圖的歷史，以此回顧早期的中國和歐洲在繪製世界地圖上的嘗試，並展望中國的世界地圖（如曹君義的版本）對歐洲地圖學的影響。這段歷史表明了：歐洲人仰賴中國人對亞洲的知識，並不亞於中國人倚賴歐洲人對世界的認識。今日我們所知道的世界地圖，正是在這種相互作用下，於焉誕生。 Completing the Map of the World: Cartographic Interaction between China and Europe In 1644, a Nanjing publisher named Cao Junyi printed a unique world map that he called “a complete map of all under Heaven.” He followed certain Chinese conventions going back to the Song and Yuan dynasties, but he also drew on a European map of the world designed by Ortelius and printed in Nanjing by the Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci. Copies of this map survive today in two national libraries, one in Beijing and the other in London. The two chapters of this book, originally delivered as the Kuo Ting-yee Memorial Lectures at Academic Sinica, each take one of these

Proposal and design : -- to build orbit debris collector and re-launch into deep space after collection at place as Earth introduction to universe, think why flying saucer are all the same shape. Universal energy with us always. Can we have more safety from earthquake? Including Summary story edition Call for deep discussion by email: David_OK_2013@yahoo.com Charles Darwin is a clever human same as us. We have all organs he has. He thought out a lot of things so as many great people. Probably some of us from this world also can think out something important. This is the reason why everyone on this world can dig in for more understanding and bring for discussion. This book came to start as a fiction or introduction for reading and public introduction.The only difference from other books is:-This book is short but everything is like brief summary written to leader information - a quickest way to know the important story in briefing, and can ask afterwards. Besides, smart people c

In the West, love occupies center stage in the modern age, whether in art, intellectual life, or the economic life. We may observe a similar development in China, on its own impetus, which has resulted in this characteristic of modernity—this feature of modern life has been securely and unambiguously established, not the least facilitated by the thriving of literature about qing, whether in traditional or modern forms. Qiancheng Li concentrates on the nuances of a similar trend manifested in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on critical readings of the texts that have shaped this trend, including important Ming- and Qing-dynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts and other religious/philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power. -------------- The power of qing or strong emotion is a major theme in late imperial Chinese literature—some writers asserting that it can transcend even life itself. Qiancheng Li surveys a number of seventeenth-century philosophical, religio

Maid to Queer is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop same-sex relationships in a host city. Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews with Indonesian domestic workers in Hong Kong, the book explores the meanings of same-sex relationships to these migrant women. Instead of searching for reasons to explain why they engage in a same-sex relationship, this book provides an ethnographic perspective by addressing their Sunday activities and considering how migration policies and the practices of Hong Kong people unintentionally produce alternative sexuality and desires for them. The author contrasts the migrant experiences of same-sex relationships with the Western discourse that individuals carry a strong sense of sexual identification prior to migration; same-sex desires among Indonesian domestic workers are often not realized until they leave home. Addressing the changes from maid to queer, this book documents the intersections of domestic work, la

Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842 presents a rare and lively view of the French experience at Canton, and calls for a reappraisal of France’s role in that trade. France was one of the two most important Western powers in the eighteenth century, and was home to one of the three major European East India companies. Yet the nation is woefully underrepresented in Canton trade scholarship. Susan E. Schopp rescues the French from the sidelines, showing that they exerted a presence that, though closely watched by their rivals, is today largely unrecognized. Their contributions were diverse, ranging from finding new sea routes to inspiring the renovation of hong façades. Consequently, to ignore the French, or to dismiss them as simply “also-rans,” results in a skewed perception of the Canton system. Schopp also demonstrates that while the most distinctive aspect of the French model of company trade was the dominant role of the state—indeed, the French East India Company has been memorabl

This book, written by an internationally acknowledged pioneer in endocrine surgery, is intended as advice for aspiring medical professionals, in particular for young people from around the world who are hoping to attend one of the great medical schools in the US or the UK, such as Harvard or Oxford. In clear, concise language, Dimitrios Linos explains the steps one needs to take to get into a top medical school, succeed as a resident, and become a board certified doctor. Drawing on his many years of experience, Linos discusses the career paths for practicing physicians, how to avoid burnout, and the importance of finding a work-life balance. This is an honest, engaging and thoughtful book, written in an encouraging manner from someone who knows personally the struggles and triumphs of being a doctor and who wants to help others become "the best physician in the world." --------------- Professor Linos has eloquently delivered his advice for aspiring physicians. To Dr. Linos’ exhortat

Focusing on the latest management trends, Transformational HRM Practices for Hong Kong provides HR professionals with a comprehensive and accessible guide to human resource management in Hong Kong. Written by a leading team of HR professionals, psychologists, legal experts, and academics, the book provides up-to-date coverage of current practices, laws and procedures, as well as guidance on the professional skills required to operate successfully in the region. Suitable for practitioners and students alike, the book contains authentic case studies in local context and sets out the latest strategies for talent acquisition and assessment as well as performance and rewards management. It provides essential coverage of organizational change management, recent technological advancements in the field, and outlines the development of Hong Kong’s employment laws and their likely implications for professionals. In one volume, this book provides the key information, guidance, and context HR pro

The Authorship of Place is the first monograph dedicated to the study of the politics, history, aesthetics, and practices of location shooting for Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and coproduced art cinemas shot in rural communities since the late 1970s. Dennis Lo argues that rural location shooting, beyond serving aesthetic and technical needs, constitutes practices of cultural survival in a region beset with disruptive and disorienting social changes, including rapid urbanization, geopolitical shifts, and ecological crises. In response to these social changes, auteurs like Hou Xiaoxian, Jia Zhangke, Chen Kaige, and Li Xing engaged in location shooting to transform sites of film production into symbolically meaningful places of collective memories and aspirations. These production practices ultimately enabled auteurs to experiment with imagining Taiwanese, Mainland Chinese, and cross-strait communities in novel and contentious ways. Deftly guiding readers on a cross-strait tour of promin

安心國小融合了社會情緒學習（Social and Emotional Learning）的概念，透過貼近生活的故事，提升社交與情緒能力，讓孩子認識自己、了解他人，學會如何與自己和他人相處，並且懂得為自己的決定負責。 安心國小，一個可以安心讀書、學習、成長的地方。 華彤轉學第一天，卻被「緊張」和「害怕」纏住，這時來了一個留著小短髮的同學，熱情的帶領她認識新環境，她說她們是「同一掛的」，這是什麼意思？小短髮要求華彤做的事愈來愈奇怪，華彤好想拒絕，但她就是說不出口，她很怕會失去這個朋友，卻也愈來愈不知道自己是誰了。

安心國小融合了社會情緒學習（Social and Emotional Learning）的概念，透過貼近生活的故事，提升社交與情緒能力，讓孩子認識自己、了解他人，學會如何與自己和他人相處，並且懂得為自己的決定負責。 安心國小，一個可以安心讀書、學習、成長的地方。 馬信身上總是飄著一股海的味道，除了爽朗的翔豪，他幾乎不和別人說話，他是他的擴音器、翻譯機，他們一起品嚐夏天的冰紅茶，一起玩官兵抓強盜，甚至一起被主任叫去學務處聽訓。翔豪漸漸發現，其實馬信很聰明，他還發現，馬信身上常常帶著大大小小的傷痕，這是怎麼回事？

Prized by Chinese and foreign merchants as an essential commodity along a vast trade network, silk served multiple roles throughout the ancient world: as fabric for garments, as a form of currency and method of tax payment, and as a medium and subject matter for professional artists and the literati class. Over the centuries, silk fabrics have remained synonymous with beauty and are entwined throughout Chinese art and literature. Extending from the Qing dynasty to the mid-20th century, UMAG’s silk textile collection encompasses a diverse range of subjects and formats that include hanging scrolls, framed panels, banners and robes. Each artwork exemplifies the sophisticated craftsmanship of the artisans and the collective stories of the Qing dynasty’s textile industry. 絲綢在龐大的貿易網絡中，一直是備受中外商旅追捧的商品。它在古代世界所扮演的角色極為豐富──絲綢既是一種紡織原料，亦是一種貨幣和用以賦稅之物，更是藝術家和文人的創作媒介和題材。多個世紀以來，絲綢是美的象徵，它與中國藝術和文學緊密交織。香港大學美術博物館所藏清代至二十世紀中葉的中國絲織物，題材豐富，形式多樣，包括立軸、掛屏、幡及龍袍等。每件織物既展現出工匠的鬼斧神工，亦訴說着清代紡織業的種種故事。

Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of twentieth-century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity. Jin Siyan surveys the work of leading writers including Zhang Ailing, Bei Dao, and Mu Dan. She seeks to answer some fundamental questions in the study of Chinese literary history, such as: How does contemporary Chinese literature go from historical narrative to the narrative of the I, where rhythm and epic merge into writing, and where the instinctive load of the rhythm substantiates the epic? What are the steps and the forms of mediation that allow such a transition? Is the subject the only agent of the transition? What is its status? What is the role of poetic language that led to the birth of the subject and which separates it from empiricism? What are the difficulties faced by Chinese writers today? Young Chinese writers set off in search of a totally new writing to rediscove

2012年諾貝爾文學獎得主——莫言，獲獎後首部作品 從人的故事出發，莫言探討「人性」的最新代表作 「莫言將夢幻寫實主義與民間故事、歷史和當代社會合而為一。」──諾貝爾獎委員會 The Nobel Prize in Literature 2012 was awarded to Mo Yan "who with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history and the contemporary”. 許多年後，當我成為一個小說家，當年的許多幻想，都被我寫進了小說。 自己的故事總是有限的，講完了自己的故事，就必須講他人的故事。於是，我的親人們的故事，我的村人們的故事，以及我從老人們口中聽到過的祖先們的故事，就像聽到集合令的士兵一樣，從我的記憶深處湧出來。他們用期盼的目光看著我，等待著我去寫他們。 ——莫言「諾貝爾文學獎演講」 這部小說，我是作為一個寫作者，同時也是作為作品裡的一個人物，深度地介入到這部書裡。 《晚熟的人》裡面一系列故事，這些人物，有的是我的朋友，有的甚至跟我像孿生兄弟一樣的彼此地知己。這七、八年來確實有很多很多的感受，彷彿只能通過這樣的一個角度才能把自己的這些豐富感受用文學的方式表現出來。 我想我能否超越自己，能否打破諾獎這個「魔咒」，現在不好判斷，但是我一直在努力，差不多十年來，儘管我發表的作品不多，但是還是一直在寫作，一直在做準備，也就是說我花費在案頭上的準備工作遠比我寫這本新書的時間要多。 ——2020.8莫言媒體訪談 ／ 《晚熟的人》是莫言得獎後首部結集出版的短篇小說集 十二篇作品可以一窺莫言八年間的變與不變 「晚熟」既可能是大器晚成、後勁十足，也可能是後知後覺、恍然大悟，甚至不計一切，後發制人。從「晚」與「熟」意義各種可能的排列組合裡，莫言觀察當代中國形形色色的現象，也思索後社會主義本身是否也是晚熟症候群的一端。 晚熟是時間的考驗，經過大風大浪，作家看盡一切。傳奇不奇，他要書寫平常裡的不堪，也要記錄那屈辱裡的高潔。晚熟的作家冷眼觀世，心照不宣，但更可以自行其是，笑罵由人。在這一轉折點上，莫言開始實驗他的「晚期風格」。 ——王德威（美國哈佛大學Edward C. Henderson講座教授） 《晚熟的人》基本圍繞兩類題材展開：一類關於莫言近年返鄉、重新認識當年人事風貌；一類

Fragmented Memories and Screening Nostalgia for the Cultural Revolution argues that films and TV dramas about the Cultural Revolution made after China’s accession to the WTO in 2001 tend to represent personal memories in a markedly sentimental, nostalgic, and fragmented manner. This new trend is a significant departure from earlier films about the subject, which are generally interpreted as national allegories, not private expressions of grief, regret or other personal feelings. With China entering a postsocialist era, the ideological conflation of socialism and global capitalism has generated enough cultural ambiguity to allow a space for the expression of personalized reminiscences of the past. By presenting these personal memories—in effect alternative narratives to official history—on screen, individuals now seem to have some agency in narrating and constructing history. At the same time such autonomy can be easily undermined since the promotion of the sentiment of nostalgia is of

From early times, Daoist writers claimed to receive scriptures via revelation from heavenly beings. In numerous cases, these writings were composed over the course of many nights and by different mediums. New revelations were often hastily appended, and the resulting unevenness gave rise to the impression that Daoist texts often appear slapdash and contain contradictions. A Library of Clouds focuses on the rewriting of Daoist scriptures in the Upper Clarity (Shangqing) lineage in fourth- and fifth-century China. Scholarship on Upper Clarity Daoism has been dominated by attempts to uncover “original” or “authentic” texts, which has resulted in the neglect of later scriptures— including the work fully translated and annotated here, the Scripture of the Immaculate Numen, one of the Three Wonders (sanqi) and among the most prized Daoist texts in medieval China. The scripture’s lack of a coherent structure and its different authorial voices have led many to see it not as a unified work but

Comfort Women Activism follows the movement championed by pioneer activists in Japan to demonstrate how their activism has kept a critical interpretation of the atrocities against women committed before and during World War II alive. The book shows how the challenges faced by the activists have evolved from the beginning of their uphill battles all the way to contemporary times. They were able to change social attitudes and get their message across. Yet the ambiguous position of post–World War II Japan’s government—which has consistently rejected any sign of guilt over its imperialist past—has kept the activists on their toes. Pivotal and serendipitous turning points have also played a crucial role. In particular, in the early 1990s, the post-Soviet world order assisted in creating the appropriate conditions for the movement to gather transnational support. These conditions have eroded over time; yet due to the activists’ fidelity to survivors, the movement has persisted to this day.

This is a most unusual book. For several decades Xi Xi has been widely known for her award-winning poetry and fiction. This time, she has chosen to write about the teddy bears she began making in 2005, after treatment for cancer, in order to improve the mobility of her right hand. She made the bears herself from scratch, choosing some of her favourite characters from history and legend such as the Taoist philosopher Master Zhuang, the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan, and Beauty and the Beast. She also created exquisite items of clothing for them and wove a series of delightfully witty essays around them, giving her readers fascinating insights into Chinese culture, and into the ways in which Chinese clothing and fashion have evolved through the ages. This is a book for all who love literature and teddy bears.

The Drunkard is one of the first full-length stream-of-consciousness novels written in Chinese. It has been called the Hong Kong Novel, and was first published in 1962 as a serial in a Hong Kong evening paper. As the unnamed Narrator, a writer at odds with a philistine world, sinks to his drunken nadir, his plight can be seen to represent that of a whole intelligentsia, a whole culture, degraded by the brutal forces of history: the Second Sino-Japanese War and the rampant capitalism of post-war Hong Kong. The often surrealistic description of the Narrator’s inexorable descent through the seedy bars and night-clubs of Hong Kong, of his numerous encounters with dance-girls and his ever more desperate bouts of drinking, is counterpointed by a series of wide-ranging literary essays, analysing the Chinese classical tradition, the popular culture of China and the West, and the modernist movement in Western and Chinese literature. The ambiance of Hong Kong in the early 1960s is graphically

Leung Ping Kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. ‘I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,’ he wrote of the story ‘See Mun and the Dragon’ (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story ‘Drowned Souls’ (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and more complex manner. Although the two stories are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways so very different, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex embodiment of the timeless soul of China, symbol of the universal power of the imagination, of the creative energy and transformative possibilities of the Tao. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s idea of freedom and liberation.

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