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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 a

Known primarily for his landscapes, Chak paints the forms of the natural world in abstract and poetic ways. After showing internationally―having lived in Japan and the USA for several decades―Chak: La

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to school guidance and counselling services in Hong Kong. It draws extensively on current research in the field, with a special emphasis on how guidance

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This is one in a series of books seeking to introduce the reader to the frequently encountered legal rules in Hong Kong. This publication, in particular, focuses on the rules regulating property and c

Questions regarding whether a first or a second/foreign language should be used as a medium of instruction (MOI) in schools, and if yes, for whom, and when, have been enthusiastically debated in recen

Co-authored by Eugene Nida and JIN Di, On Translation was first published in 1984 by the China Translation and Publishing Corporation in Beijing. It is widely recognized as a classic in translation th

Mencius is without doubt second only to Confucius in importance in the Confucian tradition. The Analects of Confucius which forms a unique and reliable source for our knowledge of the thought of Confu

Health is not just the absence of disease.In an era when living to 100 is becoming more common,our concept of ageing must evolve. While Hong Kong people enjoy the world's longest life expectancy, an important question arises: Are we truly achieving healthy ageing? In this book, Professor Jean Woo addresses a diverse array of challenges associated with the elderly population in Hong Kong society, including issues like elderly poverty, unfriendly community designs, unfair stigmatization faced by seniors, and late-life loneliness. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, she advocates for self-care, education, and empowerment, encouraging us to move beyond dependence on doctors and medications. Ageing is inevitable, yet we can control how we age. --------------------------------------------------------------By 2046, 36% of Hong Kongers will be ‘older adults’. Take Charge of Your Own Ageing is a timely publication to remind our society about the significan

Voice Therapy for Children is a bilingual instructional manual that aims to maximize speech therapy students’ and clinicians’ competence, knowledge, and effectiveness in managing pediatric voice caseloads. This is a unique text that goes beyond general descriptions of therapeutic technique and physiologic principles.Designed to serve Cantonese- and English-speaking children, this manual provides a clear and systematic overview of practical issues and clinical tips, laying out the steps and criteria for therapy programs. With detailed instructions for each voice therapy session, clinicians will find answers to questions such as How can children be kept engaged in voice therapy?How can clinicians facilitate learning and performance of voicing techniques?How can age-appropriate practice stimuli and games be selected?This manual contains detailed instructions for each voice therapy session and ready-to-use clinical materials, including picture cards for eliciting stimulus and record forms

Eternal Transience, Enlightened Wisdom:Masterpieces of Buddhist Art contextualises thirtythree bronze statues and thangkas of deities and gurus in Tibetan Buddhism from Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan and Mongolia dating from the 6th–19th centuries.From an art historical perspective, these Himalayan masterpieces reflect an array of aesthetic and artistic traditions from neighbouring regions across the Indian subcontinent and Central Asia. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of the artworks’ iconography and material culture.As part of Buddhism’s eternal journey from India to the Himalayas, China and Japan, the religious icons and objects of daily religious practice remain a testament to the shifting cultures that have engaged with Buddhism over the millennia.Acknowledging such a state of transience highlights the enlightened wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism as portrayed through the various artworks.「如來一相：佛教藝術藏珍」展出藏傳佛教藝術品，包括銅像及唐卡。展品源自6至19世紀西藏、尼泊爾、巴基斯坦，甚至遠及蒙古。藝術史上，藏傳佛教藝術興於喜馬拉雅山脈一帶，承襲了印度次大陸及中亞地區的美

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本書收錄了十七個與中文相遇的故事。十七位作者皆是北美各領域最傑出的學者與專家，儘管背景、經歷大不相同，但有一點是共通的：學習中文改變了他們的一生。這趟由語言開始的旅程出乎意料地改換了人生路徑，成就了理想和事業，甚至深及對世界和人性的領悟。有意思的是，作者們亦在不同向度親歷中國數十年來的劇烈變化，作為跨文化能力卓越的特殊觀察者，為時代和歷史留下了不可替代的獨家記錄。 ------------------ 中國對世界的影響力日漸增强，對中國文化與價值觀的了解隨之日形重要，而精通中國語言，就是完成這項突破不可或缺的工具。本書匯聚 了十幾位傑出人士的觀點，詳盡地說明了如何達成這項突破，以及其後的重大影響。——傅高義（ Ezra Vogel），哈佛大學亨利．福特二世社會學榮休教授 語言學習有利於心智成長，本書透過苦學中文的一些西方人的佳作宏論，將這一點表現得淋漓盡致。各篇作者回溯種種激勵人心的豐富經歷，幫助未來的學習者踏入別具深義的新世界。——舒衡哲（ Vera Schwarcz），美國維思大學歷史與東亞研究學系榮休教授 本書收錄了與中國有深遠關係的各界人士回憶錄式的一些漫談小品，既是趣聞逸事又有深刻見地。尖銳、挑動、輕鬆、嚴肅各體 兼備，摯愛中國的讀者肯定有豐碩收穫，對樂於在不同語言或文化之間互相溝通的讀者，讀了本書也會大有斬獲。—— 華志堅（Jeffrey Wasserstrom），China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know 合著者 這部引人入勝的書集合了著名的記者、學者和商界人士，以精彩的文字講述漢語學習對他們生活造這部引人入勝的書集合了著名的記者、學者和商界人士，以精彩的文字講述漢語學習對他們生活造成的各種變化。最重要的是，這些篇章顯示，具備了扎實的漢語能力，外國人就能跟極度複雜多元成的各種變化。最重要的是，這些篇章顯示，具備了扎實的漢語能力，外國人就能跟極度複雜多元的中國人民做出不經中介且成果驚人的直接接觸。對任何對中國感興趣的的中國人民做出不經中介且成果驚人的直接接觸。對任何對中國感興趣的人來說，這是一本必讀之人來說，這是一本必讀之作。—— 畢克偉（Paul G. Pickowicz），加州大學聖地亞哥分校教授，加州大學聖地亞哥分校教授

As a naval officer with the Austro-Hungarian Navy, Dezső Bozóky first departed Hong Kong for Canton in 1908, before travelling to Fujian, Shanghai and Beijing, where he documented the countryside and

Pai Hsien-yung is among the most important writers in contemporary Chinese and world literature. His masterpiece Taipei People is a classic of Taiwanese modernism; with an intensity of vision comparab

The main objective of Chinese-English Contrastive Grammar: An Introduction is to familiarize the reader with a subset of the learning difficulties and common errors in ESL/EFL pronunciation and lexico

When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of the city's Jazz-Age nightlife. Mu'

Feng Shui practice has become an important reference for the planning and design of buildings, monuments and even entire cities. In fact Feng Shui is an evolved study of the natural and built environm

The era between empire and communism is routinely portrayed as a catastrophic interlude in China's modern history, but this engagingly written book shows instead that the first half of the twentieth c

The construction industry is now facing unprecedented challenges resulting from the advances in information technology and networking through the web. Procurement paradigm of the construction industry

English-Cantonese Dictionary is a handy, user-friendly dictionary which emphasizes the Cantonese spoken dialect. It is designed to help users find the best word or phrase in Cantonese to express the m

How do we situate ourselves when we navigate the city of Hong Kong—physically, and in our minds? Against a backdrop of bustling density and movement, the difficulties of making space have shaped our days. From the challenges of limited living space and the quest for personal space, to the everyday negotiations of our identities in the social space, we are constantly confronted with the question: How do we redefine the distance between the city, others, and ourselves, and between the selves within us? This collection features prose, poetry and artwork from writers and artists in or from Hong Kong, as well as those who have had a close connection with the city, that explore the (im)possibility of making space. How do we remake space in our lives and our creative practices? What does this (im)possibility mean in (or in relation to) Hong Kong today?

Amidst the reshaping of Hong Kong’s social, cultural, political and ideological landscape, how do we reenvisage a city that exists in our memories? For those who have left their hometown―or the place they once called home―the question, “What does it mean to be a Hongkonger?” marks a constant shift between conflicting realities, identities and perceptions. Beyond the act of remembering, how do we reimagine our relationship with Hong Kong in the present and the future? In this collection of prose, poetry and photography by eighteen writers and artists, we see a gathering of reflections on the profound changes and subtle transitions that have transpired in Hong Kong, both in recent times and over the past decades.

The coronavirus pandemic that broke out in 2019 has finally calmed down in China, after the bungling occasioned by the iron hand of lockdown. But beginning in March 2020, the disaster spread abroad, a

Revised and Updated Edition Since its first publication in French in 1977, Chinese Poetic Writing has been considered by many to be the most innovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, as we

The deepest and most varied of the Tang dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the “first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.” Tu Fu merged the public and the pr

First published anonymously in 1804—its author remains unknown—Mirage is set in Guangzhou (Canton), some decades before the city was overwhelmed by the opium trade and the Opium War. Su Jishi, the ado

This is one in a series of introductory books providing readers with an overview of the more frequently encountered legal principles. This book focuses on the common law tort principles that apply in

Black pictures on white paper. Telling a panda's story in a black and white picture book is a fantastic idea—pandas are, after all, themselves both black and white. In many places around the world, an

In this handy book, Icy Lee and Paul Sze openly share their stories as nonnative English speaking educators in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). This collection of teachers’ sto

Presented in English for the first time in this book are two plays by Gao Xingjian originally written in Chinese: City of the Dead and Song of the Night. City of the Dead is the first of Gao Xingjian'

In this second edition, a number of chapters and sections have been revised and consolidated to help comprehension. In response to the latest developments in the law, discussions on new case law and s

Sir Charles Kao is generally regarded as the father of fiber optics, based in part on his discovery that signal loss in fiber cables was a direct result of impurities in the glass rather than a flaw i

Colonial civil servant, Confucian scholar, and collector of Chinese art, Sir James Stewart Lockhart spent more than forty years in Hong Kong and Weihaiwei — the former British leased territory in nort

The major difficulties facing professionals in real estate development in Hong Kong involve the use and development intensity of land, the complicated procedures and the mass of building laws. This bo

International Education and the Chinese Learner is one of the first full-length studies in the relatively new field of transnational pedagogy to explore the role of the Chinese learner in internationa

The story took place in Snowy Mountain in the coldest part of Manchuria, one Winter's morning in 1781. The Dragon Lodge party ran into the Horse Spring Banditry who were there to unearth a buried cask

Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings