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Throughout the long-term evolution of global capital markets, stock markets, and crypto-asset markets have historically operated as two parallel systems: the former is built upon over a century of institutional accumulation and vast institutional networks, while the latter has thrived within the technological framework of blockchain. Today, with the ongoing implementation and application of new models—such as the tokenization of real world assets (RWAs), stablecoins, crypto-asset ETFs, and digital asset treasury (DAT) companies—the convergence of securities and crypto is emerging as the most disruptive transformation trajectory in capital markets. Traditional securities are stepping into the on-chain world, while native crypto-assets are making their way into the mainstream financial arena through compliant pathways. Capital markets are witnessing a historic convergence characterized by "mutual convergence."  This book presents a comprehensive overview of the convergence of securities

Asian Celebrity Cultures in the Digital Age represents the first comprehensive study on the transformations of celebrity cultures in increasingly globalised and digitalised Asian societies. It discusses relations between Asian celebrities and digital media across emerging phenomena in celebrity practices, cultures, politics, fandom, and economies. Highlighting original case studies from prominent Asian societies, including India, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, this book sheds much-needed light on the de-Westernisation and internationalisation of celebrity studies and is essential reading for scholars and students in celebrity, fandom, digital media and communication, and cultural studies.

電影除了在屏幕上的再現外，還有甚麼可能性？在數碼年代，電影與人工智能的關係是甚麼？本書回顧橫跨十三年的媒體藝術展覽CINEMA 2.0，展示電影作為思考與策展的方法。此展覽項目由媒體藝術家葉旭耀及策展人范可琪共同策劃，多年來嘗試探索當代科技與媒體文化，包括監控、演算法、後人類及遊戲等各種議題。 此書不單是展覽的紀錄，更試圖重溯電影，告別固有的概念，以跨學科及媒體考古學等方式重新探索電影與科技文化的關係。書中除了珍貴的展覽文獻，亦有重要的媒體藝術家邵志飛及羅海德等撰寫專文，擴展我們對當代文化的思考，同時引領我們走進新媒體藝術的世界。 Contemplating cinema beyond its traditional screen-based form, what other possibilities are there for cinema? In the digital age, what is the relationship between cinema, artificial intelligence, and algorithms? This book reviews the 13-year media art exhibition CINEMA 2.0, which showcases cinema as a method of thinking and curating. The exhibition, co-curated by media artist Ip Yuk Yiu and media art curator Kattie Fan, has covered key issues in contemporary technology and media culture, such as surveillance, algorithms, posthumanism and games. This book serves as more than a mere documentation of the exhibitions. It attempts to retrace cinema, bidding farewell to fixed concepts and exploring the relationships be

Confucius’ students included political advisors, military strategists, educators, businessmen, philosophers, warlords, and kings. How could he possibly teach his way so calmly and gracefully through states and kingdoms of hegemons vying for regional power? Who was this man!? This is a book by two masters, one ancient and one contemporary, both enigmatic. The lives of Confucius and Master Nan Huai-Chin (Nan Huaijin), in many ways, parallel each other. Both lived through tumultuous times, both had to leave their home state and wander only to return in old age to their birthplace. They were teachers, learned in many fields and arts and in life itself, but not scholars in the traditional sense; rather, they were masters of all they engaged in. They had students from all walks of life, were advisors of statesmen of all ranks and were flanked by loyal followers. They both seamlessly wove together the worldly and the spiritual. And both were most concerned about the decline of people’s virt

Mementoes of HMS Tamar abound in Hong Kong, but what is really known about this troopship and her role in the maintenance of British imperial rule? Using logbooks, newspapers, and numerous other sources, this book pieces together the multifaceted and largely unknown history of the Tamar . From her launch into service to her roles as a hospital, theatre stage, and transport for military personnel, the Tamar carried not just people, but also their mundane dreams and ambitions— for friends, families, and staying alive. Any ideas or concerns about sustaining the empire seldom featured in their minds at all, but it was this empire that the Tamar served for seventy-nine years, steaming the equivalent of thirty-two times around the Earth and transporting tens of thousands of people to what would seem to them another world. In this engaging narrative, the Tamar’s exploits and the experiences of her crew and passengers parallel those of the British Empire and its subjects, bringing to life t

Transnational Representations focuses on a neglected period in Taiwan film scholarship: the golden age of the 1960s and 1970s, which saw innovations in plot, theme and genre as directors highlighted the complexities of Taiwan's position in the world. Combining a concise overview of Taiwan film history with analysis of representative Taiwan films, the book reveals the internal and external struggles Taiwan experienced in its search for global identity. This cross-disciplinary study adopts a transnational approach which presents Taiwan's film industry as one that is intertwined with that of mainland China, challenging previous accounts that present the two industries as parallel yet separate. The book also offers productive comparisons between Taiwan films and contemporary films elsewhere representing the politics of migration, and between the antecedents of new cinema movements and Taiwan New Cinema of the 1980s.

Decision Making and Operations Research Techniques for Construction Management challenges the traditional empirical approach to problem solving and provides construction practitioners with a seasoned account to resolving day-to-day complicated issues in construction project management. With over 150,000 workers at different levels working at dispersed project sites throughout the territory, construction managers have to look for optimal solutions to minimize the costs and to maximize the efficiencies. This book provides scientific tools for practitioners to resolve some practical problems which are administered empirically at present and may lead to inconsistent results and human errors. The modern decision-making tools introduced in this book include Multi-criteria Decision-making Models, Artificial Neural Network, Genetic Algorithms, Construction Simulation, Rough Set Theory and Advanced Statistical Techniques for construction. This book will serve as a useful companion for those m

This book tells the truly unique life story of Dr. John Maeda, a visionary leader in multiple fields and recipient of a City University of Hong Kong Honorary Doctorate. The book discusses Dr. Maeda’s most interesting experiences, from his childhood at his parents’ tofu factory in Seattle to his days as an MIT professor, a pioneering digital artist, Silicon Valley venture capitalist, and more. It is suitable for readers interested in art, design, technology, artificial intelligence, and the Asian immigrant family experience in the United States.

Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analysing 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’ (MDI) 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 assesses how the MDI movement was successful in creating a transnational cinema by displacing and deterritorialising itself from the context of the national, and illustrates how MDI functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Isla

數位生活科技研討會(Symposium on Digital Life Technologies)是國內在數位生活科技領域規模最盛大的學術會議之一，本著「人本．創意．智慧」之核心理念，歡迎各界專家投稿與分享研究成果，以期達到數位生活相關之技術與創新應用的目的。

Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans inhabit today. Contributors to this collection situate the proliferation of (often online) queer representations, productions, fantasies, and desires as a reaction against the norms in discourses surrounding nation-states, linguistics, geopolitics, genders, and sexualities. Moving beyond the easy polarities between general resistance and capitulation, Queer Fan Cultures explores the fans’ diverse strategies in negotiating with cultural strictures and media censorship. It further outlines the performance of subjectivity, identity, and agency that cyberspace offers to female fans. Presenting a wide array of concrete case studies of queer fandoms in Chinese-speaking contexts, the essays in this

The book provides guidelines and practical creative exercises which equip creative-major students in early semesters as well as creative practitioners with fundamental knowledge on creation methods. Combination of functionality, simplicity and aesthetics in modern design is considered a fundamental design principle in the Bauhaus School in Germany,and, inspired by the School, the creative handcrafting exercises and the concepts introduced in this book are primarily coherent with this principle. The book draws a direction between two and three dimensional material-based design and modern digital creation process. The first part of the book introduces various creative handcrafting exerciseson proportion, geometry and modularity, among other fundamental design principles. The creative exercises will sensitise students on aesthetical and structural issues, and thus serve as an essential building block for application of the design principles to computer-based creative processes, which ar

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 in the technology—a breakthrough that affects nearly every aspect of our present-day communication infrastructure. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication," this memoir chronicles the personal and scientific odyssey of one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists. Beginning with his childhood in war-torn Shanghai and Hong Kong, Kao explores the turbulent rift that forced him from his family. Later, he details his early work and experience that established the basis for his seminal research with glass fibers in the 1960s. Following this groundbreaking work, the memoir covers Kao's time as a professor and Vice Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong up until 200

ESL/EFL Cases: Contexts for Teacher Professional Discussions is designed to provoke conversations on language teaching from multiple perspectives. The format of the presentation of cases allows the reader to gain insights on teaching from the vantage point of the students’ proficiency, the teacher’s perspective, the writers’ questions and suggested answers and finally the critical commentary. Readers are treated as thinking professionals who are capable of analysing the acts of language teaching through the teaching excerpts and the dynamic lesson transcriptions. The questions and critical commentary encourage deeper and more critical processing rather than a superficial interpretation of the teaching act. The cases, derived from authentic teaching contexts, encourage readers to appreciate the rich tapestry of teaching with all its complexities. Designed to promote professional discussions and deeper reflective and more effective practice, this book is a must for the teacher education

The digital divide and the inequalities of the availability and deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) between developed and developing countries have long been a source of concern. Global institutions such as the United Nations, the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the World Bank, as well as regional and national level agencies, have set up task forces to investigate how ICTs can be enacted most effectively in developing countries. How this shared vision should be put into practice is a complex undertaking, but it is already taking place. In this volume, we go beyond the theoretical, the polemical and the philosophical to consider practical issues as they are encountered by stakeholders in the developing country context. 15 author teams explore key issues organized into four sections: (1) Theoretical Background and Culture; (2) Telecentres; (3) Applications; and (4) Key Concepts with Country Specific Studies. Examples of these applications are

這本書不僅可以提高對字串比對問題的了解，也可以增加對演算法的修養。 這本書是介紹「字串比對」(String Matching) 的演算法。 假如我們有一篇有關二次世界大戰的文章，想要查詢 “希特勒” 這個名詞有沒有出現在這篇文章裡。如果有出現，那麼這串文字出現在文章何處？ ──這就是所謂字串比對的問題。 這本書介紹很多解決此問題的演算法，對於軟體工程師來說，這本書不僅可以提高對字串比對問題的了解，也可以增加對演算法的修養。

本書為作者於倫敦大學MBA畢業之論文，作者專攻創業與創新。 自2015年成立以來，HKTVmall通過尖端技術和創新策略，重塑了零售業，打造了一個可持續的數位生態系統。本文深入探討香港科技創業公司（HKTVmall的母公司）如何運用人工智能、大數據分析以及無縫的O2O（線上到線下）模式，服務683萬用戶，並於2022年創造38.3億港元的收入。了解HKTVmall如何通過一鍵購買、自動化零售店等數位轉型，提升客戶體驗，同時應對包裝廢物和最後一哩物流等可持續性挑戰。隨著全球電子商務預計到2025年達到7萬億美元，這項研究及時分析了創新如何在競爭激烈的市場中推動經濟、社會和環境的可持續性。本書適合對電子商務、可持續性和香港數位環境感興趣的讀者，提供了可行的見解和建議，助您打造更環保、更高效的網上平台。 This study is the MBA dissertation of the author who specialized in entrepreneurship and innovation. She intends to discover the future of e-commerce with the case of HKTVmall, the largest online shopping platform in Hong Kong. Since its inception in 2015, HKTVmall has redefined retail by leveraging cutting-edge technology and innovative strategies to create a sustainable digital ecosystem. This paper explores how HKTVmall, a subsidiary of Hong Kong Technology Venture, uses AI, big data analytics, and a seamless O2O (online-to-offline) model to serve 6.83 million users, generating HK$3.83 billion in revenue by 2022. Explore how its

歐盟於2021年倡議「數位十年」（Digital Decade）願景，以「數位羅盤」（Digital Compass）模型，具體化展現「數位能力、安全永續基礎建設、企業數位轉型、數位化公共服務」等四個發展方向。積極推動數位歐洲計畫（Digital Europe Programme），提升歐盟整體數位能力，加強歐盟公民、企業與公共行政部門的競爭優勢，支持產業、中小企業與公共行政部門的數位轉型，彌平數位科技研究與市場採用技術之間的差距，在強化歐盟韌性與數位主權的過程中，逐步達成歐盟永續發展與數位轉型的雙重目標。 隨著新冠疫情、物價通貨膨脹、氣候變遷加劇及全球地緣政治情勢緊張等情勢變遷因素，包含數位轉型與綠色轉型的「雙軸轉型」策略，已經成為當前最重要的兩項技術應用趨勢。數位科技的快速發展驅使全球重視「數位經濟、數位轉型、數位發展」等新興議題，各國政府及企業紛紛推出與數位經濟相關的倡議、發展目標與計畫。由於各國的軟硬體基礎設施具備差異性，因此對於諸多數位議題的思考方式也各有其側重之處，研析各國大型政策計畫的運作機制與執行情況，將有助於瞭解計畫執行思維，包括重點發展產業及具體優先發展項目等施政方針及方向。 南韓政府於2020年推動「數位新政」，預期透過建置基礎建設、輔導企業導入數位技術等政策，達成引領產業進入數位經濟的終極目標。臺灣政府近年來陸續推出「智慧國家方案」及「臺灣2050淨零排放」等施政，規劃透過補助、輔導等措施，協助產業推動雙軸轉型策略，提升整體競爭力並克服相關社會問題。南韓政府擁有與臺灣相仿的產業競合環境，觀察相關計畫之規劃內容及執行經驗，應可獲取值得借鏡之處。 臺灣的經濟發展環境，不容忽視外在地緣政治及氣候變遷等因素的影響，新冠疫情、美中貿易戰、俄烏戰爭、ESG發展等情勢，更彰顯強化彈性適應風險「韌性」能力的重要性，疫情後的企業也更應該追求具彈性適應力的「韌性」以取代「效率」。韌性是「企業遭受重大中斷時，能夠回復原狀的能力」，世界經濟論壇認為「企業韌性」是「企業能夠盡量維護到重大衝擊前的營運水準的能力或者能維持繼續營運的能力」。英國標準組織BSI將組織韌性定義為「能夠預測、準備、應對、適應環境的持續變化，以及突發性的營運中斷，讓組織能繼續生存和繁榮發展的能力」。因此衡量「韌性企業」或「韌性供應鏈」的重點，不再是著重於回復中斷前的「恢復能力」，而是重視是否能夠隨

The author outlines a framework that evaluate different crypto assets consistently. Successful crypto investing requires a solid framework for value-based decisions rather than speculation. Hopefully, it can bring some clarity to the industry and help to understand the intrinsic value of crypto assets.

本书根据作者十余年来以遥感数字图像获取、处理、输出、应用为体系开展的系统研究工作所积累丰硕成果的基础上，经过汇总整理，完成了本书。全书分为16章，从三部分来对遥感图像处理进行阐述，第一部分是基础部分，主要从遥感的图像总体性处理进行介绍，主要内容有遥感图像处

由於涉及異質技術整合應用，數位孿生（Digital Twin）為智慧製造發展的關鍵挑戰之一，然而近年在感測、運算、通訊、軟體技術的革新，以及IT、OT廠商間的產品服務整合下，已逐步實現並落地於智慧製造場域。本文將解析近年推動智慧製造數位孿生發展之技術革新、大廠近期布局動態與技術未來發展焦點，並藉此提出數位孿生對台廠的挑戰與契機，供製造業者參考。

Mongolia, a vibrant democracy landlocked between Russia and China, stands on the edge of becoming Asia’s next boom nation—one of the richest countries per capita in the region. Referred to as the “wolf economy” for its vast natural resources—copper, gold, and rare earth metals—today, it is also home to a growing number of cutting-edge tech startups and international lifestyle brands. Its vast steppe landscape lends itself not only to herding and tourism but also renewable energy production and filmmaking. This book is about the individuals who are fighting to strengthen the country’s democracy and diversify its economy. It is about innovators aiming to realize Mongolia’s promise as a hub for green energy, tech and lifestyle entrepreneurs who are shaking up traditional industries, and go-getters who have left high-flying jobs on Wall Street to return to the country they love and play their part in moving it forward. Unlocking a country’s potential is never easy. But if administered w

目錄 大象希音－2014李奉個展／東門美術館　卓來成 The Vision of Life－2014 Lee Feng／License Art Gallery CHO，Laicheng 大象希音 李奉個展　文／黃粱 The Vision of Life－2014 Lee Feng／Huang Liang 『大象希音』展覽：李奉生命能量的心畫　文／斯因 “The Vision of Life”：:Li Feng`s Drawing of the Heart With Life`s Energy／Si Ying 超以象外，德其環中－李奉「藝以載道」的創作精神／聖約翰科技大學何兆豐數位藝文中心主任 林慧真 Beyond the vision，within the environment－Lee Feng“Art carries the doctrines”spirit of creativity／Lin，Hui Jhen，St.John`s University Ho Chao Digital Arts Center Director 自序 Preface 內文 簡介

簡介 Oneness, coexistence, and nature are the fundamental phenomena of all living beings, while joy, harmony, respect, tolerance, equality, and peace are the essential guidelines for interpersonal relationships. Therefore, it is fair to say that one truth for all and to resolve and to develop are keys to the advancement of our society. When everyone has self-awareness and resolve to practice the Buddha’s Way, change the world, and benefit humanity, then the state of “Wholeness and Freeness” can be attained through benefiting oneself and others. 目次 ●Foreword / One Theme, One Concept ●Joy and Harmony ●Oneness and Coexistence ●Respect and Tolerance ●Equality and Peace ●Wholeness and Freeness ●Nature and Life ●One Truth for All ●The Human World and Life ●To Resolve and To Develop ●Self-awareness and Practicing the Buddha's Way ●Change the World and Benefit Humanity ●Bodhisattva and Volunteer ●Environmental and Spiritual Preservation ●Happiness and Peace ●Faith and Legacy ●Wisdom and Innovat

專為非IT人而寫！ 勇敢邁進DX數位轉型，成為一流的系統專案人才 有方向沒頭緒？怎麼選廠商？怎麼溝通系統需求…… 資深系統開發顧問20年一線實務方法， 3概念╳9大階段26步驟帶你實現數位轉型升級！ （適用任何類型／領域系統專案） 推薦（按姓氏筆畫排序） 林玉凡 資策會副執行長兼數位轉型研究院院長 詹文男 數位轉型學院共同創辦人暨院長、臺灣大學商學研究所兼任教授 盧希鵬 國立臺灣科技大學資訊管理系特聘教授 所謂數位系統開發，是指設計一套能夠實現企業願景的商業模式。然而數位系統專案對非IT人來說，往往遠比想像困難。根據日本企業問卷調查，大型專案的成功率僅16%，而攸關成敗的關鍵就在於「有效溝通」！ 本書兩位作者任職於日本IT與數位轉型顧問公司，書中集結逾20年銷售/人事/生產/新創事業等各種領域的數位系統專案開發實務案例，抽絲剝繭整理成適用當今數位轉型（Digital Transformation, DX）時代最重要的開發方法9大階段26步驟，破除跨部門、跨領域的溝通迷障，隨翻即用快速上手。在日本上市後即獲得商務人士一致好評。不僅是實務工具書，更是引導企業數位轉型升級的教科書級指南。 3概念╳9大階段26步驟，涵蓋從設定目標願景到系統上線： A章 在啟動專案前須知 黃金圈法則「why→how→what」的溝通架構 B章快速掌握系統專案流程 C 章Concept Framing目標願景 D 章Assessment現況調查分析 E 章Business Model未來藍圖構想 F ～M 章Scope系統需求 盤點功能→製作系統功能清單 →列功能詳細說明→制定開發優先順位基準 →決定開發優先順位→檢視產出物：功能清單 →非功能需求及系統架構+檢視產出物：非功能需求定義書 N ～R章PEW評選廠商與套裝軟體 製作初選名單+設定第一輪評估基準+製作資訊需求說明書+第一輪評選→提案邀請、多個廠商組合方案評估+設定第二輪評估基準+提案需求說明書+Q&A+廠商適合率與差異分析+系統Demo→投資額模擬計算+製作評選表+選定廠商→制定上線前的時程表→投資效益模擬通過專案核決 S 章BPP業務流程原型驗證 T ～U 章Design設計 組建開發團隊、製作補充資料+檢視關鍵圖表等 V～W 章Deployment開發與測試 監督系統設

本書大綱：20個核心章節 本書分為五大模組，從大腦科學到生活實踐，全面構建 AI 時代的健康藍圖。 第一模組：大腦與演算法 (心理機制篇) 第 1 章：多巴胺經濟：AI 如何劫持我們的大腦獎賞系統？ 解析無限滾動與即時回饋背後的神經科學。 第 2 章：FOMO 與數位焦慮：被演算法放大的「錯失恐懼症」 探討社群媒體比較機制對青少年自我價值的衝擊。 第 3 章：AI 生成的完美幻象：從濾鏡美學到容貌焦慮的辯證 分析 AI 影像修正技術如何影響個體的身體意象（Body Image）。 第 4 章：專注力的保衛戰：在碎片化資訊中重建「深度工作力」 * 提供提升專注力的數位工具與心理技巧。 第二模組：智慧監測與生理數據 (身體管理篇) 第 5 章：穿戴裝置與生物反饋：你的數據在告訴你什麼？ 介紹 HRV（心率變異度）、血氧與壓力指數的 AI 分析邏輯。 第 6 章：睡眠技術 (Sleep Tech)：利用 AI 優化你的修復週期 探討如何利用數據調整睡眠環境與節律。 第 7 章：精準營養與運動 AI：量身打造的生物黑客計畫 介紹 AI 飲食識別與虛擬教練如何提升生理機能。 第 8 章：數位雙生 (Digital Twin)：模擬未來健康的預測模型 預覽 AI 如何根據當前生活習慣模擬你十年後的健康狀態。 第三模組：AI 心理諮商與陪伴 (情感支持篇) 第 9 章：口袋裡的治療師：AI 聊天機器人在心理支持中的角色 探討 Woebot 等工具在處理輕度焦慮與憂鬱時的優勢與侷限。 第 10 章：虛擬伴侶與孤獨感：當 AI 成為我們最好的朋友？ 辯證與 AI 建立情感連結的心理學後果。 第 11 章：情緒識別技術：AI 能讀懂你的喜怒哀樂嗎？ * 解析多模態 AI 如何感測人類情緒波動。 第 12 章：數位哀悼：AI 模擬逝者技術的倫理與心理療癒 討論「數位遺產」對喪親者心理復原的影響。 第四模組：數位平衡的防禦策略 (實踐策略篇) 第 13 章：數位排毒 (Digital Detox)：重啟你的感官邊界 提供科學的斷網計畫與心理緩衝建議。 第 14 章：設計正義：如何辨識並對抗「黑暗模式」介面？ 教導學生識別誘導成癮的 App 設計陷阱。 第 15 章：環境建構：打造一個「AI 友善」的物理學習空間 探討光線、噪音與數

In this book, I trace the winding paths of my life: the fragile beginnings of childhood, the shaping of character and personality, the search for health and wholeness, the awakening of faith, the long seasons of formation, the call to consecrated life and priesthood, and the outward journeys of mission and ministry. Alongside the joys, I speak also of the shadows—the doubts and struggles, the inner conflicts and external storms that tested my roots. I share how I learned to make peace with what I could not change, and to integrate what once felt broken into something whole. Woven through these stories are the theoretical voices of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, theology, missiology and spirituality—threads of wisdom that helped me make sense of my experience, and that my experience, in turn, has made more real and whole. The narrative takes root in a landscape of critical reflection and scholarly inquiry, making the personal and the academic converse with each other—experience b

Travels and Revelations: 23 Essays by Zhang Chengzhi is about cultures which the author knows intimately. With sophisticated sensibility, he describes the tangible cultures of Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang in recent decades – the landscapes and cityscapes, the roads and waterways, the rural and urban dwellings, the working and living habits, and the outstanding symbols and totems. Like a traveller pausing before stunning scenery – the Mongolian grasslands, the yellow-earth plateaus, the Yellow River’s mighty gorges – he reflects on the intangible cultures that have made the Han, the Hui, the Mongolian and the Uyghur peoples who they are, and contemplates on their language usages, socio-political dilemmas, philosophical traditions, beliefs and biases and their religious aspirations. These essays show how deeply Zhang Chengzhi understands modern China’s painful evolution through war and revolution and how deeply he is attached to his Hui–Muslim roots. They also

The rulers of the Ming dynasty enacted paradigms of hierarchical order. Like imperial families, households, and courts in earlier Chinese dynasties, they articulated patriarchal, patrilineal, and patrilocal organizational principles as exemplars for families and institutions throughout the empire. Women made indispensable contributions to the development of these paradigms and principles and to the social, cultural, and political fabric of the family and the state. And yet, in the existing literature in Chinese and English women are often burdened with stereotypes, positioned as peripheral, or rendered almost invisible. Reading available texts “against the grain,” and drawing on a trove of evidence from material culture, Soulliere shows how women defined a place for themselves in the multigenerational Ming imperial family, imperial household, and court. The Empress and the Dragon Throne spans the first Ming century from just before the founding of the dynasty in 1368 to the end of the

Sustaining Landscapes: Governance and Ecology in Chinese Visual Culture, 960–1368 CE examines ecological thought contested amid the rise of the Chinese landscape genre, tracing its intersections with infrastructure governance, natural resource management, and geospatial knowledge. It traces the pre-industrial notion of “sustainability” in policy debates, legal regulations, and arts. Landscape imagery on paintings, maps, as well as mass-produced artifacts such as fans and ceramic pillows documented both appropriate and exploitative use of natural resources, and critiqued on social inequity and political turmoil. This book breaks new ground by bringing together research on visual and material culture with analysis of politics and ecology. Wang argues that the Chinese landscape genre embodied a holistic approach to negotiating debates on human-nature interdependence and people-state relationships. It joins the increasing literature on ecocriticism and offers alternative perspectives to ad

Although the arts have been firmly planted in the Hong Kong school system since the 1950s, they are often sacrificed in place of core subjects and preparation for examinations. Drawing on over fourteen years of exploration and experience, Yau makes the case that arts are critical to cultivating creative mindsets, which are our best resource for innovating and responding to challenges in this complex world of sudden changes. Through case studies and conversations with practising artists and educators, this book demonstrates why arts and education, two normally discrete disciplines, should be broadly integrated into the local Hong Kong curriculum, and how this can be – and has been – achieved. This book is intended for policymakers, educators, arts heads, and artists. The volume will also appeal to readers curious about how and why the arts should be foundational to education and capacity building in the twenty-first century.

Collected and Curated introduces Chinese art and material culture through the items from the permanent collection of The University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong. As the oldest continuously operating museum in Hong Kong, UMAG serves as a significant venue for contemporary art exhibitions, and excels at collecting, documenting and teaching about local and regional artists and art forms, while fostering ongoing and new relationships. Regarded as an essential teaching resource, UMAG has expanded its collection and programming through generous donations from patrons and artists, along with support from the University of Hong Kong and the HKU Museum Society. Since 1953, curators and educators have leveraged this assistance to expand, display and teach with a collection that highlights artefacts ranging from Neolithic cultures (ca. 6500 BCE–ca. 1900 BCE) to the early kingdoms and dynasties of imperial China (ca. 1500 BCE–1911). UMAG has also gained a reputation f

On China-UK Relations has selected 117 speeches from over 700 Liu Xiaoming, Former Chinese Ambassador to UK, had delivered during his 11-year tenure in the UK. The contents spans multiple dimensions: China-UK relations, party and parliamentary exchanges, economic and trade relations, financial cooperation, science and technology coopera tion, ecological and environmental protection, subnational exchanges, cultural exchanges, spring festival celebrations, educational exchange, Confucius institutes, military exchanges, Chinese community, British friends, and understanding between China and the UK. This book contains Liu Xiaoming’s observations and reflections on China-UK relations: What kind of China-UK relationship do we need? How to develop stable and mutually beneficial China-UK relations? And how to enhance mutual understanding and recognition between China and the UK? More chapters are dedicated to introducing exchanges and cooperation in various fields between China and the UK.

In A New Documentary History of Hong Kong, 1945–1997, Florence Mok, Fung Chi Keung Charles, and other contributors analyse newly released archival records from the National Archives in London, the Government Records Service in Hong Kong, and other sources across the world. This documentary collection provides an updated and improved understanding of basic aspects of the city such as governance, economy, society, and culture. It also aims at investigating topics that are under-exploited in previous sourcebooks, such as race and diasporas, gender and familial relations, medicine and healthcare, and environment and natural disasters. Overall, this book offers an innovative and comprehensive long-term perspective of Hong Kong’s colonial history.

In Socializing Medicine, Pao-chen Tang, Yuqian Yan, and Ling Zhang explore the intersections of medicine, health, and East Asian media. Interweaving archival research, audiovisual analyses, and theoretical insights from the emerging field of health humanities, the book reveals the multifaceted ways in which the mass media—from photography and film to television and live streaming—has been deployed as a tool for controlling medicine and health, privileging those with power and authority from the early twentieth century to the present. Adopting anti-colonial and anti-capitalist perspectives, the contributors in this volume challenge the dominant mediations of health against the backdrop of imperialism, Cold War geopolitical tensions, and neoliberal capitalism. Collectively, they advocate for alternative understandings of medical culture through media productions that envision accessible and equitable healthcare practices.

GAI智造神助攻 人工智慧(AI)在製造業的應用持續深化，生成式AI(GAI)的發展也帶來新的助力。未來製造業的AI運算將以雲/邊混合架構為主流，並導入更多靈活的機器人與影像辨識應用。其中包含擴大自主移動機器人(AMR)與視覺型機器人的導入規模，同時生成式AI用於瑕疵檢測領域，所生成的資料精準度與精細程度增加，將協助工廠採用更有效的自動化瑕疵檢測方案。 生成式AI為瑕疵檢測、數位分身(Digital Twin)應用的精準度，帶來明顯的突破。瑕疵檢測跳脫傳統的規則主導(Rule-based)演算法，走向模型訓練，以及透過GAI生成訓練用資料。加上資料生成的精準度與擬真程度持續增加，未來製造業若採用工廠的數位分身，虛擬工廠將協助驗證瑕疵檢測成效、AMR導入效益等應用，加快工廠智慧化的腳步。

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Journalism EthicsThis concise and authoritative work offers the latest guidance on journalism ethics for students and media professionals and will help empower news consumers to make informed decisions about the trustworthiness of their sources of information. It offers advice on all aspects of journalism ethics including accuracy and seeking the truth, representation of women, LGBTQ coverage, climate change, mental health, use of images, conflict reporting, elections, and how to use artificial intelligence. The author brings a unique perspective and depth of knowledge to the complex challenges facing journalists and news consumers in this era of fake news, disinformation, and artificial intelligence.

預見6G新通訊 ITU-R於2023年6月發布《6G框架建議書草案》，並於2023年11月更新針對6G技術框架的看法。在此次更新中，ITU-R表示，在6G的基礎框架確定後，下一階段是在2024~2027年定義6G相關的需求。2024年也是3GPP邁入R19標準制定的時間點，延續到2025年3月3GPP的6G工作坊(Workshop)期間，是6G標準初步發展的關鍵時期。 6G將接棒5G在人工智慧(AI)方面的應用研究，帶動更多元且深入的智慧功能。虛實整合的熱潮，與行動網路的發展相輔相成。沉浸式體驗以及NB-IoT在微型裝置的應用，都可望延續5G世代的技術進一步發展。同時數位分身(Digital Twin)與智慧城市等應用，未來都可能在6G世代快速發展。6G的AI原生(AI Native)網路，有助於基地台管控資源，達到省電的目的。整合感測與傳輸的技術，則可望應用於建立城市的數位分身，提升基礎建設效率。