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第一本兼具探討區塊鏈技術與產業實務應用的專業書籍！ 想一睹當紅炸子雞「區塊鏈」的原貌與風采？ 想瞭解區塊鏈底層蘊含的核心技術？ 想體驗區塊鏈可能商轉的實際案例？ 想在區塊鏈洪流中實現真正的無何有鄉？ 本書讓您所願速成就！ 自從第一枚比特幣誕生，區塊鏈發展迄今「若決江河，沛然莫之能禦也」！本書啟航於漫談區塊鏈之緣起與風采，繼而深入其核心技術，終於體驗可能商轉之產業案例，帶領讀者親證此無何有鄉之妙境！ 全書概分為觀念基礎一章、核心技術四章、產業應用一章以及兩項附錄。區塊鏈相關技術包羅萬象妙難測，本書去蕪存菁但取四精華單元來加以深探：架構以太坊私有鏈、初探與深訪智能合約、與DApp 共舞的web3j Java 方案，閱畢讀者即可對區塊鏈應用游刃有餘。 最後一章則為本書異於同類書籍之壓軸―Java DApp個案設計，親領讀者開發七項經典實務案例，如競標拍賣、假新聞、供應鏈金融、醫療理賠、共享經濟以及點數經濟等，以助讀者體解區塊鏈真實義也。 浮生掠影不空過 世事區塊起串鏈 若人欲解鏈實義 勤修本卷萬境圓

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an enormously popular and widely known childhood fantasy of all time. The author tells the story of Alice, a little girl finding herself in Wonderland after falling through a rabbit hole. After tasting some magic cake and drink, she experiences changes in body sizes, which allows her to explore Wonderland and meet various kinds of talking animals and other amazing characters. Are these adventures nothing more than a bizarre dream? Or do they really happen? Let’s get into Wonderland with Alice and find out more!

Kotlin從入門到進階實戰》從Kotlin 語言的基礎語法講起，逐步深入到Kotlin進階實戰，並在最後配合項目實戰案例，重點介紹了使用Kotlin+Spring Boot進行服務端開發和使用Kotlin進行Android應用程序開發的內容，讓讀者不但可以系統地學習Kotlin編程的相關知識，而且還能對Kotlin應用開發有更為深入的理解。 本書分為14章，涵蓋的主要內容有Kotlin簡介，Kotlin語法基礎，類型系統與可空類型，類與面向對象編程，函數與函數式編程，擴展函數與屬性，集合類，泛型，文件I/O操作、正則表達式與多線程，使用Kotlin創建DSL，運算符重載與約定，元編程、注解與反射，Kotlin集成Spring Boot服務端開發，使用Kotlin進行Android開發。 本書內容通俗易懂，案例豐富，實用性強，特別適合Kotlin語言的入門讀者和進階讀者閱讀，也適合Android程序員、Java程序員等其他編程愛好者閱讀，還適合作為相關培訓機構的教材。

When Liu Bang, the eponymous protagonist of this novel, set out to conquer all under Heaven, he was already 47 years old. A medium-built, foul-mouthed peasant with a reputation as a ne’er-do-well, a womanizer, and a drunkard, who, though literate, never cared much about literature, he seemed to have a slim chance at success at a time when all the heroes in the realm contended for power and dominance. Against all odds, he defeated his rivals to found the Han dynasty, and quelled the numerous rebellions that challenged his rule. 本書以史實與故事兼容之手法，描述歷史人物劉邦以平民出身，卻能扭轉情勢爭奪天下的經過。 好評推薦 Praises for Heavenly Khan: An engrossing fictionalized history that examines an ingenious and powerful Chinese ruler.--Kirkus Reviews A new historical legend to stand alongside Alexander the Great and Napoleon.--San Francisco Book Review A deftly written and truly riveting work from beginning to end, Heavenly Khan: A Biography of Emperor Tang Taizong is an extraordinary and solidly entertaining story

本書分為22章，內容主要包括Oracle 12c的安裝與配置、數據庫的創建、數據表的創建、數據類型和運算符、Oracle函數、查詢數據、數據表的操作（插入、更新與刪除數據）、視圖、PL/SQL編程、存儲過程、觸發器、用戶管理、數據備份與還原、日誌、性能優化、Java操作Oracle數據庫等。最後通過3個綜合案例的數據庫設計，進一步講述Oracle在實際工作中的應用。 本書共有328個實例，還有大量的經典習題。隨書配套的下載包中贈送培訓班形式的視頻教學錄像，詳細講解了書中每一個知識點與每一個數據庫操作方法和技巧；同時還提供了本書所有例子的源代碼，讀者可以直接查看和調用。 本書適合Oracle數據庫初學者、Oracle數據庫開發人員和Oracle數據庫管理員閱讀，同時也能作為高等院校和培訓學校相關專業師生的教學參考書。

本書主要介紹SDN的基礎原理，包括SDN的定義、架構、應用，涵蓋SDN主流控制器的基礎知識，包括概念、架構、主要模塊說明；介紹虛擬交換機OVS、SDN仿真環境、SDN主流控制器的安裝指南、操作指南、開發環境准備；介紹OpenDaylight的MD-SAL開發流程，以示例詳解的方式使用YANG建模語言和Java語言進行MD-SAL相關開發；介紹使用OpenDaylight北向API接口進行北向開發的過程。書中利用大量的具體示例和實際案例來說明OpenDaylight的開發步驟，讀者在閱讀學習后既能夠掌握基本的開發流程，又能夠理解其框架原理。

《邊學邊用：華語聽說教材》是針對以普通話為第二語言／外語人士的特點和需要編寫的普通話口語系列教材。教材取材於普通話母語人士的口語對話，幫助學習者學習普通話，在日常生活或專業領域學以致用。 “Chinese（Putonghua）in Communication” is a series of spoken Putonghua textbooks designed for learners studying Putonghua as a second／foreign language. By drawing all examples and sample conversations from authentic speaking materials collected from native Putonghua speakers, this book series is suitable for learners aiming at learning practical Putonghua to be used in their daily as well as professional lives. 本書特點： Features of this textbook: 1. 簡體中文和漢語拼音對照，並附繁體中文供參考。 Simplified Chinese characters and Pinyin（Romanization）are presented side by side, also with conventional Chinese characters attached for reference. 2. 豐富多彩的練習，還原日常生活場景，活學活用。 Providing various communicative tasks simulating real world scenarios or situations. 3. 隨書附課文及詞彙錄音。 Providing full recordings of text and vocabulary. 4. 本書在大學已經使用多年，特別適合短訓班，學習者可以在比較短的時間內，基本掌握學校課堂、交通詢問、邀約、留言、飲食購物、簡短講演等方面的語言運用。 This textbook has been used

Previous collections of photographs illustrating the lost world of Old Hong Kong have tended to focus exclusively on black-and-white images from before the Second World War. In this new collection of photographs from the period 1948-1969, Otto Lam has instead selected a dazzling array of images in glorious full colour, most of them taken by overseas visitors to Hong Kong, including some of the earliest surviving colour views of the city and its environs. These evocative images demonstrate what a vibrant place Hong Kong was during this crucial period in the colony's rapid economic growth and modernisation. This volume, covering a wide range of images from daily life in post-war Hong Kong, comes at a time when a new generation of citizens is taking a greater interest in the rich and largely intangible heritage of their city.

Essential Terms of Chinese Painting provides a comprehensive coverage of the broad spectrum of Chinese painting. Through an array of some 900 terms, it exhibits the history of Chinese culture, as interpreted by artists and portrayed in their work. In masterful detail, it describes not only the artistic implements and drawing styles, but also how these are influenced by changing cultural considerations over time such as religion, philosophy, intellectual ideas, and political developments. From the broad view of how the change of dynasties affected painting trends in both format and subject, to the smallest detail of the methods used to paint different styles of tree branches, this is a full compendium of the scope and depth of artwork from China. This volume features twelve chapters which • explore all major areas of art including techniques, implements and materials, inscriptions and seals, painting and mounting formats for all categories including landscape, bird-and-flower, figure

In a career of public service spanning 30 years, Dr. Leong Che-hung had always been there when Hong Kong people needed him. His faith in serving his own people had taken him from the operating theatre to the Executive Council and Legislative Council representing the medical constituency, and he was successively appointed as the Chairman of the Hospital Authority, the HKU Council and the Elderly Commission, among others. Now, for the first time, Dr. Leong uses each phase of his professional and public career as a spur to reflect on what makes Hong Kong tick. Opinionated, perceptive and often prescient, he tells the inside stories of the city’s most challenging health care crisis and most treasured medical triumphs. Throughout the book, he thinks passionately about many pressing issues facing Hong Kong, and why they are not only challenges but also opportunities. In the end, this is a book more about the history and future of Hong Kong than the life of one of its inhabitants.

This publication accompanies an unprecedented exhibition highlighting four of the magnificent chinoiserie tapestries of Chinese Emperor Qianlong, woven after designs by François Boucher at the famous Beauvais manufactory from 1758–1760. The large and well-preserved textiles form part of the royal French commission by King Louis XV, objects of which were presented to Qianlong in 1766. These celebrated tapestries are joined by another historic set of culturally related depictions in print—The Battles of the Emperor of China. The engravings were ordered by Qianlong, drawn by Jesuit painters at the Imperial Court in Beijing and then printed in Paris 1769–1774. The ‘culture’ of these prints follows King Louis XIV’s influential images of the Histoire du Roi and presents Qianlong as both a war hero and as the undisputed leader of China in the mid-eighteenth century. These depictions date to the exact same time period, one that coincides with the high demand for chinoiserie in France—culmina

利用中文引導英語發音， 你我都可以用英語與“阿兜仔”溝通！ 好久不見了！ Long time no see 龍 探ㄇ 弄 吸 是啊！你都去哪啦？ Yeah，where have you been 訝 灰耳 黑夫 優 兵

This book included seven papers on modernization researches and the overviews of 15 annual reports of China modernization Report(CMR) from 2001 to 2016.CMRs with different topics year by year ,focus on the systematics studies of the principles of world modernization, as well as the features and roads of China's modernization with a model of scientific,innovative,strategic and constructive approach.It covered 131 countries and 97% of world population,with the time span of 400 years(from 1700 to 2100),invovled modernization theories, level-relative modernization(world,international,nation,regional and urban modernization),filed-related modernization(economic,social,cultural and ecological modernization) and sector-related modernization(agricultural,Industrial and service modernization),and so on.（中译文：本书包括新现代化研究的7篇文章和《中国现代化报告》的15篇综述。前者关注理论研究，重点讨论世界现代化和国家发达的原理和方法。后者关注实证研究，重点分析中国走向现代化国家的路径和战略选择，是15部《中国现代化报告》的内容摘要。本书可供关心新现代化研究和中国现代化的专家学者和相关人士参考。）

《sql server從入門到精通（第2版）》從初學者角度出發，通過通俗易懂的語言、豐富多彩的實例，詳細介紹了SQL Server 2012開發應該掌握的各方面技術。《SQL Server從入門到精通（第2版）》共分為4篇20章，包括資料庫基礎、初識SQL Server 2012、SQL Server 2012服務的啟動與註冊、創建與管理資料庫、運算元據表、SQL基礎、SQL函數的使用、SQL資料查詢基礎、SQL資料高級查詢、視圖的使用、存儲過程、觸發器、游標的使用、索引與資料完整性、SQL中的事務、維護SQL Server 2012、資料庫的安全機制、Visual C++ + SQL Server實現圖書管理系統、C# + SQL Server實現企業人事管理系統、Java + SQL Server實現企業進銷存管理系統等。所有知識都結合具體實例進行介紹，涉及的程式碼給出了詳細的注釋，讀者可以輕鬆領會SQL Server 2012的精髓，快速提高開發技能。 《sql server從入門到精通（第2版）》內容詳盡，實例豐富，非常適合作為編程初學者的學習用書，也適合作為開發人員的查閱、參考資料。

Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mist

This book focuses on Lam Woo, a well-known, highly successful building contractor whose company was based in Hong Kong at the beginning of the twentieth century. At a time when Hong Kong was expanding rapidly, Lam Woo contributed significantly to the building of its infrastructure such as land reclamation, and the construction of dockyards and roads. Using in-depth historical studies on Anglican Christianity in Hong Kong and China, rich archival sources, and historical photographs, this book illustrates the life of a man, who was a pioneer builder of majestic heritage buildings throughout Hong Kong such as St. Paul's Church, St. Paul's Coeducational College, the Diocesan Boys' School, and St. Stephen's College, all of which remain in use today. Lam Woo was more than a builder—his selfless support of Dr. Sun Yat-sen's revolution earned him the title of the "Perfect Revolutionary". As one of the founders of St. Paul's Girls' School, known today as St. Paul's Coeducational College, Lam Wo

本書深入系統地講解了Cocos2dx 3.10遊戲開發的理論與實踐，書中內容涵蓋了Cocos2dx 3.x各方面的知識點與示例分析。這些內容包括如何搭建Cocos2dx的開發環境(iOS和Android平臺)、Cocos2dx的工程結構、核心類和相關的API、標籤、功能表、控制項、本地化、事件處理機制、網路技術、動作、調度、繪圖API、動畫、存儲技術、Sprite3D、瓦片地圖、粒子系統、物理引擎、骨骼動畫、ObjectiveC、Swift、C++和Java交互的方式。本書的第18章提供了一個完整的案例——星空大戰，這個案例是一款完整的射擊類遊戲，類似於雷電遊戲。該遊戲使用了本書介紹的基本知識點，通過這個案例，讀者可以更進一步鞏固基本理論知識。

This was the motto of Chang Kuo-sin, and the ideal which he inspired generations of students of communication to follow. He proved his own dedication to this when, in 1949, he found himself in Nanking, the former nationalist capital, under the rule of the newly victorious communists. For eight months he lived and attempted to work in the midst of these historical changes. He managed to smuggle his detailed notes out to share with the world at a time when almost no reports of the new regime were being published. To mark the centenary of his birth, Hong Kong Baptist University’s School of Communication has republished this important work by one of its most distinguished professors.

This book presents the first in-depth analysis of a monumental scroll known as the Ordination Scroll of Empress Zhang, dated 1493, from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art. Through images and text, this scroll documents the ordination of Empress Zhang (1470–1541), wife of the Ming-dynasty Hongzhi emperor (r. 1488–1505) by a Heavenly Master of Zhengyi Daoism. It is a key source in the study of the history of Daoist ordinations, and a rare surviving record of the relationship between a Ming empress and the Heavenly Masters. Through detailed analysis of different historical perspectives and the Ordination Scroll itself, this book offers new insights into Daoist practices, Daoist material and visual culture, and the lives of imperial women in Ming China. By combining a rigorous attention to the specific object with a broad awareness of cultural context, this important book marks a real advance in our understanding of the agency of imperial women in Ming China, and the role of

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 introduces this stream of thought by focusing on the second generation Modern Confucians— Mou Zongsan, Tang Junyi, Xu Fuguan and Fang Dongmei. These scholars argue that traditional Confucianism, as a specifically Chinese social, political, and moral system of thought can, if adapted to the modern era, serve as the foundation for an ethically meaningful modern life. In this most timely monograph, Jana S. Rošker is visionary in anticipating the role Confucianism might serve as a world resource in reshaping a newly emerging cultural order for our own time and place. She brings the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the philosophical contributions of the second generation of Modern Confucians into clearer focus, and documents the inspiration their discourses have given contemporary scholars eng

Visual Basic是目前國內使用者最多的程式語言之一，對於熟悉Visual Basic的使用者來說，Android App開發雖然是當紅的軟體開發領域，但是，苦於不熟悉Java語法和物件導向程式設計，根本無法馬上入門。現在，直接使用現有Visual Basic程式設計經驗，一樣可以輕鬆跨平台開發Android和iOS App！ Basic4android（B4A）是一套整合開發環境IDE，可以讓Visual Basic語言的開發者直接使用BASIC語言來開發Android App，B4A能夠自動將開發者撰寫的BASIC程式碼編譯轉換成Java程式碼來建立原生的Android應用程式。 Basic4iOS（B4i）是B4A的兄弟產品，可以讓我們使用相同觀念和語法來開發iOS App，輕鬆使用Visual Basic語言在Windows作業系統進行iOS App開發。 *全面升級Android 5.x和Java SE8 *完整說明B4A+B4i整合開發工具的使用。特別製作實用幻燈片教學影片來幫助讀者快速入門B4A。 *使用大量程式範例說明B4A和B4i的Visual Basic語法。 *提供大量實際B4A和B4i專案幫助讀者學習Android/iOS App程式設計。 *詳細說明B4A活動模組、事件處理和活動的生命周期，和活用B4A和意圖建立多活動Android App，和啟動內建應用程式。 *完整說明使用介面設計，包含：版面配置、基本介面元件、選單、清單元件、標籤頁和對話方塊等。 *完整說明Android App的圖片顯示、圖庫瀏覽、繪圖、動畫建立和統計圖表。 *活用B4A函數庫、RESTful API和JSON來建立股票查詢和圖片搜尋程式。包含SQLite資料庫、GPS服務、Google地圖、服務模組、狀態列通知和首頁小工具的完整解說。 *詳細說明iOS帳號申請和B4i安裝步驟，和如何在Windows作業系統建立iOS開發環境。 *使用實例說明B4i的iOS生命周期、介面元件和函數庫的使用，並且說明如何使用B4A+B4i開發跨平台行動App。

Do you know why there have been so many problems in various parts of the world? In furtherance of their colonial interests, British politicians from time to time wrote national borders for other peoples. They did so in the Balkans, in Africa and in the Middle East. They even drew the border between China and India. Such borders were very often not based on the conditions on the ground. This sowed the seeds of future conflicts. Open your eyes and be open-minded, learn history from different perspectives. Hear the other side, reflect on our own position, independent thinking, say no to double standard. What have we learnt from history? The Great Flood of Yahweh killed almost all living things (including the lovely boys and girls in China). Is this not genocide? In the Conquest of Canaan, did Yahweh not instruct his Chosen People to embark on genocide? Are these really consistent with the all-loving Christian God? God must have been very upset by so many people claiming to be Christia

Prof . Rong-an Chen has devoted himself to the research of Chinese classifiers for forty years, and the ultimate achievement is the publication of a dictionary discussing the usage of Chinese classifiers in ancient time. There has been English dictionary of contemporary Chinese measure words in the market, but there is not any English dictionary talking about ancient Chinese classifiers. The absence of such a kind of dictionary in the book stores motivates him to write this dictionary. The document data collected in this dictionary begins from the oracle bone inscription in the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC) to 1949A.D., when the famous Chinese author Lao She’s (老舍) article《四世同堂》was written. This dictionary has the following outstanding features: 1. It includes 730 entries, and has incorporated the newly found classifiers from excavated wooden slip documents, such as ‘絜xié’, ‘ jiăn’, ‘偶ŏu’, ‘秉bĭng’, ‘格 gé’, ‘給j ĭ’, ‘町tǐng’, ‘捼rúo’, ‘陽/揚yáng’, ‘真zhēn’, ‘辟bì’, ‘資zī’ and ‘布bù’, etc. 2. The auth

"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

This book is for readers who are interested in literature, visual arts and writings about life. Most of the time, life itself, including personal ones and collective ones (such as nation, natural environment and so forth), gives incredible inspirations to the one who is writing. And yet, through more reading and more thinking, the writing self can imagine someone else’s way of living, as if he or she is living through it. This collection of essays brings literature and visual arts together, as their aesthetics come to complete each other. 本書特色 A collection of essays that explores the intricate relationships between literature and art, bringing new insights into famous writers such as Henry James and Virginia Woolfe.

At a time when there is a developing ideological gap among generations and a degradation of trust between people and the institution of government, there are concerns whether young people’s political participation activities will continue to radicalize. This volume in 15 chapters serves as a useful overview of various significant aspects of the new trends of political participation in Hong Kong. Written by a team of experts who have been astute observers of Hong Kong Politics, the book covers a wide spectrum of topics ranging from a conventional understanding of political participation (e.g., the activities of political parties and interest groups) to a more specialized form of participation (e.g., the relationships between government and legislators in policy-making). The study of the rise of new social movements by the Post-80s generation would be of particular interest to those who are keen to comprehend the sharpening inter-generational differences. There will be a readership am

Books about cities can open pathways to discover new places, and familiar places anew. Hong Kong is a much visited place. Over 50 million people stream through its hotels, restaurants and shopping malls each year. That is a lot of first impressions! This book, written by fourteen reflective scholars about living and learning from Hong Kong, builds on the growing interest of using “place” as text while providing a model of deepening cross-cultural encounters. Each chapter is written in a personal and experiential style, exploring Hong Kong through the lenses of a range of disciplines that shaped individual author's perceptions and encounters. The city is like a text one reads and deciphers, linking one’s sense of other cities with one’s present experiences of this city in this moment of time. In reading the city, readers discover not only what is “out there” in the ever moving surround of Hong Kong’s urban life, but also what is inside oneself as newcomer and as from another city and

Animal Farm, published in 1945, is a satirical novel by British novelist and essayist George Orwell (1903-1950), pseud. of Eric Arthur Blair. Orwell is best known for Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949). As a socialist, he was a keen critic of imperialism, fascism, Stalinism, and capitalism. His works are concerned with the sociopolitical conditions of his time. Animal Farm, with great critical and popular success, is a witty, satirical allegory about the failure of Soviet totalitarianism. Some events in the book are based on events from the Soviet Union during the Stalin era. This novel is ostensibly about a group of animals who oust the humans from the farm and run it themselves, only to have it corrupted into a brutal tyranny on its own. This idea of a revolution betraying its supposed aims is a chief issue of Animal Farm. 【故事簡介】 No animal must ever tyrannise over his own kind. Weak or strong, clever or simple, we are all brothers. No animal must ever kill any other anim

At the end of June 2013, Professor Anton MJ COORAY retired from his position at the City University of Hong Kong School of Law after almost twenty-five years of loyal and productive service. During that time, he made a very substantial contribution to the success of the School, as well as to the study and practice of law both within and outside of Hong Kong. This Festschrift has attracted contributions from not only his colleagues, but also a number of world-renowned scholars, who wished to convey through their contributions their enormous respect for his scholarship, leadership and gentlemanly bearing. 'The Rule of Law: a Comparative Perspective' has been chosen the theme of this Festschrift because it is one of the most important topics in the area of constitutional and administrative law, about which Professor COORAY has researched and written extensively. Although the study of the 'rule of law' encompassed a very long list of fundamental legal principles or precepts, the thirteen

《淮南子韻讀及校勘》是劉殿爵先生晚年的力作，繼清儒王念孫《淮南子韻譜》之後，此書是最精確的韻讀研究。校勘部分兼採諸家異說，提出獨到的見解，尤其精采。今後此書必將成為討論西漢楚語的堅實基礎，同時更是了解漢初思想史的重要依據。――丁邦新，中央研究院院士 D. C. Lau was, at the time of his passing in 2010, one of the world’s greatest scholars of classical Chinese philosophy. Long renowned for his translations of the Laozi, the Analects and the Mencius, and the Founding Editor for the CHANT series of critical texts and concordances, Lau was also a devotee of the Huainanzi. But during his long scholarly career he was only able to publish one article of textual notes in 1968 and the translation of the first chapter of the HNZ with Roger Ames, Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source. This publication of his meticulous notes on the rhymes and textual criticism of the HNZ represents a heretofore unknown gift of Professor Lau’s profound scholarship to the world of Chinese Studies.―Harold D. Roth, Professor of Chinese Religious Studies, Brown University In what is indeed a highly technical study, Professor D. C. Lau wields

This study attempts to analyze systematically the rationale, evolution, and consequences of Chiang Kai-shek's "unity before resistance" doctrine, which was the basis of Nanking's appeasement policy. The author argues that there were a number of independent variables that influenced Nanking's attitude toward Japan: 1) the internal disintegration of China; 2) factional conflicts within the Kuomintang; 3) ineffective administration; 4) the vicissitudes of nationalism; 5) the material backwardness of China; and 6) international mediation. All of these factors were interrelated. The intervening variables were Chiang Kai-shek's personality, his patterns of political behavior, his way of ruling, and his perception of internal and external crises. By adopting the temporary appeasement policy toward Japan, Chiang hoped to gain enough time to consolidate China and his supreme leadership. But Chiang’s appeasement policy in fact engaged his government in two races - one with Japanese aggression an

This is how a Chinese proverb goes, “It takes a long way to tell how strong a horse is; it takes a long time to know a person well.” Yet, the Chinese also developed a set of rules to know a person simply by observation – read first his face and palm, then his gesture and demeanour for his intelligence and his luck. If you’re interested in knowing a person by just looking, this book is an indispensable read: - Is she/he the perfect wife or husband? Is he pretending to be rich, but is actually a less-privileged working class? Is he a sex fiend or a shameless con man? They are giving it away on their face and with their gestures. - What is your boss thinking? How do you tell if a subordinate is loyal? Which of the workers is the most competent? Simply take a look and you’d know. - Read both the face and the palm to tell his/her love luck and if his/her marriage is good or bad. - A mole, a zit, the voice, the hair and the way a person walks are all essential clues to tell his/her luck.

“but that my heart had been broken a few times, sometimes it doesn’t even feel like a heart, can anyone make it smaller and a little bit smarter? Or does it just need time to be recovered or adjusted to the change?” 這是我的心，她是一顆好心， 但是這個心，多次破碎， 有些時候，我甚至不覺得她再是一顆心， 有沒有人可以幫我將她變得細小一點？ 或許， 變得聰明一些？ 還是， 只需要給她時間去復原，去適應這個迴旋不止的世界？

Multiple Modernities approaches the concept of modernity through two historical phases of Norawy. The first study focuses on the interplay between Lutheran state officials and popular movements in the nineteenth century as an essential aspect of the growth of social democracy. The second examination of modernization centers on twentieth-century Norway after World War II. The book is balanced between theoretical remarks on conceptual issues, an assessment of modernization processes, and a study of basic epistemic and structural challenges that confront us in our time. Scandinavian countries are often noted as cases of successful modernization processes. However, these references to a “Scandinavian model” tend to focus on the mid-twentieth century after World War II. In Skirbekk’s view, the uniqueness of modernization processes in Scandinavia, for instance in Norway, is better conceived historically, not least by focusing on the nineteenth century with a continuation into the twentieth c

利用中文引導英語發音， 你我都可以用英語與”阿兜仔”溝通！ 好久不見了！ Long time no see. 龍 探ㄇ 弄 吸 是啊！你都去哪啦？ Yeah, where have you been? 訝 灰耳 黑夫 優 兵

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