GeoSpatial Semantics

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

Psychosis and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong covers some of the most serious mental health conditions that top the global disease burden and affect 3 per cent of the general population. However, most research on psychotic disorders is undertaken in the West, and few studies have been systematically carried out in Asia despite global interest in regional differences. This work offers a unique and coherent account of these disorders and their treatment in Hong Kong over the last thirty years. Chen and his research programme’s pioneering work has ranged from the impact of early intervention on outcomes and relapse prevention, to the renaming of psychosis to reduce stigma. The studies have contributed to wider international debates on the optimal management of the condition. Their investigations in semantics and cognition, as well as cognition-enhancing exercise interventions, have provided novel insights into deficits encountered in psychotic disorders and how they might be ameliorated. The

本書分為上下兩冊。下冊內容為：「河洛語的『是非問句』與『正反問句』」、「華語的正反問句：華語與河洛語的比較分析」、「河洛語的動後成分：結構與功能」、「台灣河洛語的『限定子句』與『非限定子句』」、「On the kam-question in Holo」、「On Reduplication of Adjectives in Chinese: A Comparative Study of Mandarin and Holo」、「The Syntax and Semantics of Resultative Complements in Chinese: A Comparative Study of Mandarin and Holo」。另收有附錄：「『母語』的教學與研究：理論與實際」、「語言學的『學』與『術』：兼談河洛語文字化的問題」、「鍾榮富教授〈客家童謠的文化觀〉讀後有感」。適合給研究河洛語語言學的專業人士作參考。