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In The Heart Sūtra: Revisiting Its Texts, History, and Meaning, Henry C. H. Shiu investigates the historical origins of the Heart Sūtra, a significant Buddhist scripture. He compares the Sanskrit texts with their Chinese and Tibetan translations to analyse whether the Heart Sūtra might be a Chinese apocryphon, through detailed linguistic examination. To achieve this goal, Shiu thoroughly examines the primary sources from which the scripture was extracted. He emphasises the necessity of reading the Heart Sūtra in the larger context of the Perfection of Wisdom literature, which contains the essence of Mahāyāna Buddhist teaching. In this monograph, Shiu successfully transcends the boundaries between the Chinese, Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions and provides a revisionist interpretation of the Heart Sūtra.

In The Heart Sūtra: Revisiting Its Texts, History, and Meaning, Henry C. H. Shiu investigates the...

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

This book features five theme-based units on cross-disciplinary academic English skills, focusing on the needs of first-year undergraduate students. Each unit covers academic writing, reading, and speaking skills. The units progressively take students through the steps needed to complete three common academic assignments: the essay, report, and tutorial discussion. These steps include searching for quality sources, note-taking, establishing a critical stance, formulating evidence-based arguments, synthesizing information from multiple sources, and structuring academic texts. Each unit also provides opportunities for students to analyse texts, apply their critical thinking skills, practise what they have learnt in productive tasks, and reflect upon their progress. This book is aimed at first-time university students. Many of the readings are related to China and a broader Asian context. As such, it appeals to first-year university students in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan.

This book is the second in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts. Looted in 1942 from the Warring States-period Chu tomb at Zidanku, Changsha, the manuscripts date to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BCE and are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. The monograph represents the culmination of almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. Volume One addresses the circumstances of the discovery of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts and the subsequent provenance history in China and the United States. Volume Two provides the first complete transcription of the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts in their entirety together with reproductions of the original manuscripts. The transcription is accompanied by comprehensive annotations, with full paleographic and philological analysis of the texts. An English translation of the texts has been added by Professor Donald Harper. For the first time, the Zidanku Silk Manuscripts can

Ann Wan-lih Chang（張婉麗） Ann Wan-lih Chang, was born in Taipei and currently lives in Kaohsiung. She received her M.A. at the Queen's University of Belfast in 1997 and her Ph.D. at the University of Ulster in 2006. Her major fields of study and research are contemporary Irish women's writing, the short fiction genre, discourse of stereotypes and archetypes in literary texts. Currently she is the assistant professor of the Department of Applied English at Shih-chien University, Kaohsiung Campus.

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

Utopia and Utopianism in the Contemporary Chinese Context: Texts, Ideas, Spaces decisively demonstrates the extent to which utopianism has shaped political thought, cultural imaginaries, and social engagement after it was introduced into the Chinese context in the nineteenth century. In fact, pursuit of utopia has often led to action—such as the Chinese Revolution and the Umbrella Movement—and contested consequences. Covering a time span that goes from the late Qing to our days, the authors show that few ideas have been as influencing as utopia, which has compellingly shaped the imaginaries that underpin China’s historical change. Utopianism contributed to the formation of the Chinese state itself—shaping the thought of key figures of the late Qing and early Republican eras such as Kang Youwei and Sun Yat-sen—and outlived the labyrinthine debates of the second half of the twentieth century, both under Mao’s rule and during the post-socialist era. Even in the current times of dystopian

The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. Dating to the turn from the 4th to the 3rd centuries BC (Late Warring States period), they contain several texts concerning basic cosmological concepts, including one manuscript (Manuscript 1) with a diagrammatic arrangement and surrounded by pictorial illustrations. As such, they constitute a unique source of information complementing and going beyond what is known from transmitted texts. This is the first in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University. While the philological study and translation of the manuscript texts is the subject of Volume Two, this first volume presents the archaeological context and history of transmission of the physical manuscripts. It records how they were taken from their original place of interment in the 1940s and taken to the United States in

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

COUPLET PAIR REBUS explores the principle of cause and effect in art, offering various approaches to this philosophical relationship. Based on the UMAG exhibition curated by Harald Kraemer, the COUPLET section is comprised of more than twenty calligraphic pairs of poetic lines, known in Chinese as duilian (對聯). Through the multi-layered texts, one discovers the multitude of voices that can be used to describe nature and the world and how content can be visualised through various forms of calligraphy. PAIR features artworks that form a balanced equilibrium through diverse visual languages along with objects that exemplify how mankind’s pursuits create objects in symmetrical harmony across genres. While works presented in the REBUS section form a network of diverse references that connect the objects. Individuals are then tasked with decoding these connections like a 3D puzzle. This publication features an essay by curator Harald Kraemer unpacking the issues of harmony, symmetry and c

Grounded in a desire to bring back to life rare items from the University of Hong Kong’s Fung Ping Shan Library that are entwined within the world of music and to place them in a context of books and images in American, British, and other Asian collections, Chinese Music in Print views the library as a repository not of information but of artifact, and then uses these artifacts as a means for generating scholarly narrative. It begins by assessing seminal texts in the Confucian canon set against the delicacy of the concubine and amanuensis Shen Cai’s calligraphy and poetry. Confucianism was itself a crucial aspect of courtly life, and an exploration of its ritual is the book’s second theme. Vernacular genres of opera and song are represented in the third chapter, while the Great Sage returns in the fourth for an exploration of the repertoire and richness of his favourite instrument, the qin. The final chapter ends the journey with discussion of the legacy of generations of Europeans who

本書是業界首本劍橋A Level 9715中文考試的教學與備考輔導書。 本書是依據劍橋大學國際考評部（CAIE）A Level 9715中文考試大綱（2020-2022），針對考生普遍反映難度較大的卷三（Essay）、卷四（Texts）進行編寫的教學與考試指導。 1.緊扣所有話題和作家作品分析：覆蓋卷三的15個話題，卷四的10位作家及其作品和相應文體，配備30幅思維導圖，加強學生的理解能力。 2.總結歷年題型，解析答題思路：根據考察重點，提煉卷三與卷四的題目類型，並指出答題原則和步驟，提升學生的應考能力。 3.結合範例點評，提供寫作方法：模擬真題，提供卷三與卷四的範例及點評，為學生的中文寫作搭建腳手架，全面促進其中文水準。

What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages? Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of “keywords”: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture. The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and historical texts of the Warring States period (453–221 BCE) to late imperial (ca. 16th–18th centuries CE) literature and philosophy. They are guided by a similar set of questions: What elevates a mere word to the status of “keyword”? What s

Tracing China’s journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China. Spanning decades of rural-urban divide, it finally uncovers China’s global reach and Hong Kong’s cross-border dynamics. Helen Siu traverses physical and cultural landscapes to examine political tumults transforming into everyday lives, and fathom the depths of human drama amid China’s frenetic momentum toward modernity. Highlighting complicity, Siu portrays how villagers, urbanites, cadres, entrepreneurs, and intellectuals—laden with historical baggage—venture forward. But have they victimized themselves in the process? This essay collection, informed by critical social theories and shaped by careful scrutiny of fieldwork and archival texts, is woven by key historical/anthropological themes—culture, history, power, place-making, and identity formation. Siu stresses process and contingency and argues that culture and society are constructed through human actions with nuanced

First published in 1968, this volume of essays, posthumously edited by the author's brother Professor C. T. Hsia (a prominent Columbia University professor of Chinese literature), focuses on Chinese literary criticism relating to the work of leftist Chinese writers, including Lu Hsün, Chiang Kuang-tz'u, the "Five Martyrs," and Chü Ch'iu-po, who were sympathetic to the ideals of the pre-1949 Chinese communist party. As one of the few foundational texts to provide a critical overview of the aesthetics and politics of China's leftist literary movement, The Gate of Darkness examines the conflicting dilemmas between leftist authors' own ideals and the strict ideological frameworks imposed by the propaganda policies of the Chinese communist party in the early twentieth century. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hsia's essays are exciting reading precisely because Mr. Hsia approached his subject not merely with the index-cards of a historian but also w

Tang Chun-I Lecture Series The Tang Chun-I Lecture Series is based on lectures and seminars delivered by distinguished scholars who are holding the Tang Chun-I Visiting Professorship at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. This professorship was initiated in 2003 by the Department of Philosophy, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in memory of the late Professor Tang Chun-I (1909-1978), a major figure in 20th century Chinese philosophy and the first Chair Professor of the Department of Philosophy. In Res Publica, Günter Zöller offers a concise and perceptive analysis of the influence that Plato’s Pepublic had on the political thought of three leading German philosophers rarely discussed together—Kant, Hegel and Fichte. He investigates how these three thinkers engaged with one of the founding texts of Western political philosophy to offer their particular interpretations of the forms and norms of the political organization known as the "commonwealth" or res publica. Professor Zöller c

This reader is designed for an intermediate-level Chinese course in which students not only develop proficiency in the Chinese language but also gain some knowledge of Chinese culture. It consists of twenty-two lessons, which are arranged according to their level of difficulty. Each lesson contains a core text and a reading text. The contents of the texts cover a wide variety of topics, including Chinese language structures and characters, Chinese customs, proverbs, holidays, social phenomena, religions, poetry and geography, as well as Chinese folklore. A list of questions for group discussion follows the text in each chapter to help students further explore issues related to Chinese culture and to their own lives. Grammar notes and exercises for relevant grammatical points are introduced after each core text to enhance students’ skills of reading, comprehension and writing. The grammar notes are all explained in English and illustrated through sample sentences in Chinese with Engli

◎線條＋符號＋顏色，多種抽象概念的新詮釋。 Line + symbols + colors, new interpretations of multiple abstract concepts. ◎跳過望文生義可能產生的歧解，以最簡單的形式進行最直觀的哲學演繹。 Avoid ambiguity that literal interpretations may lead to, directly interpret philosophies with the simplest methods. 你可曾想過用簡單的筆劃與顏色勾勒物質世界的抽象概念？ 打破現實形式的框架，以冥想、意象、解構，重新簡約而寧靜的感受世界！ 作者以簡單的線條、圖象、文字與顏色演繹二維、三維、四維的種種抽象概念， 藉著解構每幅創作的線條勾勒與組合，可以感受作者解讀物質世界的獨特角度， 是一部意識流動強烈的藝術、哲學創作集。 Have you ever thought about drawing abstract concepts with simply strokes and colors? Break the framework of reality, and feel the world with meditation, imagery, deconstruction, new definitions in peace! The author presents abstract 2-dimensional, 3-dimentional, and 4-dimensional concepts with simple lines, images, texts and colors. By deconstructing the lines and combinations of every creation, you may experience the author’s unique point of view to make sense of the material collection of artistic and philosophical creations of strong consciousness.

依據最新多益出題趨勢，全面分析核心題型， 搭配最精準的仿真考題、切中要點的詳盡解析， 於短期密集訓練中，掌握解題策略並高效提升答對率， 一本搞定聽力及閱讀，穩健邁向黃金證書！ 本書特色 【特色一】緊扣多益出題趨勢，點出命題方向和解析高頻考題 本書全面分析近年多益歷屆試題，集結成關鍵試題，及能讓考生迅速掌握出題模式與方向的精華單元，捨棄不必要的冗長解說，保留最質精的核心要點。針對聽力及閱讀基礎題型提供解題策略和技巧，即使是多益新手也能快速領略考題要點。 【特色二】一本全面破解聽力及閱讀所有題型結構 本書深入拆解多益第一至第七部分各大題型，針對多樣化題目列出解題策略及切中要點的解說，讓考生能培養從文章中迅速找出答案的能力，並提升解題效率和正確度、全面掌握題型重點、推測可能答案和避開陷阱選項。 ［多益聽力題型結構］ Part 1 照片描述（Photographs）→聽完四個短句後，選出最符合照片的描述。 Part 2 應答問題（Question-Response）→聽完題目句與三句回應句後，選出最適當的答案。 Part 3 簡短對話（Short Conversations）→聽完雙人或三人對話後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 Part 4 簡短獨白（Short Talks）→聽完獨白後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 ［多益閱讀題型結構］ Part 5 句子填空（Incomplete Sentences）→從四個選項中選出最適合填入句中空格的單字或片語。 Part 6 段落填空（Text Completion）→文章中會出現四個空格，分別選出最適合填入的單字、片語或句子。 Part 7 閱讀理解（Reading Comprehension）→ 閱讀完文章後，回答對應文章的二至五道考題。 【特色三】從快狠準單元即時演練到各部分整合題，循序漸進鞏固實力 每單元透過CHECK-UP及PRACTICE小練習，讓考生可打鐵趁熱，立即運用學到的解題策略及得分祕訣來檢核知識理論。同時作答高難度練習題，做好應戰較難得分考題的準備。最後以PART TEST診斷測驗作結，用扎實的演練來檢測實力。 【特色四】多國口音錄製的聽力音檔，精準掌握命題範圍與主題的閱讀文章 按照多益實際測驗內容，以美、英、澳三國口音錄製完整聽力音檔。廣納實際用於日常生活及工作的文章，

依據最新多益出題趨勢，全面分析核心題型， 搭配最精準的仿真考題、切中要點的詳盡解析， 於短期密集訓練中，掌握解題策略並高效提升答對率， 一本搞定聽力及閱讀，穩健邁向黃金證書！ 本書特色 【特色一】緊扣多益出題趨勢，點出命題方向和解析高頻考題 本書全面分析近年多益歷屆試題，集結成關鍵試題，及能讓考生迅速掌握出題模式與方向的精華單元，捨棄不必要的冗長解說，保留最質精的核心要點。針對聽力及閱讀基礎題型提供解題策略和技巧，即使是多益新手也能快速領略考題要點。 【特色二】一本全面破解聽力及閱讀所有題型結構 本書深入拆解多益第一至第七部分各大題型，針對多樣化題目列出解題策略及切中要點的解說，讓考生能培養從文章中迅速找出答案的能力，並提升解題效率和正確度、全面掌握題型重點、推測可能答案和避開陷阱選項。 ［多益聽力題型結構］ Part 1 照片描述（Photographs）→聽完四個短句後，選出最符合照片的描述。 Part 2 應答問題（Question-Response）→聽完題目句與三句回應句後，選出最適當的答案。 Part 3 簡短對話（Short Conversations）→聽完雙人或三人對話後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 Part 4 簡短獨白（Short Talks）→聽完獨白後，針對相關的三道考題選出最適當的答案。 ［多益閱讀題型結構］ Part 5 句子填空（Incomplete Sentences）→從四個選項中選出最適合填入句中空格的單字或片語。 Part 6 段落填空（Text Completion）→文章中會出現四個空格，分別選出最適合填入的單字、片語或句子。 Part 7 閱讀理解（Reading Comprehension）→ 閱讀完文章後，回答對應文章的二至五道考題。 【特色三】從快狠準單元即時演練到各部分整合題，循序漸進鞏固實力 每單元透過CHECK-UP及PRACTICE小練習，讓考生可打鐵趁熱，立即運用學到的解題策略及得分祕訣來檢核知識理論。每章節最後以PART TEST診斷測驗作結，協助考生刷題培養手感，用扎實的演練來穩固基礎實力。 【特色四】多國口音錄製的聽力音檔，精準掌握命題範圍與主題的閱讀文章 按照多益實際測驗內容，以美、英、澳三國口音錄製完整聽力音檔。廣納實際用於日常生活及工作的文章，涵蓋一般商務、金融

《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

書籍特色 特色一：由近10年多益考題統計，歸納18類必考文法重點，讓你 10 秒鐘正確答完一題！ 必考文法重點匯整：由近 10 年多益考題，以最精確的科學化統計方式嚴選新多益 18 類必考文法重點。包括「介系詞」、「關係代名詞」、「假設語氣」…等。新多益不考的，不讓你浪費時間學！ 獨家990滿分筆記單元：新多益常考的文法範圍很有限，考來考去就是那些固定的文法觀念頻繁出題。本書特別針對忙碌的讀者一一揪出高頻重點詞彙，大量節省考試準備時間。舉例來說，本書「990滿分筆記：不定詞篇」單元，完整搜羅出題頻率最高的「不定詞片語」，包括：expect, seem/appear(似乎)…等100個重點詞彙。因此，考前只要瀏覽本書獨家匯整的「990滿分筆記單元」重點，就能快速掌握考題方向！ 新多益文法融會貫通！不同於坊間同類型書籍，都將文法重點分散編排為兩個獨立的章節。然而，依據新多益的考題來看，一個文法概念，很常同時出現在「Part 5：句子填空 (Incomplete Sentences)」、「Part 6：段落填空（Text Completion）」兩大題型中。舉例來說，have（使/命令的用法）使役動詞的用法和when / while連結詞的用法…等，都曾頻繁的同時出現在兩大考題中。因此，透過本書的特殊編排，一次呵成並且融會貫通學文法，是最有效的考前準備方式！ 特色二：嚴選8大類「Part 7：閱讀測驗 (Reading Comprehension)」必考商務文體 首度公開！新多益必考文章題型：根據統計，「Part 7：閱讀測驗 (Reading Comprehension)」通常是考生無法全部答完的困擾！針對國內考生閱讀弱點，本書首度公開新多益最常出現的8大類必考商用文體，包括「廣告」、「公告」、「商務表格」…等。讓讀者很快就能掌握出題方向。新多益閱讀測驗不考的文體絕對不教你！ 主題字彙1000：特別收錄「主題分類字彙表」，捨棄以A~Z的流水帳編排，讓背單字更有效率！舉例來說，本書「Part 7：必考商用文章—廣告篇」，就收錄了以下關鍵字彙，包括airfare（機票費用）、real estate（房地產）、down payment（頭期款）、retail（零售）…等主題單字。只要熟記本書「Part 7」收錄的1000個主題字彙，在