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This authoritative reference tool covers monographs, conference proceedings, and theses that relate to film studies in and about mainland China published between 1920 and 2003. It references basic inf

This book investigates the psychological changes that take place after Christian conversion in chronic heroin-addicted individuals attending a religious programme. Drawing on the data collected in the

The first of its kind to address the political, cultural and pedagogical issues of English in the age of globalization, this book not only presents valuable information about the English language in H

This is a text book as well as a reference book for decision making in construction. The book is written to serve undergraduates of construction-related programmes and postgraduate students undertakin

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

This book addresses critical challenges for university renewal, and sketches critical issues in Hong Kong's higher education that have global implications. Contributors to the book were originally gat

In 2002, prior to the restructuring on July 1, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region was made up of 16 administrative bureaux and 68 administrative departments. The origins of

This book explores the cultural traditions of Cantonese villagers who first settled in South China’s Pearl River Delta during the Tang and Song dynasties (10th to 12th centuries). The authors lived an

The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both a linguistic and literary perspec

Economic history deals with daily life, but also goes beyond that to interpret the important turning points which made daily life possible. This book demonstrates why Hong Kong was so successful as a

A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the

This book is about children and advertising in China, the country with the largest children population in the world. As China rapidly becomes a market-driven economy, and it's one-child-per-family pol

This book is about children and advertising in China, the country with the largest children population in the world. As China rapidly becomes a market-driven economy, and it's one-child-per-family pol

This book offers basic guidelines on writing effectively for academic purposes. It reminds students that writing is an integral part of the learning process, and shows them how to write clear sentence

This volume is intended to be both a catalogue for the special exhibit that will mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Harvard-Yenching Institute's founding and also a set of studies highlighting

This book is designed to raise students' awareness of the linguistic features of a postgraduate dissertation/thesis written in English. It deals primarily with the linguistic aspects of extended piece

Through the history of a charitable institution, the Tung Wah Hospital, Elizabeth Sinn reshapes and greatly deepens our understanding of the evolving interactions between the Chinese community in Hong Kong and the colonial rulers. She traces the rise to power of the Chinese merchants who organized and operated the Hospital and the complex relationships that the Hospital developed with the colonial regime, Mainland Chinese officials and the Chinese people of Hong Kong.As the first organized merchant elite recognized by the colonial government, the Tung Wah Hospital Committee played a crucial political role in nineteenth-century Hong Kong, mediating between ordinary Chinese and the colonial administration. Elizabeth Sinn’s classic and pioneering study shows the great extent to which the Hospital’s history is the history of Hong Kong itself.The author highlights the problems encountered by the Hong Kong government in managing a foreign population and the role of the Chinese local elite in

Liu Yi and the Dragon Princess is an adaptation, made with a view to a sung, staged production, of the thirteenth-century zaju play Liu Yi Chuan Shu, which was itself based on an eighth-century fairy

本書教導讀者撰寫正確英語的竅門。內容分兩大部分，先從英語的文法、標點、辭彙說起，進而深入探討如何選詞用字、組織句子、串聯段落、謀篇布局，最後說明寫作英語書信及報告的要點。本書舉出了很多讀者常犯的英語毛病，並且刊登多篇範文供參考。無論是學生或專業寫作人，本書都是案頭必備的英語參考書。本書特點‧ 內容充實，解說詳盡‧ 編排清晰，查考方便‧ 列舉讀者常犯的英語錯誤‧ 例句摘錄自英美文章

David Hawkes, described by a distinguished fellow sinologist as "the best living translator in our field, as well as one of the nicest people to have graced our profession", celebrates his eightieth b

Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned

This CD set is the audio companion to Kung Fu (I), covering the materials in the section "putonghua Sound Structure", as well as the texts and vocabularies of the twenty-two lessons.

Teachers are usually trained only to teach but not on education management. Many of them end up in the management role because of opportunities, necessity and personal preference. Oftentimes, they hav

The right to education should not be a privilege for only some children. Children with special needs, including those with mental retardation, communication disorders, physical disabilities, behavior

This book aims to provide the reader with a simple explanation of some of the fundamental principles of the sciences of pharmacology, therapeutics and toxicology. It sketches the history of drug treat

This collection of short stories features a selection of 12 stories from Lu Xun's Call to Arms and Wandering, including "The New-Year Sacifice", "A Madman's Diary", "Kong Yiji", "Medicine", together w

Since the 1930s, Hong Kong has crept into Western cinema and literature, represented or constructed according to the whims of the Western gaze. However, recently, Hong Kong has enjoyed a more conspicu

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the election to the Hong Kong Legislative Council in September 2000, which is the second general election in Hong Kong since the handover in 1997.The history

This is a collection of 13 papers presented at a conference held at The Chinese University of Hong Kong to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific St

Foreign learners of the Chinese language always find function words, such as prepositions, auxiliaries, conjunctions, articles, etc., difficult to master. A Student Handbook for Chinese Function Words

《含英咀華》（上卷）是從閔福德、劉紹銘兩位教授合編的 Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations, Volume 1: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty 衍生出來的。編譯 Anthology 的目的，如編者所言，是「讓英語世界讀者通過他們熟悉的語言去『含英咀華』，『沈浸』於『醲郁』的中國古

This is the third volume of a series of the new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. In this volume, the company of outlaws on Mount Liang continues to grow

Yo-Yo Ma is an internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso. This book is the compelling story of his early life from the cradle to his entering Harvard University at the age of seventeen. It is told by h

One of the important ingredients of Deng Xiaoping's reform programme of the late 1970s was the establishment of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to manage economic institutions hitherto directly adminis

How China was governed in her long historic past, and how the emperor and the court functioned has aroused considerable interest to historians and social scientists in modern times.Nobody is more qual

Widely acclaimed as a classic of contemporary fiction in Chinese, Taipei People has been frequently compared to James Joyce’s Dubliners. Patrick Hanan praises the volume as “the highest achievement in

The British rule in Hong Kong ended in 1997 and it is now both timely and intellectually inspiring to look back at the last twenty-five years of the British rule, when Hong Kong was transformed from a

How do judges judge the lawyers? How well do barristers and solicitors perform in court? Before, during, and after court sessions, what can lawyers do in order to serve their clients really well?This

In Hong Kong the responsibility for building and operating hospitals was used to be shared between the Government of Hong Kong and a number of charities, including religious orders, some with traditio

Democracy literally means "rule by the people" in ancient Greek. The modern concept of democratic government sprang from ideas and institutions in medieval Europe as related to divine and natural righ