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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

本書精選東京最熱門的六條地鐵線及兩條私鐵路線，囊括各主要地鐵站周邊的超人氣旅遊景點、古蹟神社、美食名店、購物商場、潮流小物……，每一景點都標明DATA與交通資訊，搭配地鐵站周邊詳細街道地圖，強調以清晰條理化的方式，讓即使是第一次來到東京的遊客，也能以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，輕鬆玩賞精彩多變的東京風貌。書中並針對各站特色主題、熱門景點規劃「人氣FOCUS」、「Travel Smart」、「周邊順遊」等單元，以活潑的版面及專題式報導，呈現更深度有趣的東京面面觀。 本書特色 1. 鎖定東京市中心最精華的丸之內、銀座、新宿、池袋、澀谷、淺草、原宿、六本木、秋葉原等人氣旅遊區，提供最新、最IN的景點、美食、購物等發燒情報。 2. 強調以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，玩遍東京大街小巷。 3. 特別著重交通方式的說明，讓讀者以DATA、交通方式、地圖三者交叉對照找到景點，安心自在地在東京遊玩。 4. 版面結構完整清晰，讓讀者有一目了然的閱讀與使用效果。

Long before the Europeans reached the East, the ancient Chinese had elaborate and meaningful perspectives of the West. In this groundbreaking book, Wang explores their view of the West as other by locating it in the classical and imperial China, leading the reader through the history of Chinese geo-cosmologies and world-scapes. Wang also delves into the historical records of Chinese “world activities,” journeys that began from the Central Kingdom and reached towards the “outer regions.” Such analysis helps distinguish illusory geographies from realistic ones, while drawing attention to their interconnected natures. Wang challenges an extensive number of critical studies of Orientalist narratives (including Edward Said’s Orientalism), and reframes such studies from the directionological perspectives of an “Oriental” civilization. Most significantly, the author offers a fundamental reimagining of the standard concept of the other, with critical implications not only for anthropology, bu

Agriculture builds upon the integration of crops and the environment, with which its yield depends strongly on a healthy soil foundation. With that in mind, the knowledge of the soil and fertilizer is crucial to maintaining an environment with optimal nutrients, water and oxygen for crop production. Soil is one of human's precious resources, the protection and nurturing of our soil is thus an integral part of sustainable development. Effective soil management is considered not only a technology, but also an art. In practice, to make use the full potential of the land, the management strategies need to take account of the differences and characteristics of the soil, plant and climate that are unique to each geographical location. Such an approach is increasingly more important nowadays because of the increasing loss of cultivable land and need of high quality agricultural products.

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance and accounting and applied research in the financial community and the accounting profession.

Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the area of investment analysis and portfolio management. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in security analysis, portfolio management, options, futures, and other related issues. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance, economics, and accounting and applied research in the financial community.

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance and accounting and applied research in the financial community and the accounting profession.

本書以釜山精華景點集中分佈的地鐵1、2號線為主軸，囊括沿線各主要地鐵站周邊的超人氣旅遊景點、歷史遺跡、追星勝地、特色街區、藝術村落、美食名店、購物商場……，每一景點都標明DATA與交通資訊，搭配地鐵站周邊詳細街道地圖，強調以清晰條理化的方式，讓即使是第一次來到釜山的遊客，也能以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，輕鬆玩賞閒適迷人的釜山風貌。書中並針對各站特色主題、熱門景點規劃「人氣FOCUS」、「Travel Smart」、「延伸順遊」等單元，以活潑的版面及專題式報導，呈現更深度有趣的釜山港都風情。 本書特色 1.鎖定釜山市中心最精華的中區、西區、東區、南區、釜山鎮區、海雲台、水營、東萊、蓮堤等人氣旅遊區，提供最新、最IN的景點、美食、購物等發燒情報。 2.強調以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，玩遍釜山大街小巷。 3.特別著重交通方式的說明，讓讀者以DATA、交通方式、地圖三者交叉對照找到景點，安心自在地在釜山遊玩。 4.版面結構完整清晰，讓讀者有一目了然的閱讀與使用效果。

Punctuated by a string of "surprising events" and even alarming incidents in the crucial "sunset era" of Donald Tsang, the second Chief Executive of the Hong Kong SAR, how shall we rate Tsang's performance during this 7-year term? This weighty monograph offers an authoritative academic critique of the HKSAR Government’s performance in various policy areas and state–society interactive topical dimensions under the Tsang years from 2005 to 2012. By inviting contributions from a number of scholars specialising in different research disciplines, the volume in 18 chapters covers a lot of key issues and public policy areas that constitute a very rich combination of analytical narratives from multi-disciplinary perspectives. The massive coverage of this book, while exemplifying the criticality of Tsang's era when handling challenges of these aspects, will provide readers with a thorough assessment of the government during the Tsang years in a broader comparative context and on a contemporar

Democracy on Trial is an attempt to begin to negotiate the problem of writing about and understanding democracy and social movements in Taiwan, and what they can tell us about a place and country that for me is both home and the field, an object of study and yet also an area of hope and engagement.

This book closely examines texts from Chinese and Western traditions that hold up ethics as the inviolable ground of human existence, as well as those that regard ethics with suspicion. The negative notion of morality contends that because ethics cannot be divorced from questions of belonging and identity, there is a danger that it can be nudged into the domain of the unethical, since ethical virtues can become properties to be possessed with which the recognition of others is solicited. Ethics thus fosters the very egoism it hopes to transcend, and risks excluding the unfamiliar and the stranger. The author argues inspirationally that the unethical underbelly of ethics must be recognized in order to ensure that it remains vibrant.

本書以香港五大地鐵路線為主軸，囊括主要地鐵站周邊的超人氣旅遊景點、美食名店、購物商場、特色潮牌、優質旅宿……，每一景點都標明DATA與交通資訊，搭配地鐵站周邊詳細街道地圖，強調以清晰條理化的方式，讓即使是第一次來到香港的遊客，也能以最簡明易懂的交通方式「搭地鐵」，徹底玩透香港大街小巷。書中並針對各站特色主題、熱門景點規劃「人氣FOCUS」單元，以及轉乘巴士、的士可達的「延伸順遊」單元，以活潑的版面及專題式報導，呈現更深度有趣的香港風貌。

本書精選東京最熱門的六條地鐵線及兩條私鐵路線，囊括各主要地鐵站周邊的超人氣旅遊景點、古蹟神社、美食名店、購物商場、潮流小物……，每一景點都標明DATA與交通資訊，搭配地鐵站周邊詳細街道地圖，強調以清晰條理化的方式，讓即使是第一次來到東京的遊客，也能以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，輕鬆玩賞精彩多變的東京風貌。書中並針對各站特色主題、熱門景點規劃「人氣FOCUS」、「Travel Smart」、「周邊順遊」等單元，以活潑的版面及專題式報導，呈現更深度有趣的東京面面觀。 本書特色 1. 鎖定東京市中心最精華的丸之內、銀座、新宿、池袋、澀谷、淺草、原宿、六本木、秋葉原等人氣旅遊區，提供最新、最IN的景點、美食、購物等發燒情報。 2. 強調以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，玩遍東京大街小巷。 3. 特別著重交通方式的說明，讓讀者以DATA、交通方式、地圖三者交叉對照找到景點，安心自在地在東京遊玩。 4. 版面結構完整清晰，讓讀者有一目了然的閱讀與使用效果。

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance and accounting and applied research in the financial community and the accounting profession.

Hong Kong began its colonial history in 1842 when China ceded Hong Kong Island to Britain. The Hong Kong Police Force was formally set up in 1844 to maintain law and order. To recognise its contribution in handling the 1967 Riots, the Hong Kong Police Force was renamed the Royal Hong Kong Police Force in 1969, turning a new page in the police history. This volume mainly delineates the Hong Kong policing history from 1842 to 1969 through the frontline stories of many police officers. Eighty retired policemen and policewomen, representing different generations, races, ranks and lines of duties, share the views and memories of their police service through individual oral history sessions and group discussions. Their personal recollections and lively anecdotes enable readers to enjoy the excitement and relieve the challenges, the good days and hard times of the police throughout the eras. These accounts mirror the evolution of the Hong Kong Police Force in the decades after the Second W

本書將首爾精華旅遊景點依主題與地域規劃出「古蹟文化初體驗」、「潮流藝文輕鬆玩」、「江南時尚極樂遊」等三大單元，囊括各主要地鐵站周邊的超人氣旅遊景點、宮殿古蹟、追星勝地、設計街道、創意市集、美食名店、購物商場、潮流小物……，每一景點都標明DATA與交通資訊，搭配地鐵站周邊詳細街道地圖，強調以清晰條理化的方式，讓即使是第一次來到首爾的遊客，也能以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，輕鬆玩賞精彩多變的首爾風貌。書中並針對各站特色主題、熱門景點規劃「人氣FOCUS」、「Travel Smart」、「延伸順遊」等單元，以活潑的版面及專題式報導，呈現更深度有趣的首爾面面觀。 本書特色 1. 鎖定首爾市中心最精華的鐘路、中區、西大門、城北、麻浦、江南、永登浦等人氣旅遊區，提供最新、最IN的景點、美食、購物等發燒情報。 2. 強調以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭地鐵，玩遍首爾大街小巷。 3. 特別著重交通方式的說明，讓讀者以DATA、交通方式、地圖三者交叉對照找到景點，安心自在地在首爾遊玩。 4. 版面結構完整清晰，讓讀者有一目了然的閱讀與使用效果。

In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. 真的，我不知道自己為什麼這麼悶悶不樂： 我自己也感到厭煩；你們說見我這樣子，你們都苦惱了； 我怎樣染上了憂鬱，我怎麼遇見、邂逅了它， 憂鬱究竟是何物，它從何而來，還有待我去認識； 憂鬱讓我變得遲鈍， 我都搞不清楚我自己了。 ──《威尼斯商人》(Act I, Scene I) The venom clamours of a jealous woman Poisons more deadly than a mad dog's tooth. It seems his sleeps were hinder'd by thy railing, And therefore comes it that his head is light. Thou say'st his meat was sauced with thy upbraidings: Unquiet meals make ill digestions; Thereof the raging fire of fever bred; And what's a fever but a fit of madness? 妒婦惡毒的潑鬧 比瘋狗的牙齒更毒。 你的罵詈讓他不得睡覺， 所以他的頭腦才會發昏。 你說他在飯桌上時，用來配飯的是你的謾罵 吃頓飯都不得安寧，才讓他消化不良； 熾烈妒火的一發作起來， 和發瘋有什麼兩樣？ ──《連環錯》(Act V, Scene I) 看莎翁戲劇中句句對白，娓娓道出人生智慧， 一覽芸芸眾生的浮世繪與人性的萬花筒， 探討人類生命的課題，以心感受文學，品味

This volume presents a timely assessment of the Hu–Wen Administration at the juncture of preparing a change of China’s leadership in 2012–13. The assessment is important because the administration’s apparent success tends to create a path-dependent orientation on the part of its successor. Bringing together a collection of nineteen major essays, this book offers a fresh perspective of evaluating the performance and achievements of China in the Hu–Wen era in terms of economic development, the establishment of a rudimentary social security system and her rising international status. The new opportunities and challenges facing China, and how will the likely successors Xi Jinping and Li Keqiang handle those opportunities and challenges, as well as new policy programmes will also be discussed in greater detail. Each essay is written by experts and scholars from different academic disciplines and backgrounds to provide readers with a unique overview of their respective areas of expertise.

Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the area of investment analysis and portfolio management. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in security analysis, portfolio management, options, futures, and other related issues. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance, economics, and accounting and applied research in the financial community.

At the close of the Chinese Civil War, two million Chinese fled from the victorious communist army under Mao Zedong. They fled across a long ocean strait to the island of Taiwan where they waited for almost fifty years, dreaming of their lost homes and relatives left behind, aging and living out their lives as defeated, cursed people. But when both Taiwan and China began to become wealthy, the two sides allowed cautious exchanges. The split families met up again. There was hope, joy, sorrow, and disasters. Yet the losers of the Chinese civil war, who had endured for so long, now found a new reason to persevere: they no longer hated their enemies. In fact, they now wanted to join them. This book draws on oral histories with Kuomintang loyalists in Taiwan to show their painful struggles with family, friends, and relatives back in the mainland, their hopes and disappointments, the effects on a changing society and political situation in Taiwan, and the dynamics of cross-strait relation

目錄 秘在形山－2012李奉個展 The Secret from Within－2012 Lee Feng 秘在形山：閱讀李奉近年繪畫－在他的畫中，我彷彿看見他所找到的，回返現實的新路徑 The Secret from Withi：Reading of Lee Feng`s painting in recent years-In his paintings，I could see the new ways he has found to reality. 生命與自然交會當下的感動－我所認識的李奉，其畫與人 The Affection Produced by Life and Nature：What I Know about Lee Feng and his work 自序 Preface 內文 簡歷／Curriculum Vitae

Renowned astrologist master Peter So invented his very own So Clan Feng Shui. Unlike any predecessor, he champions the re-interpretation of ancient wisdom with modern applications, earning recognition among countless clients. In this book, Master So handpicked the most popular subject matters and the most practical Feng Shui applications for his readers, such as how to choose and decorate a house and ways to ward off mishaps in an office. - Feng Shui implications of “missing corners,” floor number of a flat - Do’s and don’ts for decorating main entrance, living room, bedroom, kitchen, washrooms and offices - Feng Shui setups for boosting love luck, dissipating unwanted love luck, blocking leakage of wealth, notching up income and bringing in more people - Ways to overcome or dissipate negative energies from indoor or outdoor sources; elaborate explanations on every Feng Shui tool - Highlights include Feng Shui setups for keeping your job, finding a new job, getting a salary raise and

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

Advances in Quantitative Analysis of Finance and Accounting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the quantitative analysis of finance and accounting. The publication is a forum for statistical and quantitative analyses of issues in finance and accounting as well as applications of quantitative methods to problems in financial management, financial accounting, and business management. The objective is to promote interaction between academic research in finance and accounting and applied research in the financial community and the accounting profession.

Richard Wang's Ming Erotic Novellas is path breaking in its attention to a virtually ignored body of literature that certainly influenced the writing of the Jin Ping Mei, the Sanyan vernacular stories, and most likely Li Yu's fiction. Compared to other titles in the field, this is the first scholarly monograph in any language to contextualize the erotic novellas of late imperial China. Moreover, existing studies in this area have tended to concentrate on a limited number of works of Chinese erotic fiction, or have only brushed up against these works tangentially during more general discussion of Ming and Qing literature. Ming Erotic Novellas adopts a provocative approach to fiction, moving beyond the traditional textual analyses of gender politics and the qing cult, and examining these erotic novellas as a new genre within the contexts of print culture, readership, consumption patterns, as well as religious dimensions. Ming Erotic Novellas focuses on a group of mid to late Ming literar

This book contains excerpts from the orthodox Chan Ding sessions taught by the 85th Patriarch Chan Master Wujue Miaotian, which includes correct Sitting Chan postures, and proper ways to cultivate the “qi”, all accompanied by illustrations to help you learn more easily. 本書是由禪宗第八十五代宗師悟覺妙天禪師親傳禪宗正統禪定基礎系列課程中，擷取菁華部分，以文字配合圖像彙編而成，將禪宗遞傳二千五百年最正確的禪坐基本姿勢，以及內在氣脈的運轉方法，有次第的詳加介紹，讓人容易閱讀，輕鬆練習。 本書特色 In the state of Chan Ding, we will find our self-nature emanating light. We will also learn of its origin. We will realize that everyone has the same spiritual entity and spiritual light, and that we all came from the same source. 在禪定中，你將會發現自性所發出光芒，也會知道光芒來自何處，原來每個人都有同樣的靈體與靈光，而且都來自同一個生命本源。 Chan Master Wujue Miaotian 禪宗第八十五代宗師 悟覺妙天禪師

This weighty monograph offers a thoughtful assessment of one of globally raising China’s most profound political issues—democratization since the 1989 Tiananmen Incident. Not exactly a “looking back” retrospective nor a typical commemorative work, this book harbors a more forward prospecting approach with 13 substantive chapters yielding informed analysis and insightful interpretations of various key issues. The core subjects range from legal foundation of Chinese democracy, middle-class politics, Internet based-democratization debates and pro-democratic mobilizations, civic society activism, to the external and international media’s inputs, democracy and China’s ethnic minorities; and PRC-Vatican interface. This timely volume will be of considerable interest to scholars, journalists, and those keen to learn about contemporary China’s ideo-political transformation.

There are few textbooks or reference works on international trade finance pertaining to Hong Kong. This text covers all the basic concepts of international trade and takes into account actual practices of trade financing in Hong Kong. The book consists of two sections—the Principles Section and the Practical Guide Section. Risks associated with most trade-finance products are discussed. This second edition represents a substantial revision to the first edition first published in 1999. Readers will find this book an update of the adoption of UCP–600 and new practices of the services by ECIC and major trade promotion institutions in Hong Kong. Major differences between Incoterms 2000 and 2010 will also be discussed. The book provides ample and systematic material for the training of practicing bankers, import and export managers, and lawyers. Students of the subject Finance of International Trade of the Associateship Examination of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers would find this boo

Given the rapid pace at which the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and other Asian economies are growing and the global volatility that these societies are experiencing, social capital and its diverse connectivities can furnish useful anchoring to communities, neighbourhoods, local governments and social protection networks. This volume in twelve chapters provides a critical analysis of social capital, its indigenous evolution and spread in HKSAR. Some of the experiments and activities narrated in these chapters indicate the ingenious blending of the local ethos and culture with modern organisational forms and information networks. Policy makers, development practitioners, researchers of civil society organisations and welfare agencies will find this book a helpful reference source. The book will also appeal as a text or supplementary reading in management, public administration, governance, and development economics courses dealing with social capital and social enterprise.

Negotiating Religion in Modern China traces the history of the Chinese state's relationship with religion from 1900 to 1937. The revolutionary regime condemned religious practice in the early twentieth century, suppressing "superstitious" belief in favor of a secular, more enlightened society. Drawing on newspapers and unpublished official documents, this book focuses on the case of Guangzhou, largely because of the city's sustained involvement in the revolutionary quest for a "new" China. The author pays particular attention to the implementation of policy and citizens' attempts at adaptation and resistance.

Contemporary Chinese art is nowadays a subject area widely taught and researched in academic and non-academic publications, but it has not yet been studied by 'localizing' the research in specific cultural areas within the Chinese world. Selecting Hong Kong for a first such study was an obvious choice, since Hong Kong culture has had for already quite a long time very specific features which have put it apart from the generally accepted definition of Chinese national culture. Although it is not a survey of 'Hong Kong art,' as such a study would demand many more books, the works of about eighty artists working in Hong Kong (and sometimes outside) have been analyzed and contextualized in these pages.

精選童話大師經典童話12篇，書中所使用的英文簡明流暢、難易適中，且篇篇精彩、動人、有趣；能引發閱讀的樂趣，並提昇英文詞彙與閱讀能力。每篇均附有生動的插圖輔助閱讀。打開這本書，走進兒童文學的寶庫，細讀這些神奇美麗，又富有童心與詩意的故事，品嘗幸福的滋味。 To Hans Christian Andersen might fitly be applied the title so happi-ly bestowed by the natives of Samoa on Robert Louis Stevenson: Tusitala, the “Teller of Tales.” For more than half a century the great Danish story-teller has been beloved by children in all parts of the world, and nowhere has he more devoted admirers than in Great Britain and those lands where English is the common tongue. As has been well said, “Andersen was a Norseman, and the blood of Norsemen is in our veins.” For those who here make first acquaintance with Andersen, it may be well to state that he was born at Odense, in the Baltic island of Funen, on April 2, 1805. His first fairy tales were published when he was about thirty years of age. “I have written them,” he wrote to a friend, “just as if I were telling them to a child.” That, no doubt, was the reason of his success, though as a

Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of the People's Republic of China. Delving deep into the world of cabarets, nightclubs, and elite ballrooms that arose in the city in the 1920s and peaked in the 1930s, the book assesses how and why Chinese society incorporated and transformed this westernized world of leisure and entertainment to suit its own tastes and interests. Focusing on the jazz-age nightlife of the city in its "golden age," the book examines issues of colonialism and modernity, urban space, sociability and sexuality, and modern Chinese national identity formation in a tumultuous era of war and revolution.

Neijing is traditional Chinese medicine; it encompasses all the central tenets of Chinese medicine practised today. Neijing zhiyao, in two volumes, compiled by Li Zhong-zi of the Ming dynasty, was carefully proof-read by Xue Sheng-bai of the Qing dynasty. Among the hundred or so annotated editions of Neijing Suwen and Lingshu that appeared in different formats and styles in previous generations, only Neijing zhiyao compiled by Mr. Li Nian-er of the Ming dynasty is the most succinct but pithy. —— from Sibu Zonglu Yiyaobian 《內經知要》二卷,明．李中梓輯、清．薛生白重校。嘗考內經素問、靈樞,歷代註釋者不下百家,體裁各各不同。惟明．李念莪先生所輯《內經知要》最為簡當。——《四部總錄醫藥編》

THE FLOWER PRINCESS (Dae Neui Fa or Din?hua in Mandarin) has become the most renowned Cantonese Opera since its 1957 premier in Hong Kong. The opera is a serious political drama played out between the Han and non-Han following the fall of the Ming dynasty, and the plot pits romantic love against the lofty Confucian ideals of social hierarchy and moral rectitude. This is the first complete English translation of the opera, featuring text, song titles, speech types, and choreographic and stage setting. It also contains a foreword by Pak Suet Sin (Bai Xuexian), the celebrated Cantonese Opera actress who created the role of the Princess in the original production.

本書以「實用、實用、還要更實用」的製作目標為要求，不只是在書中收錄「很多很多景點介紹」，更強調以清晰條理化的方式，將大台北的交通動線與地區概況相結合來為讀者導覽。每一地鐵站皆提供詳細的街道地圖，並註記景點位置，每一景點亦標明DATA、交通資訊等，供讀者交叉對照，務必找到所有景點。 即使是第一次遊台北，也能以最簡明易懂的交通方式——搭捷運，徹底玩透台北的每個角落。

The essays in this collection cover topics relating to the history of marathon running in Hong Kong and Asia, what role gender difference plays in marathon sport performance, and the experience of organizing the race in Hong Kong. Concluding sections offer useful advice to runners on the proper way to prevent and treat injuries and the best ways to prepare for long-distance running. Contributors are chosen from a range of universities and are leading scholars, practictioners, and experts on sport.

Hao Zhidong has provided essential background on the types of thinking that could create a unified island-mainland polity. Do the politicians in Beijing and Taipei want one enough to make the symbolic sacrifices that would be needed to bring their citizens peace with prosperity? The thinkers whom Hao analyzes in this book can show them ways to do this---Lynn White, Princeron University A tour de force survey of the dilemmas and possibilities facing intellectuals and policy makers in the Chinese-speaking world when dealing with Taiwan as a problem of Chinese nationalism.---Christopher R. Hughes, London School of Economics and Political Science A sane, thoughtful and thoroughly grounded study of what intellectuals are doing---and could do---to mediate the contentious patriotism in both Mainland China and Taiwan. Hao brings the sensibilities of a native to a rigorous comparative sociological analysis of the states and the intellectuals involved and what it would take to resolve this key

The book is comprised of 12 units of interesting articles that introduces Taiwan from different perspectives, including geographical position; cultural customs; life of the daily basis; historical background; and its present development. This book aims to teach readers everything from Taiwan in fairly simple English. After you are equipped with the basic knowledge of English vocabulary, it will show you how to talk about Taiwan without having to use many complicated, difficult expressions. As you read with the book, you will begin to understand how to use a simple form of English to talk about, not just Taiwan, but anything! Each unit of the book is divided into four sections that serve different functions.lIt begins with a few short passages that provide information about Taiwan in various subjects; such as religion, culture, language, economy, and history. . .etc.lThe section follows these passages is the quiz directly comes from the subjects above, which help to test your reading co