Introduction to Python Programming And Data Structure By Liang

§ 原著小說家‧千川：「這部漫畫在很多方面擁有小說沒有的效果和優點，完全可以當作一本全新的作品來欣賞。」 § 原著繪師‧Ooi Choon Liang：「看見筆下人物從圖畫變成漫畫超感動，而且畫風類型非常喜歡！」 § 抒情系漫畫家葉澄巧心改編，《夢夢》雜誌的人氣連載作品，第3集感動落幕!! 一卷書、一盞茶，經由漫畫重溫小說裡古鐘餘韻悠悠繚繞…… 靜僻的街角，佇立著一間名為「茶飯屋」的當舖。 「物靈師」阿樂為了維持這家生意慘澹的當舖， 憑藉可看到物靈的能力承接私家偵探的工作，調查各種神祕事件。 笛笛的主人來到當舖想要贖回長笛，卻被阿樂惡意抬價憤而離去。做為一個物品來說，主人光覺得「好用」還不夠嗎？物靈們又要如何才能擺脫被拋棄的命運？還請詳細聽聽阿樂的奸商理論……

§ 原著小說家‧千川：「這部漫畫在很多方面擁有小說沒有的效果和優點，完全可以當作一本全新的作品來欣賞。」 § 原著繪師‧Ooi Choon Liang：「看見筆下人物從圖畫變成漫畫超感動，而且畫風類型非常喜歡！」 § 抒情系漫畫家葉澄巧心改編，《夢夢》雜誌的人氣連載作品，第3集感動落幕!! 一卷書、一盞茶，經由漫畫重溫小說裡古鐘餘韻悠悠繚繞…… 靜僻的街角，佇立著一間名為「茶飯屋」的當舖。 「物靈師」阿樂為了維持這家生意慘澹的當舖， 憑藉可看到物靈的能力承接私家偵探的工作，調查各種神祕事件。 祝泉一通慘忍的電話決定了七尾魚與拍檔的結局，阿樂也算是完成了閔姿的委託，只是這樣的結果好像一點都不令人開心。另一方面，有一名面熟的客人前來當舖……

§ 原著小說家‧千川：「這部漫畫在很多方面擁有小說沒有的效果和優點，完全可以當作一本全新的作品來欣賞。」 § 原著繪師‧Ooi Choon Liang：「看見筆下人物從圖畫變成漫畫超感動，而且畫風類型非常喜歡！」 § 抒情系漫畫家葉澄巧心改編，《夢夢》雜誌的人氣連載作品，第3集感動落幕!! 一卷書、一盞茶，經由漫畫重溫小說裡古鐘餘韻悠悠繚繞…… 靜僻的街角，佇立著一間名為「茶飯屋」的當舖。 「物靈師」阿樂為了維持這家生意慘澹的當舖， 憑藉可看到物靈的能力承接私家偵探的工作，調查各種神祕事件。 阿樂回到當舖後就聽聞李霍端曾來找過他，緊接著李霍端的「曖昧對象」就帶著熱騰騰鴨肉飯前來……沒想到這一份鴨肉飯隱藏著驚人的祕密!!?

The official unveiling of Taiwan’s National Park Service indicates that Taiwan’s nature conservation and cultural heritage protection are about to reach new heights. This issue’s cover story invites readers to probe into the meaning of the three verbs: See, Build, and Achieve. First, see the vision and direction of the NPS’s future development, then learn how national park staff creatively build mutual understanding and collaboration between parks and the public. Lastly, through stories shared by national park senior staff, readers can visualize the process of happiness and bitterness through which national parks endeavored to achieve the ideals of safeguarding Taiwan’s mountains and seas over the past 40 years. The spirit contained within shall serve as an important road sign on the journey toward the future.

"Wine Travelogue: Exploring the Charms of the Okanagan Valley" unveils the journey of savouring the wines of Canada's Okanagan Valley! When you think of Canadian wine, ice wine might be the first to come to mind. However, when the author embarked on a wine tour in the Okanagan Valley and tasted over a hundred local wines, he was immediately captivated by the reds, whites, sparklings, and rosés. This book is presented in both Chinese and English, brimming with captivating photographs and text. It chronicles the author's adventures and emotions, along with wine tasting notes and conversations with individual winemakers, grape growers, and estate managers during visits to twelve representative wineries across the Okanagan Valley, from north to south. The photographs vividly portray the region's lakes and mountains, the vineyards, and the winemaking facilities of each winery, as well as the warm faces of the local community. The book also delves into the author's insights into the regi

Sinoglossia places the terms of embodiment, mediality, and translation at the center of analytical inquiry into Chinese and Sinophone cultures. Converging in the rubric of Sinoglossia, the chapters in this volume introduce a theory defined by cultural formations not overdetermined by Sinitic linguistic ties. The concept of Sinoglossia combines a heteroglossic and a heterotopian approach to the critical study of mediated discourses of China and Chineseness. From the history of physical examinations and queer subalternity to the cinematic inscription of Chineseness-as-landscape, and from Sinopop to the translational writings of Eileen Chang and Syaman Rapongan, this book argues for a flexible conceptualization of cultural objects, conditions, and contexts that draws attention to an array of polyphonic, multi-discursive, and multilingual articulations. In this new horizon of understanding, place or topos necessarily constitutes the possibility of friction and source of innovation.

l Chapter1 資料的概念：在最開始的地方，以一系列的案例讓讀者認識到資料的價值（1.1），並且學習透過資料的型態（1.2） 和尺度（1.3） 來認識資料。 l Chapter2 Python 基礎：對於沒有程式基礎的讀者，會從 Python的介紹和環境安裝（2.1 ∼ 2.2） 開始，並且介紹一些基礎的程式語法與邏輯（2.3 ∼ 2.4），讓讀者可以快速上手Python。 l Chapter3 基本數值資料處理：分別介紹在資料分析中最常用到的NumPy（3.1） 和Pandas（3.2），讓讀者可以對各種基本的資料進行處理與分析。 l Chapter4 各式資料處理：除了基本的數值資料以外，更進一步介紹對於影像（4.1 ∼ 4.2）、音訊（4.3 ∼ 4.4）、文字（4.5 ∼ 4.6） 類型資料的觀念與實作。 l Chapter5 資料前處理：專門介紹各種拿到資料後要先做的前處理方式，包含資料清理（5.1）、資料轉換（5.2），以及如何進行合適的資料視覺化（5.3）。 l Chapter6 其他專題補充：針對本書無法展開的內容，透過一個個小實作專題進行補充介紹，包含探索式分析（6.1）、網頁爬蟲（6.2）、機器學習與模型評估（6.3）、ChatGPT API（6.4）、HuggingFace（6.5）、資料管線（6.6）、常見誤區（6.7） 等。

The book presents an innovative method that will free you from using the trial-and-error method of finding solutions to your problems, pointing you in the direction of a strong solution. This is a targeted search method. You will save time and effort, and you will get a solution without disadvantages using this method. The method has five steps, so it is easy to use, and easy to get good results. It has been refined and improved over 40 years by incorporating what we learned from using it, and incorporating the experiences of many others. This book should be useful to engineers, scientists, students, inventors, and people solving complex problems in business, government, and social environments, as well as everyday problem solvers.

This book is devoted to the systematic presentation of the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) and is the most comprehensive book in the classical TRIZ and beyond. It details methods for formulating non-standard problems and various ways to solve them, etc. The book is illustrated by many examples, problems, and graphical material (approximately 300 examples and problems, and approximately 400 illustrations). It describes more than 300 concepts. Materials for independent work is provided at the end of each chapter. Some reference solutions are included. The book is intended for students of engineering disciplines who would like to have in-depth understanding of. It can also be useful for engineers and inventors, scientists, university professors, and those who solve creative problems. Professor and TRIZ Master Vladimir Petrov, is one of the most authoritative students and best friends of the Father of TRIZ, Genrich S. Altshuller. Since 1972, TRIZ Master Vladimir Petrov often con

機器學習最強入門 基礎數學/機率/統計 邁向 AI真實數據 x 專題實作 ★★★★★【數學原理 + 演算法 + 真實案例+ 專題實作】★★★★★ ★★★★★【最簡明的數學、機率、統計知識】★★★★★ ★★★★★【最完整的機器學習演算法】★★★★★ ★★★★★【最豐富的真實數據 x 專題實作】★★★★★ 本書特色如下： ★ 最白話解釋數學原理 ☆ 從簡單的數據開始理解機器學習的演算法 ★ 將理論知識轉化為實際的程式碼 ☆ 實際案例分析 全書有約416個Python程式實例，讀者可以由本書內容，了解下列與機器學習有關的基礎數學、機率、統計知識： ★ 方程式與函數 ☆ 完整Python語法 ★ 一元函數到多元函數 ☆ 最小平方法 ★ 基礎統計 ☆ 機率與單純貝式理論 ★ 指數與對數 ☆ logit函數與logistic函數 ★ 向量與矩陣 ☆ 二次函數、三次函數與多項式函數 當讀者有了上述知識後，筆者從簡單的實例開始介紹下列機器學習的演算法，每一種演算法皆是從基礎數據開始解說，然後跨入真實數據，解說應該如何將演算法應用到真實案例環境： ★ 線性迴歸 – 波士頓房價 ☆ 邏輯迴歸 – 信用卡/葡萄酒/糖尿病 ★ 決策樹 – 葡萄酒/鐵達尼號/Telco/Retail ☆ 隨機森林樹 – 波士頓房價/鐵達尼號/Telco/收入分析 ★ KNN演算法 – 電影推薦/足球射門/鳶尾花/小行星撞地球 ☆ 支援向量機 – 鳶尾花/乳癌/汽車燃料 ★ 單純貝式分類 – 垃圾郵件/中英文的新聞分類/情感分析/電影評論 ☆ 集成機器學習 – 蘑菇/醫療保險/玻璃/加州房價 ★ K-means分群 – 購物中心消費/葡萄酒評價 ☆ PCA主成分分析 – 手寫數字/人臉數據 ★ 階層式分群 – 小麥數據/老實泉 ☆ DBSCAN演算法 – 購物中心客戶分析 在講解上述演算法時，筆者同時介紹下列機器學習應該知道的知識： ★ 特徵選擇 ☆ 用直方圖了解特徵分佈 ★ 用箱型圖了解異常值 ☆ 數據預處理 ★ 殘差圖(Residual plot) ☆ 機器學習性能評估 ★ 過擬合(overfitting) ☆ 欠擬合(underfitting) ★ 數據洩漏(Data leak

Prof. William S-Y. Wang, an eminent linguist, has made significant contributions to the field regarding lexical diffusion, experimental phonetic studies, language simulation and modeling, and aging and language. To celebrate his 90th birthday, colleagues and friends worldwide have contributed over 30 articles to a two-volume Festschrift. The English volume includes topics such as Chinese language evolution, the relationship between language and music, and the brain processes involved in language production. This Festschrift is written by and for experienced language researchers and is also suitable for students of Chinese linguistics and those interested in Chinese culture, history, and neurology.

Taking The 70’s Biweekly—an independent youth publication in the 1970s Hong Kong—as the main thread, this edited volume investigates an unexplored trajectory of Hong Kong’s cultural and art production in the 1970s that represents the making of a dissent space by independent press and activist groups in the city. The 70’s Biweekly stands out from many other independent magazines with its unique blending of radical political theories, social activism, avant-garde art, and local art and literature creations. By taking the magazine as a nodal point of social and cultural activism from and around which actions, debates, community, and artistic practices are formed and generated, this book fills gaps in studies on how young Hong Kong cultural producers carved out an alternative creative and political space to speak against established authorities. Split into three parts, this book provides readers with a panoramic view of the political and cultural activisms in Hong Kong during the 1970s,

How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do such everyday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Integrating architecture and history, this book invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive firsthand historical materials. As the readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes, the book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history. This book is a robust and in-depth study of the market building history of Hong Kong since the 1840s and contributes to a holistic understanding of everyday

COVID-19 alongside the Russia-Ukraine war have brought about an enormous across-the-globe impact to demonstrate no one can remain insulated from the global change. US-China’s rivalry, coupled with Japan’s and Korea’s ceaseless moves, plus ASEAN countries’ & South Asian nations’ significant advances are likely to herald an era of unprecedented change. Is Taiwan well prepared to avert falling victim to the war of two superpowers? Never count on a handful of aces up your sleeve, a game-changer may just turn your longstanding advantage into a future liability. Semiconductors and the supply chains are Taiwan’s most significant strategic assets to engage with the international community. In retrospect, Taiwan’s semiconductor industry led by industry leaders like Morris Chang and Ming-Kai Tsai, had achieved a global leading position. Corporate strategies employed by Taiwan’s representative rivals as Intel, U.S. and Samsung, Korea all feed into their distinct future development. Semiconducto

Kaho Yu’s China’s Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of Global Governance and Climate Change explores the evolution of China’s energy security from its bilateral going-out strategy to its more multilateral Belt and Road Initiative. By analysing the topic from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book examines China’s evolving role in global energy governance through four empirical case studies: China’s energy cooperation with Russia and Central Asia, Africa, the European Union, and the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The pandemic left disorder and crises in its wake everywhere it struck. Drawing on disciplines including public health, politics, and socioeconomics, this book tracks the spread of COVID-19 to weave a coherent picture that explains how scientists learnt about the virus, how authorities reacted around the world, and how different societies coped. Written by a leading team of public health, policy, and economics experts, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of various countries’ responses to the onset of the pandemic, as well as suggestions to increase capacity and capability to fight future pandemics. The first part of the book provides an overview of global governance and international cooperation, economic and social consequences of the outbreak, and breakthroughs in mathematical modelling and COVID-19 vaccines. The second part of the book examines and compares specific countries and regions through the lens of good governance, social contract, and political trust. This book

With the increasing number of complaints and court cases relating to healthcare disputes, healthcare practitioners (HCPs) are now facing more challenges and dilemmas in their daily practices. This book is unique in that most chapters are written jointly by two authors: one with legal training and one with a healthcare background. The balanced view offered thus allows readers to gain a thorough understanding of the concepts presented. Although most of the examples and scenarios are specific to medical doctors, the basic principles and ethical considerations as well as the enforcement of laws and regulations are, with some modifications, equally applicable to other HCPs, such as dentists, nurses, midwives, etc. Readers interested in healthcare law and ethics from numerous fields and stages of training, including legal and healthcare practitioners, trainees, postgraduate researchers and undergraduate students, will find this book both informative and practical as an aid to their work and

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

In Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966, Qiliang He inquired into the making of the new citizenry in Mao-era China (1949–1976) by studying five preeminent Shanghai-based filmmakers. These case studies shed light on how individuals’ subjectivities took shape in the cinematic arena under a new sociopolitical system after 1949. He suggests that a filmmaker’s subjectivity was not fixed or stable but constantly in flux, requiring a host of “subjectivizing practices” to (re)shape and consolidate it. These filmmakers endeavored to reap maximal benefits from Mao’s sociopolitical system and minimize the disadvantages that would make them victims under the system. In short, Qiliang He argues that the filmmakers not only worked under the socialist system imposed upon them but also worked the system in their best interests.

Influenced by his upbringing in post-war Japan, and the ideological, social, economic and artistic transformations of the era, Noda Tetsuya started to build a diary of prints in the 1960s, recording his daily life and mastering the challenge of documenting the reality around him in both true and artistic fashion. Works presented in this publication offer unparalleled insights into the artist’s hand skills and color palette, as well as his intense personal feelings and trademark humility. Few printmakers are quite as exploratory in terms of their technique and so precise in their choice of depicted subjects. Noda Tetsuya’s Diary of Contemporary Japanese Prints represents the long-accumulated knowledge of a well-practiced artform by one of Japan’s bestestablished artists, while also documenting—in true diary fashion—events that have shaped his personal life, while also standing for the collective experience of Noda’s generation and the societal change witnessed over the last several de

Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analysing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the ‘Malaysian Digital Indies’ (MDI) have in recent years repositioned Malaysian cinema within the global arena. The book shines a new light on how politics and socioeconomics have influenced new forms and genres of the post-2000s generation of filmmakers, and provides a clear picture of the interactions between commercial cinema and politics and socioeconomics in the first two decades of the new millennium. It also assesses how the MDI movement was successful in creating a transnational cinema by displacing and deterritorialising itself from the context of the national, and illustrates how MDI functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Isla

★★★★★【688張全彩圖例】+【圖解演算法原理和邏輯思維】★★★★★ ★★★★★【20個主題】+【220個Python程式實例】★★★★★ ★★★★★【邏輯思維】+【Python實作】=【演算法的精髓】★★★★★ 本書的第一版曾經獲得博客來與天瓏暢銷排行榜第1名，撰寫這本書時採用下列原則。 1：彩色圖片引導讀者認識演算法的邏輯思維。 2：Python程式實作演算法原理。 3：章節習題引導讀者複習與自我練習。 學習演算法最重要是要瞭解資料在記憶體的組織結構和程式設計的邏輯思維，相較於市面上其他書籍空洞的解說．甚至沒有解說，這本書在講解演算法時，更強調敘述每個步驟資料在記憶體的變化，以及講解程式設計的邏輯思維。例如：二元樹的前序列印程式只有6行，這本書卻用了19個步驟與圖形徹底解說。河內塔問題只需6行程式，這本書也使用了18個步驟與記憶體圖形做講解。深度優先搜尋法、廣度優先搜尋法、貪婪演算法、選課問題、背包問題、電台業務、業務員旅行 … 等，完全使用記憶體圖形解說，讀者可以從程式配合彩色圖片輕鬆學習。 當讀者遵循這步驟學習時，相信一定可以完整學習演算法的相關知識，本書的主體內容如下： ☆20個主題 ★ 認識時間複雜度和空間複雜度 ☆7大資料結構完整圖說與程式實例 ★ 7大排序法完整圖說與程式實例 ☆遞迴與回溯演算法 ★ 電腦領域的經典演算法八皇后和河內塔 ☆ 碎形與VLSI設計應用 ★ 圖形理論 ☆ 深度、寬度優先搜尋 ★ Bellman-Ford演算法 ☆ Dijkstra’s演算法 ★ 貪婪演算法 ☆ 動態規劃演算法 ★ 資訊安全演算法 ☆ 摩斯與凱薩密碼 ★ 金鑰系統觀念，解說設計金鑰方法或是應用目前市面上成熟的金鑰 ☆ 訊息鑑別碼(Message authentication code) ★ 數位簽章(Digital Signature) ☆ 數位憑證(Digital certificate) ★ 基礎機器學習KNN演算法 ☆ K-means演算法 ★ 網頁排名演算法 ☆ 常見的演算法考題與Leetcode考題

This book examines Hong Kong foodways in different periods of social development and hopes to advance anthropological inquiries by addressing issues concerning identity, migration, consumerism, globalization, and the invention of local cuisines in the context of Hong Kong as a fast-changing society in East Asia.

破譯武林招式，看懂程式設計！ ．郭靖的小紅馬在Scratch裡能任意變色？ ．韋小寶加盟天地會誓詞是高階程式語言？ ．黃蓉的計算能力比Python還強？ ．用費波那契數列就能進入桃花島？ 以武俠小說的場景為媒介，讓武林絕招和程式設計理論緊密結合。只要你摸過電腦、玩過電動遊戲，熟悉鍵盤和滑鼠的操作，就能讀懂本書的程式邏輯。 讀者朋友可以一邊學習編寫程式的基礎知識，一邊跟著範例練習編寫代碼，不但能真正感受到程式設計的樂趣，還能解決生活中很多意想不到的大小問題。 本書從用PowerPoint製作基本動畫講起，再進入麻省理工學院開發的入門級動畫軟體Scratch，最後敲開程式設計的利器Python，循序漸進帶領讀者朋友理解程式世界的奧祕，並享受數位科技帶來的樂趣。 「如果你擁有電腦，卻沒有安裝Python，那叫暴殄天物。」──李開周

The Law of the People’s Republic of China on Safeguarding National Security in the Hong Kong SAR (the “NSL”) promises to be the most important legal development in Hong Kong since the advent of the Basic Law. Many wondered in the aftermath of the NSL how the foundations of Hong Kong’s system might be changed and in what way the freedoms valued by Hong Kong may be affected. Supporters view the law as essential for the preservation of public order and the national security of China and for supporting the fundamental well-being of “One Country, Two Systems”, an arrangement that has been in place since the return of Hong Kong to China. Critics fear an adverse impact on the spirit of “One Country, Two Systems”. From a discussion initiated by the University of Hong Kong’s Faculty of Law, this collection of essays brings together leading experts on Hong Kong and Chinese law to offer an exploratory study of the NSL and its impact on the legal system and the principle of the rule of law in Hon

The Sinological Development Charitable Foundation (SDCF) aspires to help spread 5,000 years of cultural history embedded in the Chinese Classics as a fundamental basis for understanding Chinese civilization. To that end, every year since 2016, the SDCF has provided intensive summer programs by which means scholars from across the globe are brought together in situ (in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and mainland China) to learn together and share their research into some of the most important topics in Chinese Studies. Over the last five years (2016–2020), candidates representing nations from Africa, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Russia, and other parts of Asia have embraced the SDCF program and its goals. This compendium is published to mark the milestone of five comprehensive programs completed successfully. It includes a sample of the best research by program participants from around the world, along with personal reflections and reflections by professors and tutors allied with

內容簡介 ˙The learning goals that center on the thematic units are set in accordance with the language proficiency levels, established by the ACTFL ˙To Comply with the pedagogical principle of backward design to establish the teaching/learning goals for the intermediate learner of Chinese ˙Integrates into its thematic contents the ACTFL-defined, three mores of language uses as well the 5C concepts ˙Assist the learner to achieve holistic progress and to cultivate specific linguistic abilities of Chinese ˙The selecting of keywords/phrases in thetextbooks is greatly in line with vocabulary levels defined by the HSK and by the TOCFL. The regional difference in language uses between the two sides of theTaiwan Strait are also meticulously annotated in the textbooks In recent years, the background of learners has become diversified, and the number of self-study students of elementary Chinese is also increasing. On the pedagogical front, however, learning materials, found to be biased towards s

Games help drive engagement, achieve goals, and ultimately promote development within a group. As such, it is important for group facilitators to be equipped with game skills to ensure a lively, vibrant, and motivated atmosphere. This book includes four theoretical essays by experienced game facilitators regarding the concept, practice sharing, and application skills of group game facilitation, as well as a collection of 100 practical group games covering ice-breaking, mutual understanding, group cooperation, and problem solving. This list of games is built on the experiences and contributions of the author and social work students.

Is the opinions agreed by the majority of experts necessarily correct? Is there any other way for the universe to be created besides the Big Bang? Why “potential energy” is described as extra energy? Is the speed of light the limit? What is space? What is time? Can an empty space really give rise to all things? This book offers a new perspective on the birth of the universe and gives you an insightful and unique explanation.

Tripitaka and his three disciples, Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, were chosen to undertake a pilgrimage to India, during which they came across all sorts of dangers and difficulties. This time, the Flaming Mountain blocked their way, and they needed a little help from the Princess Iron Fan and Bull Demon, well, parents of the Red Boy, who wanted to eat up Tripitaka and was just defeated by Monkey. Things never go smooth for them! My Favourite Chinese Stories is a collection of three Chinese stories specially selected and retold in English for young readers. The first story is from Chinese mythology, while the other two are from classical Chinese literature. They are widely known to the Chinese people, and reflect, in varying degrees, some of the essential characteristics of Chinese culture. Each story is accompanied by beautiful full-colour illustrations drawn by Lo King-man as well as audio narration by the author Pamela Youde.

The Dragon King below the Jing River defied the orders of the Jade God of the Heavens and was executed. His ghost resented the Tang Emperor Taizong for not saving him, and dragged the Emperor to the Underworld. What would the Emperor see in the Underworld? Was he able to return to life? My Favourite Chinese Stories is a collection of three Chinese stories specially selected and retold in English for young readers. The first story is from Chinese mythology, while the other two are from classical Chinese literature. They are widely known to the Chinese people, and reflect, in varying degrees, some of the essential characteristics of Chinese culture. Each story is accompanied by beautiful full-colour illustrations drawn by Lo King-man as well as audio narration by the author Pamela Youde.

Traversing from the rapidly urbanising county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographies linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Against the backdrop of China’s national struggle for modernity and globalisation, Sarah Hanisch examines Chinese migrant women’s complex and ever-shifting struggles for upward social mobility across different generations and localities in China and Lesotho. Embedding the women’s individual portraits into larger historical contexts, Hanisch illustrates how these women interpret and narrate their migratory and everyday experiences through and beyond powerful state metanarratives on ‘sweetness’ and ‘bitterness’. In her exploration of migratory identities and projects that have been overlooked by previous studies, Hanisch brings uniquely gendered, multi-sited, and intergenerational perspectives to existing sc

More Than 1001 Days and Nights of Hong Kong Internment is the wartime journal of Sir Chaloner Grenville Alabaster, former attorney-general of Hong Kong and one of the three highest-ranking British officials during the Japanese occupation. He was imprisoned by the Japanese at the Stanley Internment Camp from 1941 to 1945. During his internment, he managed to keep a diary of his life in the camp in small notebooks and hid them until his release in 1945. He then wrote his wartime journal on the basis of these notes. The journal records his day-to-day experiences of the fall of Hong Kong, his time at Stanley, and his eventual release. Some of the most fascinating extracts cover the three months immediately after the fall of Hong Kong and when Alabaster and his colleagues were imprisoned in Prince’s Building in Central and before they were sent to the camp, a period little covered in previous publications. Hence, the book is an important primary source for understanding the daily operation

Hong Kong’s Link to the US Dollar covers the origins of the city’s currency crisis in 1983, the initial resolution of the crisis by creation of a traditional currency board, the subsequent problems leading to the Asian financial crisis of 1997–98, and the later reforms. A new final chapter traces monetary developments in Hong Kong between 2005 and 2020. This valuable compendium of articles, originally written in the bimonthly journal Asian Monetary Monitor between 1981 and 1989, includes the key article that formed the basis for the Hong Kong government’s decision in 1983 to peg the currency to the US dollar, as well as other important documents of historical record. The main contribution of the book is its detailed monetary analysis of Hong Kong’s unique financial system before and after the currency crisis of 1983. The book explains the collapse of the floating Hong Kong dollar under the pressure of capital outflows during the Sino-British negotiations (1982–84) over the future of

"The fact that Snow did not sneak into “red China” to gather information constituting the basis of his Red Start over China all alone is in many instances misunderstood even by scholars. Mao Zedong’s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth. How the “Red Star” Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. Ishikawa Yoshihiro uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being. He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of no

English novelist E.M. Forster wrote his last and best-loved work, A Passage to India, both as a paean to his love for India and as a tribute to the relationships he formed with Indians. Forster became entranced by the India of the Raj at a young age, and his love affair with the sub-continent, its princes, and peoples, was to last all his life. At his most socially transgressive, it was with Indians that Forster chose to connect and with whom he put into effect his belief in man’s duty to value friendship over state or ideology. His time in India was undoubtedly when he was at his most human and most vulnerable. At once a contemporary reflection on India’s rich history and a biographical retelling of Forster’s travels through the country in the early 1900s, Developing the Heart delves into the past to better understand the profound impact certain events and people had on his writing. In doing so, it allows readers to look on as Forster matures and softens over time in his behaviour

In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinophone literatures and adds a much-needed new global perspective on Chinese literary studies beyond the traditional national literature paradigm and its recent critique by Sinophone studies. In addition to a critical mapping of the domains of world literature, Sinophone literature, and world literature in Chinese to delineate the nuanced differences of these three disciplines, the book addresses the issues of translation, genre, and the impact of media and technology on our understanding of “literature” and “literary prestige.” It also provides critical studies of the complicated ways in which Chinese and Sinophone literatures are translated, received, and reinveste

English abstract Panic disorder is one of the neuroses. Neurosis is the most popular mental disease and the representative of mild mental illness. Foreign research reports reveal that the lifetime prevalence rate of neurosis is about between 20%-50%, but few people accepted clinical treatment. Neuroses (panic, depression, and so on) and cardiac disorder will be the nightmare of causing serious diseases of human life in 2020. Panic disorder (attack) is a quickly and suddenly strong anxiety symptom and like a psychologic disease surrounded by dark and terrible emotion and hard to eliminate it. But by appropriate treatment, panic attack will be eased. Medicine treatment is the most efficient and simplest way for a definite diagnosis panic patient in practice. But due to political issues between China and Taiwan, Taiwan’s poor economy seems getting worse and worse and the health insurance medicine price of Central Health Insurance Bureau is also getting lower and lower. It is increasingly

Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness is a distinctive work that explores the much-neglected Chinese perspective in broader international relations theory. Using the concept of “self-feminizing”—adoption of a feminine identity to oblige and achieve mutual caring as a relational strategy—this book argues that postcolonial actors have employed gendered identities in order to survive the squeezing pressure of globalization and nationalism in their own ways. Sovereign actors who have historically claimed to act on behalf of Chineseness have taken advantage of the images of femininity thrust upon them by transnational capitalism, the media, or intellectual thought. Shih illustrates the feminist potential for emancipation through a range of empirical examples, showing that women of various Chinese characteristics, acting on behalf of their nation, city, and corporations, reject the masculinization of their groups of belonging as remedy

The crisis of masculinity surfaced and converged with the crisis of the nation in the late Qing, after the doors of China were forced open by Opium Wars. The power of physical aggression increasingly overshadowed literary attainments and became a new imperative of male honor in the late Qing and early Republican China. Afflicted with anxiety and indignation about their increasingly effeminate image as perceived by Western colonial powers, Chinese intellectuals strategically distanced themselves from the old literati and reassessed their positions vis-à-vis violence. In Mastery of Words and Swords: Negotiating Intellectual Masculinities in Modern China, 1890s–1930s, Jun Lei explores the formation and evolution of modern Chinese intellectual masculinities as constituted in racial, gender, and class discourses mediated by the West and Japan. This book brings to light a new area of interest in the “Man Question” within gender studies in which women have typically been the focus. To fully r