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愛上獨一無二的你 IT男 X 藝術女甜蜜吵鬧的情侶日常 在網上結識，第一次見面聊天7小時，相處2個月就拍拖？ 兩個行業截然不同的人竟然這麼合拍？ Instagram擁有20多萬粉絲的本地插畫師Bonnie， 以外國畫風畫出情侶相處的幸福打鬧時刻！ *附有「IT男／藝術女的使用守則」！ You are my UNICORN! The sweet and silly life of IT Guy & Art Girl Met online, talked for 7 hours on the first date, got together within 2 months! How two totally different backgrounds be so compatible? With 200k+ followers on Instagram, Hong Kong illustrator Bonnie records all of the moments in this book! *Come along with an IT Guy & Art Girl user's manual! 獻給期待愛情、享受戀愛、準備步入教堂的人！ FOR ALL LOVERS! 中英對照 Bilingual in Chinese and English

Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s. The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the cleverly constructed themes and character development. Exploring ideas of loss and bewilderment, Lin Hai-yin carefully captures the transition from childhood to adulthood. Shielded by a child’s innocence, we are taken on a journey of discovery as Ying-tzu grapples with the uncertainties of human relationships as well as her developing awareness of the world around her. Poignant and poetic, it is hard not to be moved by Memories of Peking: South Side Stories.

★真實記錄三十多年留美生活，海外追夢甘苦談。 ★施叔青、韓秀、吳鈞堯、龔則韞──專文推薦 真實記錄作者三十多年留美生活，〈留學追憶〉記錄作者在蒙大拿大學和約翰霍普金斯大學留學時期的趣事；〈異鄉記趣〉是熱眼細看多年來的快樂異鄉生活瑣事；〈工作戰場〉細數三段在美國重大職場轉折的迭起故事；〈人物素描〉則是書寫作者與有緣朋友間的趣聞逸事。 「擅長的敘述能力呈現生活見聞，又以敏銳的觀察力寫活了筆下的諸多人物，作者他鄉變故鄉的心路歷程更是感人。」──施叔青 「字裡行間看得到的善良、詼諧、促狹與誠懇。海外華文文壇上有這樣一支誠懇的健筆是很美好的一件事情。」──韓秀 「一個人見了五湖四海，也好奇其他人怎麼述說五湖四海，這樣的風景便大於風景。」──吳鈞堯 「文字裡透著瀟灑、大度、濃情、善意、美好，還有隱隱的幽默，暗藏貓頭鷹的智慧。」──龔則韞 無論在氣溫與心境上，他都曾經真實地處在酷寒中，而如今他走出低谷， 迎來了擁有百分之九十九溫馨，只有百分之一悲傷的燦爛人生。 上個世紀八零年代最冷的一天，在大風雪降臨後，他得知指導教授在系上的權力鬥爭中失敗，離開了蒙大拿大學（UniversityofMonta#），而他花了三年直攻的博士也不得不終止──那一天的氣溫驟降到零下四十度。 攻取學位失利後，「人生如戲」開始真實地在他生活中體現。從進入世界頂尖的基因工程公司（BRL），再轉到矽谷頂尖的電腦大廠甲骨文（Oracle）美東總部工作，最後在二〇一一年走進全球最大的企業——美國聯邦政府，成為高階公務員。一路走來，把他鄉變成家鄉，沉澱後的心情，讓生命越來越有溫度，以輕鬆幽默的態度，笑看一段段人生的小故事，溫馨快樂地回顧三十四年的留美生涯。 回首來時路，每一階段的轉變都很艱辛，過程也有些匪夷所思，更是「滾石不生苔」是最好的寫照，體驗過「人生如戲」的轉折，如今只追求生活中每個微小但確定的幸福。 「華氏與攝氏的零下四十度等同，於是，使用攝氏的家鄉台灣與他住了三十四年使用華氏的美國，在瞬間消失了距離。這個零距離不是噱頭而是真實的世界。」──韓秀

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Chinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with `Western' biomedicine. Legitimization of Chinese medicine in biomedicine-dominated health systems, such as that in Hong Kong, has posed significant issues. This anthology of articles explores relevant social issues related to various Chinese medicine treatments, including acupuncture and medicinal oils, as well as insight into practitioner licensing and public perception. Each chapter tackles a topic related to the complicated process of legitimizing knowledge and power within a specific social and historical context. Written by professors and researchers with extensive knowledge of Chinese medicine, government regulation, and sociology, this collection provides an overview of the challenges and current social context of Chinese medicine that affect students and practitioners of Chinese medicine, health and para-health biomedical professionals, and patients alike. Traditional Chinese Me

東南亞史專家陳鴻瑜，積數十年研究心得撰寫柬埔寨全史。 柬埔寨，一個禮佛敬王的文明古國，卻也是世界上最貧窮的國家之一；曾經是輝煌霸氣的吳哥王朝，卻也經歷過大屠殺和殖民壓迫。東南亞史學者陳鴻瑜教授積數十年研究心得，以時代為綱，從頭講述其迂迴跌宕的國史： 自第2世紀起，柬埔寨就是中印航線上的重要國家，舉凡種族、典章制度、宗教和習慣，都深受印度文化影響，成為信仰婆羅門教的國家。 9世紀初，賈亞瓦曼二世於柬埔寨開啟吳哥王朝盛世，脫離了爪哇的統治，建立了國王和濕婆神結合的「神君」觀念，在婆羅門教基礎上引進佛教和印度教，吳哥王朝的勢力也於11－12世紀達到頂峰。 然而18世紀後，柬埔寨缺乏現代化的建設，軍力落後，受到泰族和越族雙面夾擊，淪為暹羅和越南的屬國。柬埔寨原欲借法國之力擺脫兩國控制，簽約接受法國的保護，反而落入法國的牢籠，19世紀成為法屬殖民地。 二戰後，國王施亞努透過靈活的外交手腕，使柬埔寨成功脫離法國獨立。然而自後卻陷入左右兩派鬥爭，國事混亂，右派的龍諾推翻君主建立共和政體。旋又遭左派赤棉推翻，親越派引進越南勢力，重演一百五十年前越南佔領柬埔寨歷史。 如今，柬埔寨在聯合國、東協、中國、美國、日本等的協助下，重建民主自由君主立憲國家，其迂迴跌宕興衰之國史，尤足為世人警惕。

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is an enormously popular and widely known childhood fantasy of all time. The author tells the story of Alice, a little girl finding herself in Wonderland after falling through a rabbit hole. After tasting some magic cake and drink, she experiences changes in body sizes, which allows her to explore Wonderland and meet various kinds of talking animals and other amazing characters. Are these adventures nothing more than a bizarre dream? Or do they really happen? Let’s get into Wonderland with Alice and find out more!

☆本書按照命題重點編寫，內容豐富紮實☆ ☆經濟部所屬國營事業、中華電信招考適用☆ ☆歷屆試題搭配全真模擬試題，增加演練機會☆ 一、本書特色 考情完備 本社網站將隨時提供最新考訊與最新相關考試情報。 重點整理 一共分為緒論、程式語言、純量資料型別、流程控制和程式開發等五個章節，配合相關例題解說，帶領讀者洞悉命題重點。 歷屆試題 完整收錄近年相關試題，使讀者全盤掌握考試趨勢。 各科考題附有解析，使讀者能熟習基本作答方式。 二、學習心得 1.建議熟讀本書內容，最好能搭配原文書，將相關的公式與原理重新閱讀過。 2.原理與公式都熟習後，一定要自己動筆練習，一開始盡量先練習典型而且解答詳實的題目，切記！解析只用讀的而不動筆，一定無法發現自己盲點所在。 3.程式設計除了原理、定義須熟記外，常見的的遞迴問題或是 Class 問題建議都可以直接背誦下來，減少考試撰寫的時間。由於近期考試的程式語言除了 JAVA 與 C 之外，有越來越邁向網頁化的趨勢，所以若有餘力者不妨也多看看網頁程式語言相關書籍，以增進本身實力。 4.可相約志同好友編組讀書會，對於難懂的觀念，或是難解的試題，可由互相討論的方式解決，如此教學互長，必然有所裨益。 5.當仍有問題無法解決，建議詢問相關學有專精的教授或是先進。 三、命題趨勢 重要程度 命題重點 ★★★★ 程式語言的研究 ★★★ 結構化資料型別 ★★★★ 流程控制 ★★ 資料控制 ★★★★★ C 與 C++ ※本書內僅提供實體書籍購買者使用，不適用於電子書※

The personal stories of the Gao villagers demonstrate and are related to changes in China. This is a close study of Gao Village twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao village, wrote his original ethnography Gao Village. It combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories, which presents a convincing yet complex picture of how Gao villagers interact with the outside world. With his sympathetic and insider’s approach, the author argues that rural Chinese display great entrepreneurship and inner strength of self-improvement; they are active contributors to China’s economic boom. ~~~~~~~~ “This is a close ethnographic look at the world of Gao villagers twenty years after the author, an anthropologist and native of Gao village, wrote his original ethnography. Through a look at Gao villagers, including the ethnographer’s own family and extended kin, we are able to see the decline of agriculture and the integration of rural

Carlo Urbani was an infective disease specialist with a beaming career, one of the most experienced in the world. He has received the Nobel Peace Prize as a national president of Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF). On March 29, Urbani, ironically as the very first doctor discovering Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), was killed by the mysterious virus in a remote hospital of the Far East. Doctor Without Borders: Portrait of Carlo Urbani documents his remarkable life stories by including contents of manuscripts, interviews, and letters, in an attempt to honor Urbani’s memories in every way possible.

The Catholic Church is one of the few institutions that have survived since the inception of the British colony. She has contributed much during its development. As early as 1841, she set up a mission in Hong Kong. She and her various religious orders and congregations engaged in charitable works for the poor and the elderly in the early days of Hong Kong, greatly relieving the burden on the newly established colonial government. Today, apart from religious services, the Catholic Church still plays an important role in providing Hong Kong with diversified and professional services in medical care, education and social welfare. Historical studies on the Catholic Church in Hong Kong of a comprehensive nature are rare in comparison with other religions. The reasons of this may include the complicated organizational structure of the Catholic Church and the multiple languages used in the archival documents, such as Latin, French, Italian and Portuguese. As a Catholic clergy, the author of

Putting admirable rationales of university education into practice is never easy. While it is popular to emphasize market values and competitive rankings, moral values and ideals sound way too lofty nowadays. Under tensions on campus and in society, the head of a university takes the role of striking a balance as skilfully as possible. Professor Joseph Sung is no exception to all these challenges. He has been enjoying university life with teachers and students, going through ups and downs with them. This book, a collection of 57 blog articles by Professor Sung during his tenure as the seventh Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, tells us the stories. He talks about higher education and social responsibility, pathways and choices our youths make, the visions he had and the challenges he faced, and life values which he wishes his students could take seriously. Though generations come and go, he still cares that they live a simple, noble and humble life. He hopes we ca

“This is a vital book for specialists as well as a wider readership with an interest in greater China’s diverse and changing artworlds.”—Paul Gladston, The University of Nottingham ---------------------------------- This book investigates the varied forms of art practices in Hong Kong and greater China over the last decade. The author explores how and why the artists of the city engage in practices ranging from the most personal to the most socially oriented, with an interesting analysis of the works of about fifty local art practitioners and a representative range of art institutions.

As a sequel to An Encyclopedia of Translation: Chinese-English English-Chinese, which was published in 1995, this volume, An Encyclopedia of Practical Translation and Interpreting, focuses on practical translation and interpreting, the two emerging areas of increasing importance in recent decades. Some chapters in this volume are illustrated with examples in translation between Chinese and English. Scholars and experts from China, France, Hong Kong, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States share with us their experiences in translation or interpreting practice. This encyclopedia should be of great interest to both specialists and general readers.

輕鬆打造程式腦，從10歲到100歲一定都能學會寫程式！ 寫程式就像寫作文，學會單字語法不代表就能寫出好文章。 但如果能先了解程式設計背後的思維與邏輯， 不管以後使用哪種程式語言，都能運用自如，順利完成任務，一生受用。 對目前及未來的世代而言，學習如何寫程式已經是跟語文、數學、藝術一樣的基礎能力。在生活中，電腦可以幫忙掃地、洗衣、煮飯；在工作上，除了工商業界，電腦應用還擴及到設計、傳播、藝術等領域，與每個人緊密連結，因此不論處於什麼年齡，我們都應該及早擁有操作電腦的工具及知識，並建立起跟電腦一起工作的自信。 你是不是想學程式語言卻不知從何開始？別擔心，你不需要急著弄懂Java、Python、Ruby這些程式語言到底有什麼不同，即使不熟悉電腦的操作也沒關係。這本書將一步一步拆解程式設計師的思考模式，帶領你從故事及遊戲中尋找規則，學會以同樣的方式解決問題。對於不懂電腦的人來說，看到「迴圈」、「條件陳述式」、「運算子」、「變數」這些令人摸不著頭緒的專用術語就夠令人害怕的了，不過這些概念其實透過骰子或撲克牌遊戲就可以輕鬆學會並理解。 當你擁有如程式設計師一般的腦袋，就等於破解了電腦的魔法，也開啟了神奇的程式世界。只要多加練習，這些數字、符號、程式碼，都將成為解決問題的好幫手，並且讓你能更有創意地展現出自己的想法。 【重點特色】 ★介紹電腦的基本組成與運作原理，以故事與遊戲的方式說明常用的程式設計專有名詞及概念。 ★不擅長數理與電腦，也能先透過撲克牌遊戲認識程式設計背後的邏輯思維。 ★增強邏輯能力除了有助於學習程式設計，對於思考與解決問題都有很大幫助，影響也很深遠。 【專家推薦】 吳郁芬，ACTC亞洲兒童程式教育協會祕書長 鄭國威，泛科知識公司知識長 賴以威，臺師大電機工程學系助理教授／數感實驗室共同創辦人 謝宗翔，《偷插電的資訊科學》作者 收到積木文化新書《不需要電腦的程式設計課》，我相當興奮，台灣終於有針對程式教育養成的專書出版了，我迫不及待地仔細閱讀。 作者先以不同情境引發讀者思考電腦在生活中的重要性，進而以淺顯易懂的範例及活動來說明電腦運作概念，讓我越讀越有趣，因其理念與我們極力推廣的「不插電遊戲玩程式邏輯」有異曲同工之妙。 本書的重點不是在於寫程式，而在於先增進孩子運算思維的能力，未來不管孩子是否會成為程式設計師，都對其邏輯思考能力有所助益，

1975–1984: the decade leading up to the signing of the Sino British Joint Declaration witnessed the rise of China from an isolated country to a serious economic player on the world stage and the decline of the British empire. Torn between the two was Hong Kong, a stable and prosperous British colony with an almost wholly Chinese population, a city world renowned for money-making with little interest in politics. What would be Hong Kong’s fate after 1997? At times astute and uncannily prescient, at other times wildly imaginative, Lam Hang-chi’s daily editorials in the Hong Kong Economic Journal analysed and conjectured Hong Kong’s options at the time. His opinion sparked debates and frequently provided a focal point for the discussion on Hong Kong’s future; His views on housing, assimilating immigrants, the collusion of politics and business, issues that are foremost in Hong Kong today, still inform. For the first time, they are made available in English. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

China stands as a major “Red Swan” challenge to the social sciences. The resilience of the Communist party-state, in combination with a rapidly expanding and internationally competitive economy, challenges conventional models of economic development and political change. This book focuses on crucial governmental action programs and examines the manner in which they were developed, formulated, implemented, adjusted, and revised. It finds that Chinese policy making has been driven by a distinctive political methodology—an unusual combination of long-term national agendas with versatile local policy experimentation—that serves as an effective mechanism for policy innovation and correction, and thus provides strong adaptive capabilities in a perpetually shifting economic, technological and international context. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ An original and persuasive book by one of the leading scholars of China’s policy-making process. The paradox of China’s successful market reforms is that they wer

This book is a comprehensive guide to one’s fate in the year of Pig, including: 1. The Luck of the Newborn Pigs and Naming Tips; 2. Land Luck, Investment Strategy and Feng Shui Setting-out for the Year of the Pig; 3. Fortune of Each Zodiac Sign as well as guidelines on Enhancing the Luck of Wealth, Health and Relationship; Chinese Almanac for the Year with suggested Lucky Days for various events.

2019 Chinese Almanac is perfect for any people or families, with all useful information at your fingertips: 1. Basic information of an Almanac 2. General forecast based on zodiac sign 3.Flying Star Charts for every direction 4.Naming basics 5.Face and Palm reading 6. Practical Feng Shui 7. Chinese Almanac - suitable and unsuitable activities for each day of the year.

【 iPAS行動裝置程式設計師能力鑑定參考用書籍】 【本書獲經濟部產業人才能力鑑定暨培訓創新推動計畫補助】 ◎注入開發觀念，引導讀者從UI／UX的原理進入程式開發。 ◎提供所有開發程式技巧，完美運用App的相關元件，熟悉各式指令。 ◎循序漸進了解程式用途，並逐步完成專案應用程式。 ◎官方iPas 考證試題演練，充分複習加強概念，讓您輕鬆考照。 提供Android入門開發的專業技能與知識，教導讀者學習建立職場軟實力，輔以專題實作與習題練習，跟著本書學習後可輕鬆考取專業證照，進入企業界貢獻所學，成為業界之專才人員。 【誠摯推薦】 朝陽科技大學資訊學院 李麗華院長 資策會教研所資訊技術中心 呂理華主任 資策會教研所資訊技術中心 吳念祖組長 台中市電腦商業同業公會 張混智總幹事

Geotechnical Hazard Mitigations with Experiment, Theory and Practice presents the keynote lectures and general papers presented at the Fifth International ISSMGE Conference on Geotechnical Engineering for Disaster Mitigation and Rehabilitation (5th GEDMAR, Taipei, Taiwan, September 13-14, 2017). The contributions discuss rainstorm and storm surge induced riverine and coastal flooding event, liquefaction, and landslide. The book is divided into the following sections: -Keynote lecture -Combined hazard in river basin -Liquefaction -Landslide -Other natural geo-hazards Geotechnical Hazard Mitigations with Experiment, Theory and Practice will be of interest to researchers, academics, industry practitioners and other professionals involved in earthquake geotechnical engineering and landslide hazards.

This book included seven papers on modernization researches and the overviews of 15 annual reports of China modernization Report(CMR) from 2001 to 2016.CMRs with different topics year by year ,focus on the systematics studies of the principles of world modernization, as well as the features and roads of China's modernization with a model of scientific,innovative,strategic and constructive approach.It covered 131 countries and 97% of world population,with the time span of 400 years(from 1700 to 2100),invovled modernization theories, level-relative modernization(world,international,nation,regional and urban modernization),filed-related modernization(economic,social,cultural and ecological modernization) and sector-related modernization(agricultural,Industrial and service modernization),and so on.（中译文：本书包括新现代化研究的7篇文章和《中国现代化报告》的15篇综述。前者关注理论研究，重点讨论世界现代化和国家发达的原理和方法。后者关注实证研究，重点分析中国走向现代化国家的路径和战略选择，是15部《中国现代化报告》的内容摘要。本书可供关心新现代化研究和中国现代化的专家学者和相关人士参考。）

音樂劇故事衍生自1937年上海四行倉庫保衛戰，女童軍送國旗給守軍戰士，激勵國人抗日士氣，從而產生浪漫、感動和引人入勝的情節，男女主角亦要在愛情與保衛國家之間作出選擇。 在烽火年代，甚麽是生存的意義？ 本書前半收錄完整的中英文台詞及精美劇照，後半為小說《戰火忘情》中英文本摘錄。 “1937 The Lost World’s Love”, is a grand musical, based on the history of the Battle of Shanghai in 1937. The story begins with a girl-guide, who brings a national flag to the regiment of 800 soldiers defending Sihang Warehouse. The scene is set for a tragic love story that emerges in the midst of a dramatic set of circumstances, where life and death are but a shadow apart. In the era of turbulence, what is the value of staying alive? First half of this book includes script of the whole musical while the second part is the same story presented in novel format, with all written in both Chinese and English. 本書特色 音樂劇影片《1937 戰火忘情》榮獲美國Accolade Global Film Competition 表彰獎 (2016年3月) 中英雙語閱讀

Advertising is something which we are exposed to from a young age and which can affect us in many different ways. Centered around the question “Does advertising improve society?” this volume explores the impact and issues of advertising and questions its social responsibility, with a focus on Hong Kong society. The collection of essays offers a broad view of the interaction between society and advertising, from an introduction to semiotic studies, exploring the use of gender stereotypes to the employment of brand placement as a new form of product promotion. Written by professors of advertising with experience from both within the industry and from international research, this is a senior level textbook designed to augment any studies in advertising, marketing, public relations or media studies.

本书较系统全面地阐述了数据库系统的基础理论、基本技术和基本方法。

The genre of poems that may be read both forward and backward, producing different creations was known as the “flight of wild geese.” These poems were often sent so that a distant lover, like the migrating birds, would return. Its greatest practitioner, and the focus of this critical anthology, is Su Hui, a woman who, in the 4th Century, embroidered a silk for her distant husband using a grid of 840 characters that created perhaps 12,000 ways to read this poem. With examples from the 3rd to the 19th centuries, Michele Metail describes reversible poems as “a singular adventure at the edge of meaning, of language, and of writing.”

Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang Dynasty. A Song dynasty critic once described Li He’s poetry as written in the “language of a demonic immortal” and filled with hallucinatory evocations of goddesses, beautiful courtesans, Buddhist visions, drunken nights, and corruption. As the scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes, “Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for our disconcerting times.” Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Keats. In the crystalline translations by the noted scholar J. D. Frodsham, the 1983 edition of this book has been out of print for decades.

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

Before 2000, roughly 96% of China’s energy demands were met domestically. Since 2001, however, this position of near self-reliance has changed. With steadily increasing demands, China’s need for foreign energy has grown. Today, China is the world’s biggest energy consumer and emitter of greenhouse gases. Building upon the first volume, which examined China’s energy plans, this book will examine the strategies China has taken to meet its burgeoning energy demands, continue its fast-paced economic growth and also address the mounting concerns about environmental welfare and the true cost of China’s development. With new chapters addressing international agreements, the so-called “China energy threat” and the Belt and Road Initiative, this volume will continue to discuss and interpret both domestic policies and China’s international role.

This was the motto of Chang Kuo-sin, and the ideal which he inspired generations of students of communication to follow. He proved his own dedication to this when, in 1949, he found himself in Nanking, the former nationalist capital, under the rule of the newly victorious communists. For eight months he lived and attempted to work in the midst of these historical changes. He managed to smuggle his detailed notes out to share with the world at a time when almost no reports of the new regime were being published. To mark the centenary of his birth, Hong Kong Baptist University’s School of Communication has republished this important work by one of its most distinguished professors.

不同於﹝境界之輪迴﹞及﹝高橋留美子劇場﹞， 高橋留美子另一個世界的漫畫決定版！ 收錄數篇﹝少年SUNDAY﹞&﹝BIG COMIC﹞短篇作品， 以及高橋留美子與安達充共同創作的 ﹝少年SUNDAY﹞創刊50周年紀念大作！ 連載彩稿原封不動完整呈現！ 絕對值得收藏！ 收錄作品：﹝鏡子來了﹞﹝復仇娃娃﹞﹝千面女星﹞﹝可愛的花﹞﹝with CAT﹞﹝MY SWEET SUNDAY（安達充╳高橋留美子）﹞

Kung Fu has evolved from a traditional means of defence to become a system of attacking and defending oneself, with or without weapons, exercising the body and maintaining good physical and mental health. As such, these practices have found an international following. Yet what has remained a largely unexplored area is the scientific principles behind these martial arts. This book not only covers the brief history of Chinese martial arts, but also brings together the wisdom of a Kung Fu grand master with a scientist and teacher to explain the scientific reasons why Kung Fu is the powerful practice that it is. Using the principles of physics, biomechanics and biology, with a number of drawings showing some basic postures of Kung Fu, the authors present a deep understanding of how the styles, the specific movements and methods of attack and defence operate.

“Mirage is a key work from the critical period of the early nineteenth century. It resembles a modern-day R-rated movie, touching on serious issues but containing scenes of explicit sexual pleasure and violent conflict.”—Keith McMahon First published anonymously in 1804—its author remains unknown—Mirage is set in Guangzhou (Canton), some decades before the city was overwhelmed by the opium trade and the Opium War. Su Jishi, the adolescent son of the head of the Chinese traders’ association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for his powerful family after his father’s unexpected death. More interested in sex than money, Su Jishi learns to navigate between pleasure and commerce, as rebellions erupt just outside the city. At the crossroads of two of the greatest Chinese books—the aristocratic coming-of-age novel, The Story of the Stone (The Dream of the Red Chamber) and the military epic Outlaws of the Marsh—Mirage i

Originally written over a period from about 1979 to the early 1980s, the first in the trilogy was inspired by the theatre of the absurd and focused on the nature of human relationships across the fabric of space-time. The second, written in the late 1980s and the following early 1990s, was focused on repercussions of events across space-time; and then the third, written in 2000 and after, more or less concludes the trilogy with elements of the preceding two interwoven and coming to grips with the vicissitudes of life.

Sam, working as a trainee waiter in a small Italian restaurant near the West End of London, was one day fooled by a bohemian sort of man with a bad sort of logic that led to his dismissal by the head waitress. Feeling lost and trotting along Regent Street he bumped into his girl friend Amy who had just been through a similar scenario, and that made them both laugh away their ‘misfortune’ to start afresh. Sam decided to take a critical thinking course run by a certain Professor Panggloss, a name that rang a bell for him, recalling Voltaire’s famous novel Candide, and the course turned out to be very useful, albeit puzzling at times, which therefore troubled Sam quite a lot, so much so that he had to share his critical thinking problems with Amy, even when she was already away from the UK, holidaying at her aunt’s invitation in Hong Kong. The lovers, separated by at least six thousand miles, carried on their intimate communication using state-of-the-art IT, frequently disturbing each o

Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word ‘love’ regardless of language. It has to engage with the scholarly debate on whether or not romantic love was invented in Europe and is uniquely Western. And it must be able to explain why early twentieth-century Chinese writers claimed that they had never known true love, or love by modern Western standards. By addressing these three challenges through a literary, historical, philosophical, biographical and above all comparative approach, this highly original work shows how love’s profile in China shifted with the rejection of arranged marriages and concubinage in favour of free individual choice, monogamy and a Western model of romantic love. 名人推薦 ‘This book, Lynn Pan’s best to date, adds a wonderful new an

Archival records are meant to serve as evidence of responsible governance, and in addition to their undeniable political value, they also serve as the basic component of a nation’s documentary heritage. Records today are history tomorrow. However, with the absence of an Archives Law in Hong Kong and the significance of keeping records being overlooked or actually not understood by people of Hong Kong, there are heightened concerns that government records would be destroyed for unjustifiable reasons and that public’s rights to access well-preserved government records would be deprived of. This book in 16 chapters is based on a series of direct face-to-face interviews with different practising archivists and special library managers in Hong Kong. Their conversations recorded in the book not only enable readers to understand the urgency of approving the Archives Law, but also reveal the details about their profession, as well as the richness of the local heritage that is uniquely Hong Ko

In this handy book, Icy Lee and Paul Sze openly share their stories as nonnative English speaking educators in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). This collection of teachers’ stories provides a source of inspiration for both native and nonnative speaking professionals in the field, encouraging them to re-examine key issues in the profession and to reflect on their own practice critically. "Voices from the Frontline: Narratives of Nonnative English Speaking Teachers is a must-read for anyone in TESOL as it brings power through stories to inspire teachers, native or nonnative alike, to reflect, recharge and re-imagine what they do by confronting challenges with problem solving tactics, and devoting themselves to the profession with enthusiasm and passion." —Jun Liu, Georgia State University " 'Nativeness' is no magic bullet for effective and successful language teaching. Icy Lee and Paul Sze's exhilarating accounts of their learning trajectories and teaching exper