The Other Hong Kong Report 1998 discusses the latest developments of Hong Kong, especially the changes since the handover and the current problems. Twenty-five experts have contributed papers on topic
The MacLehose Trail is a 100-kilometer walk—starting in Sai Kung and finishing up in Tuen Mun—across some of Hong Kong's most spectacular countryside. This publication captures the spirit of the trail
The Discourse on Foxes and Ghosts: Ji Yun and Eighteenth-Century Literati Storytelling takes as its subject the eighteenth-century zhiguai (stories of the strange). The focus is on Ji Yun's (1724-1805
A baby girl, a family of sugar workers, a disabled man, a student, a well-meaning banker, a village woman and a boy with leprosy. Nobody rich or famous. Just faces in the crowd. Yet each with a remark
China is the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) among developing countries. This study compares China's FDI performance with a number of other Asian countries and focuses on the poli
The year 1997 should be considered a successful year for the Chinese leadership. Deng Xiaoping's passing away in February and the holding of the Fifteenth Party Congress in September confirmed Jiang Z
Deng Xiaoping's death marked the end of an era in contemporary Chinese politics. The first generation revolutionary leaders have gone, and the third generation leaders are genuinely in power. At the s
This book coincides with Macau's upcoming handover as well as its transition towards the Year 2000. Originally a collection of conference proceedings, Macau and its Neighbors toward the 21st Century c
Chinese calligraphy has been an independent visual art form for thousands of years. Its wonderful aesthetics has inspired the art of Chinese painting since the second century B.C. Before pen and penci
Murder, Mystery, and Courtroom Drama─Chinese Style! Sanxia wuyi三俠五義(later revised and called Qixia wuyi七俠五義) is a semi-historical narrative of adventure, crime-detection, and courtroom drama. It revol
The Tiger Killers is the second volume of a new translation of the Chinese classical novel generally known as The Water Margin. Like the first volume, The Broken Seals, it follows the fortunes of vari
Political order has been one of the paramount goals pursued by people regardless of their political inclination. In the context of Hong Kong, the importance of political order has been gaining even mo
There are already many books on Hong Kong's future. But this volume has a distinct contribution to make by offering an analysis of the evolving political order in Hong Kong and its international role.
The aim of this volume is to integrate the most recent research in the cognitive processing of Chinese and related Asian languages (i.e. Japanese and Korean) into a single academic reference. Because
The metabolic activation of many drugs and xenobiotics in vivo is effected through the large family of cytochrome P450s enzymes that catalyse a diverse spectrum of reactions including the metabolism o
本書編譯了當代關於社會科學措辭（rhetoric）的最重要的九篇論述，指出尋繹的措辭學（rhetorie of inquiry）建基於兩個論斷：第一，學術的論辯較我們所理解的更加統一，無論各領域的學家所研究的是甚麼，所賴的是同樣的措辭手法。第二，尋繹措辭學堅持，學術論辯比我們所理解的更五花八門。尋繹措辭學要問的是：為甚麼有些措辭方式會被學術規範制度認可，有些則被排斥？被認可的措辭方式又如何影響各個
This is a professional writer's handbook for newspaper reporters, magazine freelancers and journalism students who write in English. It has a thorough treatment of style, usage, and the many structure
This book examines the evolution of the local identity in China from historical times to the present day. It traces the expression of local identity in religion and myth, in the construction of the pr
The book is directed specifically at Chinese people who want to write good English. Problems special to Chinese people are dealt with in detail. It also contains a list of short, simple rules about wr
In fifty lessons, the authors examine both structural patterns and morphological features characteristic of Mandarin Chinese. The book describes cultural idiosyncracies in language use as well as give
This book includes fifty most widely used Chinese sentence patterns, and is specially designed for intermediate learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Each chapter is divided into three parts: sen
Advanced Chinese Reader is broadly representative of the baihua or colloquial writings that have appeared in print from the Literary Revolution of 1917 to the present time. There are altogether twenty
Here for the first time in English is Alfred Döblin's astonishing epic of eighteenth century China, hailed on its publication in 1915 as a master-piece of Expressionist prose, and since recognized to
The work touches on the religious, intellectual, scientific and artistic aspects of the China-Europe encounter during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and shows that there had been significant i
Interpreting Culture Through Translation is an anthology of articles compiled to honor one of the foremost translators and interpreters of the Chinese classics, Professor D. C. Lau. The articles take
This book is a study of the Chinese experience with racial discrimination in Montreal, Canada. It begins with the arrival of the first batch of Cantonese, in the 1850s, in Victoria, British Columbia a
The author traces the development of Western medicine and medical education in China over a hundred years by telling stories about the pioneer medical missionaries and how they performed their duties
The revolutionary writer and literary critic Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren, 1881–1936) is celebrated at home and abroad as one of the most groundbreaking and influential writers of modern China. A first-hand wi
This is the first comprehensive bibliography on two closely related branches of Chinese linguistics: Chinese lexicology and Chinese lexicography. A total of 4,165 entries are listed.
The core of the work is a systematically arranged listing of 2,558 sound glosses and 345 Buddhist transcriptions. Chinese characters in each entry are supplied with Middle Chinese and Eastern Han reco
This book constitutes the first comprehensive and scholarly study of the life and outstanding achievements of V. K. Wellington Koo (1887-1985), the most brilliant statesman the Republic of China ever
The main portion of this collection consists of a number of theoretical and critical essays, ranging from an inquiry into possible approaches to actual case analyses in the study of Chinese-Western co
This bibliography of T'an Ssu-t'ung (Tan Sitong) (1865-1898), a prominent thinker and reformer of the late Qing, contains 205 items. These include articles, books and theses by or on the reformer writ
This is a annotated translation of Nan-fang ts'ao-mu chuang (Nanfang caomu zhuang) (Plants of the Southern Regions) by Qi Han which deals with some eighty plants and plant products of southern China a
This book presents amazing facts of morphological diversity of orchids in Hong Kong which provide an unusual opportunity for a comparative study by orchidologists throughout the world.
The perception of Hong Kong as materially successful and culturally marginal is a common one. The city, sheltered from the Chinese political tsunamis, has in fact developed a distinctive character tha
This paper critiques values education initiatives in Singapore, a city-state whose government is ever-conscious of the need to ensure national economic competitiveness in the global economy. In partic
Social History and the Studies of Chinese WomenIn recent years, the study of Chinese women has become an important new field of Social History. Indeed, this field contributes to the expansion of the a
On 13 December 2007 at United College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Centre for Catholic Studies hosted a two-day "Conference on the History of Catholic Religious Orders and Missionary Cong
