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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 Drawing on newspapers and unpublished official documents, this book focuses on the case of Guangzhou, largely because of the city's sustained involvement in the revolutionary quest for a "new"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.

Sir Charles Kao is generally regarded as the father of fiber optics, based in part on his discovery that signal loss in fiber cables was a direct result of impurities in the glass rather than a flaw in the technology—a breakthrough that affects nearly every aspect of our present-day communication infrastructure. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2009 "for groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication," this memoir chronicles the personal and scientific odyssey of one of the twentieth century's most influential scientists. Beginning with his childhood in war-torn Shanghai and Hong Kong, Kao explores the turbulent rift that forced him from his family. Later, he details his early work and experience that established the basis for his seminal research with glass fibers in the 1960s. Following this groundbreaking work, the memoir covers Kao's time as a professor and Vice Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong up until 200

Advances in Financial Planning and Froecasting (New Series) is an annual publication designed to disseminate developments in the area of financial analysis, planning, and forecasting. The publication is a froum for statistical, quantitative, and accounting analyses of issues in financial analysis and planning in terms of finance, accounting, and economic data.

Li shang wanglai is a phrase that combines practice and principle. It is what others have discussed as Confucianism. But it is the summation of what is practised in daily life and without the leadership of an elite intelligentsia. With this phrase the author has brought together what had been separately discussed: the social philosophy of bao (asymmetrical reciprocity), the central importance of mianzi and lian (face), the moral economy of renqing (human relationships of fellow-feeling), the art of making guanxiwang (social networks), and much else. She shows how they work together in what might be called a discursive constellation. Using sociological and anthropological theorisations of reciprocal relations in China and Japan, she creates a framework of four dimensions, namely, principled rational calculation, human-feeling, moral, and religious, and four kinds of relationships, namely, instrumental, expressive, negative and generous.

與其說《Letters in a Bottle》是少數派的笑忘書，不如說是土產文化人給我城的另類「家書」。作者以「個人的就是政治的」的筆觸，寫成三十封信。既給周秀娜、司徒華、林奕華、Wyman，又給田北晨、李誠、曾繁光、陳景輝、高春香、廖銀鳳……等香港人物，說盡性文化、禁煙、SMS、流感、鬱躁症、菜遠村、八十後、綜援、市區重建、零散工、政制改革等滾辣議題。軟中有硬，感性又智性，又一香港文化研究之作。

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.

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.

圖像輔助學習 輕鬆沒壓力 旅遊常用詞彙 好記又好用 情境對話詞句 英語即時通 多元小測驗 現學現用 英語就是要這樣輕鬆學！ 出國旅遊常用詞彙不知道怎麼說？單字也老是記不住？本書以生動的插畫，帶領讀者輕鬆學習旅遊相關字彙與用語，以圖像輔助學習，好記又好用。 圖像學習（visual learning）已被證明為一種有效的學習方式。經研究證實：「資訊以圖像及口頭表達來呈現並加以學習時，學習者能更有效記憶」（“Student better remember information when it’s represented and learned both visually and verbally.”）。因此，一邊藉由書中生動的插畫，一邊配合互動光碟或MP3裡由外籍老師特別錄製的真人發音單字、對話及實用句，本書的多功能超值配套絕對是您語言學習的最佳工具！ 全書包括「暢行悠遊」、「餐飲住宿」、「購物血拼」及「休閒玩樂」四大篇章，共三十個單元。每個單元以循序漸進的學習方式，搭配活潑生動的版面設計，讓英語學習變得好玩又有趣，迅速提升英語能力！