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 Drawing on newspapers and unpublished official documents, this book focuses on the case of Guangzhou, largely because of the city's sustained involvement in the revolutionary quest for a "new"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

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

Summary This book is a written version of a lecture course that I have conducted over anumber of years at National Tsing Hua University on the subject of mathematical methods for physics In response to student requests, once and again, the main purpose of the book is devoted to motivate students to feel free to study mathematics independently The book is intended to provide advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in physical science with the most fundamental tools and important background which they will need in the advanced studies It contains a lot of physical examples appearing in many remarkable reference books, or bursting out in my research career All examples have been carried out step by step as clear as possible Through the numerous illustrations readers may become familiar with the basic outlook of mathematical methods for physics, recognize the skillful techniques in general, and enable to apply or to extend to advanced problems

As a Cultural construct, gender is fictional and imagined, yet its ideological and representational effects on the formation of self and identity are quite real. The fiction behind the fictional, which many accepts as truth, is at the core of what is most intriguing about the problem of gender. Critiquing this narrative, Gender, Discourse, and the Self in Literature unravels the strategies that writers and filmmakers adopt in their (de)construction of the gendered self in three Chinese communities: mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Writing from the vantage points of film, literature, and gender studies, contributors make an innovative marriage to Western gender discourse and the construction and representation of self and identity in contemporary China.

．英檢片語的奪分超級幫手！ ．定價350元，特價269元。 ．450個超級常考的英檢片語 ．2300個以上最生活化的例句 ．450題考題大預測 沒有學不會的片語！簡單易學，現學現用，觸類旁通！ 一次就讓你的片語暢通無阻！不論在任何情境，都能手到擒來。 apply to（適用於；塗抹；致力於；申請；應用） ………………………………………………………………………………… (1) apply to意指「塗抹」、「提出正式申請」、「適用於人或事」、 「專注於於某事」、「應用能力去做某事」。 (2) 表「申請」時， apply to + 申請的對象（如公司、學校、機構等單位） apply for + 所要申請的標的物（如職位、學籍、許可等） ………………………………………………………………………………… ．It didn’t apply to her. 那不適用於她身上。 ．She applies the cream to her face every night. 她每晚都會在臉上塗抹乳液。 ．My younger sister applies herself to practicing the piano. 我妹妹致力於(努力)練琴。 ．That woman applied to policeman for protection. 那名婦女向警察請求保護。 ．I applied the booke learning to practice. 我把課本上的知識應用於實際生活上。 clean up（打掃；梳洗；大賺一筆；掃蕩） ………………………………………………………………………………… (1) clean up意為「徹底打掃」、「梳洗自己」、「掃蕩不法活動」、 「大賺一筆」。 (2) up為介副詞。受詞若是代名詞，要放在up之前；一般名詞則可放 在up前後。 ………………………………………………………………………………… ．Sarah, clean up yourself for lunch. 莎拉，梳洗一下準備吃午餐囉。 ．Mom cleans up my room every day. 母親每天都打掃我的房間。 ．Vick

本書分上、下二冊，蒐集世界各地諺語菁華共1,000句，上下冊各500句。為求各地諺語能相互比較，另蒐集「義近諺語」1,032句，附列於相關主句之後，並依諺語之性質分章編列。其內容如下： 【上冊】分道德與修養（Moral and Cultivation）、學問與智慧（Learning and Wisdom）、人生思想（Thoughts for Life）、意志與毅力（Ambition and Willpower）、言行（Words and Deeds）以及政治（Politics）共五章。 【下冊】分處事態度（Attitudes toward Work）、人際關係（Interpersonal Relationship）、親情（The Love of Blood Relatives）、友情（Friendship）、男人與女人（Men and Women）、健康（Health）、財富（Wealth）以及其他（Others）共八章。 本書編譯之目的，乃欲使讀者浸淫於世界各類諺語菁華之同時，亦能對英文之程度有所增進。熟諳各地諺語不但能洞悉不同民族之文化內涵，亦可作為言談或寫作之引言，以強化其立論基礎，並可做為個人修身養性之準繩。

What difference does a region make? Are the new regional cultures of Northeast Asia the product of individuals fighting to overcome national trade barriers, or are they driven by governments promoting national interests in new ways? Are they the result of economic pursuits alone, or do cultural and political forces play a role? Cultural Studies and Cultural Industries in Northeast Asia takes a Cultural Studies approach to the cultural industries in Northeast Asia. The volume opens with an innovative section considering the discipline itself as a kind of cultural industry, highlighting the challenges and possibilities that arise from the context of Northeast Asia. Other essays on specific cultural industries and their products range in coverage from labor in the Korean animation industry to anti-Korean manga in Japan, the emergence of an East Asian brandscape, Chinese consumption of Japanese animation, the Asian regional strategy of the Pusan International Film Festival, and more.

本書分上、下二冊，蒐集世界各地諺語菁華共1,000句，上下冊各500句。為求各地諺語能相互比較，另蒐集「義近諺語」1,032句，附列於相關主句之後，並依諺語之性質分章編列。 其內容如下： 【上冊】分道德與修養（Moral and Cultivation）、學問與智慧（Learning and Wisdom）、人生思想（Thoughts for Life）、意志與毅力（Ambition and Willpower）、言行（Words and Deeds）以及政治（Politics）共五章。 【下冊】分處事態度（Attitudes toward Work）、人際關係（Interpersonal Relationship）、親情（The Love of Blood Relatives）、友情（Friendship）、男人與女人（Men and Women）、健康（Health）、財富（Wealth）以及其他（Others）共八章。 本書編譯之目的，乃欲使讀者浸淫於世界各類諺語菁華之同時，亦能對英文之程度有所增進。熟諳各地諺語不但能洞悉不同民族之文化內涵，亦可作為言談或寫作之引言，以強化其立論基礎，並可做為個人修身養性之準繩。

Despite the increase of research investigating various aspects of the drug problem in Hong Kong in the past decade, little was known about the pathway to continuous drug use or recovery of chronic drug abusers. This book reports upon a pioneer longitudinal study of chronic drug abusers in Hong Kong that used an analytical framework consisting of sociological, psychological and treatment variables to explore the protective and risk factors affecting the relapse or abstinence of chronic drug abusers. The findings of the study have significant implications for theories of drug use and rehabilitation, especially highlighting the roles of social capital, self-efficacy, short-term abstinence and harm reduction in the chronic drug abuser’s road to recovery.

Feng Shui practice has become an important reference for the planning and design of buildings, monuments and even entire cities. In fact Feng Shui is an evolved study of the natural and built environment. By utilizing the natural elements and practical environmental changes, we may improve upon our well-being, relationships, prosperity, health and living environment. People in many advanced countries seek to establish a deeper understanding of these relationships between human and natural environment. Architects from around the world also begin to recognize Feng Shui as a broad ecologically and architecturally connected paradigm. To remove the shadow of superstition for Feng Shui practice, it is essential to use a scientific approach in the hope of combining and fusing ancient wisdom with modern knowledge in building science. Scientific Feng Shui has two meanings, namely (1) the verification of Feng Shui principles scientifically and (2) studying Feng Shui logically in a scientific wa

Vulnerable young people lacking self-esteem and aspiration are usually regarded as more at-risk. They deserve transformational change to ease rising problems associated with property crime, violence, illegal drugs, truancy and exclusion, etc. Written by a host of scholars, frontline practitioners and supervisors of related expertise, this edited volume in nine chapters is a welcome addition to the study of the problems and practical issues of Youth-at-risk (YAR) in the context of Hong Kong. With an excellent and interesting analysis of a wide range of intervention programmes, this volume will help readers explore different initiatives for working with YAR, both theoretically and practically. This book will certainly be of interest to social work and welfare academics, professionals from a range of youth services and voluntary organisations, carers, parents and family networks. Social policy specialists and youth justice students will also find the description of initiatives in the lo

《Living In Taiwan》系列互動有聲電子書，由數位資深外籍編輯多年居住在台灣所見所聞，以短文的形式撰寫，再由中籍英文老師翻譯挑選單字並註釋，讓學習者可以沒有負擔的學習，學習者可以每天...

《Living In Taiwan》系列互動有聲電子書，由數位資深外籍編輯多年居住在台灣所見所聞，以短文的形式撰寫，再由中籍英文老師翻譯挑選單字並註釋，讓學習者可以沒有負擔的學習，學習者可以每天...

《Livin In Taiwan》系列互動電子由數位資深外籍編輯多年居住在台灣所見所聞以短文的形式撰寫再由中籍英文老師翻譯挑單字並註釋讓學習者可以沒負擔的學習學習者可以每天學習一篇只要輕點的朗鍵...

《Living In Taiwan》系列互動有聲電子書，由數位資深外籍編輯多年居住在台灣所見所聞，以短文的形式撰寫，再由中籍英文老師翻譯挑選單字並註釋，讓學習者可以沒有負擔的學習，學習者可以每天...

Without any doubt, youth are the future of the world. For any nation which hopes to thrive and develop, it is necessary to commit significant resources in facilitating youth development. This book is a collection of papers presented at the International Conference on Youth Empowerment over the last four years. It explores the relationship between youth volunteerism and empowerment which is considered as an inherent cornerstone in the social and psychological growth for youth. Written by a team of experts on issues about youth, the book presents the various theories, models, paradigms and concepts related to youth empowerment and volunteerism. With selected examples in countries around the world, it also reveals to us how different cultures infuse their own history, language, mores, laws, policies, demographics, and socio-political infrastructures in facilitating youth empowerment and volunteerism. Youth hold the key to the world of the future, and empowering youth is actually a human

This study investigates the internal structure of noun phrases In Chinese and argues that number, referentiality, and totality/partitivity are all syntactically represented. Viewing number in a new light, it claims that number in a classifier language is syntactically encoded via the use of a $P, i.e., NumP, the head of which is occupied by a classifier/massifier (cf. Boer 2005). Plurality Is realized differently in a #P via the use of numerals, the plural classifier xie, quantifiers, or the reduplication of classifiers/massiflers. The plural marker-men is a derivational suffix marking either collective plurality or semantic plurality, resolving the problem that syntactic plurality may co-occur with semantic plurality when syntactic plurality marks an indeterminate quantity. Unlike the standard head-complement analysis that assumes a DP-NumP-CIP-DP hierarchy, this study argues that a numeral or a quantifier enters into a relation with a classifier/massilier, forming a UP A P (with or w

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. The chapters in this volume cover a wider range of topics including equity markets, risk return trade-off analysis and portfolio management, and IPOs. In this volume there are 10 chapters, four of them analyze the issues of equity markets: 1. Revisiting U.S. Stock Market Returns: Individual Retirement Accounts; 2. Asset Returns and Monetary Policy in the Emerging Taiwan Financial Markets; 3. On the Intradaily Relationship between Information Revelation and Trade Duration: The Evi

This collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China. Examining in depth the production, distribution and consumption of TV drama, the international team of experts demonstrate why it remains the pre-eminent media form in China. The examples are diverse, highlighting the complexity of producing narrative content in a rapidly changing political and social environment. Genres examined include the revisionist Qing drama, historical and contemporary domestic dramas, anti-corruption dramas, "pink" dramas, Red Classics, stories from the Diaspora, and sit-coms. In addition to genres, the collection explores industry dynamics: how TV dramas are marketed and consumed on DVD, and China's aspirations to export its television drama rights. The book provides an international and cross-cultural perspective with chapters on Taiwanese TV drama in China, the impact of South Korean drama, and trans-border production between the Mainland and Hong Kong.

Liberalization of Power Market in Taiwan

苯乙烯(Styrene)為工業上廣泛使用的化學物質並且是已知的致神經毒性物質。人類暴露於苯乙烯環境下將導致神經系統的慢性疾病，像是導致反應時間變長和對顏色辨識的混淆等。苯乙烯在體內會進一步代謝成苯乙烯氧化物(Styrene oxide; S O)，此物質為致突變劑與致癌物質。在過去的研究中對苯乙烯物質相關的毒理機制還不甚清楚。因此，本研究目的是利用微陣列基因晶片技術探討造船廠工人暴露於苯乙烯物質環境下對其整體基因表現之影響。本研究一共募集到19人其中暴露組有11人包含抽菸者6人與非抽菸者5人及非暴露組8人，個人樣品(含空氣樣品及血液樣品)於當天工作前後收集並且進一步分離血液中的RNA進行微陣列基因晶片分析。晶片分析的結果利用gene ontology tree machine (GOTM)軟體進行表現基因之歸納分析。根據GOTM的分析結果發現暴露組工人相較於非暴露組工人其相關於神經系統發育、胚胎發育、細胞訊息傳遞和視覺認知等基因表現皆受到抑制，因此將影響這些機制之功能。本研究為第一個針對暴露於苯乙烯物質之工人進行整體基因表現之探討並且確認人體經苯乙烯物質暴露後將影響其視覺認知功能。另外，在流行病學之研究中，a. 尿液中苯乙烯代謝物和氧化傷害指標8-OHdG之分析部分，無論是在直接接觸之工作者或者在高濃度苯乙烯暴露者尿液中代謝物MA及PGA均有顯著較高的值(p

目錄 Lesson 1: Becoming a Disciple Lesson 2: Becoming a Victorious Christian Lesson 3: Abiding in Christ Lesson 4: The Holy Spirit in the Life of the Believer Lesson 5: The Filling of the Holy Spirit Lesson 6: The Fruit of the Spirit Lesson 7: The Gifts of the Spirit Lesson 8: Growing in Service Lesson 9: Growing in Worsbip Lesson 10: Growing in Stewardship

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- Is translation the best method to solve the problems created by a differences in languages ? There are two answers to this question: 1. In an ancient society- YES 2. In a modern society – NO Why are there two answers and what makes the difference ? .......

Co-authored by Eugene Nida and JIN Di, On Translation was first published in 1984 by the China Translation and Publishing Corporation in Beijing. It is widely recognized as a classic in translation theory with a practical orientation. Following the theoretical framework Nida had developed over decades of work on translation and semiotics, the two authors offer an easily comprehensible analysis of the complex problems involved in translation. After a critical review of the historical development of translation theory in the light of modern information theory, they elucidate the most fundamental principles of translation in accordance with the concept of dynamic equivalence. The treatment is closely related to actual translation practice, and the principles elucidated are applicable to all types of translation, though most of the examples analyzed are taken from translations between Chinese and English. This new and expanded edition has two main parts. Part I is the complete text of th

Evolution of language has evolved at multiple levels—from changes in the cognitive processes by which language is acquired in the individual, to language change by diffusion of acquired linguistic features across populations of individuals, to the emergence of linguistic features over phylogenetic time scales. Evolution of language at each of these levels interacts with that at each other level. This volume is a collection of essays by noted researchers from diverse fields that deals with a broad spectrum of issues in the study of language evolution. The principle topics addressed here include: the genetic and cognitive bases for the phylogenetic emergence of language; several distinct accounts of the underlying cognitive processes by which children learn to acquire language; a critique of the methods employed by historical linguists in the last century; the modeling of language evolution using mathematical and computational techniques; discussions on the complexity of language.