Natural Language Processing with Python

co-published with Guangxi Normal PressThe Orient Explorer Collection is a series of interesting texts written by Westerners travelling in China in the 1800s and early 1900s. Each volume has been reprinted from scans of the original publication and is included under a particular theme.The box set focuses on the theme “Women Writers” and features seven books written by women from various walks of life. It is suitable for readers interested in early China depicted by women travellers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Each volume of the collection is to reignite interest and also to allow readers to explore how these books relate to the region today. With the Empress DowagerKatharine A. CARLThis book provides a sensational account of the author’s time with the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Chinese Court while painting her portrait for an exposition in St. Louis in the United States.978-962-937-405-1 • HK$278 / US$36Jan 2024 • 140 x 216 mm • 396 pp • PbA Woman in ChinaMary GAUNTThis

Wang Renmei was on a fast track to become one of China’s leading film stars in the 1930s. Her early films were received with magnificent praise by audiences and critics alike, though she later lamente

The 3,000-year-old Yi’Jing – Book of Changes, the oldest and most influential of the Chinese classics, is unquestionably one of the most important books in world literature. The central concept of the Yi’Jing is “Heaven and Humanity as One”. It delineates the principles behind how man can live in harmony with nature by emulating the precepts of heaven and earth. This idea became the cornerstone of China’s traditional culture, the root source of all branches of knowledge and the most unique feature of Chinese civilization. From its original text of about 4,900 characters emerged the two main pillars of Chinese philosophy – Confucianism and Taoism. Although it began life as a book of oracles, and still remains a remarkable tool for divination, the Yi’Jing has evolved over the long years of Chinese history into primarily a book of wisdom. For more than 25 centuries Chinese emperors, statesmen and scholars have consulted the book as a standard resource on matt