Quantum Mechanics Using Computer Algebra

The book presents an innovative method that will free you from using the trial-and-error method of finding solutions to your problems, pointing you in the direction of a strong solution. This is a targeted search method. You will save time and effort, and you will get a solution without disadvantages using this method. The method has five steps, so it is easy to use, and easy to get good results. It has been refined and improved over 40 years by incorporating what we learned from using it, and incorporating the experiences of many others. This book should be useful to engineers, scientists, students, inventors, and people solving complex problems in business, government, and social environments, as well as everyday problem solvers.

本書以MATLAB 8.X漢化版為工具，深入淺出地介紹了基於計算機視覺系統工具箱（Computer Vision System Toolbox）的數字圖像處理的基本原理、實現方法、仿真過程、代碼生成,具有循序漸進、易於研讀的特點。

https://youtu.be/GsPGaJoa8yc ＼\國內第一本！OpenClaw實戰專書 /／ AI 助理不只住在手機裡。OpenClaw 是第一個真正能「坐在你電腦前幫你做事」的開源 Computer Agent，從開啟軟體、填寫表單、執行指令到控制硬體，全部辦得到。這本書帶你從零開始，把 OpenClaw 變成 24 小時不下班的個人助理。 1. Computer Agent：史上第一個能真正「坐在電腦前幫你做事」的開源 AI 2. 完整安裝：從零開始，在 macOS 上把 OpenClaw 裝好裝滿 3. Telegram 連接：手機傳一句話，電腦立刻動起來 4. LINE 連接：用最熟悉的 App 直接指揮你的 AI 助理 5. 正式域名：Cloudflare Tunnel 加 Docker，開機自動上線、永不斷線 6. 全通道串接：WhatsApp、iMessage 一次接齊，一個大腦管所有入口 7. 多重 Agents：工作、私人、研究各一個分身，記憶個性完全隔離 8. Skills 擴充：不用寫程式，用 Markdown 就能讓 Agent 學會新技能 9. Mac 桌面操控：Peekaboo 讓 Agent 看見螢幕、點擊按鈕、操作任何 App 10. Nodes 多機協作：一個指令同時控制多台電腦，打造你的 AI 機器軍團 11. 語音電話通報：整合 Twilio，任務完成時 Agent 直接打電話給你

Mindfulness and meditation, practices that are rooted in Buddhism, have become mainstream treatments in counseling and psychotherapy that provide evidence of successful outcomes among secular clients. However, for clients from non-Western backgrounds, dissociating mindfulness practice from the core Buddhist teachings can dilute the transformative power of these practices, causing cultural confusion and lowering the effectiveness of treatment. This book is the first to present Early Buddhist Teachings as a theoretical orientation for the millions of individuals affiliated with Buddhism to create a culturally congruent counseling model. Using original sources in Pāli, it explores key Buddhist concepts such as dependent co-arising, non-self, impermanence, and many others. The authors then compare them with Western psychological concepts, furthering ongoing dialogue between Buddhism and psychotherapy and fostering powerful integrations. This volume also demonstrates how to use the Buddhi

近十年腦機介面（Brain-Computer Interface, BCI）技術不再侷限於實驗室及專業醫療場域，而是逐漸出現在人們的日常生活中，舉凡健康管理、個人訓練，甚至是遊戲娛樂等方面都可以見到腦機介面的應用。本研究鎖定腦機介面消費性產品，透過分析近十幾年成立之相關廠商的技術研發及應用領域，掌握技術與應用發展趨勢。

封面故事 量子電腦　掀起運算革命 超絕算力海放傳統二進制系統　企業預備銜接量子運算時代 文◎余采霏 被視為下世代運算工具的量子電腦（Quantum Computer），因具有強大的運算潛能而讓各界懷抱無限想像。尤其是新藥研發、新電池材料研究、金融投資、物流運送、交通壅塞等等古典電腦難以解決的問題，藉由量子運算將可望加速運算或是找出新的替代方案來突破當前困難的瓶頸。不只能與人工智慧、機器學習搭配運用，由於量子電腦具有超高的運算能力，只須短短幾分鐘就能破解複雜密碼，因此在資訊安全與加密貨幣等領域，預料也將帶來強烈的衝擊與變革。 儘管量子電腦現今尚處於非常早期的發展階段，商業化的目標仍有待克服，但為了更有效地協助企業銜接古典運算與量子運算，技術推廣者已開始把類量子運算／量子模擬器推展到市場，甚至提供量子運算即服務（Quantum Computing-as-a-Service，QCaaS）模式。對於企業而言，提早瞭解量子運算，將有助於未來的技術布局，根據Zapata Computing調查，全球已有69%企業打算盡快採用量子運算；而且高達74%的受訪者認為若未及時採用量子運算，企業將可能因此而失去競爭力。本期走訪業界專家，淺談何謂量子電腦，以及量子運算技術發展、應用現況與商用挑戰。 專題報導 雲網閘端全線防護　產業聯網資安成顯學 第五屆物聯網安全高峰論壇特別報導 文◎洪羿漣 疫情加速企業數位轉型，物聯網科技大量被導入商業營運與消費者生活中，然而缺乏資安防禦的物聯網裝置卻也成為駭客眼中的肥羊，導致資安事件逐年攀升，顯見企業若要善用物聯網科技來發展創新應用，資訊安全將是建構數位韌性必不可缺的基礎。本次《第五屆物聯網安全高峰論壇》前瞻技術盛會，匯集將近20位領域專家，深度探討工業控制、汽車電子、5G AIoT的資安技術，期能協助IT/OT管理者以宏觀的視野掌握產業脈動、了解實戰攻略，共同增進物聯網安全強度，在新科技應用場景發揮效益。 產業趨勢 腦機介面技術日臻成熟　臨床醫療寄予厚望 傳感器/大數據/AI技術加持　癲癇/中風/精神疾病治療迫切 文◎黃仕宗（資策會MIC資深產業分析師） 腦機介面（BCI）是在大腦和外部設備（或通過電極刺激體內神經）之間建立直接的人工連接，允許患者控制運動和設備、感知外部世界

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisation of British Malaya, begging the question: if a late colonial state was subjective, then how did it claim a sufficiently objective mantle to rule and how did ideological techniques enable this?

Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical guide specifically for the native Chinese speaker on how to write good academic English. English Exposed: Common Mistakes Made by Chinese Speakers is divided into three main sections. The first section examines errors made with verbs, nouns, prepositions, and other grammatical classes of words. The second section focuses on problems of word choice. In addition to helping the reader find the right word, it provides instruction for selecting the right style too. The third section covers a variety of other areas essential for the academic writer, such as using punctuation, adding appropriate references, referring to tables and figures, and selecting among various English date and time phrases. Using English Exposed will allow a writer to produce material where content and ideas—not language mist

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.”

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.

Candlestick technical analysis is an old trading technique that tracks the short-term price movements by employing the relationship between open, high, low, and close prices. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the predictive power of candlestick trading strategies by using the Taiwan 151 component stocks daily data for the period from 2 January 1992 to 31 December 2009. The main contribution of this thesis is using a fourprice- level approach to categorize the single-line patterns constructed by candlestick charting in a systematical manner. The approach adopted in this thesis permits us to release for the limitation of recognition in a manner not previously possible. Moreover, we not only consider transaction costs and risk but also mitigate data-snooping problems conscientiously by several appropriate methods, including the bootstrap methodology and sub-sample and out-of-sample tests. We find evidence that four patterns are profitable for the Taiwan stock market after transacti

The book provides guidelines and practical creative exercises which equip creative-major students in early semesters as well as creative practitioners with fundamental knowledge on creation methods. Combination of functionality, simplicity and aesthetics in modern design is considered a fundamental design principle in the Bauhaus School in Germany,and, inspired by the School, the creative handcrafting exercises and the concepts introduced in this book are primarily coherent with this principle. The book draws a direction between two and three dimensional material-based design and modern digital creation process. The first part of the book introduces various creative handcrafting exerciseson proportion, geometry and modularity, among other fundamental design principles. The creative exercises will sensitise students on aesthetical and structural issues, and thus serve as an essential building block for application of the design principles to computer-based creative processes, which ar

This book’s discussion is based on Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action. Jürgen Habermas, is known for his work on the concept of modernity, particularly with respect to the discussions of rationalization originally set forth by Max Weber; arguing it has a limited view of human action. By using and to extend the concept of Habermas’s Theory, Chan handles this book by focusing how social reproduction was possible in school education, how school education was worked in general, and how school education was developed. This book focuses on how social reproduction was possible in school education, how school education was worked in general, and how school education was developed. In this book, Chan states that, “(i)n my personal experience as a secondary school teacher in Hong Kong, I observed that many of my students with little family support were not admitted into higher education. They entered into the job world after completing their secondary studies. I wondered whether, in my

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.

本戰略地圖乃資策會MIC針對台灣都會區(包括台北、台中、高雄等)液晶電視(20吋以上LCD TV)的消費族群所做的問卷調查結果分析。整本戰略地圖包含液晶電視購買決策考量、液晶電視產品認知、液晶電視品牌認知三部份。本研究以電話訪問方式進行，以電腦輔助電話訪問系統（Computer Assisted Telephone Interview System, CATI System）進行獨立樣本訪問，且為了讓調查研究的精準度更加顯著，本調查鎖定的目標購買者必須擁有高度購買意願，並為購買電視的主要決策者。本戰略地圖以分析圖的方式呈現，並以地區別、性別、年齡別、學歷別、家庭月收入別、購買機種別、購買尺寸別等目標市場分群，進行交叉分析與定位區分，可作為您市場經營戰略具象思考的有利工具。

近年來，隨著汽車電子化程度之持續提高，汽車電子已成為繼3C（Computer、Communication、Consumer Electronics）之後的下一個新興市場。除了主要汽車電子零件廠商積極投入之外，也吸引資通訊相關業者跨入汽車電子領域。汽車電子主要包括車用娛樂、行車安全與行車輔助等，除性能、安全、環保等發展受到重視之外，汽車電子亦將進一步滿足使用者在資通訊及娛樂等之多元需求。展望未來市場發展，本報告將透過分析全球主要汽車電子產品市場概況及趨勢，以及全球主要大廠佈局、技術與產品發展方向，讓讀者進一步瞭解汽車電子之技術與產品發展趨勢，並深入洞悉其商機與挑戰。

這本書不是給你答案，而是給你另一雙眼睛， 從不同的視角重新詮釋藝術。 ── 張慶瑞 教授｜量子科技權威、獲選為全球「量子百強」（Quantum 100） 跟著科學家走進美術館，探索世界百大經典名畫裡的物理奇蹟 理性與感性的化學反應，將顛覆你對世界的想像 ★榮獲韓國「世宗圖書獎」★ ★入選韓國「優秀科學圖書」★ 達文西《蒙娜麗莎》真神祕，應用量子力學產生兆赫波，就能解謎？ 梵谷的《向日葵》日漸枯萎，兇手居然是量子力學效應引發的變化？ 畢卡索《亞維農的少女》超衝擊，竟然正好類比量子力學的疊加態？ 雷諾瓦《煎餅磨坊的舞會》好熱鬧，背景音樂是光線量子化後的華爾滋？ 藝術與物理這兩個領域看似毫無交集，其實就如同雙生鏡像，圍繞著同一個核心議題──光線。科學家渴望找到什麼是光，不斷以各種方法分析光的本質和特性，進而推動量子力學的出現；繪畫家想在畫布上呈現出光影的幻變絕美，因而持續地自我思辨與成長，催生出各式流派。 原來，藝術與科學的關係，遠比你想得還要緊密交織！讀懂藝術史，也可以理解量子力學的物理奧祕；理解物理學的祕密，就能夠掌握名畫中的玄機，例如：  赫姆霍茲的「生理光學」研究，開啟通往量子力學的大門；正是這項研究讓莫內等印象派畫家摒棄傳統，轉而捕捉光線在物體表面跳動的光波與色彩。  愛因斯坦發表的「相對論」，讓超現實主義畫家深受衝擊，進而影響達利運用想像力，畫出扭曲的時間與空間，成就許多反轉潮流與顛覆時代的作品。 本書以物理學家的視角，重新解析名畫與畫家的人生。在欣賞上百幅名畫的同時，也能輕鬆學習與量子力學相關的測不準原理、石墨烯、熵、菲涅耳定律、重力波等物理法則。淺顯易懂的說明，連接起「物理」與「藝術」兩座看似遙不可及的山峰，提供一個觀察世界、欣賞藝術的全新角度—— 我們眼中的世界，都因為光而存在！ 藝術家畫出光的魔法，而物理學家研究光學現象。 我們看不見的世界，萬物皆在跳舞！ 藝術家描繪出動感；而物理學家看見粒子的微觀運動。

The Tropic of Cancer Sustainability Belt Sustainability is a global trend, and a global lingua franca. How can Taiwan use sustainability to tell our story on an international stage? How can Taiwan create a sustainability brand that is equipped with a global perspective? The National Park Service (NPS) considers the Tropic of Cancer a great place to start. By connecting the dots of Taiwan’s mountain resources, ocean resources, and sustainability partners into a line, and then making that line into a belt, we can turn the Tropic of Cancer – which many think of as just a bunch of geographic markers – into a whole new window for getting to know Taiwan. As the 180km north-south Tropic of Cancer Belt crosses Taiwan, it crosses coasts, wetlands, foothills, high mountains, oceans, cities, and villages. Along the way, it encompasses every form of ecology, life, and production, forming world-class environmental marvels. The NPS is using the Tropic of Cancer Sustainability Belt project to put

《最新計算機概論 (第11版)》 Foundations of Computer Science 理論與實務忠實呈現 ● 導入AI概念全新改版 ★提供用書教師相關的教學資源★ 訪察國內多所大學院校之資電科系、理工科系教師意見，針對資訊科學教育編寫而成的書籍，內容兼顧深度與廣度，涵蓋資訊科學的核心知識與實務應用，並依據教學時數設計章節，讓學習過程順暢有序，同時將國家考試與研究所入學考試題型融合至內文、隨堂練習與學習評量，為學生將來升學與就業提早做準備。 資訊科技的不斷創新，人工智慧的大放異彩，ChatGPT的橫空出世，以及雲端運算、大數據、區塊鏈、元宇宙、5G與物聯網的應用呈現爆炸性的成長，這股趨勢不僅改變了人們的生活習慣，也改變了人們的學習型態與工作模式。 本書除了包含扎實的學理基礎，更將最新資訊融入相關章節，例如： ■ 人工智慧、機器學習、監督式學習、非監督式學習、強化學習、深度學習、神經網路、前饋神經網路、卷積神經網路、循環神經網路、AI PC、邊緣運算、機器人、仿生機器人 ■ 生成式AI、生成對抗網路、擴散模型、Transformer模型、生成式AI工具、ChatGPT、Copilot、Midjourney、深偽 (deepfake)、生成式AI的限制與挑戰 ■ 量子電腦 ■ 虛擬實境 (VR)、擴增實境 (AR)、混合實境 (MR)、延展實境 (XR)、元宇宙 ■ 物聯網 (IoT)、智慧物聯網 (AIoT)、工業物聯網 (IIoT)、智慧城市、智慧交通、智慧家庭、智慧農業、無人商店 ■ 區塊鏈、加密貨幣、智慧合約、去中心化金融、去中心化醫療 ■ 資訊安全、軟體工程素養與軟體所有權、智慧財產權、著作權法、專利法、營業秘密法、AI創作是否受著作權法保護 本書特色： ＊豐富圖表：透過豐富圖表，提升學生的理解程度與學習興趣。 ＊資訊部落：透過資訊部落，針對專業的技術或議題做進一步的討論。 ＊隨堂練習：透過隨堂練習，讓學生即刻驗證在課堂上學習的知識。 ＊本章回顧：每章結尾提供簡短摘要，幫助學生快速回顧內容。 ＊學習評量：每章結尾提供學習評量，檢測學習成效或做為課後作業。 ＊教學資源：提供用書教師豐富教學資源，包含教學投影片、隨堂練習與學習評量解答。

教學100%好評 改變一生的靈性技術！ 華人身心靈界首本介紹揚升科學的身心靈書籍 揚升科學（Ascension Mechanics）是源自西方的靈性修行系統，是一門關於靈性進化和轉化的學問；它涉及到宗教哲學、神秘學、心理學、能量和靈性等多個範疇。揚升科學已經被西方的身心靈界廣泛使用，它將帶領你進入一個全新的世界，讓你發現你自己和宇宙的真相。 時至今日，你會發現有很多身心靈導師都趨向以揚升科學作為其教學的基礎。你或許會聽說過，坊間有人指出生命之花（Flower of Life）是一個對靈性修行有負面影響的幾何，其實這個觀點就是來自揚升科學的。在西方身心靈界，越來越多靈性老師都已經把揚升科學納入他們的靈性課程中，並以揚升科學作為基礎完善自己的課程和靈性系統。揚升科學，將會是身心靈界未來的大趨勢。 這本書會告訴你： 揚升科學的教導及揚升的真正意思 從能量學角度理解和使用神聖幾何，及如何分辨不同幾何對靈性修行的影響 宇宙12道神聖光射及其療癒的力量 人類DNA的靈性秘密 有關靈魂轉世的秘密 吸引健康關係、創造豐盛財富、培養健康身心的秘訣 如何與高我連結，容許自己進入更高維度的意識狀態 如何啟動松果體，開發自己的靈性感官 如何啟動光體護盾，保護自己免受靈通攻擊影響 如何啟動12D梅爾卡巴——一個進階的梅爾卡巴系統 如何運用星界能量和技術進行療癒 每日清洗氣場負能量的簡單儀式 這本書會全面覆蓋身心靈修行和靈魂揚升所需的一切知識和技術；它將會為你的靈性修行揭開新的一章。無論你是身心靈初學者還是資深的靈性光工作者，這本書都可以在你的靈修路上幫助你。

Women We Love: Femininities and the Korean Wave is an edited volume exploring femininities in and around the Korean Wave since 2000. While studies on the Korean Wave are abundant, there is a dearth of thought put toward the female-identifying stars, characters, and fans who shape and lead this crucial cultural movement. This collection of essays is one of the first works to focus on gender and the key female actors of this global phenomenon. Using “women” as an inclusive term extending to all those who self-define as women, this volume examines the role of women in K-pop and K-drama industries and fandom spaces, encompassing crucial intersectional topics such as queering of gender, dissemination of media, and fan culture. In addition to the communities engaged with visual culture of the Korean Wave, the audience for Women We Love will reflect the contributors to this text. They are K-pop and K-drama fans, queer, international; they are also academics of Asian histories, sociology, gen

In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment had grown from the late Qing to the May Fourth era in the 1910s to the 1920s and continued to the 1940s. She demonstrates how Counter-Enlightenment was manifested with case studies such as Lu Xun’s writings in the late 1900s, the Aesthetic Education movement from the 1910s to 1920s, and the Science and Lifeview debate in the 1920s. During the period, the life philosophy movement, highlighting the epistemic debate on affect and reason, was connected with its counterparts in Germany, France, and Japan. The movement had widespread and long-term impact on Chinese philosophy and literature. Using the transcultural lexicon as methodology, this book traces how the German term Lebensanschauung (lifeview), a key concept in Rudolf Eucken’s life philosophy, constituted a global tide of Counter-Enlightenment that inspired the thought of leading Chinese

Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analysing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the ‘Malaysian Digital Indies’ (MDI) have in recent years repositioned Malaysian cinema within the global arena. The book shines a new light on how politics and socioeconomics have influenced new forms and genres of the post-2000s generation of filmmakers, and provides a clear picture of the interactions between commercial cinema and politics and socioeconomics in the first two decades of the new millennium. It also assesses how the MDI movement was successful in creating a transnational cinema by displacing and deterritorialising itself from the context of the national, and illustrates how MDI functions as a site for questioning and proposing a new national identity in the era of advanced global capitalism and new Isla

It is written from an objective, external viewpoint and paints a colourful and lively picture of Sanguinetti in a voice that could almost be his own. Using Sanguinetti' s life experiences, the biographer touches on various historical events, including the Mau Mau revolution in Kenya and the 1957 riots in Hong Kong, and details the social and political problems of the times, such as lingering colonialism, class structure issues, and human rights violations, among others. These glimpses of history through Sanguinetti' s eyes are accessible, thought-provoking, and truly representative of the man himself.Offering a well-rounded image of the eccentric subject, this book fulfils Sanguinetti' s common response to questions about both his personal and professional life — “ more when I know you better” . It will undoubtedly be of interest to those who knew Sanguinetti as well as legal professionals, young barristers, and readers with an interest in post-war history in Gibraltar, Kenya, and espe

本報告探索全球新創量子企業，分析量子計算技術產業化腳步。透過新創企業資料庫、企業網頁自介，Linkedin 的介紹說明，追蹤目前量子新創企業的投入方向，並檢視其整體生態鏈的生成，期望作為目前檢視量子計算產業成熟度的判斷。透過檢視分布全球各地的量子計算新創公司所提供的服務及產品，來瞭解未來量子計算生態圈的產業類型

Mementoes of HMS Tamar abound in Hong Kong, but what is really known about this troopship and her role in the maintenance of British imperial rule? Using logbooks, newspapers, and numerous other sources, this book pieces together the multifaceted and largely unknown history of the Tamar . From her launch into service to her roles as a hospital, theatre stage, and transport for military personnel, the Tamar carried not just people, but also their mundane dreams and ambitions— for friends, families, and staying alive. Any ideas or concerns about sustaining the empire seldom featured in their minds at all, but it was this empire that the Tamar served for seventy-nine years, steaming the equivalent of thirty-two times around the Earth and transporting tens of thousands of people to what would seem to them another world. In this engaging narrative, the Tamar’s exploits and the experiences of her crew and passengers parallel those of the British Empire and its subjects, bringing to life t

What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family. Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and un

Eros of International Relations: Self-Feminizing and the Claiming of Postcolonial Chineseness is a distinctive work that explores the much-neglected Chinese perspective in broader international relations theory. Using the concept of “self-feminizing”—adoption of a feminine identity to oblige and achieve mutual caring as a relational strategy—this book argues that postcolonial actors have employed gendered identities in order to survive the squeezing pressure of globalization and nationalism in their own ways. Sovereign actors who have historically claimed to act on behalf of Chineseness have taken advantage of the images of femininity thrust upon them by transnational capitalism, the media, or intellectual thought. Shih illustrates the feminist potential for emancipation through a range of empirical examples, showing that women of various Chinese characteristics, acting on behalf of their nation, city, and corporations, reject the masculinization of their groups of belonging as remedy

An individual’s health depends on their personal lifestyle and living conditions, which are influenced by a host of complex physical, social, and economic determinants. The same is true of organisational and community health. This book explains the Healthy Settings Approach as a means to define population and health standards as well as a framework to promote and evaluate health in daily living activities. The determinants affecting public health go beyond the availability and quality of healthcare, and a concerted effort from all sectors of the community is required to bring about sustained improvements. Using the Healthy Settings Approach to facilitate the “right to health”, this book argues that promoting health in multiple and varied settings concurrently will ensure healthy living throughout the community and, ultimately, the world. The author uses real life experiences from different countries, with a focus on Hong Kong, and discusses many initiatives that have been enacted (alth

St. Stephen’s Girls’ College is one of the many schools run under the auspices of the Anglican Church in Hong Kong. Starting as a tiny missionary school for upper-class Chinese girls and their younger brothers, it has evolved into a large establishment, comprising kindergarten, primary and secondary sections, playing its full part in the public sector of education and now serving a complete socio-economic cross-section of the community. As one of the earliest schools for girls in the territory, St. Stephen’s played a significant role in the opening up of educational opportunities for Chinese girls. This book records the history and development of the school and is written for its 90th Anniversary, using much original source material. The author, who was head of the school for over thirty years, has set this history within the educational, social and political context of the times. This book will be of obvious interest to those who have a connection with the school: council members, t

Appropriate for use by students at varying levels of competence, Burmese: A Cultural Approach provides a thorough and systematic introduction to the Burmese writing system in Part One and a series of true-to-life conversations in Part Two. Students with some prior knowledge of the spoken language but little familiarity with the Burmese script can use Part One to solidify their grasp of the Burmese sound system as well as its orthography. Intrepid beginners could also start their study of the language by making use of Part One. Doing so would mean making a slower start at formulating phrases as compared to using a romanization system but learners would gain a firmer foundation for the later—and eventually, faster—development of their speaking and reading skills. The conversations in Part Two are extensively annotated in order to illustrate grammatical patterns, characteristic turns of phrase, and typical habits of social interaction. True to an anthropological approach to language le

Leung Ping Kwan brought as much talent and inspiration to the writing of his short stories as he did to his poems. ‘I have drawn on magical realism to explore the absurdity of Hong Kong,’ he wrote of the story ‘See Mun and the Dragon’ (1975) in which we find him using a simple, clipped style. The later story ‘Drowned Souls’ (2007) was written in a more symbolic, lyrical and more complex manner. Although the two stories are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways so very different, dragons play a prominent part in both. The dragon has always been a fascinating creature, a complex embodiment of the timeless soul of China, symbol of the universal power of the imagination, of the creative energy and transformative possibilities of the Tao. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s idea of freedom and liberation.

“Without a clear idea of the history of the New Territories, the history of Hong Kong as a whole would be impossible to bring to any sort of satisfactory completion. ... Elucidating the development of a village, a clan, a temple, or a market-town is also, in and of itself, real and valuable history, and abundantly justifies the time and effort spent on it.” This book is a history of village communities in the New Territories of Hong Kong, including those in the areas of Ha Tsuen, Hung Shui Kiu, and Sha Tin as well as those on the islands of Lamma, Ma Wan, and Tung Ping Chau. Elaborating on primary interviews with village elders, government documents, and public information, this book places the individual histories of each area into the context of Hong Kong’s rich past. The introduction sets up the rest of the book, outlining common themes and highlighting the dangers of using the communal memories of village communities while, at the same time, showing the valuable information doing

Proportionality is a German, and thus continental European, concept in public law that is applied by both the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The principle specifies that measures adopted by executive authorities should not exceed the limits of what is appropriate and necessary in order to achieve legitimate objectives in the interest of the public. Using a functional comparative approach, this book evaluates the extent to which proportionality has been integrated into the English and Hong Kong judicial systems by comparing case law in these courts with that of the CJEU and the ECtHR. The text also reviews the development of proportionality and presents a topical understanding of why its adoption and application have encountered difficulties, particularly regarding socio-economic rights, in some jurisdictions, such as the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Written by a scholar with experience from both within the Hong Kong judici

The Dark Side 2: Day Zero and Other Stories is a mix of stories, dividing broadly between six’horror’ stories and six’thriller’ stories. Horror stories often fill us with dread and show us a much darker side of human behaviour. At the same time, they can be funny and satirical. The other six stories are more varied. Some are thrillers where the main aim is to excite the reader. Some like’Auto Message’ try to say something about how technology is affecting our daily lives. Others like’The Curse’ try to show us, in a humorous way, how greedy people could be. The great thing about stories is that they carry us into another world on top of helping us to learn words, parts of speech and sentence construction. If we dive into the pool of good stories, we’ll learn how to swim – using those good examples in our own writing.

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他是15歲即熟讀《幾何原本》的天才科學家，他鑽研科學、熟稔詩文書法，還當過曾國藩的幕僚，更透過翻譯將近代西方的數學、物理學、植物學、天文學引入中文世界，他就是李善蘭。 李善蘭是晚清著名數學家，然而他一生的事蹟與成就卻不僅止於數學。他鑽研科學、熟稔詩文書法，還當過曾國藩的幕僚，更透過翻譯將近代西方的數學、物理學、植物學、天文學引入中文世界，改變了近代中國對西方科學的認識。 本書從歷史的視角來考察，將李善蘭的一生放在晚清「西學東漸」的時代背景中，對其事蹟考察、精神世界、思想境界與學術貢獻進行檢視，同時亦回顧了李善蘭在數學之外的生平，包括詩文創作、哲學思想、各本譯介西方科學的譯作、朋友交往等，試圖向大眾描繪出一個更立體的李善蘭。 本書特色 〒將西方科學中譯的重要推手，一位幾乎被後世遺忘的科學家的傳記！ 〒你能想像沒有＝、×、÷數學符號的世界嗎？光想就要消耗掉不少腦細胞對吧？只是你可能不曉得，就連「細胞」這個詞也是他的創見！要不是他，今天中文很可能沒有代數（algebra）這個詞，而是「阿爾熱巴拉」。 〒數學✕天文學✕力學✕植物學……透過這位曾國藩幕僚的妙筆，拉近了中國與世界的距離。

Tracing its origins back to 1822 in Whampoa, the Mariners’ Club in Hong Kong was established to meet a specific need for an Anglo-Chinese society defined by that most dubious of activities, seafaring. Its creation was anything but straightforward, and in this can be seen the mutable and often tortuous relations between the various religious bodies, the local population, the transient sailors, the emerging captains of industry, and the growing regulatory reach of the colonial government. The club evolved through many embodiments and witnessed the growth of Hong Kong from a collection of mat-sheds on the foreshore, through colony to its current status. Throughout its turbulent past it has been occasionally marginalized but has always served as an important base for the key actors in the main commercial activity in Hong Kong: seafarers. This is a history of one of the most enduring institutions of Hong Kong, and the first of its kind. Using the Club’s own records as well as a wide rang

This study tests the factors of transaction costs (TC) and resource-based views (RBV) to explain the MNEs’ entry decisions in China. By using large firm-level data from China, I show in this paper that variables related to internal uncertainty (e.g., management) and firm-specific assets tend to affect MNEs’ entry decisions in a way that is consistent with the transaction cost logic; that is, the higher degree of internal uncertainty, the MNEs may require more control over the foreign facilities or the JV. On the other hand, those variables related to external uncertainty (e.g., marketing) and intangible assets tend to conform to the resource-based view, which means higher external uncertainty would cause the MNEs to leverage the resources or local experience of local partners. This suggests that MNEs may need complementary resources from local partners to reduce the external uncertainty and enhance the value of their intangible resources.