The Warrior Bride

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在當代美國文化研究論述中，種族、性別與階級三者鼎足而立，彼此之間交叉滲透，疊合歧出，形成錯綜複雜的社會文化網路。本書介紹了九位美國作家和一位導演如何再現文化屬性等議題。 第一篇：經典美國小說。主要研究兩位南方白人作家，福克納 (William Faulkner) 是一九五○年諾貝爾文學獎得主，而凱特．蕭邦 (Kate Chopin) 的經典作品《覺醒》(The Awakening) 則是一九七○年代以來深受女性主義和批評家所青睞。 第二篇：族裔美國小說。探討五位華裔美國作家的作品，包括湯亭亭（Maxine Hong Kingston）的《女勇士》（The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts）、雷霆超 (Louis Chu) 的《喫一碗茶》 (Eat a Bowl of Tea)、徐忠雄 (Shawn Hsu Wong) 的《家鄉》 (Homebase)、雷祖威 (David Wong Louie) 的《愛之慟》(Pangs of Love) 和莊華 (Chuang Hua) 的《跨洋渡海》 (Crossings)。另外一篇研究檢視十九世紀末葉非裔美國作家蔡士納 (Charles Waddell Chesnutt) 的長篇作品《傳統精髓》(The Marrow of Tradition)。 附錄分析了大衛‧林區 (David Lynch) 的電影《藍絲絨》(Blue Velvet)。以及探討了諾貝爾文學獎桂冠童妮．摩里森的所有長篇小說。 本書特色 內容上就時間的座標而言，貫穿整個二十世紀，就題材而言，包括現代美國經典與族裔作家的小說。作者透過各文本所呈現的美國社會現實，從弱勢族裔論述的觀點，剖析其文化內涵，讓讀者得以更深入了解美國社會多元文化之特質。附錄書目提供了研究美國文學最佳參考資料。本書不僅是研究美國小說與文化的重要著作，更是一本現代美國文學的最佳導覽。

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《穿越裂隙的旅程》（Journey Through the Rift）是一部充滿想像力與科學探索精神的科幻冒險小說。在浩瀚宇宙中，一道被稱為 「The Veil」 的神秘裂隙出現在星空之中，看起...

Noel Croucher was a legend in his own time – a raconteur, yet a recluse, conventional yet eccentric, extremely rich yet mean to himself. And all the while, he had a secret penchant for philanthropy. From simple beginnings in England, he arrived in Hong Kong at the turn of the century to live through eight decades of change on the China Coast. Mystery surrounded Noel Croucher. Seen as tightfisted by some yet loved by others, he endowed Hong Kong with its richest academic charity in the Croucher Foundation. He became Commodore of the Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club and Chairman of the Stock Exchange. To many, he was a throwback to the glory days of empire. Yet he battled prejudice to get ahead in the colony. That era has now passed. This fresh look at the lives lived on the Coast – through Noel Croucher’s life story – brings out the realities of those times. Hundreds of interviews, thousands of letters and extensive research in Britain and Hong Kong, together with access to the unique Carl

The Sublime Object of Orientalism proposes that globalised Asian physical cultural practices such as taiji, qigong, yoga, and meditation can be understood by examining the intimate connection between Western orientalism and the Romantic aesthetic notion of the sublime. The book recasts ‘orientalist physical culture’ as practices animated by the sublime and argues that this relationship is stronger than has hitherto been recognised by commentators. Bowman combines new readings of philosophers and cultural critics such as Slavoj Žižek and Jane Iwamura with analyses of film, media, and Asian physical practices and their entrepreneurial forms to shed light on the quest to articulate a philosophy of orientalist physical culture. He also explores ways to make sense of orientalist physical culture in the contemporary world and evaluate the often-problematic ideologies that circulate around these cultural practices without either uncritically accepting their value or rejecting them outright.

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The Sublime Object of Orientalism:Asian Physical Culture in the West (東方主義的崇高客體:亞洲體育文化在西方)

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The Power of Wind introduces young readers to the energy of moving air. Children learn how wind c...

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Zakhuma, a forest ranger and wildlife photographer, protects the animals and forests he loves. As...

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In this book, I trace the winding paths of my life: the fragile beginnings of childhood, the shaping of character and personality, the search for health and wholeness, the awakening of faith, the long seasons of formation, the call to consecrated life and priesthood, and the outward journeys of mission and ministry. Alongside the joys, I speak also of the shadows—the doubts and struggles, the inner conflicts and external storms that tested my roots. I share how I learned to make peace with what I could not change, and to integrate what once felt broken into something whole. Woven through these stories are the theoretical voices of philosophy, psychology, anthropology, theology, missiology and spirituality—threads of wisdom that helped me make sense of my experience, and that my experience, in turn, has made more real and whole. The narrative takes root in a landscape of critical reflection and scholarly inquiry, making the personal and the academic converse with each other—experience b

“In order to afford their readers optimal access to a text that has been poorly understood and unfairly denigrated over the years, in addition to their definitive English translation and their critical Chinese text, Ian Johnston and Wang Ping have provided us with the broadest interpretative context imaginable.” —ROGER T. AMES Peking University The Liezi is a work attributed to the Daoist Lie Yukou, who, according to the traditional account, lived during the later part of the fifth and first part of the fourth centuries BCE. This places him between the first wave of philosophers of the pre-Han “Hundred Schools” (notably Lao Zi, Confucius, Mo Di, and Deng Xi) and the second wave, from mid-fourth to the end of the third centuries BCE. Thus, he may be said to have responded to the former and prefigured the latter. The Liezi we have today is the recension by the Xuanxue (Dark Learning, third to fifth centuries CE) scholar Zhang Zhan and is accompanied by Zhang’s commentary, which is a ph

臨床療效是醫學的生命。離開臨床無醫學。了解醫學之演變與應用，對於臨床診療的實際，將有更深入的理解。 本書《臨床與基礎醫學交會之今昔》，由陳麒方、皮國立兩位教授學者主編，共收錄8篇文章以及1篇中醫臨床醫學雜誌論文總清單。文章作者群涵蓋醫藥衛生領域16位專家學者，文章主題包含：中醫癌症診治分析、婦幼醫學孕產用藥與轉骨探討、台灣系統化醫療肇始（日本時代的醫生免許規則等）、傳統醫藥領域的新技術肌筋膜脈學治療及其醫案、醫學書翻譯的研討等。另有目前發行時間最長的台灣中醫藥期刊《中臨醫誌》論文總清單920篇完整書目。本書對臨床醫學以及基礎醫學從治療、藥品、醫學演變、技術、文化發展等面向，都有論述，是一部相當有意義的中醫學術書。 This book "On the Interaction of Clinical and Basic Medicine" is edited by two scholars, Prof./Dr. CHEN Chi-Fang and Prof. PI Kuo-Li. It contains a total of 8 articles and a comprehensive list of articles in Taiwan Journal of Clinical Chinese Medicine (TJCCM). Group of the article covers 16 experts and scholars in the field of health from whole Taiwan. The topics of the article including: Exploring the Relationship between Dysfunction of the Four Major Functions of the Human Body from the Perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine and the Occurrence of Cancer, Research on the Safety of CM usage during Pregnancy, Development of CM Bone-Strengthening Formulae, Japanese-Rule

Travelogue of the Steppe Silk Road through China, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, and more, presenting the author’s modern-day experiences alongside ancient history.

◎This book is the first to explain the core principles and training methods of Guangzhou Wing Chun ◎From knowing nothing about Wing Chun to fully mastering the Wooden Dummy training movements and application techniques of Wing Chun. ◎This book serves as the teaching material for the Guangzhou Wing Chun Martial Arts Association, covering 51 core topics, 133 Wooden Dummy techniques, and 16 group movements. ➤ The Wooden Dummy is not just a tool; it is a reflection of the core philosophy and techniques of Wing Chun, as well as a testament to the bond of master and disciple. This book, for the first time in a comprehensive and systematic manner, uses the Wooden Dummy to delve deeply into the core principles and training methods of Guangzhou Wing Chun. Even if you are a beginner with no prior experience in Wing Chun, you will find guidance and confidence here to begin your journey. ➤ Guangzhou Wing Chun primarily consists of two major lineages: the Yuen Kay Shan lineage and the Sum Nung l

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In The Heart Sūtra: Revisiting Its Texts, History, and Meaning, Henry C. H. Shiu investigates the historical origins of the Heart Sūtra, a significant Buddhist scripture. He compares the Sanskrit texts with their Chinese and Tibetan translations to analyse whether the Heart Sūtra might be a Chinese apocryphon, through detailed linguistic examination. To achieve this goal, Shiu thoroughly examines the primary sources from which the scripture was extracted. He emphasises the necessity of reading the Heart Sūtra in the larger context of the Perfection of Wisdom literature, which contains the essence of Mahāyāna Buddhist teaching. In this monograph, Shiu successfully transcends the boundaries between the Chinese, Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions and provides a revisionist interpretation of the Heart Sūtra.

The rulers of the Ming dynasty enacted paradigms of hierarchical order. Like imperial families, households, and courts in earlier Chinese dynasties, they articulated patriarchal, patrilineal, and patrilocal organizational principles as exemplars for families and institutions throughout the empire. Women made indispensable contributions to the development of these paradigms and principles and to the social, cultural, and political fabric of the family and the state. And yet, in the existing literature in Chinese and English women are often burdened with stereotypes, positioned as peripheral, or rendered almost invisible. Reading available texts “against the grain,” and drawing on a trove of evidence from material culture, Soulliere shows how women defined a place for themselves in the multigenerational Ming imperial family, imperial household, and court. The Empress and the Dragon Throne spans the first Ming century from just before the founding of the dynasty in 1368 to the end of the

The Placemakers of Hong Kong pays homage to what local development companies, charitable organizations, as well as the government have been able to achieve in contributing to the enhancement of Hong Kong’s evolving urban and rural landscape. Far from being solely profit-driven, developers and urban planners have been vital to the community by creating and designing urban spaces for the public, increasing walkability, and embracing sustainable design—a process called ‘placemaking’. The book also recognizes that just as important are the subsequent placekeeping activities necessary to keep each project site relevant and up-to-date. Featuring five case studies from the past and one that examines the ambitious and far-reaching plans for the Northern Metropolis, this book tells the story of Hong Kong’s miraculous urban development over the past few decades.

Throughout the long-term evolution of global capital markets, stock markets, and crypto-asset markets have historically operated as two parallel systems: the former is built upon over a century of institutional accumulation and vast institutional networks, while the latter has thrived within the technological framework of blockchain. Today, with the ongoing implementation and application of new models—such as the tokenization of real world assets (RWAs), stablecoins, crypto-asset ETFs, and digital asset treasury (DAT) companies—the convergence of securities and crypto is emerging as the most disruptive transformation trajectory in capital markets. Traditional securities are stepping into the on-chain world, while native crypto-assets are making their way into the mainstream financial arena through compliant pathways. Capital markets are witnessing a historic convergence characterized by "mutual convergence."  This book presents a comprehensive overview of the convergence of securities

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Uncover Taichung’s hidden American past! “Echoing Footsteps of the American Military Presence in Taiwan” reveals how the US military profoundly shaped Taichung’s urban landscape, culture, music, food, and social fabric from the 1950s to the 1970s. Explore forgotten stories and iconic sites – a captivating journey through “Little America” in Taiwan. This groundbreaking book, “Echoing Footsteps of the American Military Presence in Taiwan,” invites readers on an extraordinary journey through time and space, specifically focusing on Taichung’s West District and beyond during the pivotal 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Authored by Syong Yi-ping, this commissioned work delves into the surprisingly pervasive and often hidden influences of the United States military on the city’s historical, cultural, and social landscapes. Many familiar aspects of daily life in Taichung, from architectural styles to popular foods and music genres, have deep roots in this unique historical period, often unbeknownst to

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Although the arts have been firmly planted in the Hong Kong school system since the 1950s, they are often sacrificed in place of core subjects and preparation for examinations. Drawing on over fourteen years of exploration and experience, Yau makes the case that arts are critical to cultivating creative mindsets, which are our best resource for innovating and responding to challenges in this complex world of sudden changes. Through case studies and conversations with practising artists and educators, this book demonstrates why arts and education, two normally discrete disciplines, should be broadly integrated into the local Hong Kong curriculum, and how this can be – and has been – achieved. This book is intended for policymakers, educators, arts heads, and artists. The volume will also appeal to readers curious about how and why the arts should be foundational to education and capacity building in the twenty-first century.