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The Ivory Tower and the Marble Citadel opens up a new way of pursuing the critical development of political philosophy in today's intercultural intellectual arena. Metzger holds that political philosophies are linguistically unavoidable efforts to infer the principles of morally legitimate government from a maximally enlightened conceptualization of the universal human condition. Because these efforts depend on a vocabulary embodying culturally inherited premises, textual analysis uncovering these premises and debate about how they should be revised are crucial for the improvement of political philosophy.

This is probably the first book dedicated to the life and times of the doctors who have shaped the medical development of Hong Kong. It is a fascinating story of how the pioneers transformed a city with primitive medical services into what it is today—a city with advanced medical facilities as in any major Western city. —Dr. Mak Wai-ping Chairman (Executive Committee) and Board of Directors Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science Society The development of Western medicine in Hong Kong to its current sophisticated state over more than 150 years is a fascinating story. And this book tells the above history from a special perspective—the personalities responsible for this remarkable achievement. These individuals, spanning over a period of over 150 years, comprised doctors in government public medical and health services who advocated new initiatives and laid the infrastructure; those who established health policies, and moved the health system forward; the medical educators who trained t

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

Sir Robert Ho Tung (1862–1954) is a compelling figure in Hong Kong history. He is regularly portrayed as the colony’s greatest philanthropist and wealthiest man of his day, the first Chinese to live on the Peak, and, at the end of his life, the ‘Grand Old Man of Hongkong’. The illegitimate son of a Chinese mother and European father, he was highly sensitive about his mixed heritage though he consistently made the most of his fate. He was a man perfectly in tune with his place and time, his success driven as much by his entrepreneurial talents as by his being Eurasian. This book shows him in all his immense variety—clerk with the Imperial Maritime Customs, chief compradore of Jardine Matheson, financial wizard, husband and lover, patriarch of a large family of five sons and eight daughters, loyal British subject but also, paradoxically, Chinese patriot. China’s president Yuan Shikai awarded him the Order of the Excellent Crop, and King George V knighted him. May Holdsworth’s thoughtful

"The fact that Snow did not sneak into “red China” to gather information constituting the basis of his Red Start over China all alone is in many instances misunderstood even by scholars. Mao Zedong’s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth. How the “Red Star” Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. Ishikawa Yoshihiro uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being. He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of no

“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

Contrary to the general impression that wet markets are smelly, dirty, and slippery, Christine finds that they are actually fun places to walk around and shop. As a French lady, Christine’s learning experience has not been without disappointments, such as being overcharged, given old veggies or pushed to buy more. Nonetheless, in Hong Kong, most sellers are generally very kind. Like in France, vendors remember the preferences of their regular clients. _e kindness of many sellers help her overcome the fear of speaking Cantonese. They even take time to explain to her how to cook this and that. It is the warm atmosphere that she loves most. Christine finds it exciting to discover lots of new foodstuffs such as Chinese yam. She even discovers ingredients, such as lye water, a kind of alkaline solution that is not used in Western countries. Last but not least, this book helps us understand the real French lifestyle which often sounds so “elegant” and sometimes “mysterious” to most people,

This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan’an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Soviet-influenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how Mao Zedong established his leadership through this party-wide political movement by means of aggressive intraparty purges, thought control, coercive cadre examinations, and total reorganizations of the Party’s upper structure. The result of this movement not only set up the foundation for Mao’s new China, but also deeply influenced the Chinese political structure today. The Chinese version of How the Red Sun Rose was published in 2000, and has had twenty-two printings since then. ~~~~~~ “This lucid translation of Gao Hua’s seminal study of the Yan’an rectification movement and the rise of

In a career of public service spanning 30 years, Dr. Leong Che-hung had always been there when Hong Kong people needed him. His faith in serving his own people had taken him from the operating theatre to the Executive Council and Legislative Council representing the medical constituency, and he was successively appointed as the Chairman of the Hospital Authority, the HKU Council and the Elderly Commission, among others. Now, for the first time, Dr. Leong uses each phase of his professional and public career as a spur to reflect on what makes Hong Kong tick. Opinionated, perceptive and often prescient, he tells the inside stories of the city’s most challenging health care crisis and most treasured medical triumphs. Throughout the book, he thinks passionately about many pressing issues facing Hong Kong, and why they are not only challenges but also opportunities. In the end, this is a book more about the history and future of Hong Kong than the life of one of its inhabitants.

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

A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit portrays the unconventional love of Hu Shi, a Chinese social reformer and civil rights pioneer, and Edith Clifford Williams, an American avant-garde artist of the early twentieth century. Hu studied at Cornell University, where he first met Williams, and Columbia University, where he worked with the famous pragmatist John Dewey. At the time of his death in 1962, he and Williams had exchanged more than 300 letters that, along with poems and excerpts from Hu's diaries and documents (some of which have never before been translated into English) form the center of this book. In Williams, Hu found his intellectual match, a woman and fellow scholar who helped the reformer reconcile his independent scholarship with cultural tradition. Williams counciled Hu on the acceptance of an arranged marriage, and she influenced his pursuit of experimental vernacular poetry through an exposure to avant-garde art. In 1933, the two became lovers, although their romance wou

《The Tales of Mother Goose》起源於歐洲各地的童話故事，由17世紀的法國作家Charles Perrault集結並加以改編出版，直到18世紀由Charles Welsh譯成英文，譯筆簡明流暢，活潑生動，全書並佐以優雅的插畫，適合作為中級閱讀教材及課外讀物。書中收錄了8篇名聞遐邇的經典童話故事，如〈灰姑娘〉(Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper)、〈睡美人〉(The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood)、〈穿靴子的貓〉(The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots)、〈藍鬍子〉(Blue Beard)、〈小紅帽〉(Little Red Riding-hood)等等。 Visits these eight classic tales written in the language of days gone by. A language that weaves a romantic web using the magic of fairy spells and curses, the tricks of wily wolves and ogres, and the bravery of heroes and heroines.

Thirty-seven eminent scholars and practitioners from Asia and the United States have come together to comprehensively assess leading copyright cases from eight major Asian jurisdictions.

Li He is the bad-boy poet of the late Tang Dynasty. A Song dynasty critic once described Li He’s poetry as written in the “language of a demonic immortal” and filled with hallucinatory evocations of goddesses, beautiful courtesans, Buddhist visions, drunken nights, and corruption. As the scholar Anne M. Birrell, writes, “Of all the Tang poets, even of all Chinese poets, he best speaks for our disconcerting times.” Modern critics have compared him to Rimbaud, Baudelaire, and Keats. In the crystalline translations by the noted scholar J. D. Frodsham, the 1983 edition of this book has been out of print for decades.

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。

This book provides insights from entrepreneurship experts, addressing diverse challenges and opportunities encountered in the startup process. It aims to help readers establish successful business models.

本研討會論文集共收錄十六篇論文，其中有關戲劇教育政策者計：〈臺灣學制內戲劇教育政策與實施現況〉、〈戲劇進課堂、進校園、進心靈〉“Drama Education for Personal, Social and Moral Growth”〈大陸中小學戲劇教育實踐探索〉、〈論英國都鐸王朝的戲劇教育課程〉五篇；有關教育戲劇(Drama in Education)者計：〈教育戲劇的六種教學模式〉、〈論動情的戲劇〉、〈藉課室言談探討戲劇教學、學生參與和讀寫能力的關係〉、〈表演藝術電腦化評量系統建置之研究〉、〈戲劇教學法在課堂作實驗性研究的成效〉、〈戲劇與劇場教育相關實務之例證研究─以花蓮教育大學幼教系一年級之歌舞劇坊為例〉“Drama as a Teaching Activity in a Drama Project Teaching Model to Young Learners─A Case Study of English Language Education in a Primary School in Taiwan” “Drama – A Curriculum for Creativity, Transformation and Learning”八篇；有關社區劇場者計有：〈基督教劇團融入「社區劇場」之展現─以「頌恩親子社區劇團」為例〉”Developing Children’s Creativity and Resilience through Theatre” “Creative Drama Program for Children Who Witness the Family Violence─in the Forum Theatre Form”三篇。希望研討會後之論文集之出版，能達到拓展與確認戲劇與劇場應用學術之研究價值，並製作成正式論文集，公開發行留存紀錄供教學研究之用。

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精選童話大師經典童話12篇，書中所使用的英文簡明流暢、難易適中，且篇篇精彩、動人、有趣；能引發閱讀的樂趣，並提昇英文詞彙與閱讀能力。每篇均附有生動的插圖輔助閱讀。打開這本書，走進兒童文學的寶庫，細讀這些神奇美麗，又富有童心與詩意的故事，品嘗幸福的滋味。 To Hans Christian Andersen might fitly be applied the title so happi-ly bestowed by the natives of Samoa on Robert Louis Stevenson: Tusitala, the “Teller of Tales.” For more than half a century the great Danish story-teller has been beloved by children in all parts of the world, and nowhere has he more devoted admirers than in Great Britain and those lands where English is the common tongue. As has been well said, “Andersen was a Norseman, and the blood of Norsemen is in our veins.” For those who here make first acquaintance with Andersen, it may be well to state that he was born at Odense, in the Baltic island of Funen, on April 2, 1805. His first fairy tales were published when he was about thirty years of age. “I have written them,” he wrote to a friend, “just as if I were telling them to a child.” That, no doubt, was the reason of his success, though as a

Advertising is something which we are exposed to from a young age and which can affect us in many different ways. Centered around the question “Does advertising improve society?” this volume explores the impact and issues of advertising and questions its social responsibility, with a focus on Hong Kong society. The collection of essays offers a broad view of the interaction between society and advertising, from an introduction to semiotic studies, exploring the use of gender stereotypes to the employment of brand placement as a new form of product promotion. Written by professors of advertising with experience from both within the industry and from international research, this is a senior level textbook designed to augment any studies in advertising, marketing, public relations or media studies.

Transforming History examines the profound transformation of historical thought and practice of writing history from the late Qing through the mid-twentieth century. The authors devote extensive analysis to the common set of intellectual and political forces that shaped the study of history, from the ideas of evolution, positivism, nationalism, historicism, and Marxism, to political processes such as revolution, imperialism, and modernization. Also discussed are the impact and problems associated with the nation-state as the subject of history, the linear model of historical time, and the spatial system of nation-states. The result is a convincing study that illustrates how history has transformed into a modern academic discipline in China.

目錄 秘在形山－2012李奉個展 The Secret from Within－2012 Lee Feng 秘在形山：閱讀李奉近年繪畫－在他的畫中，我彷彿看見他所找到的，回返現實的新路徑 The Secret from Withi：Reading of Lee Feng`s painting in recent years-In his paintings，I could see the new ways he has found to reality. 生命與自然交會當下的感動－我所認識的李奉，其畫與人 The Affection Produced by Life and Nature：What I Know about Lee Feng and his work 自序 Preface 內文 簡歷／Curriculum Vitae

Part memoir and part geographical and historical account, this book from 1914 is a window into China through the eyes of Mary Gaunt, an Australian author best known for travel books and fiction writing.

This book aims to achieve a breakthrough in relating the development of Hong Kong politics to the future of mainland China and Taiwan, it is for students, researchers, scholars, diplomats and lay people.

按英文字母排序，收錄常見醫學名詞、身體器官、病症、治療方法、與醫學有關的希臘神話人物及故事，如Asclepius (god of medicine)、疫苗、正式醫生用的醫藥名詞及一般人慣用的醫藥名詞等。 內容特點： a) 通過希臘及拉丁的字首字尾，幫助讀者較有系統記憶艱深醫科名詞。 b) 本書選收常見醫學名詞、身體器官、病症、治療方法、與醫學有關的希臘神話人物及故事，如Asclepius (god of medicine)、疫苗、正式醫生用的醫藥名詞及一般人慣用的醫藥名詞等。 c) 提供補充資料如藥物的副作用、某種病的病癥及延伸詞彙等。 d) 按英文字母排序，方便檢索。 e) 附錄包括：Appendix I: Greek Alphabets （希臘字母）、Appendix II: Ancient Roman Numerals （古羅馬數字）、Appendix III: Colours in Greek and Medical Terms （希臘文及醫學名詞裏的顏色）、Appendix IV: Colours in Latin （拉丁文裏的顏色）、Appendix V: Numbers and Shapes in Greek / Latin and Medical Terms （希臘文或拉丁文裏的數字及形狀）、Appendix VI: Cardiology in Greek / Latin （希臘文或拉丁文裏的心臟病學）、Appendix VII: Gastroenterology in Greek / Latin（希臘文或拉丁文裏的胃腸病學）、Appendix VIII: Gynaecology（婦科）、Appendix IX Poly-（希臘文裏「多」的意思）、Appendix X: Hyper (High) versus Hypo (Low) （希臘文裏「高」相對於「低」）、Appendix XI （希臘文及拉丁文裏「神經」的意思）、Appendix XII Anti-（希臘文裏「抗」或「抑制」）、 Appendix XIII: Psychological Terms (Greek/Latin) （希臘文及拉丁文裏的心理學詞彙）、Appendix XIV: Legal Terms (Latin) （希臘文裏的法律名詞）等等。

It represents one of the finest traditions in Chinese culture: the tradition of creativity, of the freedom of thought, freedom of spirit and freedom of the imagination. These are the characteristics of Hong Kong literature. The Best China, an expression traditionally used to refer to the finest crockery brought out when one is entertaining special guests, has been adapted here to mean the best chinese tradition of free-thinking discursive prose. This anthology of essays from Hong Kong and the diaspora, ranging across the past hundred and seventy years, records the intellectual ferment that has characterized the city since its founding in 1842, sometimes restless and questioning, sometimes meditative and lyrical, buoyed by an all-pervasive and indomitable spirit of freedom.

The period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960) has long been treated as an anomaly in the history of China, an age of great disunity between the empires of the Tang and the Song dynasties. Breaking with previous scholarship on China's middle period, this edited volume presents individual studies that focus on the art, culture, and politics of the interregnum, challenging underlying assumptions about the unitary nature of dynastic culture and its value as a category of historical analysis. It understands these decades as a time of important transition in which the incipient cultural shifts of the mature Tang dynasty turned into the foundations of Song society. Consequently it highlights the complex narrative processes that gave birth to Song culture.

The global youth market is important to international marketers, educators, and policy makers because of its growing purchase power, homogeneity, and its readiness to accept new innovations. This book explores the interplay of the youth segment and the market environment. It employs a variety of research methodologies to analyze how young people in Hong Kong interact with various consumer socializing agents, including parents, peers, media celebrities, government publicities, media contents and advertisements. With evidence-based advice on how to communicate with the youth in the context of consumption of products, services, and ideas, this volume will prove to be a very useful reference to a wide range of readers, including marketing professionals, counselors and educators who work closely with young people as a unique group of target audience.

為提供外國投資者及相關人士所需之本市商務及生活環境資訊，本處就本市金融、貿易、產業、餐旅活動等商務資訊予以整合歸納，以具體展現本市經貿環境優勢，並主動提供予外商參考，俾利本市經濟競爭力及國際化形象之提升。Centrally located in the Asia-Pacific region, Taipei is one of the most important transfer points between East Asia and North America, and is the idea base of operation for European and North American companies seeking to penetrate the Asian market. In ad

This book from 1885 presents standalone accounts from European missionary women, Chinese missionary converts, and the author Adele M. Fielde, an American missionary and scientist, which together form a unique picture of China at the time.

精選和老外聊天最常用的英語會話1000句，最適合初學入門者使用，零基礎，也不怕開口說英文，Talk a lot in English

This book explains the new procedures for knee operations created by Professor Lai and elaborates on the concepts and theories behind his new approach. These new procedures will increase the proficiency of orthopedists and assist them in performing more effective and less painful knee surgeries.

The young son of the head of the Chinese traders’ association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port of Guangzhou, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for his powerful family upon his father’s sudden death. A latter-day Baoyu, b

目錄 相遇在感性的凹洞－輕讀林鴻文老師的創作／豆子(李書斾) Rendezvous in the Crevasse of Perception－An Insight into Hong-wen Lin`s Art／Do-Zhi 內文 林鴻文 簡歷

《神學大全》中文版標題縮寫的用法 索引一　人名書名對照 索引二　重要詞彙索引（按英文字母順序排列） 索引三　重要詞彙索引（按中文筆畫順序排列） 索引四　中文版分類索引 論天主一體三位（第一冊） 聖道（Treatise on sacred doctrine） 天主（Treatise on the one God） 天主三位一體之神聖位格（Treatise on the most Holy Trinity） 論天主創造萬物（第二冊） 總論受造物的區別（Treatise on the distinction of things in general） 善與惡的區別（Treatise on the distinction of things in particular） 天使（Treatise on the angels） 創造工程（Treatise on the work of the six days） 論創造人類與治理萬物（第三冊） 人（Treatise on man） 論神聖的治理（Treatise on the divine government） 人的道德行為與情（第四冊） 最後目的（Treatise on the last end） 人性行動（Treatise on human acts） 情（Treatise on the passions） 德性與惡習及罪（第五冊） 習性（Treatise on habits in general） 德性（Treatise on habits in particula） 論法律與恩寵（第六冊） 法律（Treatise on law） 恩寵（Treatise on grace） 論信德與望德（第七冊） 向天主之德（Treatise on theological virtue） 信德（faith） 望德（hope） 論愛德（第八冊） 愛德（charity） 論智德與義德本身（第九冊） 樞德或達德（Treatise on the cardinal virtues） 智德（prudence） 義德（justice） 相反分配正義的惡習（vices opposed to distributive justice） 相反交換正義的惡習（vices opposed to commutative justice） 論義德之功能部分或附德（

Kitty Kwok 曾任空姐，從三萬五千呎高空降落地面，披上嫁衣。在日本偶遇糖霜餅乾，興趣從此一發不可收拾，由自學發展到教班，曾慕名到巴黎藍帶廚藝學院進修，又到訪日本進行海外教學。現時為全港最炙手可熱的糖霜餅乾達人。不時周遊列國，與業界同仁交流。Kitty深信糖霜餅乾是一種微甜的幸福感。她希望透過糖霜餅乾使人放慢生活的步伐，花時間花心思為所愛的人製作一份別出心裁的小禮物。她相信無論施與受的人，都會同樣感受到糖霜餅乾帶來的小確幸。 Kitty Kwok was once a flight attendant before she got married. One day, she encountered Icing Cookies in Japan, and from then on she has gone crazy about it. Started from self-study, she went through many practices and now she has become a tutor. She took a course in Le Cordon Bleu, and once visited Japan to give tutorial. Now she is the most popular Icing Cookie Expert in Hong Kong. She often visits different countries and exchanges ideas and experience with peer groups in Icing Cookies sector. Kitty believes that Icing Cookies are something representing sweetness and happiness. She hopes that through Icing Cookies she can help people change their pace of life, to spend more time and ideas making something small but unique for their beloved ones, and also enjoy the fun

目錄 第一部：生命的韧性Part 1: Endurance in Life 1 生命的韧性The Resilience of Life 2 天降大任，谁可承担？Who qualifies to assume Great Responsibilities？ 3 我的心哪，你为何忧闷？Why are you downcast， O my soul？ 4 当有人感叹说生不逢时的时候When someone sighs “We were not born in the right time” 5 我所遭遇的是出于你，我就默然不语I was silent; I would not open my mouth for you are the one who has done this 6 知难而进，逆境成长To Coworkers Who Face Setbacks in the Ministry 7 学像约瑟—顺境逆遇，忠诚如一Faithfulness in Good Times and Bad Times ~ Joseph as an example 8 不怕困难，困难就怕你When You Are not Afraid of Difficulties， Difficulties Will Be Afraid of You 9 不是胆怯的心，乃是刚强的心For God has not given us a spirit of timidity， but of power and love and discipline 10 努力与选择Effort and Choice 11 你对，世界才对Your World Is Right When You Are Right 12 困境中的奇迹Miracle amidst difficult circumstance 13 感谢你的对手Be Grateful for Opponents 14 珍惜生命，全力以赴！Treasure Life and Go All Out 15 不要丢失成长的异象Do not Lose the Vision to Grow 16 还未抵步！Not Home Yet 第二部：异象与团队Part 2: Vision and Team 17 持守异象 ~ 向标杆直跑Hold Firmly to the Visi

《Betwixt and Between: Life, Death, and Rebirth》is a record of Master Nan’s talks in which he answered questions about the process of death and rebirth. Master Nan weaves together personal anecdotes, scientific knowledge, Buddhist teachings from the Pali Canon, Mahayana sutras, Yogacara, Vijnanavada, and Chan in such an intricate way that those who are curious about the Buddhist perspective on life and death, those familiar with Buddhist teachings, and those who are deep into cultivation will all gain new insights and answers. For its depth, this book is very engaging and hard to put down. Any reader will find it to be a treasure trove and will want to come back to it again and again.

Gods and Goddesses are not always perfect, what did Chang E do to have herself ending up alone on the moon? And do you know that Yi the Great Archer did more than just shooting down nine suns? My Favourite Chinese Stories is a collection of three Chinese stories specially selected and retold in English for young readers. The first story is from Chinese mythology, while the other two are from classical Chinese literature. They are widely known to the Chinese people, and reflect, in varying degrees, some of the essential characteristics of Chinese culture. Each story is accompanied by beautiful full-colour illustrations drawn by Lo King-man as well as audio narration by the author Pamela Youde.

Through the keen eyes and curious mind of a young girl, Ying-tzu, we are given a glimpse into the adult world of Peking in the 1920s. The five sequential stories in this collection can be read as either stand-alone pieces, or as a novel, due to the cleverly constructed themes and character development. Exploring ideas of loss and bewilderment, Lin Hai-yin carefully captures the transition from childhood to adulthood. Shielded by a child’s innocence, we are taken on a journey of discovery as Ying-tzu grapples with the uncertainties of human relationships as well as her developing awareness of the world around her. Poignant and poetic, it is hard not to be moved by Memories of Peking: South Side Stories.