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The classic of poetry
Edward L. Shaughnessy presents a complete English translation of the 305 discrete poems from the Classic of Poetry.
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Grotto art of china
This book traces the origins of Grotto Art form from the Indian subcontinent to its monumental flowering in China.
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Carnival of animals
New animal poems from legendary Hong Kong author Xi Xi
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The monkey chronicles
A Chronicle of Xi Xi's experience with the primate kingdom both real and imagined.
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Taipei people
With an intensity of vision comparable to James Joyce’s Dubliners, it follows the individual struggles of the people of Taipei.
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Classical chinese primer (reader + workbook)
Classical Chinese Primer is meant to be an attempt to address the urgent need in the teaching and learning of Classical Chinese. Designed for those who have studied Modern Chinese for one or two years, but who have had no exposure to Classical Chinese before, Classical Chinese Primer is in a set ...
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Escaping the end of times
Escaping the End of Times invites readers to explore the intricate relationships between dreams, politics, and the Chinese writing system in early modern China.
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Searching for the way
The search for knowledge has been the driving force behind mankind's existence since the dawn of civilization, and different cultures have developed their own theories of knowledge. Searching for the Way: Theory of Knowledge in Premodern and Modern China deals with the analyses and interpretation...
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The mingjia and related texts
The Mingjia (School of Names) is a notional grouping of philosophers living between the sixth and third centuries BCE whose identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues particularly involving the correct use of names. This is a comprehensive work on this school of thought.
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The teddy bear chronicles
For several decades Xi Xi has been widely known for her award-winning poetry and fiction. In this book, she writes about the teddy bears she began making in 2005, after treatment for cancer, in order to improve the mobility of her right hand.
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Village life in hong kong revisited
An anthropological study of how the structure of village life explored in this book is a fading memory for the village residents.
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The lexicon of empiricism and chinese modernization
The Lexicon of Empiricism and Chinese Modernization offers a deeply reflective exploration of how culture, philosophy, and empirical inquiry intersect in shaping China’s modern transformation.
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Through other eyes
Through Other Eyes offers a rigorous, empirically grounded account of Hong Kong’s boat people—known locally as the Tanka—during a period of rapid postwar transformation.
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Botanical illustrated guide to hong kong native plants
This third volume of the Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native Plants continues the vital mission of documenting the region’s unique floral heritage.
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Chen hansheng
This book draws on unique interviews, beginning in 1979, with Chen Hansheng himself, his family and associates, along with an exhaustive examination of documents, writings, and archives, to build a rounded portrait of Chen, the man, and his world.
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The dragon king it was that died
The Dragon King below the Jing River defied the orders of the Jade God of the Heavens and was executed. His ghost resented the Tang Emperor Taizong for not saving him, and dragged the Emperor to the Underworld. From a collection of three Chinese stories selected and retold in English for young re...
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Botanical illustrated guide to hong kong native plants
This beautifully illustrated guide presents a carefully curated collection of 20 plant species native to Hong Kong, with scientific, detailed illustrations and morphological descriptions, together with botanical references, all essential for species authentication.
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China pluperfect
Based on a comparative study of Chinese and Euro-American art theory in the 18th and 19th centuries, this book looks at how both cultures looked at their own past and their outside, and how they devised new ways of adapting them into evolving cultural constructs.
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The genera of orchidaceae in hong kong
This illustrated treatise fills the vacuum of complete lack of essential references on orchids, and meet the need for a guide to identify the species growing in Hong Kong, and is thus the base-line from which future taxonomists will begin their studies.
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The great archer and the moon goddess
Gods and Goddesses are not always perfect, what did Chang E do to have herself ending up alone on the moon? Do you know that Yi the Great Archer did more than just shooting down nine suns? From a collection of three Chinese stories selected and retold in English for young readers.
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Orphans of the times
This is a powerful collection of essays pulls back the curtain on a decade often seen as a void between Mao’s rigid control and the explosion of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms.
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Monkey borrows the palmleaf fan
Tripitaka and his three disciples, Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy were chosen to undertake a pilgrimage to India, during which they came across all sorts of dangers and difficulties. From a collection of three Chinese stories selected and retold in English for young readers.
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Wandering mind and metaphysical thoughts
This English-Chinese bilingual edition is the complete first book of poems written by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian. His poems offer an array of snapshots over various themes where politics, dreams, and metaphysical concerns are mixed. With original art works by Gao, this collection advances hi...
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Democracy on trial
Writing "an ethnography of democracy," Ya-Chung Chuang masterfully describes and analyzes a multifaceted Taiwanese society. Contradicting mainstream research on political cultures, which relies heavily on survey data and statistical analysis, Ya-Chung Chuang produces an anthropologically inspired...
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Translation and the history of knowledge
Translation and the History of Knowledge is an anthology honoring Professor Lawrence Wang-chi Wong’s contributions to translation studies and Chinese translation history
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Hong kong art deco architecture
This study relates Art Deco architecture in Hong Kong with local socioeconomic and political contexts, and adopts the theoretical lens to examine how they framed practices of everyday life.
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The life of tu fu 杜甫一生 (bilingual edition)
Drawing inspiration from a vast oeuvre of more than a thousand poems, Eliot Weinberger has composed fifty-eight poems derived and adapted from the lines, images, and feelings in Tu Fu’s poetry.
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The late wanderings of du fu
A close reading of Du Fu's poems as he confronts the brilliance and collapse of the Tang dynasty and transformed all he experienced into poetry.
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Daoist liturgy of the most high for daily recitation
A complete, meticulous English translation of the The Daoist Liturgy of the Most High for Daily Recitations, which is performed in Daoist temples every morning and evening.
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A history of chinese calligraphy
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The first decade
Many people have doubts about the return of sovereignty over Hong Kong to China in 1997. They were not optimistic about the "one country, two systems" formula. How should Hong Kong be judged as a Special Administrative Region within China in the first decade of its existence?This book has set out...
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Developing teachers and developing schools in changing contexts
More than ever, schools are regarded as a learning community in which its leaders, and therefore the school's primary agents of change, are expected to stay abreast of the latest developments in education and instruction. This book provides important insights for improving professional developmen...
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Poem in blue
This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is "Poetry and Conflict". 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Po...
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Selected short stories of shen congwen
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The principal's graduation
Joseph Sung, the seventh vice-chancellor and president of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, discusses higher education and social responsibility, pathways and choices our youths make, the visions he had and the challenges he faced, and the values he wishes his students could take seriously.
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Lam woo
This book focuses on Lam Woo, a highly successful Chinese building contractor whose company was based in Hong Kong at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is also about the marginal group of people he exemplifies, those who joined the Chinese diaspora because of poverty and political turmoi...
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The tin wash dish
This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-two titles published for 2015 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. The theme of IPHHK2015 is "Poetry and Conflict". 21 international poets from 18 different places are invited to participate in recitations, symposia and sharing sessions of the Po...
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Paradoxes of traditional chinese literature
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A medical history of hong kong
This book gives an account of Hong Kong’s medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigates how medical and health services grew and adapted as Hong Kong’s political and the socioeconomic landscape—and the world beyond it—changed, and continued changing. Th...
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Chinese leadership wisdom from the book of change
The Yijing has been used as a book of divination for more than three thousand years in China and still is by some people today. In this book the wisdom of leadership within the framework of the Yijing is used to indicate how a leader should act in different situations, be they good or bad. Critic...
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Ordinary days
Ordinary Days is a memoir by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife Esther Lee Yuk Ying. Set partly against the backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highl...
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The east turkestan independence movement, 1930s to 1940s
Based on rare firsthand historical data, Wang Ke presents an analysis of East Turkestan from the perspective of Islamic social structure, the origin and evolution of thoughts on national revolution, the internal structure of the independence movement, and the power structure of the republic, inte...
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Tao te ching
Tao Te Ching, also commonly known as Lao Tzu, is one of the most important Chinese classics and has had great influence on Chinese thought. It is regarded as the bible of Taoism and is by far the most frequently translated Chinese classic, with over thirty translations into English alone.The work...
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An encyclopaedia of practical translation and interpreting
As a sequel to An Encyclopaedia of Translation: Chinese-English, English-Chinese published in 1995, this volume focuses on practical translation and interpreting, the two emerging areas of increasing importance in recent decades, and all chapters are fully illustrated with examples in translation...
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A time and a tide
Charles K. Kao was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for "groundbreaking achievements concerning the transmission of light in fibers for optical communication." This memoir chronicles his personal and scientific odyssey from his an unfathomable childhood in war-torn Shanghai and Hong Kong to his...
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The shop of the lin family & spring silkworms
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A medical history of hong kong: 1842–1941
This book explores the development of medical and sanitation services in Hong Kong during the first century of British rule. Moira M. W. Chan-Yeung details how the colonial administration's changing political values and the socioeconomic status of Hong Kong affected policy making.
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Ascendant peace in the four seas
Relying on materials uncovered by in the First Historical Archives in Beijing, the author investigates the development of imperial drama and its influence on Peking Opera, as well as the function and system of the Nanfu (later Shengpingshu)an organization responsible for drama in the Qing dynast...
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