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A comprehensive attempt to examine the development of public health in Hong Kong from 1841 to the early 1990s, analysing political, social, economic, and cultural factors to help understand Hong Kong's struggle to combat prevalent and emerging diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, avian influenza, and SARS.

Translated from the original Japanese - considered the most authoritative research work on the independence movement of East Turkestan so far - this English edition of the book presents an analysis of East Turkestan from a variety of perspectives, all based on rare first-hand historical data.

Combines ethnographic analysis, personal vignettes, and a number of fascinating stories to present a convincing yet complex picture of how Gao villagers interact with the outside world, twenty years after the publication of his original ethnography of Gao Village.

Focuses on practical translation and interpreting, two emerging areas of increasing importance in recent decades. Scholars and experts from China, France, Hong Kong, Spain, Taiwan, the United Kingdom, and the United States share with us their experiences in translation or interpreting practice.

A collection of 57 blog articles by Professor Joseph Sung during his tenure as the seventh Vice-Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, this collection talks about higher education and social responsibility, pathways and choices our youths make, the visions and challenges, and life values.

Tells the fascinating story of the development of medical and sanitation services in Hong Kong during the first century of British rule and how changing political values and directions of the colonial administration and the socio-economic status of the Hong Kong affected the policies of development in these areas.

The Mingjia is a notional grouping of philosophers first recorded as such in the Shiji. Their identifying feature was a concern with linguistic issues particularly involving the correct use of names. This is an important group for understanding the development of Pre-Qin philosophy.

The US and China are in fact each other's most important partner in trade among many aspects. In this book, Lau looks through various economic statistics of the past few decades and shows us that while the real effects of the China-US trade war in 2018 are not negligible, they are relatively manageable for both nations.

Covers the major areas of Hong Kong taxation - Profits Tax, Salaries Tax, Property Tax, Personal Assessment and Stamp Duty - as well as offering a general overview of international tax issues and how they pertain to Hong Kong.

The Silk Manuscripts from Zidanku, Changsha (Hunan), are the only pre-Imperial Chinese manuscripts on silk found to-date. This is the first in a two-volume monograph on the Zidanku manuscripts, reflecting almost four decades of research by Professor Li Ling of Peking University.

Presents a narrative about Beijing's art scene in the decade from the late Cultural Revolution to the beginning of the Reform and Opening-up period. The book focuses on the continuous influence of the ideological structure of Socialist Realism in China on the practice and discourse of contemporary Chinese art.

Collects essays from native speakers of English who studied Chinese, learned it unusually well, and then used it in very successful careers in journalism, business, government work, and academe. Many of essays show that answers to the question of ""what difference is made?"" can have a charming unpredictability.

Presents a collection of articles by Professor Lawrence Juenyee Lau from 1994 to 2018, discussing Chinese economic development over the past decades. With empirical findings, the author identifies the sources of Chinese economic growth and scrutinizes the role of government in development at various stages.

Provides an account of Hong Kong's medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigating how medical and health services grew and adapted as Hong Kong's political and the socio-economic landscape - and the world beyond it - changed, and continued changing.

An intermediate level textbook. This book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twenty-two lessons, covering a variety of cultural content, including customs and manners, holidays and festivals, poems and idioms, calligraphy and couplets, myths and legends, feng shui and superstitions, and historical relics.

An intermediate level textbook. This book illustrates Chinese language knowledge and introduces Chinese culture in twenty-two lessons, covering a variety of cultural content, including customs and manners, holidays and festivals, poems and idioms, calligraphy and couplets, myths and legends, feng shui and superstitions, and historical relics.

Uses simple language to explain the essence of Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage), a monumental ancient medical classic, paired with cases the author encountered during years of practicing Chinese medicine, allowing readers to understand the melding of theory and practice and philosophical views of nature and life.

Over five decades, Donald J. Munro has been one of the most important voices in sinological philosophy. In this festschrift volume, students of Munro and scholars influenced by him celebrate Munro's body of work in essays that extend his legacy.

In the past twenty years, work on the local culture of central Hunan has been one of the most exciting sources for rethinking the nature and variety of Chinese local society. At the heart of this society is a kind of statuary found nowhere else in China. Alain Arrault's study focuses on some 4,000 of these statues.

China stands as a major "Red Swan" challenge to the social sciences. Its exceptional development trajectory challenges conventional wisdom as well as conventional models of political change. The focus of this book is on the manner in which action programs in China's governmental system can be developed, formulated, implemented, adjusted, and revised.

Provides a study of the social and cultural change in Ming China's lower Yangzi delta region from about 1500 to 1644. It takes three social groups - literati, scholar-officials, and merchants - as the framework for discussing the political, socio-economic, and cultural forces that coalesced and reinforced one another to influence and facilitate the region's change.

This collection of short stories reveals the plight and strength of the common Chinese people. There are contradictions between the ""new"" and the ""old"", and also between human values with enough integrity to nurture life, versus corruption that leads to the decline and death of a culture.

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-infleunced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949.

Investigates the varied forms of art practices in Hong Kong over the last decade. The author explores how and why the artists of the city engage in practices ranging from the most personal to the most socially oriented, with an interesting analysis of the works of about fifty local art practitioners and a representative range of art institutions.

Translated from the original French publication, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of twentieth-century Chinese literature and examines the relationship between Chinese literary theory and modernity.

A collection of selected papers of the international conference on "Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries", organised by the Research Centre for Translation (RCT), The Chinese University of Hong Kong in May 2013. The conference aimed at studying the role played by translation in the modernisation process of the East Asian countries.

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. These unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.

This pocket-sized paperback is one of the twenty-four titles published for 2017 Hong Kong International Poetry Nights. IPNHK is one of the most influential international poetry events in Asia. These unique works are presented with Chinese and English translations in bilingual or trilingual formats.