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Evanescent Isles: From My City-village / Hong Kong x 24 x 365: A Year in the Life of a City
世界是一本書 林沛理的文化評論是一種智力探索。在他的筆下，上至互聯網下至iPhone，偉大如母愛，庸俗如高清電視；都包含著隱藏的訊息等待著我們去解碼和發掘。問題是這個世界可供「閱讀」的程度究竟有多少？用閱讀的視角看世界可以看得更深、更遠、更清楚，抑或只是庸人自擾？
While the West has commonly viewed the last one hundred years in China through the single narrative lens of Mao’s rise and rule, the experience of this same period for the Chinese themselves has been infinitely more complex, and little understood. And perhaps no one is more capable of tapping into the true narrative of this time than Xinran, a national celebrity and beloved figure in China by virtue of her hugely popular radio show, which aired in the 1990s.
Johnston, a New York Times investigative reporter, has spent his 40-year career exposing collusion between government officials and private sector entities as they enrich the rich and ignore consequences for middle-class laborers and the poor. In Perfectly Legal , he focused on hidden inequities in the tax system. This volume is a broader examination of collusion and unfairness, ranging from subsidies for professional sports stadiums to secret payouts to multinational corporate chief executives. At the base of Johnston's journalistic indictment are the highly paid lobbyists working Congress, state legislatures, county commissions, city councils and government regulatory agencies. Johnston also cites the culpability of George W. Bush in his roles as professional baseball team owner, Texas governor and U.S. president, and targets well-known tycoons such as Donald Trump, Warren Buffett and George Steinbrenner as well as lesser-recognized beneficiaries who own golf courses and insurance companies and energy consortiums. Heroes appear occasionally, such as Remy Welling, an Internal Revenue Service investigator who blew the whistle on improper tax breaks for the wealthy and lost her job. Johnston writes compellingly to show how government-private sector collusion affects the middle class and the poor. (Jan.) From Publishers Weekly Copyright c Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc.
本書乃作者胡慕嫻女士根據自身經歷改篇而成。作者以細膩的筆觸、真切的感受，將她的經歷與1941至1989年香港所發生的重要事件糅合在一起。
香港有四代人，生長於戰前的是第一代，依次直推至1990年誕生的第四代。呂大樂以精闢的透析力和高度的概括力，道出四代人的精神面貌，並令人不無警惕地指出，在安分寬容的第一代陸續退下舞台之際，「戰後嬰兒」卻未能為下一代提供更開放、更公平的環境，以致第三代人深感出頭無期，而第四代人打從開始便是輸家。
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig never should have met. One evening, Danny, an East End cockney who works as a garage mechanic, takes his fiance up to the West End to celebrate their engagement. He crosses the path of Spencer Craig, a West End barrister posed to be the youngest Queen's Counsel of his generation.
The Chinese Canadian immigration project explores the dynamics of migration flows between China and Canada from the mid 19th to the mid 20th century. It is based on the Canadian Register of Chinese Immigrants, a list of almost 100,000 Chinese who entered Canada between 1851 and 1949, most of whom were required to pay a discriminatory and restrictive entry fee – the so-called Head Tax. Using this core document, the project will examine migration between China and Canada, its relationships to patterns of immigrant recruitment in China and settlement in Canada, and the socio-economic factors underlying these population movements.
香港大學圖書館邀請CEO蔡東豪先生 (筆名原復生) 擔任《城西書話》嘉賓，為大家解答以上問題。蔡先生將會與主持人梁文道先生天南地北，分享他閱讀史提芬‧京 (Stephen King) "On Writing : a Memoir of the Craft"的讀後感和閱讀寫作的心得。
On 17 November 2007, Professor Lung Ying-tai and her son Andreas will come and talk about their book "Dear Andreas". It is a collection of emails between Professor Lung and Andreas. Medium of the talk will be Putonghua.
On 17 November 2007, Professor Lung Ying-tai and her son Andreas will come and talk about their book "Dear Andreas". It is a collection of emails between Professor Lung and Andreas. Medium of the talk will be Putonghua.
張愛玲遺產監管人宋以朗先生主講：「閱讀張愛玲－－三十事、物、情」，細道有關張愛玲的三十項事、物、情，包括她的生活軼事、文學、電影、親屬情誼等，並輔以珍貴圖片、書信及手稿資料。
James Stewart Lockhart called it “the great difference”. Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories and its people and the existing British colony of Hong Kong and its inhabitants.
In this novel, one of Taiwan's most celebrated authors reimagines the lives of a legendary couple: Sun Yat-sen, known as the "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and his wife, Song Qingling.
An apple a week is a collection of articles published in Apple Daily between 2004 and 2006.
A girl in Zambia who defies her mother and goes to school, Dalits in India who win an international prize, migrant workers in Cambodia and Hong Kong who become labour activists. Over the past 30 years, Oxfam Hong Kong has worked with some of the world's poorest people, people who work so hard to make changes in their lives. This book shows how well they've done.
Eminent Chinese scholar John Minford’s superb translation captures the consummate skill and understated humor of Pu Songling’s classic Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. With elegant prose, witty wordplay, and subtle charm, the 104 stories in this collection reveal a world in which nothing is as it seems. In his tales of shape-shifting spirits, bizarre phenomena, haunted buildings, and enchanted objects, Pu Songling pushes the boundaries of human experience and enlightens as he entertains.
著名影評人雷恩 (Tony Rayns) 稱關錦鵬為「落入凡間的天使」，一語道破關錦鵬這位擁有天使心靈的導演，如何在電影工業的頹垣敗瓦中存活的夾縫處境。關錦鵬恆常言道：「當導演就要做到『既近且遠、既遠且近』的境界。」他的作品正是以這種美學原則，塑造了許多不朽和豐富的文化影像。我們無法忘懷《胭脂扣》中如花與十二少的頹廢、《阮玲玉》中一代女星的孤寂、《藍宇》中兩個男人於午夜街頭的擁抱、《愈快樂愈墮落》中那風起雲湧的青馬大橋……這種夾縫處境及遠近美學，讓他在商業主流與文人風範之間、在女性電影與酷兒論述之間、於家國以外，造就另一片風景，並以說書人的身份，繼續為這個城市空間編織傳奇。
Ten Eternal Questions asks leading political, artistic, and religious figures the timeless spiritual questions. "What is your concept of God?" "Do you think this life is all there is?" are just two of the ten questions author Zo Sallis puts to such diverse figures as Nelson Mandela and U2's Bono, Shimon Peres and Jack Nicholson, Paulo Coelho and the Dalai Lama. Chapters are organized by question with extracts drawn from Sallis's interviews with almost 40 personalities, among them Bob Geldof, Gore Vidal, Prince Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Gianfranco Ferre, Farah Pahlavi (the exiled Empress of Iran), Anjelica Huston, as well as other artists, scientists, and religious figures. In these days of increasing commercialism and religious polarization, this absorbing book speaks to an impulse for a stronger spiritual dimension in our lives and its range of answers spontaneous, surprising, and insightful; provocative, considered, and personally revealing offers readers much to ponder and reflect upon in their own quest to understand life's mysteries.
'An indefatigable explorer and raconteur, Aldrich has peeked into and poked around every nook and cranny of contemporary Beijing to reveal the city's rich and fascinating past. His book is a treasure box of curios lovingly recovered from a world now out of reach. It is an indispensable companion for all thoughtful visitors to China's capital. A brilliant achievement.' - Dr. Michael J. Moser, author of Foreigners Within the Gates: The Legations at Peking
1. Paul Kua: The Old and New Testaments in Chinese, translated by Joannes Lassar and Joshua Marshman, issued in 5 volumes, Serampore, 1815-1822. 2. Kenneth Fung and Daniel Fung: Theme: Old Maps - The Foot-prints of Human Civilization. 3. Dr Anthony Ferguson: Book: The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith. 1776 Edition.
A city is struck by an epidemic of "white blindness." The first man to succumb sits in his car, waiting for the light to change. He is taken to an eye doctor, who does not know what to make of the phenomenon - and soon goes blind himself." "The blindness spreads, sparing no one. Authorities confine the blind to a vacant mental hospital secured by armed guards under instructions to shoot anyone trying to escape. Inside, the criminal element among the blind holds the rest captive: food rations are stolen, women are raped. The compound is set ablaze, and the blind escape into what is now a deserted city, strewn with litter and unburied corpses." "The only eyewitness to this nightmare is the doctor's wife, who faked blindness in order to join her husband in the camp. She guides seven strangers through the barren streets. The bonds within this oddly anonymous group - the doctor, the first blind man and his wife, the old man with the black eye patch, the girl with dark glasses, the boy with no mother, and the dog of tears - are as uncanny as the surrounding chaos is harrowing. Told with compassion, humor, and lyricism, Blindness is a stunning exploration of loss and disorientation in the modern world, of man's will to survive against all odds."--BOOK JACKET.
Readings by: Jam Ismail, Agnes Lam, David McKirdy, Madeleine Marie Slavick, Nicole Wong, Hark Yeung Wai Man, Xu Xi, Ya Se
Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American government, and propagandist. As his career progressed, so did the fortunes of Shanghai. The city transformed itself from a dull colonial backwater when Crow arrived, to the thriving and ruthless cosmopolitan metropolis of the 1930s when Crow wrote his pioneering book - 400 Million Customers - that encouraged a flood of businesses into the China market in an intriguing foreshadowing of today’s boom.
Based on the author's seminal article "The Clash of Civilizations?" in Foreign Affairs, Samuel P. Huntington's The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order is a provocative and prescient analysis of the state of world politics after the fall of communism.
This book is a sequel to the book, Love in a Fallen City, written by the acclaimed author, Zhang Ai-ling. Based on Fan Liuyuan's own love letters, the author, Lee Ou-fan has successfully created the most memorable character in this book.
《天使走過人間》是《論死亡與臨終》作者伊莉莎白。庫伯勒 ﹣羅斯醫生在晚年中風後，於生命餘燼中回顧自己一生的真情告白。本書敘述了許多她生命中經歷的甜蜜，痛苦，挫折與苦難。然而隨著歲月經過，對於生命與死亡不斷的思考，這一切有了不同的意義與面貌。在閱讀的過程中，我每每掩卷，被庫伯勒 ﹣羅斯醫生無私的奉獻，無法摧折的生命力與持續散發的光與熱撼動 ，無法自己。《天使走過人間》提醒了我們思考死亡之必要，因為那是關懷與愛的力量來源。
《新時代的歷史觀》是黃仁宇教授晚年的重要著作. 提綱擷領綜論近代中國, 指點中國的未來, 也是黃教授"通古今之變"的大視野歷史觀的代表作.
In Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street, Patrick Yu takes up his story as he returns to Hong Kong to become the first Chinese Crown Counsel. Thereafter he tells of the years in which he established himself as a most successful advocate in private practice. His story is enriched with anecdotes of his legal life and reminiscences of the many people with whom he came into contact.
This book provides excellent documentation and analysis of how China developed markets for several types of products within four main sectors: its urban centers, its rural regions, its educational institutions, and various international development assistance organizations.
Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890.
This is a collection of twelve scholarly yet accessible essays that examine the history of the University of Hong Kong, from the laying of its foundation stone in 1910 to its reestablishment after World War II.
延安整風運動是深刻影響二十世紀中國歷史進程的重大事件，這是由毛澤東親自領導的中共黨內第一次大規模政治運動，也是建國後歷次政治運動的濫觴。毛澤東在延安整風中運用他所創造的思想改造和審幹、肅反兩種手段，全面清除了中共黨內存留的五四自由民主思想的影響，徹底轉換了中共的「俄化」氣質，重建了以毛澤東為絕對主宰的上層結構，奠定了黨的全盤毛澤東化的基礎，其間所產生的一系列概念、範式在1949年後改變了億萬中國人的生活和命運。本書作者歷時十餘年，搜尋考辨大量歷史資料，在此基礎上，從實證研究的角度，詳細剖析了延安整風的前因後果及運動所涉及的各個方面，力圖再現當年這場運動的歷史真貌，是目前海內外唯一一本全面研究延安整風運動的歷史著作。
孫中山，這位改變國族氣運的革命領袖，宋慶齡，這位理想崇高又際遇不凡的女性，命運教他們相會，情愛讓他們咀嚼，牽掛，而不可替代的死亡就像海浪拍打著礁岸...... 把情愛還給人物，讓血肉溶入歷史，便是以顛覆傳統小說體例為己志的小說家平路在她長篇作品《行道天涯》中的大膽嘗試，藉由看似自由放任，其實跌宕有致的敘事觀點轉換，作者帶領 讀者跨越了時空與生死的阻隔，進入角色最豐沛的內在生命，也透視了孫中山與宋慶齡作為真實人物最赤祼的情慾。
A Room of one's own; Creating a life: professional women and the quest for children; Lois Weber: the director who lost her way in history
Through excerpts from the earliest English language newspapers in Hong Kong, accompanied by Solomon Bard's insightful comments, Voices From the Past provides unique glimpses into Hong Kong's history. Richly illustrated with interesting photographs, chiefly from the Hong Kong Museum of History's photographic library, the pages bring Hong Kong's colonial past vividly to life.
At the culmination of his art career in China, Xu Bing (who now lives in the West) spent months inventing more than 1200 characters that mimic Chinese characters but have no known meaning. At once familiar and strange, they evoke confusion, wonderment, and even hostility in viewers. Xu Bing printed them in books with traditional formats, on wall posters, and on giant billowing sheets, which he installed in exhibition galleries to form a ceiling or sky. He cagily argues that any explanation of his art is superfluous because the books have no meaning.
The talk will be around the following speeches made by Mr Martin Lee in the Legco: 1. in the Legco on 27 November 1985; 2. Debate on the political reform on 29 June 1994; 3. Debate on the accountability system for principal officials on 29 May 2002.
I write this book because I believe that human beings can only comprehend the present when they understand the past, and they can only make a better future when they learn from previous errors. And I feel compelled to alert the younger generation of the dangers that confront the world today from those obsessed with wealth and power. I hope that all prejudices and evil ambitions can be set aside, and an equal playing field can be created for all nations.
《原野》是曹禺在戲劇創作上的一次新開拓。他用浪漫主義、象徵主義等手法，表現了這個傳奇故事。他沒有更多地描寫農村生活和鬥爭的現實，而是借鑒了傳統戲曲有戲的地方大力渲染，無戲一筆帶過的手法，集中刻畫了仇虎復仇前後的心理活動，把歷史與現實、幻覺與真實結合在一起，寫情，寫戲，把人的生活伸延到鬼的世界，以揭示天上、地下、陽世、陰曹都沒有"公道"和"天理"。《原野》中的人物造型、民俗風情、服飾色彩、都深受民間傳說和戲曲的影響，鮮明，濃烈。
One of the most popular novels of all time, this sparkling comedy of manners features splendidly civilized sparring between Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet, as they play out their spirited courtship in a series of 18th-century drawing-room intrigues.
Fat Wars will give you all the ammunition you need to successfully fight your own battle of the bulge" - Ray Sahelian, M.D. Does this statement hold for the people in Hong Kong? Yes and no, as it depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice the local gourmet food on offer.
"I say Vagina because I want people to respond," says playwright Eve Ensler, creator of the hilarious, disturbing soliloquies in The Vagina Monologues, a book based on her one-woman play. And respond they do--with horror, anger, censure, and sparks of wonder and pleasure. Ensler is on a fervent mission to elevate and celebrate this much mumbled-about body part. She asked hundreds of women of all ages a series of questions about their vaginas (What do you call it? How would you dress it?) that prompt some wondrous answers.
本書吸收了歷代研究《老子》的成果，對《老子》作了詳細的注釋與分析，並加以今譯，對前人的《老子》注疏也給予了評介，書後附錄長沙馬王堆漢墓帛書《老子》甲、乙本的釋文和《老子》校定文以及參考書目等有關資料，是閱讀和研究《老子》的重要參考書。
King of Gesar is a collection of living oral epics sung among the Gesar artists in the high plains of Tibet for over a thousand years. Its tales of heaven and hell, conquest and defeat, love and marriage, celebration and ritual, vividly reflect the social life and collective wisdom of ancient Tibetans. The epic evolves with people and time - over 200 volumes of the epic have been recorded so far. Mr Tsering Puntsok is a leading scholar devoted to preserving the work of a Gesar artist Sang Zhu, and reconstructing its fascinating historical and cultural background. He is author or editor of seven books and over 50 articles and papers on Tibetan culture and ethnic literature. Currently, he dedicates his efforts on the preservation and organization of King Gesar, the worlds longest and last living epic.
Sir David Akers-Jones (Zhong Yat-kit) has been a major figure in the life and government of Hong Kong for many years. In this book he writes with a light and distinctive touch about his life, focusing more on the human than the administrative, but nonetheless providing many insights into the recent history of Hong Kong.
Popular anthropologist Ahmed provides a comprehensive account of Islamic life and religion as manifested today by the widely divergent communities throughout the world. He emphasizes the conflicting ideologies between Islam and the West, and the experience of minorities in Asia and Europe. Includes 31 excellent color plates, but the text is the focus. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or. -- From Book News, Inc.
This major new history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war V the original Opium War. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to open the Celestial Chinese Empire to trade. Working in parallel with the locals, the British built it up to become a focus for investment in the region and an international centre with global shipping, banking and financial interests. Yet by far the most momentous change in the history of this prosperous, capitalist colony was its return in 1997 to 'Mother China', the most powerful Communist state in the world.
"To this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain's most desirable trade commodity, opium - a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the "war on drugs," which lasted roughly sixty years, from 1880 to World War II and the beginning of communism.
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