From Chinese Cosmology to English Romanticism explores the intricate early-modern English and European reception of the Chinese monistic idea tianren heyi or humanity’s unity with heaven via the Chinese rites controversy, the philosophical innovation of Spinoza, the transformation of English garden layout, and the poetic revolution of Coleridge and Wordsworth. ================== “Yu Liu offers a groundbreaking analysis of cross-cultural exchange by exploring the influence of Chinese philosophical traditions on English art, gardening, and literature up to the Romantic period . . . A must-read for scholars interested in Anglo-Chinese relations between 1600 and 1830.”—Robert Markley, W. D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “In this deeply learned study, Yu Liu traces a ‘relay of ideas’ that made their way from Chinese philosophy to Western Romanticism, transformed along the way in Spinoza’s thought and in theories of Englis
How do public markets, as ordinary as they seem, carry the weight of a city’s history? How do sucheveryday buildings reflect a city’s changing political, social, and economic needs, through their yearslong transformations in forms, functions, and management? Integrating architecture and history, this book invites readers to go through the growth and governance of colonial Hong Kong by tracing the past and present of public markets as a study of extensive firsthand historical materials. As the readers witness the changes in Hong Kong markets from hawker pitches to classical market halls to clean modernist municipal complexes, the book offers a new perspective of understanding the familiar everyday markets with historical contexts possibly unfamiliar to most, studying markets as a microcosm of the city and a capsule of its history. -------------- This book is a robust and in-depth study of the market building history of Hong Kong since the 1840s and contributes to a holistic un
Voice Therapy for Children is a bilingual instructional manual that aims to maximize speech therapy students’ and clinicians’ competence, knowledge, and effectiveness in managing pediatric voice caseloads. This is a unique text that goes beyond general descriptions of therapeutic technique and physiologic principles.Designed to serve Cantonese- and English-speaking children, this manual provides a clear and systematic overview of practical issues and clinical tips, laying out the steps and criteria for therapy programs. With detailed instructions for each voice therapy session, clinicians will find answers to questions such as How can children be kept engaged in voice therapy?How can clinicians facilitate learning and performance of voicing techniques?How can age-appropriate practice stimuli and games be selected?This manual contains detailed instructions for each voice therapy session and ready-to-use clinical materials, including picture cards for eliciting stimulus and record forms
This edited volume is intended to showcase the breadth and depth of the collaborative intellectual enterprise that the Asian Barometer Survey (ABS) network has built up over the past two decades. To commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the ABS, we invited ABS partners to contribute their intellectual findings to this edited volume. Except for the introduction, this volume consists of twenty-seven chapters divided into two sections. The first part of the book contains eleven chapters that are based on previously published studies and are updated based on the latest ABS data. The second part of the book focuses on issues specific to each country or autonomous territory and consists of sixteen chapters. Among the topics discussed are potential threats to third-wave democracies, evolving ideology in one-party states, cases of denied democracy, and peculiar challenges faced by long-term democracies. The contributors are the indispensable partners that have made the ABS possible over the
The introduction of elections to district advisory bodies during the early 1980s was expected to improve the public delivery of services. However, as time passed, electoral politics led to party politics, elite fragmentation and political struggles. Politicization and hyper-politicization in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region has brought about a fluctuating pattern between administrative recentralization, the Tsang administration’s attempts at decentralization, and the post-2019 administrative recentralization.The purpose of this book is to study the intertwining relationship between district administration and electoral politics. It also examines the political transformation of District Councils after the promulgation of the National Security Law in late June 2020. Written by experts in the field, this book is a good reference source for readers interested in district elections, politics, and administration in Hong Kong.
《香港廟宇碑刻志》全面收錄香港地區(香港島、九龍、新界和離島)現存的華人廟宇及可考之碑刻,上溯南宋(1274年),下迄現今(2021年),既展現出千百年來香港廟宇碑刻文獻的豐富性,也反映了本地神明、宗教信仰的發展。全書以廟宇為單元,「以廟帶碑」,共收錄廟宇130座、碑刻455通。除原碑文獻外,本書還大量收錄實地拍攝所得的廟貌、碑圖、神像、文物等珍貴圖像,極具歷史價值,體現了傳承至今的廟宇文化在現世生活的生命力。廟宇是不同族群歷史的載體,更與當今社會生活息息相關。透過整合碑刻、圖像、文獻記載等資料,本書不但全面展現香港華人廟宇、宗教的面貌與發展脈絡,更作為香港社會的側寫,揭示地域、族群、社區在這片土地上的變遷。---------------這套三冊的巨著對促進我們認識香港地方宗教傳統,作出重大貢獻。通過深入的實地考察,並配以上千張生動的照片,黎教授詳實記錄了455通廟宇碑刻,並從多角度展示了本地祭祀傳統的種種面貌。對華南社會史感興趣的讀者而言,本書更是不容錯過。——華琛(James L. Watson),哈佛大學人類學系榮休講座教授本書在前人基礎上,實地調查補正,當為目前最為完備之香港地方廟宇碑刻志,為各廟宇留存良好的史料,日後縱使廟宇重建亦不虞史料丟失。——李豐楙,中央研究院院士、國立政治大學宗教研究所名譽講座教授學者對於文物保存最有效的貢獻莫過於記錄與研究,本書正正為這一工作提供了重要而堅實的基礎,也將會推進學界對於香港碑刻文獻的重視。——科大衛(David Faure),香港中文大學歷史系榮休教授本書可稱得上香港廟宇信息的精煉典藏。每座廟宇都有自己的故事,不僅見證香港社區的發展,也積極參與了城市變化的過程。本書將本地廟宇歷史置於香港發展的宏觀背景下審視,既似一份地圖,也是一部編年史。黎教授和他的團隊試圖保留的,正是這樣一種了解香港的方式。——陳金樑,香港中文大學常務副校長、利榮森中國文化教授本書使碑刻與廟宇研究有機結合,不但拓展香港地方廟宇的研究視野,更具有認識論與方法論意義,為未來香港古蹟和宗教研究發揮了重要的示範作用。——鄭振滿,廈門大學歷史系教授、民間歷史文獻研究中心主任
The Guodian manuscripts are a cache of literary and philosophical texts from the fourth century BCE, discovered in a Warring States–period tomb in China’s Hubei Province. Through detailed decipherment and textual analysis, Kuan-yun Huang investigates the historical and philosophical contexts of these texts and convincingly proposes their association with Zisi, the grandson of Confucius. Huang not only offers an in-depth portrait of this famous scion from excavated texts and transmitted literary records, but also reveals the connection of the Guodian texts with early intellectual tradition in China, including the teachings of Xunzi, Mencius, Confucius, and the legendary Laozi, as well as the effort of rewriting that transformed Zisi’s original teachings into a conformist line of thinking, which defined and constituted the Confucian tradition of a later time.-------------- In Kuan-yun Huang’s The Lost Texts of Confucius’ Grandson, the shadowy figure of Zisi comes to life as an
Kaho Yu’s China’s Energy Security in the Twenty-First Century: The Role of Global Governance and Climate Change explores the evolution of China’s energy security from its bilateral going-out strategy to its more multilateral Belt and Road Initiative. By analysing the topic from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book examines China’s evolving role in global energy governance through four empirical case studies: China’s energy cooperation with Russia and Central Asia, Africa, the European Union, and the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.