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Rapid economic and social transformation in rural China has aroused enormous scholarly interest at home and abroad. This book presents an effort to look into issues relating to the allocation of income, opportunities and assets in a village society; and tries to shed light on the agent and mechanism of resource distribution in the post-reform era.

Deals with the past relationship between Russia and the Chinese Eastern Periphery (Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao). This book contains details on how Russian and Soviet dealings with the China Eastern Periphery were inextricably linked to the broader international relationships among Russia, China, Great Britain, Japan and the United States.

Explores the connections between globalization and its impacts on educational reforms in the 21st century. Drawing upon the experience of a number of experts who have been involved in important educational reforms in countries all over the world, this book offers an insight with regard to coping with the challenges arising from globalization.

Probes into the role of advertising as a form of social communication in Hong Kong. This perceptive analysis, unlike those on a commercial slant, deals with advertising and the broader legal, cultural, and socio-economic contexts in which it takes place.

The impact of physical activity and urban living in childhood are stretched into adulthood - this saying is almost commonsensical, but seems to lack unambiguous research evidence. This book attempts to fill the gap and provide research constructs. The statement emerged from this anthology reflects a view that is universal and distinctive.

A biography on Zhou Enlai, one of the most important and yet debatable political figures in the Chinese Communist Party. This work provides an analysis on the complex personality and controversial actions of Zhou, both as a person and a leader of the CCP.

This book forms a comprehensive and current account of Hong Kong's curriculum development, implementation and interpretation. Tailor-made to the situation of Hong Kong, the book sheds light on the pressure for change and reform. The Hong Kong experience may offer insights to those who care for education in any changing cities.

A study of kinship structures as embedded in the social and cultural history of a river valley in central coastal Fujian province from the 9th through 13th centuries. The thesis of this monograph is that cultural innovation challenges paradigm that distinguishes the link between locality and the elite in the Northern and Southern Song.

The teaching kit is designed and written by local music experts and educators to encourage the learning and appreciation of 20th century music among students in Hong Kong. It consists of 15 modules supported by a selection of musical examples and a list of recommended recordings, all by renowned composers, for listening.

Combines the latest local and international guidelines for management of diabetes, consisting of data based on local research, with the aim of providing a quick reference for health care personnel involved in the management of diabetes mellitus with emphasis upon Type 2 diabetes.

A factual account of the course of the ten-year Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry, based on documents issued during the Cultural Revolution, talks by Zhou Enlai and Chen Yi, and the manuscripts of those concerned, as well as interviews with Foreign Ministry staff members who took part in the events.

These essays deal with various selected reform issues confronted by the four developed Asian economies of Japan, Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. The areas of reform covered range from human resource management, financial management and pay reform, to central agency role, service improvements, private sector involvement and political accountability.

Addresses the political, cultural and pedagogical issues of English in the age of globalization, this book not only presents valuable information about the English language in Hong Kong and China, it also treats theoretical concepts related to language and globalization and opens new perspectives on these issues.

This is a study of the author's Chinese translation of ""Yes Prime Minister"". It concludes that the translated text is over-determined by factors besides the source text: socio-political conditions, literary and translation traditions, and the translator's poetics and ideology. The findings are brought to bear on a number of translation theories.

With the development of politics, economy, science and technology, culture, etc., new words and terms emerge, and new uses of existing words and terms evolve everyday. This makes a new dictionary that can reflect these changes necessary, hence the publication of this Zhongda Chinese-English Dictionary

This book is a report of a 2-year web-based teaching project called Multimedia English Learning Web. It demonstrates the use of information technology on English language teaching. A CD-ROM accompanies the book to demonstrate the system design of the web-based project.

This volume aims to study preparations for China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the part of the Guangdong provincial government, local governments, enterprises and individuals.

The story of a group of men who called themselves ""heroin-coffin"", a story of ascension from the styxian shore of heroin addiction to a new-found heaven in a Christian brotherhood. The research study which gives rise to this story raises the question of the apparent antagonism between science and religion.

China has the largest child population in the world. This book provides answers to various questions and draws conclusions about Chinese children as a market and its implications for advertisers and marketers, parents, policy makers and social groups.

This work uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China's complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It puts into critical context versions of both Western and Chinese liberalism, Confucian humanism and various versions of Chinese Marxism.

This book explores the cultural traditions of Cantonese villagers who first settled in South China's Pearl River Delta during the Tang and Song dynasties (10th to 12th centuries). The authors lived and worked in the New Territories, Hong Kong's rural hinterland, during the 1960s and 1970s.

In this unusual and varied birthday book (a Festschrift with a difference), over forty of David Hawkes friends, students, colleagues and admirers from all over the world have come together to wish him a happy birthday, and to celebrate the man, and his scholarly and creative achievements.

This study of Sung Chinese historical consciousness presents ""new and multiple"" as the key ideas for interpretation. The essays show that there were developments in Sung senses of the past and Sung historiography: from conservatism to historical analogy to new worldviews.

Listing over 20,000 terms commonly used in food science, with their Chinese equivalents, this work is intended as a useful reference covering subjects such as biotechnology, environmental protection, organic and natural food nutrition.

This adaptation, made with a view to a sung, staged production, of the 13th-century zaju play ""Liu Yi Chuan Shu"" is based on a failed examination candidate's encounter with a shepherdess in distress who turns out to be the daughter of the Dragon King of Lake Dongting.