Böcker utgivna av The Chinese University Press

A memoir of Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literature. It portrays Yang Xianyi as a light-hearted and mischievous young man who immersed himself in the learning of European culture, ancient and modern, when he studied at Oxford in the 1930s.

Demonstrates that a study of individual key terms can reveal social and cultural values and provides a linear history of the increase in critical use of qi as ""originality"" from the fifth through the seventeenth centuries, exploring what originality looks like in artworks by members of the gentry elite and commoner classes.

Explores the turbulent rift that forced the author from his family. This groundbreaking memoir covers Kao's time as a professor and Vice Chancellor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong up until 2009 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Summarizes and integrates the data in English and Chinese, on the psychological functioning of the Chinese people. This book also provides a cross-cultural comparative perspective on the data. It contains topics that include socialization, perception, cognition, personality, psychopathology, social behavior, and organization.

Long before the Europeans reached the east, the ancient Chinese had advanced their perspectives of the west. In this groundbreaking book, Wang explores a fascinating perspective of the Other. He locates the Other in the alternating directionologies of classical and imperial China, leading the reader into a long history of Chinese geo-cosmologies and world-scapes.

Serves as a reference guide to everyday Cantonese conversation in Hong Kong. This book of Cantonese idioms provides coverage of over 1,800 entries of the most commonly-used Cantonese colloquial expressions. Entries are grouped under ten different categories, with an index for ease of reference.

Presents a study of the major events and publications in the world of translation in China and the West from its beginning in the legendary period to 2004, with special reference to works published in Chinese and English. This book covers a total of 72 countries/places and 1,000 works.

This collection carries some of Xiao Hong's most famous short stories such as ""On the Oxcart"", ""Spring in a Small Town"", ""The Family Outsider"", ""Flight from Danger"", ""Vague Expectations"", ""Hands"" and ""The Bridge"".

This is a collection of papers by experts on the theory and practice of values education in global contexts. Issues in Australia, Hong Kong, Macau, Thailand and the UK are discussed.

An English translation of the complete work and the first bilingual version in any European language. It is one of the small number of key texts surviving from the first flowering of Chinese philosophy during the Warring States period.

Designed to help social science students improve their writing for academic purposes, this book should also be useful for students studying other disciplines.

Designed for those who have studied Modern Chinese, but who have had no exposure to Classical Chinese before, this work is a set of two volumes: the reader itself and a workbook. This reader includes forty lessons in total, covering selected readings from ancient fables, philosophical texts, as well as historical and literary writings.

A collection of seven case studies which treat different aspects of political and ritual legitimation in China and Europe over the past two millennia. With focus on the analysis of crisis and change, this book's concern is how rulers and states work to produce a political consensus accepting their rule, an important issue in world history.

This is a set of course materials for teaching Chinese to beginners. It includes two textbooks, one in Pinyin and one in Chinese, both with English translations; a workbook; a set of flash cards showing the proper strokes of 100 Chinese characters taught in the lessons; and a CD-Rom containing interactive tutorial materials.

Offers medical students with some basic principles of diagnosis and management, medico-legal pitfalls and roles of evidence in primary care. Using practical examples, this book describes the mental process of arriving at a clinical diagnosis, with emphasis on important signs or symptoms and investigations to look out for.