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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.

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.

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.

A standard reference on Sonq dynasty music, this book surveys the theoretical and practical treatises on music, the historical and encyclopaedic compilations, the song collections, and various other related materials.

This book is a chronicle of a bicultural woman, Ida Pruitt, who was born in the 19th century of American missionaries, raised in a small Chinese village and lived in her adopted country for fifty years. She brought an almost unique perspective to her oral history, A Daughter of Han: The Autobiography of a Chinese Working Woman.

This work aims to provide readers with a simple explanation of the fundamental principles of the sciences of pharmacology, therapeutics and toxicology. It sketches the history of drug treatment from traditional therapy with mainly herbal preparations to today's explosion of synthetic drugs.

This is the first part of a Putonghua textbook which comes in two volumes and covers elementary through high intermediate levels, pitching at a maturity of the university level learners and beyond. It features structural explanations and communicative exercises.

This work examines in a fresh light the authors and audiences of 20th-century Chinese literature, especially fiction. The book also includes substantial reference to poetry, drama, film and the visual arts as well as to the political and social context in which they appear.

This study, which has been conducted in the spirit of a symbologically inclined anthropology, explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradition - the celebration of the New Year in a lunar calendar of very ancient origins.

Sze-yuen Chung was closely and actively involved in the entire process of transferring Hong Kong's sovereignty back to China. These memoirs record his personal experiences in Hong Kong's political scene in the two decades between 1979 and 1999.