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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.

A collection of critical studies on various aspects of Gao Xingjian's novels and plays. The contributors include scholars in the fields of comparative literature, theatre and Chinese studies, whose views form a critical dialogue on the writer's achievements in literature and the theatre.

This textbook is designed for students of Chinese as a second/foreign language who have had three years of study at college. Focusing on topics of international business and foreign trade, the book offers advanced training in vocabulary, grammar, and rhetoric.

A collection of over 3000 commonly-used colloquial expressions in Cantonese, with English translations. Each entry presents the expression in Chinese characters with its literal translation in English, its phonetic transcription in the Yale Romanization System, and a description of its meaning.

This work is a continuation of the authors' earlier publication, ""The China Miracle: Development Strategy and Economic Reform"". The authors review the historical evolution of the state-owned enterprises, analyze the current problems, and suggest the direction for future reforms.

Ibsen has often been considered as the most important source, besides Goethe, of Western influence in modern Chinese literary thinking and remains influential in both the modern Chinese theatre and the Chinese women's movement. This bibliography charts how modern Chinese culture has developed.

A celebration of Hong Kong, marking the transfer of sovereignty from Britain to China. It focuses on the environment and lifestyles of Hong Kong, featuring over 400 photographs capturing aspects of Hong Kong life, and the thoughts of 1000 people who were asked what Hong Kong means to them.