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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.