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Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one's connection with the earth. City gardens are proliferating, and plants can be enjoyed on a rooftop, balcony, terrace or a simple window sill. This book provides help for anyone who wants to know how to grow things in an urban setting. It features several photographs and illustrations.

This is the fifth volume in a series of translations of a Chinese classical novel generally known as "The Water Margin". The action in this volume can be divided into three parts: the campaign against Tian Hu; the campaign against Wang Qing; and the campaign against Fang La.

Examines the Chinese perception of its place in world history, and explores the unique features that propel China onto its modern global trajectory. By bringing these themes together, this depicts the travails of renewal that the Chinese have to face, and betters our understanding of China's position in today's interconnected world.

This book examines traditional Chinese literacy primers in the context of intellectual involvement in elementary education. It analyses the contents of the primers, their underlying philosophical premises, and what they reveal about elite attitudes towards children and childhood.

This constructs a historically informed, multidisciplinary framework to examine how traditional Chinese knowledge systems and grammars of knowledge construction interacted with Western paradigms in the formation and development of modern academic disciplines in China.

Edited by Gilbert Fong, Shelby Chan, Lucas Klein, and Bei Dao, The World of Words set is an extended edition of the single-volume The World of Words. It comprises twenty pocket off-prints encased in a fine paper box, each containing more selected works by one of the internationally renowned poets included in the single volume, accompanied by English and/or Chinese translations.

Views modern Chinese thought as political philosophy; placing it in a sociological context, noting its causal relationship with paideia; examining its historical context by emphasizing the lines of continuity with the Confucian tradition; and exploring its comparative context by describing it as sharing an agenda with and diverging from the leading forms of Western liberalism.

Beginning with an examination of its five founding members during the Yuan/Ming transition period, in particular Sun Fen (1335-1393), David Honey traces the various elements of this Southern Muse that became embodied in later Cantonese poetry, and pursues the issue of social memory by focusing on later reconvenings of the society.

Reveals a variety of sources for Chinese women's history. This book explores overt and covert information on Chinese women in a vast quantity of textual and non-textual, conventional and unconventional, source materials.

Features fifty essays that focus on a period in which modernization and republicanism coexisted within classical Chinese culture. This work provides an introduction that supplies critical literary and historical background on the relationship between xiaopin wen and the May Fourth movement.

Reports upon a longitudinal study of chronic drug abusers in Hong Kong that used an analytical framework consisting of sociological, psychological and treatment variables to explore the protective and risk factors affecting the relapse or abstinence of chronic drug abusers.

Provides the real estate market and the property-related profession with an overall view of the land management system in Hong Kong. This book combines a factual account of the system and how it works in practice with academic and theoretical discussions concerning the application of development appraisal models.

Camel Xiangzi registers a new approach to the representation of China in its absurdist situation. The novel shows Lao She at his best, the work of a mature writer, who excels in his mastery of narrative techniques, as well as his prophetic vision of the future of China.

This work provides information on children with exceptionalities, and ways to help them learn more effectively. It may help readers clarify many of their misunderstandings on special needs education. The contents of this book can be applied to various educational and non-school settings.

The 14 essays presented in this volume examine the diverse ways in which cultural products are shaped and re-shaped in public spaces in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan and some other countries in the Pacific in their continuing encounters with the forces of localism and globalism.