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No longer the exclusive domain of the wealthy, the specialist, or the enthusiast, today the internet is available to almost anyone who desires to use it and has become an integral part of our everday world. The essays in this volume examine the effect of the online environment on our social lives via three analytical frameworks: fit, link, and position. They address the way in which the internet has become an entrenched part of our personal an...

In the commercial sector, financial statements act as a means of communication between corporations and various internal and external parties. However, reading a financial statement can be like reading a document in a foreign language, with a sea of jargon obscuring the statement's true meaning. Financial Analysis in Hong Kong is a clear, concise reference for analyzing the financial statements of corporations. Based on an in-depth analyses of...

The Yijing has been used as a book of divination for more than three thousand years in China and still is by some people today. In this book the wisdom of leadership within the framework of the Yijing is used to indicate how a leader should act in different situations, be they good or bad. Critical analysis of the 64 hexagrams, the first of its kind, comes across with lucid explanations of the hexagram statements. Reinterpreted in a logical an...

This book includes fifty most widely used Chinese sentence patterns and is specially designed for intermediate learners of Chinese as a foreign language. Each chapter is divided into three parts: sentence examples with Pinyin and English translation, vocabulary, and structural analysis and patterns. An exercise is provided after every four chapters to help learners master the points under discussion.

Advanced Chinese Reader is broadly representative of the baihua or colloquial writings that have appeared in print from the Literary Revolution of 1917 to the present time. There are altogether twenty-nine selections in the book.

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Lin Yutang's essays on Chinese society and culture were written in both Chinese and English and spanned the immensely influential decades of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In this collection of his seminal work, Yutang confronts the rapid cultural developments of the era and the role that a Chinese intellectual must assume as he shares and translates his native country to the West. Known best for introducing "humour" into Chinese literature and ...

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This novel is set in China in the early years of the 20th century as the Qing dynasty crumbled.

Originally published in Japanese by NHK (1997) and immediately translated into Chinese and Korean, this book is a must-read for readers engaged in the fields of art and design. Kohei Sugiura explores the history of a variety of Japanese and Asian forms from cloth patterns to Buddha's hands, from painting to kanji characters, and from the human body to the universe. Richly illustrated, the book captures the beauty of the birth and transformatio...