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Macau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China. Harriet Low, a young American, came here in 1829. She wrote a diary that shows her personality and a rich picture of life in Macau. This book focuses on that picture, with extracts from the diary, to create an interesting account of the place and its society.

Macau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China. Harriet Low, a young American, came here in 1829. She wrote a diary that shows her personality and a rich picture of life in Macau. This book focuses on that picture, with extracts from the diary, to create an interesting account of the place and its society.

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Provides a readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. This book sheds fresh light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese business. It is intended for people with little background in China or Chinese business practice. He presents three phases in the development of Chinese business.

Do Chinese voluntary organizations continue to have a role in modern societies enmeshed in a globalizing world that questions continuation of the nation-state and ethnic identity? This book argues that Chinese voluntary organizations continue to play a significant role in both the established and new Chinese communities in the Diaspora.

Provides a readable approach to understanding the development of business in China from 1500 to the 1990s. This book sheds fresh light on the strengths and weaknesses of Chinese business. It is intended for people with little background in China or Chinese business practice. He presents three phases in the development of Chinese business.

Provides an account of the way Chinese books were printed, distributed, and consumed by literati and scholars, in the lower Yangzi delta, the cultural center of China. This book introduces interesting personalities, ranging from wily book collectors to an indigent shoe-repairman collector. It offers an insight into the book culture of this place.

Aims to bridge the gap between the huge multi-author reference books with exhaustive bibliographies, and the handbooks or lecture notes, which are too brief and too concise. Covering the field of nephrology, this book includes information that is useful to the understanding and practice of general nephrology, dialysis, and kidney transplantation.

Examines the economic, social, environmental, infrastructure, institutional and legal issues of developing the Greater Pearl River Delta including Hong Kong and Macao into a competitive region under "One Country, Two Systems". This book provides a review of many aspects of regional development, its economic development, and sustainable growth.

Presents a comprehensive record of amateur sports in Hong Kong. This work, featuring photos, anecdotes and records, tracks Hong Kong's sports pioneers through the early days of club and university sports, to the establishment of the Amateur Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, and eventually to winning gold in the Olympic Games.

Presents monographs and edited collections on Asian social and business history, with attention to the relationships between business, innovation and society in modern Asian countries. This book focuses on the institutional changes within Chinese business to critically delineate the major institutions in the working of Chinese-owned enterprises.

A study of the multilingual circumstances in China. This work tracks policy changes in the learning of Chinese, foreign languages, and minority ethnic languages in China. The effects of political changes, language backgrounds, and various motivations for learning are presented in this story of China and learners in China.

Provides the major topics of China's commercial law. This book uses a comparative approach to the analysis and provides an historical introduction. It discusses the evolution of the law, the factors that continue to shape its development and the directions in which it's evolving. It goes on to discuss the nature and constitution of the companies.

Provides a research-based account of how to teach and learn Chinese as a foreign language. This volume provides information on ways to develop a pedagogical model, suited to teaching Chinese in five key areas: pronunciation (tones and pinyin), characters and words, sentences, discourse and pragmatic competence, and cultural competence.

Describing a research project which built on student's learning experience, this book addresses the issue of individual differences in mainstream primary schools in Hong Kong. It describes the Learning Study model, which stresses on the possible experiences that the student has gone through in their learning process.

The evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and as a Special Administrative Region, has been inextricably intertwined with the situation in China. This relationship is examined through various perspectives in this volume. There are insights on such topics as Hong Kong's society and religion, the development of the New Territories, etc...

Covers the spectrum of HRM practices in relation to their strategic contributions to organizations. This volume provides HRM knowledge and skills with practical guidelines.

This book describes how notions of Chinese identity, culture, and popular film genres have been reinvented and repackaged by major U.S. studios, spurring a surge in Chinese visibility in Hollywood.

This book describes how notions of Chinese identity, culture, and popular film genres have been reinvented and repackaged by major U.S. studios, spurring a surge in Chinese visibility in Hollywood.

Focuses on a crucial internal problem - Hong Kong's post-war road development from 1946.