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In this ground-breaking, posthumous study, the late Lo Jung-pang discusses the geographic, political, and commercial factors that led to the emergence of seapower and a navy under the Ming. While Zheng He and his seven expeditions have received some scholarly attention, few understand the long history of maritime engagement which provided the nautical and technical background for these voyages. The evolution of this maritime engagement and its extension into the Indian Ocean is the focus of Lo’s still-timely and highly significant work.

Empire in the Western Ocean represents the most comprehensive and insightful English-language treatment to date of the evolution and activities of the early Ming navy. Moreover, it encourages further inquiry into contemporary questions of China’s maritime aspirations.

This book is written by practitioners and experts with day to day experience to support the work of managers, engineers and administrators in the protection of the environment. The current terminology in environmental management and technology has been compiled both in English and in Chinese. Both specialists and laymen will profit from this glossary that reflects the modern state-of-the-art. It will also help to promote better communication and understanding in technology transfer to Chinese speaking countries.

The glossary includes over one thousand terms on various aspects of environmental management: analysis, biology, ecology, management, legislation, and pollution control technology for air, water and wastes. The focus of the glossary is on environmental protection as part of sustainable development. To make the glossary complete, terms on noise protection and safety management are also included. Background information are also provided wherever needed.

This book is written by practitioners and experts with day to day experience to support the work of managers, engineers and administrators in the protection of the environment. The current terminology in environmental management and technology has been compiled both in English and in Chinese. Both specialists and laymen will profit from this glossary that reflects the modern state-of-the-art. It will also help to promote better communication and understanding in technology transfer to Chinese speaking countries.

The glossary includes over one thousand terms on various aspects of environmental management: analysis, biology, ecology, management, legislation, and pollution control technology for air, water and wastes. The focus of the glossary is on environmental protection as part of sustainable development. To make the glossary complete, terms on noise protection and safety management are also included. Background information are also provided wherever needed.

The food plants of an area provide the material basis for the survival of its population, and furnish inspiring stimuli for cultural development.

There are two parts in this book. Part 1 introduces the cultural aspects of Chinese food plants and the spread of Chinese culinary culture to the world. It also describes how the botanical and cultural information was acquired; what plants have been selected by the Chinese people for food; how these foodstuffs are produced, preserved, and prepared; and what the western societies can learn from Chinese practices. Part 2 provides the botanical identification of the plant kingdom for the esculents used in China as food and/or as beverage. The plants are illustrated with line drawings or composite photographic plates.

This book is useful not only as a text for general reading, but also as a work reference. Naturally, it would be a useful addition to the general collection of any library.

Form Follows Fever is the first in-depth account of the turbulent years of initial urban settlement and growth of colonial Hong Kong across the 1840s. During this period, the island gained a terrible reputation as a diseased and deadly location. Malaria, then perceived as a mysterious vapor or miasma, intermittently carried off settlers by the hundreds. Various attempts to arrest its effects acted as a catalyst, reconfiguring both the city’s physical and political landscape, though not necessarily for the better.


The study draws upon many hitherto unpublished textual sources, including medical reports, personal diaries and letters, government records, journal accounts, newspaper articles, and advertisements. As this history is set a decade before the introduction of photography to the colony, the book relies upon a variety of alternate visual evidence—from previously lost watercolor illustrations of the city to maps, plans, and drawings—that individually and in combination provide trace material enabling the reconstruction of this strange and rapidly evolving society.

Mingsha, which literally means "famous mountains", refers to a group of mountains in China that have been set apart for special veneration since ancient times. Over the centuries, the "famous mountains" as a conceptual term has been continually (re)invented, (re)framed and (re)appropriated by different ideological systems. Treating landscape painting as yet another framing system, in both the symbolic and material sense, this book examines sixteenth-century paintings of famous mountains by three major artists in the light of a diachronic account of the evolution of famous mountains over time and a synchronic account of the vogue for the grand tour in late Ming society.

The author adopts a cultural approach in describing the significance of paintings of famous mountains in late Ming and delves into the cultural imagery of famous mountains and their pictorial representation and artistic presentation. This book helps the reader understand Chinese landscape painting from a new and refreshing perspective.

This book investigates the psychological changes that take place after Christian conversion in chronic heroin-addicted individuals attending a religious programme. Drawing on the data collected in the programme, the author throws light upon questions regarding drug addiction and rehabilitation, religion and healing, and religious conversion in a Christian context.

This is a practical book written in a concise yet scholarly fashion, and it is suitable for religious organization, social welfare/services policy maker, front-line helping professionals, and social work/psychology students in general.

In this book, Professor Fanny Cheung shares her inspiring journey as a psychologist, academic leader, and champion of gender equality. Growing up in a traditional Hong Kong family, she recognized early injustices against women and dedicated her life to change.
Pioneering gender studies in Asia and leading the Equal Opportunities Commission, she fought discrimination, domestic violence, and gender bias in policy and research. Her leadership reshaped academia and public policy through consensus-building and quiet determination, leaving a legacy of empowerment.
Blending personal memoir with social history, Cheung’s story is one of resilience, intellect, and unwavering commitment to justice. Her groundbreaking work in psychology and gender studies not only transformed Hong Kong but also resonated globally, inspiring future generations of women leaders. This memoir is a testament to the power of advocacy and the quiet strength of those who dare to make a difference.

The coronavirus pandemic that broke out in 2019 has finally calmed down in China, after the bungling occasioned by the iron hand of lockdown. But beginning in March 2020, the disaster spread abroad, and at present there is no end in sight. Discussions of the changes the pandemic brings to the world, and how “plagues change history,” are a hot topic everywhere.

In this book, Prof. Qin Hui offers a stunning reflection on the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on political institutions, which are well worth pondering for both China and the West. China, with its “low human rights advantage,” has achieved success in imposing coercive lockdowns that got the virus under control after the disastrous outbreak in Wuhan, but it will be a challenge to prevent the normalization of emergency measures from worsening human right conditions in normal times. The West, handicapped by its “high human rights (dis)advantage,” must learn how a democracy can efficiently enter a state of emergency and put an end to these measures at the proper time.

Grotto Art of China: A Sourcebook traces the origins of this unique art form from the Indian subcontinent to its monumental flowering in China, offering a comprehensive look at the artistic, religious, and historical narratives of these sacred sites.

This volume brings together contributions from leading international scholars, providing systematic studies of major cave complexes—such as Dunhuang’s Mogao Grottoes, Yungang, Longmen, and Xiangtangshan—alongside lesser-known regional sites. Organized geographically, the book traces the evolution of cave art from its origins in early Indian Buddhist practice to its adaptation in China, where it became a medium for devotion, political authority, and cultural exchange. The book explores a range of topics, including how rulers like the Northern Wei and Tang dynasties sponsored colossal Buddha images, the distinctive artistic styles and techniques across regions like Xinjiang, Gansu, and Shandong, the role of caves in Buddhist worship, and the modern-day challenges of preservation and loss.
Rigorously researched and thoughtfully curated, Grotto Art of China serves as an indispensable reference for researchers, students, and travelers. It offers new insights into the spiritual, historical, and artistic dimensions of a tradition that bridged cultures, faiths, and empires.

This volume aims to study preparations for China's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the part of the Guangdong provincial government, local governments, enterprises and individuals; examine the opportunities available for Guangdong and its comparative advantage relative to other provinces, as perceived by different segments of the population; analyse anticipated problems due to China's entry into the WTO; and critically assess Guangdong's preparations to meet the challenges and to make adjustments in its development strategy.

Given the spectacular economic growth of Guangdong and its importance to Hong Kong, this volume not only will be a useful reference for academics, business executives, government officials, journalists, and other professionals whose work is related to the province, but should also be of interest to the general public who follows developments in China and Hong Kong.

The development of Western medicine in Hong Kong to its current sophisticated state over more than 150 years is a fascinating story. And this book tells the above history from a special perspective—the personalities responsible for this remarkable achievement.
These individuals, spanning over a period of over 150 years, comprised doctors in government public medical and health services who advocated new initiatives and laid the infrastructure; those who established health policies, and moved the health system forward; the medical educators who trained the medical workforce and generated new medical knowledge through their research; practising doctors, who not only delivered medical care but also offered their free services in education and social welfare; and pioneer female doctors before and after World War II who struggled their ways to the medical world and shined on their own specialties. The story of each doctor in this book is narrated in the context of the complex political, social, and economic backdrop of his/her time.
While these doctors from diverse backgrounds lived in different eras and engaged in different branches of medicine, they were strikingly similar in several aspects: their dedication to serving the community and their tireless labor to achieve their aim at times under adverse conditions, leaving their mark in the history of medicine in Hong Kong.

The book covers the major areas of Hong Kong taxation—profits tax, salaries tax, property tax, personal assessment and stamp duty. It also includes a chapter giving a general overview of international tax issues and how they pertain to Hong Kong. This issue also contains general observations on the final reports issued in 2015 on the G20 and OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project.

The book explains the principles and practice of Hong Kong taxation law with relevant Court and Board of Review decisions and contains numerous practical examples. The current edition includes legislative changes to 30 June 2016, the latest developments in Hong Kong taxation including the introduction of a Corporate Treasury Centre regime and the ongoing implementation of the global standard of Automatic Exchange of Information, and other tax transparency initiatives. A new chapter has also been included that examines the taxation of special entities such as partnerships.

This book covers the major areas of Hong Kong taxation—Property Tax, Salaries Tax, Profits Tax, Personal Assessment, and Stamp Duty. It explains the principles and practice of taxation law through relevant tax cases, Board of Review decisions, and numerous practical examples. The current edition includes the 2011-12 budget changes and latest developments in taxation. An added chapter focuses exclusively on international tax issues and a new section examines Hong Kong taxation issues for Mainland investors in Hong Kong.

Experienced tax professionals at KPMG update this standard resource annually, an international network of member firms offering audit, tax, and advisory services.The text is written in a clear and concise manner, with technical jargon is kept to a minimum. Its strongest feature is its quick and easy-to-use index of significant court cases, Board of Review decisions, and relevant sections of the Inland Revenue Ordinance, Inland Revenue Rule, and Stamp Duty Ordinance.

This book covers the major areas of Hong Kong taxation—profits tax, salaries tax, property tax, personal assessment, and stamp duty, as well as a general overview of international tax issues and how they pertain to Hong Kong.

The book explains the principles and practice of Hong Kong taxation law together with the relevant Court and Board of Review decisions and contains numerous practical examples. The new edition includes legislative changes up to 31 July 2018 as well as the latest developments pertaining to the OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project and the proposed measures to be adopted by Hong Kong.

Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 2011-12 Edition is a comprehensive yet practical guide to the tax system of Hong Kong. The book helps explain the three main types of taxes in Hong Kong, namely Property Tax, Salaries Tax and Profits Tax, and includes all related information dealing with the administration, assessment and collection of these taxes as well. Written in a clear and easy-to-understand format with real-life examples and case studies, this popular resource continues to be the standard text for up-to-date information on Hong Kong taxation law for students, investors, and business people. This revised edition covers all changes up to July 2011.
Ayesha Macpherson is the Partner in charge of tax services, Hong Kong SAR, KPMG China. She started her career with KPMG in London before joining KPMG in Hong Kong in 1993. Ms Macpherson is a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. She is the Chairperson of the Taxation Committee of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Ms Macpherson is a regular speaker on tax matters. Garry Laird, Bachelor of Economics (University of Tasmania), is a senior tax advisor with KPMG. Prior to joining KPMG he was a tax specialist for over thirty five years, initially with the Australian Taxation Office before joining the Inland Revenue Department (IRD) in Hong Kong. His responsibilities with the IRD included preparing Departmental Interpretation and Practice Notes, examining advance clearance applications, negotiating double taxation agreements and assisting in the introduction of new tax legislation.

This work offers the most comprehensive account of the origin and consequences of the Yan’an Rectification Movement from 1942 to 1945. The author argues that this campaign emancipated the Chinese Communist Party from Soviet-influenced dogmatism and unified the Party, preparing it for the final victory against the Nationalist Party in 1949. More importantly, this monograph shows in great detail how Mao Zedong established his leadership through this party-wide political movement by means of aggressive intraparty purges, thought control, coercive cadre examinations, and total reorganizations of the Party’s upper structure. The result of this movement not only set up the foundation for Mao’s new China, but also deeply influenced the Chinese political structure today.

The Chinese version of How the Red Sun Rose was published in 2000, and has had twenty-two printings since then.

Until the present day, Mao Zedong’s biography has been the subject of an international mountain of commentary in China and elsewhere. Biographies praising Mao and those slandering him are all based on the American journalist Edgar Snow’s (1905–1972) account in Red Star over China for the route Mao traveled from early childhood through his youth.

How the “Red Star” Rose introduces the image of Mao and the biographical information made known to the world through the publication of Red Star, and with its publication the circumstances which they fundamentally undermined. There is no reason that Mao Zedong the person himself would completely change by virtue of the publication of Red Star. However, the external image surrounding him did completely change from before.

Ishikawa uses Mao Zedong as raw material to examine from whence and how ordinary historical information and images which we habitually use unconsciously come into being. He desires to help readers to reconsider the historicity of the generation of not only Mao’s image but of that of “historical materials.”

This book also examines the situation prevailing after the collection of data and publication of Red Star which played the definitive role in generating Mao’s image and will investigate the various editions of Red Star in English, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese.

Since China undertook economic reform and opened its economy to the world in late 1970s, its economic growth was historically unprecedented in terms of both speed and longevity. No other economy in recorded history has grown at as high a rate and for as long a period as China has done. The questions that naturally arise are: was the Chinese economy a miracle? Or was it a mere bubble? Will the Chinese economy begin to stagnate like the Japanese economy did in the 1990s, and perhaps decline? Will it be able to escape the “middle-income trap”? If it is not a miracle, can the Chinese development experience be replicated elsewhere?

This collected volume of Professor Lawrence J. Lau’s papers provides a comprehensive and detailed discussion of the remarkable growth of the Chinese economy over the past decades, by scrutinizing the sources of economic growth, and evaluating the strategies adopted by the Chinese government to promote the transition from a centrally planned economy to a market-based economy by means of “dual-track” approach. It is argued that, while the Chinese economy is unique and exceptional in many ways, its development experience can be explained and attributed.

Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary, and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages of keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture.

The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and historical texts of the Warring States period (453–221 BCE) to late imperial (ca. 16th–18th centuries CE) literature and philosophy. They are guided by a similar set of questions: What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What sort of resonance and reverberations do we expect a keyword to have? How much does the semantic range of a keyword explain its significance? What kinds of arguments does it generate? What are the stories told to illustrate its meanings? What are political and intellectual implications of the keyword’s reevaluation? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages?

Throughout Chinese history, new ideas and new approaches often mean reinterpreting important words; rupture, continuities, and inflection points are inseparable from the linguistic history of specific terms. The premise of this book is that taking the long view and encompassing different disciplines yield new insights and unexpected connections. The authors, who come from the fields of history, philosophy, and literature, explore keywords in different genres and illuminate their multiple dimensions in various contexts. Moreover, despite their different temporal focus, they take into consideration the development of selected keywords from the Warring States to the late imperial period, sometimes adding excurses that extend to contemporary usage.

This book focuses on Lam Woo, a highly successful Chinese building contractor whose company was based in Hong Kong at the beginning of the twentieth century. It is also about the marginal group of people he exemplifies, those who joined the Chinese diaspora because of poverty and political turmoil and were later driven back home because of discrimination and other difficulties. This book provides a window onto the socio-political conditions in Hong Kong leading up to the 1911 revolution that established the Republic of China and the following two decades. In studying Lam Woo's life and family, we catch a glimpse of the lives of a unique segment of the Hong Kong Chinese community—namely, the educated, westernized Chinese, mainly Christians, some of whom supported the revolution to overthrow the Qing dynasty.

Chan draws on rich archival sources and historical photographs to illustrate the life of a man who was a pioneer builder of majestic heritage buildings throughout Hong Kong such as St. Paul's Church, St. Paul's Coeducational College, the Diocesan Boys' School, and St. Stephen's College, all of which remain in use today. Lam Woo's efforts in rebuilding the port facilities and docks helped the colony's transformation into a glamorous international port. The book also discusses how Lam Woo's contributions to the building of roads and bridges linked different parts of the territory with mainland China. In the later part of the book, the author highlights how Lam Woo, a devout Anglican, contributed to the expansion of the Chinese Anglican Church community. As one of the founders of St. Paul's Church, he promoted the establishment of the Hong Kong YMCA, with its emphasis on character training in "the development of body, mind, and spirit" for young people. The book emphasizes that his most lasting legacy for Hong Kong and his native Guangzhou was through his philanthropic activities in education. Lam Woo supported education for girls and founded St. Paul's Girls' School, the forerunner of the notable St. Paul's Co-educational College, founded a primary and a secondary school in his native village, and donated extensively to Lingnan University.

This is an authentic history of a Chinese female poet, He Shuangqing. She lived at a time when people regarded men as superior to women. However, she was fortunate to have some scholar acquaintances who were open-minded. They spurned the traditional attitude towards her sex and showed their appreciation of her poems and her attitude towards life. One of the scholars, Shi Zhenlin, wrote down and recorded her life and poetry in his book Xiqing sanji (West Green Random Notes) so that her poems could be read by more people. Leaves of Prayer is a translation of Xiqing sanji.

Part 1 gives an introduction to Shi Zhenlin's Xiqing sanji and He Shuangqing, the poet. Part 2 is a translation of Xiqing sanji which narrates the vicissitudes of He Shuangqing's life. Part 3 lists the poems of He Shuangqing with their originals written in Chinese calligraphy.

This volume is a translated and edited collection of studies on the Shi ji (Records of the Historian) by Sima Qian, authored by the prestigious Japanese sinologist Miyazaki Ichisada. Providing a pathbreaking analysis of the structure and formation of the Shi ji, it serves not only as an excellent introduction to Sima Qian’s masterpiece but also offers historiographical and methodological insights that will stimulate further debate and research.
Miyazaki presents fascinating evidence of the role played by narrative fiction and drama in Sima Qian’s recreation of the entire length and breadth of Chinese history right up to his own time. Sima Qian created the mold for writing comprehensive histories in China, making an understanding of his text utterly essential for grasping the subsequent tradition of historical writing. This volume offers readers valuable insights into how Sima Qian constructed his seminal work.

This is an adaptation of the thirteenth-century zaju play Liu Yi Chuan Shu, which was itself based on an eighth-century fairy tale about a failed examination candidate's encounter with a shepherdess in distress who turns out to be the youngest daughter of the Dragon King of Lake Dongting. The young man's help is rewarded with riches, immortality and marriage to the beautiful princess. It is a wish-fulfillment fantasy written with charm and a certain ironical edge.

This adaptation consists of the freely-translated lyrics of the zaju with new, original dialogue, including an on-stage narrator. There is a long introduction with synopses of the Chinese text of the zaju and the original story it was based on. There is also an appendix explaining the use of "padding words" in zaju.