Hong Kong Future Pioneers 2015
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Hong Kong Future Pioneers 2015
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Author : Hong Kong Future Pioneers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Hong Kong Future Pioneers 2015 written by Hong Kong Future Pioneers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Youth categories.
Hong Kong Future Pioneers 2017
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Author : Hong Kong Future Pioneers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Hong Kong Future Pioneers 2017 written by Hong Kong Future Pioneers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Youth categories.
Studying Hong Kong 20 Years Of Political Economic And Social Developments
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Author : Kong Tuan Yuen
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2018-04-27
Studying Hong Kong 20 Years Of Political Economic And Social Developments written by Kong Tuan Yuen and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-27 with Social Science categories.
This book captures the essence of Hong Kong's development in the past two decades from 1997 to 2017. It is broken into four parts -- economics, society, politics and culture. Hong Kong's role remains as a gateway for global trading houses, businessmen, investors and traders. Hong Kong continues to be an open economy and has stuck to free trade policies, as one of the former four successful "tiger economies" in East Asia. In the political and international relations realm, this book examines Hong Kong's relations with China, other major powers and the world at large. It also covers domestic developments, including legal developments. Other chapters in the book examine cultural developments in Hong Kong from specific case studies of iconic animation character to trans-boundary popularity of Hong Kong popular culture in China. With contributions from Alvin CAMBA, Henry CHAN, Yoshihisa GODO, Wing Lok HUNG, Sean KING, Tuan Yuen KONG, Tai Wei LIM, Carol MA, Samantha MA, Parama SINHA PALIT, Zhengqi PAN, SIM Japanese Culture and Gaming Society, Hiroshi TAKAHASHI, Ghim Yeow TAN, Katherine TSENG, Elim WONG, Kai Keat YEO and Chun Wang YEUNG, this book provides a snapshot of Hong Kong in the past twenty years and is a fascinating read. Contents: Readership: This book is intended for students as well as professionals and the general public interested in understanding Hong Kong culture, history and politics. Keywords: Hong Kong;China;East Asia;;1997;Economic;PoliticsReview: "Hong Kong is often referred to as a crossroad of the East and West. However, Hong Kong is not merely an intersection of China and the Western world, but has unique history and culture. When I started learning Cantonese in Tokyo, many other students who were similarly motivated were from an older generation than me, and interested in Hong Kong films. This is proof that Hong Kong shown on the screen attracted the Japanese audience as a unique city. Hong Kong has been depicted as a city that is 'exotic' and 'chaotic' in popular media in Japan and the West. Of course, it is certain that orientalism of Japan and the West is present. However, what promotes such imagination and description seems to be the 'freedom' that Hong Kong possesses. I am particularly interested in how this free and somehow chaotic atmosphere of Hong Kong, 20 years after the handover of sovereignty, will generate new culture and evoke our new imagination. I recommend this publication to readers who want to better understand Hong Kong in all its facets and from different perspectives." Masakazu MATSUOKA Hitotsubashi University Key Features: The book is timely as it deals with a topic that is in the news in 2017. The future of Hong Kong has been debated and scrutinized intensely since the 2014 Occupy Central and 2012 National Education protests. Since then, Hong Kong has been forging a new relationship with a new administration in Beijing It has regional and international implications. Hong Kong's "One Country Two Systems" served as a model for possible reunification with Taiwan. Regionally, observers are using Hong Kong as a barometer for the future of Chinese governance. Internationally, Hong Kong's international financial center makes it an important node in the globalized world Very often, Hong Kong's popular culture is left out of academic analyses on the city state. There are macro and micro case studies examined by different scholars in this publication and they explain the popularity of Hong Kong popular cultural characters like the animation McDull and also classic cop films that resonate with an East Asian and even international audience The diversity of scholars in this volume makes
Hong Kong Popular Culture
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Author : Klavier J. Wang
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-01-07
Hong Kong Popular Culture written by Klavier J. Wang and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-01-07 with Social Science categories.
This book traces the evolution of the Hong Kong’s popular culture, namely film, television and popular music (also known as Cantopop), which is knotted with the city’s geo-political, economic and social transformations. Under various historical contingencies and due to the city’s special geo-politics, these three major popular cultural forms have experienced various worlding processes and have generated border-crossing impact culturally and socially. The worlding processes are greatly associated the city’s nature as a reception and departure port to Sinophone migrants and populations of multiethnic and multicultural. Reaching beyond the “golden age” (1980s) of Hong Kong popular culture and afar from a film-centric cultural narration, this book, delineating from the dawn of the 20th century and following a chronological order, untangles how the nowadays popular “Hong Kong film”, “Hong Kong TV” and “Cantopop” are derived from early-age Sinophone cultural heritage, re-shaped through cross-cultural hybridization and influenced by multiple political forces. Review of archives, existing literatures and corporation documents are supplemented with policy analysis and in-depth interviews to explore the centennial development of Hong Kong popular culture, which is by no means demise but at the juncture of critical transition.
Urban Futures
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Author : Mark Burry
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2020-09-01
Urban Futures written by Mark Burry and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with Architecture categories.
Given the rapid evolution of concepts such as smart cities, who are the architects riding the wave of new possibilities for urban design? How do contemporary agencies find pathways to understand the challenges and opportunities presented by evolving urban technology, and how does architecture engage with the expanding pool of associated disciplines? How should schools of architecture and urban design engage with radical digitalised urbanism? This issue of AD claims that this is contested territory. The two-dimensionality of planners’ urban construct is as limited as engineers’ predilection to zero-in and solve problems. Urban Futures contends that society needs a much broader professional brush than has been applied in the past: interdisciplinary urban design professionals who can reach across the philosophy and mundanity of urban existence with a creative eye. The issue identifies a selection of internally resourceful visionaries who combine sociology, geography, logistics and systems theory with the practical realities and challenges of mobility, sustainable materials, food, water and energy supply, and waste disposal. Crucially, they seek to ensure better urban futures, and a civil and convivial urban experience for all city dwellers. Contributors: Refik Anadol, Philip Belesky, Shajay Bhooshan, Jane Burry and Marcus White, Thomas Daniell, Vicente Guallart, Shan He, Wanyu He, Dan Hill, Justyna Karakiewicz, Tom Kvan, Areti Markopoulou, Ed Parham, Carlo Ratti, Ferran Sagarra, and Bige Tunçer. Featured architects: Arup Digital Studio, Guallart Architects, Space10, Space Syntax, UNStudio, and XKool Technology.
Transformation Of Shunde City Pioneer Of China S Greater Bay Area
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Author : Henry Hing Lee Chan
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2019-12-04
Transformation Of Shunde City Pioneer Of China S Greater Bay Area written by Henry Hing Lee Chan and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-04 with Political Science categories.
This book traces the transformation of Shunde, a city in China's Guangdong Province, from a historically agricultural county to a bustling manufacturing hub cum liveable city, in the past 41 years since the reform and opening-up of China in 1978. It discusses the economic success story of Shunde by using historical narratives to show how the district has combined its enterprising private sector with the highly capable reform-oriented local government to become a national beacon of reforms in the 1980s and 1990s. It looks into the holistic approach to development adopted by the Shunde government since the 1980s. It also explores the potential role of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area (GBA). It analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the district as compared to other competing areas in the GBA.
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Author : 詹姆斯．格里菲斯(James Griffiths)
language : zh-CN
Publisher: 臉譜
Release Date : 2023-08-29
written by 詹姆斯．格里菲斯(James Griffiths) and has been published by 臉譜 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-29 with History categories.
──2020年Openbook好書獎入圍作《牆國誌》作者好評再出擊── ──《環球郵報》2021年度選書── ──《紐約客》2022年最佳書籍── 繼調查報導前作《牆國誌》，詹姆斯．格里菲斯再次集歷史、文化、教育、政策、國情於一書， 藉由深度跨國調查威爾斯語、夏威夷語與粵語三種受壓迫語言的今昔與興衰， 直探當代官方語言與少數群體語言的拉鋸與角力，人們的生命經驗又如何受其左右？ 口碑推薦── 沐羽｜作家 胡川安｜國立中央大學中文系教授、《秦漢帝國與沒有歷史的人》作者 張學謙｜國立臺東大學南島文化研究博士班教授丶華語文學系教授 張正｜燦爛時光東南亞主題書店負責人 鄭順聰｜作家、臺語推廣者 謝金魚｜歷史作家 蘇致亨｜《毋甘願的電影史》作者 💬誰說「國語」？又是說「誰的」國語？ 💬為什麼有些語言成功發揚光大，有些卻淪為弱勢語言甚至滅絕？ 隨著殖民、帝國主義的擴張，再到全球化與網路普及化，語言的消失速度比以往任何時候都來得快。 地球上的語言多樣性正在逐漸凋零。面對寥寥幾個霸權級「超級語言」，少數族群語言的生存空間是否只會不斷縮減，最終無以為繼？ 本書作者詹姆斯．格里菲斯出身自英國威爾斯，能流利使用英語、威爾斯語雙語，而母語之一的威爾斯語正是少數族群使用的語言。 家鄉的語言、文化曾在大英帝國中遭到邊緣化，後於20世紀走上復興之路。此外，他在成年後因工作長居香港， 亦看見了近年粵語在香港因國家語言政策產生的變化。因此，他投入數百小時進行採訪、文獻考查以及報導撰寫， 除了記錄自己使用的威爾斯語一度凋零、掙扎而後奮起的過程，也延伸探討半個地球外的粵語及另一種少數族群語言：夏威夷語的命運。 作者會帶讀者看到── 🗯中世紀起便由英格蘭統治的威爾斯，面臨工業化後大量英格蘭人移入、英語霸權抬頭， 陸續出現對抗倫敦當局的團體，舉凡公民不服從（收到僅有英語說明的繳費單，拒絕繳納政府規費）、 推動修法（運動人士於法庭堅持以威爾斯語應答，最終促成修法：威爾斯地區庭審可擇一使用英語或威爾斯語）， 以及教育改革（推廣基礎教育採納全威爾斯語校園環境）等措施，皆致力於捍衛威爾斯文化。 🗯本書三種少數族群語言中，以夏威夷語母語人士最稀少，加上長期遭邊緣化， 語言易危情況嚴峻。但夏威夷語存續至今仍有其重要、可觀之處：歷經數十年殖民壓迫及政府漠視， 地方人士付出許多心血保衛夏威夷語，例如創辦基金支應原住民優先入學的學校、 為草裙舞去汙名化以發揚本土文化及傳統歌謠、環境保護的社運現場可見到夏威夷語言文化課程進駐開課…… 種種勤奮耕耘為現今夏威夷語的復興鋪路。 🗯對其他民族來說，語言復振和民族自決攜手並進，但粵語情況卻相反── 近年的社會運動使北京當局對「撐粵語」人士日益猜疑，視之為隱性的分離主義者。 粵語使用者未來可能會落入類似於早期威爾斯語使用者的處境，被迫得在最後關頭放手一搏。 這三種語言的命運，以及使用並努力保存語言、文化的那些人的故事，關乎所有的人。 某些語言的存續現今受到威脅，某些語言未來有一天可能瀕危。語言多樣性流失可能日漸嚴重； 這些語言承載的想法、概念、發明、藝術、詩歌和音樂或將失落不存。然而，語言復振成功案例愈來愈常見， 他山之石並不欠缺，關鍵在於推動復振的政治意志和力量，而且勢必得經過苦戰才能有所收穫。 ▌好評推薦 語言慣性互相滲透、借鑒、吞噬和轉化。語言是民族國家的染料和坦克。《請說「國語」》剝開了當今世界的外殼，暴露了威爾斯語、夏威夷語和廣東話被強勢語言與官方政策合流壓迫的狀況。一元化是任何自由者的敵人，一如暴政是邊緣者的死敵。 ——沐羽／作家 《請說「國語」》是一本引人深思的好書，它凸顯了殖民主義和帝國主義對弱勢語言保存所造成的毀滅性影響。藉由深入威爾斯語、夏威夷語和粵語等語言的歷史，我們看到了堅韌的反抗精神，為語言復振之路開啟了一扇門。作者詹姆斯．格里菲斯深入探討語言流失和復振的歷史發展，強調保存語言多樣性的重要性及語言復興的必要性，並提供值得我們學習的語言復興模式。臺灣南島語言是「臺灣給世界的禮物」，可惜在獨尊國語的政策下，急劇流失，臺灣南島語言和文化是臺灣獨有的寶藏，值得我們共同努力去保護和傳承。讓我們從威爾斯語、夏威夷語和粵語等語言的復興模式學習，讓語言多樣性在臺灣綻放出燦爛的光芒，成為臺灣獻給世界的禮物。 ——張學謙／國立臺東大學南島文化研究博士班教授丶華語文學系教授 此書主要談威爾斯語、夏威夷語、廣東話此三語言的命運，讀過後我也浮現三層感覺。 最開始，是似曾相識的奇異感，原來這地球上的語言，過去曾歷經或正要淪入臺灣本土語言被打壓的循環。其次，是爆裂感，爭取語言平等的歷程，和政治社會與文化傳統緊緊相繫，這樣的糾結常演變為抗爭與衝突。最後，是天上星芒般的希望感，經歷快要窒息的極端處境後，浮出水面，有那麼多光明的未來在眼前。 這是本「黑暗之書」，詳細描述語言被打壓的殘忍細節；同時也是本「預言書」，當某個族群與國家致力於復振，有許多令人激奮的好事可做。同時，猶如「聖經」般的指引，當猶豫躊躇悲觀無望時，指出了許多可能，可以規畫與實踐，還真的成功了。 這是文化平權與語言平等從事者的必讀之書。 ——鄭順聰／作家、臺語推廣者
Pioneers Of Modern China
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Author : Khoon Choy Lee
language : en
Publisher: World Scientific
Release Date : 2005
Pioneers Of Modern China written by Khoon Choy Lee and has been published by World Scientific this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Amongst the Chinese exists great cultural variety and diversity. The Cantonese care more for profit than face and are good businessmen, whereas Fujian Rn are frank, blunt and outspoken but daring and generous. Beijing Rn are more aristocratic and well-mannered, having stayed in a city ruled by emperors of different dynasties. Shanghai Rn are more enterprising, adventurous and materialistic but less aristocratic, having been at the center of pre-war gangsterism. Hainan Rn are straightforward, blunt and stubborn. Hunan Rn are more warlike and have produced more marshals and generals than any other province.Pioneers of Modern China is a fascinating book that paints a vivid picture of the unique cultural characteristics and behavior of the Chinese in the various provinces. Using leaders in the modern history of China, such as Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao as representatives, it offers an in-depth look into the psyche of the Chinese people. It also pays tribute to writers, painters and kungfu experts, who have helped to develop the country socially and artistically.
Speak Not
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Author : James Griffiths
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-10-21
Speak Not written by James Griffiths and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-21 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
As globalisation continues languages are disappearing faster than ever, leaving our planet's linguistic diversity leaping towards extinction. The science of how languages are acquired is becoming more advanced and the internet is bringing us new ways of teaching the next generation, however it is increasingly challenging for minority languages to survive in the face of a handful of hegemonic 'super-tongues'. In Speak Not, James Griffiths reports from the frontlines of the battle to preserve minority languages, from his native Wales, Hawaii and indigenous American nations, to southern China and Hong Kong. He explores the revival of the Welsh language as a blueprint for how to ensure new generations are not robbed of their linguistic heritage, outlines how loss of indigenous languages is the direct result of colonialism and globalisation and examines how technology is both hindering and aiding the fight to prevent linguistic extinction. Introducing readers to compelling characters and examining how indigenous communities are fighting for their languages, Griffiths ultimately explores how languages hang on, what happens when they don't, and how indigenous tongues can be preserved and brought back from the brink.
Promoting All Round Education For Girls
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Author : Patricia P. K. Chiu
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2020-06-02
Promoting All Round Education For Girls written by Patricia P. K. Chiu and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-02 with Education categories.
Promoting All-Round Education for Girls presents the history of Heep Yunn School, one of the oldest girls’ schools in Hong Kong. Amalgamated from two British mission schools founded in the 1880s for destitute girls and daughters of Christian parents, and renamed Heep Yunn School in 1936, the institution has witnessed and responded to the dramatic changes of Hong Kong over the years. By the time of the outbreak of the Second World War, Heep Yunn had expanded to offer a full Chinese middle school course for girls based upon Christian principles of all-round education. The school expanded rapidly after the war and became a bilingual institution to meet the demand for English language education. Eventually English would become the primary medium of instruction soon after the introduction of nine-year universal education in 1978. Heep Yunn strives to provide a full-fledged all-round education in the midst of political and education reforms. The school opted to switch its status from a government-aided school to a direct subsidy scheme school in the early 2010s so as to retain a larger degree of autonomy. This history of Heep Yunn School documents the concerted efforts of the school council, staff, students, alumnae, and parents to achieve the evolving visions of Christian education for girls as Hong Kong grew from a colonial trading port to a global financial centre in the twenty-first century. ‘Promoting All-Round Education for Girls convincingly charts the shifting purposes and practices of girls’ education in Hong Kong. The text moves seamlessly between the history of the school and the wider context of Hong Kong’s history. Patricia P. K. Chiu illustrates how the school’s educational policy evolved according to the wider strategies and shifts that relate models of femininity and nation-building.’ —Joyce Goodman, University of Winchester ‘This solidly-referenced work provides a balanced and detailed outlook on the unique, evolving features of education in Hong Kong. It shows the effects on Heep Yunn School of major historical changes in education policy and how the school has contributed to the education of girls in Hong Kong in periods of dramatic challenge like the Sino-Japanese War and the disturbances of the late 1960s.’ —Ruth Hayhoe, University of Toronto