An appreciation of "li", "qi" and "shu" is essential for a better understanding of Chinese science and Chinese civilization as a whole, and to illustrate these concepts, three areas of Chinese science have been selected - mathematics, astronomy and alchemy.

Li, Qi and Shu: An Introduction to Science and Civilization in China

Yoke, Ho Peng

Science & Math

Hong Kong Univ Pr

Fossils, Teeth and Sex: New Perspectives on Human Evolution

Politics & Social Sciences

Oxnard, Charles E.

Anthropology

The name of Sir Aurel Stein is linked forever with the Silk Road of Central Asia - one of the great romantic and evocative images of the East. For thirty years, in the face of fierce rivalry, this brilliant archaeologist led the race to uncover a long-lost Buddhist civilization which had lain for a thousand years beneath China's deserts. Today the treasures which he and his competitors - from Germany, France, Japan, Sweden and America - removed from the sand-covered tombs and temples of the ancient Silk Road are scattered among the museums of a dozen countries. In all Stein marched some 25,000 miles across Central Asia, often in appalling conditions, accompanied always by a small fox-terrier. Festooned with international honours, including a British knighthood, the Jewish Hungarian-born orientalist today lies in the lonely Christian cemetery at Kabul, where he died in 1943, aged 80, on the eve of one last great journey into the past.

Aurel Stein: Pioneer of the Silk Road

Biographies & Memoirs

Walker, Annabel

Professionals & Academics

All Else Is Bondage

Wu Wei, Wei

Philosophy

Second Impression 1982 with those known authors: Contag, Wang Chi_Chen, and Cahill. The book is intact and in great shape for its age. Let pics do the talking and if any questions feel free to ask. I have to give it a solid B+-A- ! slight 1 inch fold on the back and slightly soiled edges. I have owned many signature books and this is by far my favorite, and is loaded!!! This book is written in English...

Seals of Chinese Painters & Collectors of the Ming & Ch'Ing Periods

Contag, Victoria

Wang, Chi-Ch'Ien

The first section of this volume is a Cantonese-English dictionary. Some 5300 characters, including duplicates pronounced variously, are listed, with approximately 4000 phrases. The second section consists of the English-Cantonese index. Characters are classified according to frequency and use.

Pocket Dictionary of Cantonese

Reference

Cowles, Roy

Words, Language & Grammar

This text focuses on a current area of language learning and teaching - autonomous and self-access language learning. This text provides a variety of examples of current practice in classrooms and self-access centres, at secondary and tertiary levels, and in a number of different cultural contexts. The topics covered include: theoretical perspectives; learners and the learning process; technology; and the evaluation of learner autonomy.

Taking Control: Autonomy in Language Learning

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

For more than 300 years Chinese have been part of the fascinating mix of people who make up the inhabitants of the southern tip of Africa. Too minuscule in number to warrant any serious historical attention, they were unknown and largely forgotten in the wider South African context.

Colour, Confusion & Concessions: The History of the Chinese in South Africa

History

Man, Dianne Leong

Yap, Melanie

Africa

The Health of the Elderly in Hong Kong (English and Chinese Edition)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Many doctors in Hong Kong are trained in English but carry out their daily practice in Chinese. Both doctor and patient often find themselves defeated by the seemingly unbridgeable gulf caused by language, frequently compounded by the ignorance of many patients in matters of health and diseases, as understood from a Western perspective. This bilingual handbook (now in its third edition), prepared by working surgeons, seeks to bridge the language gap. Compiled with practical patient care in mind, the medical terms are listed alphabetically in chapters arranged according to systems of the body and corresponding generally to the different specialties of medicine. This handbook will prove a useful tool to doctors, dentists, medical students, nurses and other personnel in all branches of medical care. It is also a valuable reference for all those who wish to know medical terms in Chinese.

A Handbook of Practical Medical Terms: (English Chinese) (English and Chinese Edition)

Ng, Anthony

Wei, William I.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

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