Chinese Sources for the Taiping Rebellion, 1850-1864

Cheng, J. Chester

Hong Kong University Press

Cross-Cultural Design is the first book to examine the challenges and rewards experienced by the world's leading communication professionals when handling assignments outside their own cultures. The solutions to these marketing problems are documented here in 309 stunning full-colour images, accompanied by the creators' provocative descriptions of their setbacks, triumphs and discoveries.The works shown range from designs for advertisements, corporate identity programmes, annual reports, films, packages, books, magazines, posters and signage to currency, postage stamps and environmental graphics. Among clients represented are banks, print media, software companies, airlines, governments and manufacturing firms.This anthology is introduced by Henry Steiner's stimulating essay "Spam Sushi and Chameleons", which articulates the issues and provides conceptual ideas for succeeding in the global marketplace. In the pages that follow, the work of such outstanding professionals as Saul Bass, Walter Bernard, Ken Cato, Ivan Chermayeff, Joe Duffy, Alan Fletcher, Dan Friedman, Milton Glaser, Eiko Ishioka, Tibor Kalman, Clement Mok, Erik Spiekermann and Henry Wolf is illustrated and discussed. This unique volume also includes much practical information, a contributors' directory, an extensive bibliography and a thorough index.Cross-Cultural Design will be welcomed as both a thought-provoking exploration of international design and an invaluable reference source for designers, advertising agencies, marketing professionals, business corporations, scholars and students.

Cross-Cultural Design: Communicating in the Global Marketplace

Arts & Photography

Steiner, Henry

History & Criticism

There is nothing mysterious or unnatural about what these familiar animals reveal to their interpreter, O. O. O. We can see ourselves in these brief sketches and benefit from what they reveal.

Unworldly Wise: As the Owl Remarked to the Rabbit

Politics & Social Sciences

O. O. O.

Philosophy

This is the first book to paint a clear, research based picture of how Chinese students and their teachers see the context and content of their learning both in Hong Kong and abroad. The focus of much of this research is the question 'How can Chinese learners be so successful academically (often out-performing their Western peers) when their teaching and learning seems to be so oriented to rote memorization?'. It is concluded that at the heart of this paradox are cross-cultural differences in the very processes of teaching and learning, particularly concerning the relationship between memorizing and understanding and the nature of motivation. Widely held Western stereotypes and misconceptions of Chinese learners are shown to be largely without foundation.

The Chinese Learner: Cultural, Psychological and Contextual Influences

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The distinguished botanist S. Y. Hu and watercolorist B. M. Walden present in this book beautiful and accurate illustrations of the commoner flowers of Hong Kong and South China. For ease of identification, the plants are arranged according to the month of the year in which they are most usually to be seen in flower.

Wild Flowers of South China and Hong Kong, Part 1

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Walden, B. M.

Hu, S. Y.

Gardening & Landscape Design

Literature of China in the Twentieth Century

Bonnie S. McDougall

Kam Louie

Literature & Fiction

This collection of more than 300 Dunhuang decorative designs reflects creativity and innovation in Chinese Buddhist art. The book is the result of three years’ collecting by Chang Shuhong and her students of ten types of decorative designs in the Mogao Grottoes, including architecture, murals, painted sculptures and other decorative patterns. The designs are classified into ten categories according to historical period, presenting a panoramic survey of the Dunhuang decorative patterns throughout Chinese history.

Decorative Designs from China Dunhuang Murals

Chang, Shana

This is a provocative essay of reflections on traditional mainstream scholarship on Chinese art as done by towering figures in the field such as James Cahill and Wen Fong. James Elkins offers an engaging and accessible survey of his personal journey encountering and interpreting Chinese art through Western scholars' writings. He argues that the search for optimal comparisons is itself a modern, Western interest, and that art history as a discipline is inherently Western in several identifiable senses. Although he concentrates on art history in this book, and on Chinese painting in particular, these issues bear implications for Sinology in general, and for wider questions about humanistic inquiry and historical writing. --Jennifer Purtle's Foreword provides a useful counterpoint from the perspective of a Chinese art specialist, anticipating and responding to other specialists' likely reactions to Elkins's hypotheses. This book is a stimulating read for the specialist and non-specialist alike, challenging them to reconsider their fundamental assumptions about art history and to rethink the art historical project in broader terms.--James Elkins teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago--"The issues which Elkins raises are . . . fascinating, thoughtful, and provocative. Only an 'outsider' to the field could raise them, and Elkins is perhaps the only outsider who could . . . . Exemplary." - Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton University-

Chinese Landscape Painting as Western Art History

Elkins, James

In the first decade of the twentieth century while other intellectuals were concerned with translating works of political and scientific import into Chinese, Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927) looked to Western philosophy to find answers to the fundamental question

Wang Kuo-Wei's Jen-Chien Tz'u-Hua: A Study in Chinese Literary Criticism

Rickett, A. A.

Insects of Hong Kong

Hill, D.S., Phyllis Hore and I.W.B. Thornton

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