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This book provides excellent documentation and analysis of how China developed markets for several types of products within four main sectors: its urban centers, its rural regions, its educational institutions, and various international development assistance organizations.

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared in 1890.

This is a collection of twelve scholarly yet accessible essays that examine the history of the University of Hong Kong, from the laying of its foundation stone in 1910 to its reestablishment after World War II.

延安整風運動是深刻影響二十世紀中國歷史進程的重大事件，這是由毛澤東親自領導的中共黨內第一次大規模政治運動，也是建國後歷次政治運動的濫觴。毛澤東在延安整風中運用他所創造的思想改造和審幹、肅反兩種手段，全面清除了中共黨內存留的五四自由民主思想的影響，徹底轉換了中共的「俄化」氣質，重建了以毛澤東為絕對主宰的上層結構，奠定了黨的全盤毛澤東化的基礎，其間所產生的一系列概念、範式在1949年後改變了億萬中國人的生活和命運。本書作者歷時十餘年，搜尋考辨大量歷史資料，在此基礎上，從實證研究的角度，詳細剖析了延安整風的前因後果及運動所涉及的各個方面，力圖再現當年這場運動的歷史真貌，是目前海內外唯一一本全面研究延安整風運動的歷史著作。

孫中山，這位改變國族氣運的革命領袖，宋慶齡，這位理想崇高又際遇不凡的女性，命運教他們相會，情愛讓他們咀嚼，牽掛，而不可替代的死亡就像海浪拍打著礁岸...... 　　把情愛還給人物，讓血肉溶入歷史，便是以顛覆傳統小說體例為己志的小說家平路在她長篇作品《行道天涯》中的大膽嘗試，藉由看似自由放任，其實跌宕有致的敘事觀點轉換，作者帶領 讀者跨越了時空與生死的阻隔，進入角色最豐沛的內在生命，也透視了孫中山與宋慶齡作為真實人物最赤祼的情慾。

A Room of one's own; Creating a life: professional women and the quest for children; Lois Weber: the director who lost her way in history

Through excerpts from the earliest English language newspapers in Hong Kong, accompanied by Solomon Bard's insightful comments, Voices From the Past provides unique glimpses into Hong Kong's history. Richly illustrated with interesting photographs, chiefly from the Hong Kong Museum of History's photographic library, the pages bring Hong Kong's colonial past vividly to life.

At the culmination of his art career in China, Xu Bing (who now lives in the West) spent months inventing more than 1200 characters that mimic Chinese characters but have no known meaning. At once familiar and strange, they evoke confusion, wonderment, and even hostility in viewers. Xu Bing printed them in books with traditional formats, on wall posters, and on giant billowing sheets, which he installed in exhibition galleries to form a ceiling or sky. He cagily argues that any explanation of his art is superfluous because the books have no meaning.

The talk will be around the following speeches made by Mr Martin Lee in the Legco: 1. in the Legco on 27 November 1985; 2. Debate on the political reform on 29 June 1994; 3. Debate on the accountability system for principal officials on 29 May 2002.

I write this book because I believe that human beings can only comprehend the present when they understand the past, and they can only make a better future when they learn from previous errors. And I feel compelled to alert the younger generation of the dangers that confront the world today from those obsessed with wealth and power. I hope that all prejudices and evil ambitions can be set aside, and an equal playing field can be created for all nations.