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Language is the fundamental tool for communication, enabling the expression of experiences, thoughts, and emotions, and facilitating understanding between individuals. It plays a crucial role in children's cognitive development, as it allows for complex thinking processes. Therefore, it is of utmost importance to cultivate and foster children's language skills from an early age, ensuring they acquire language proficiency and mastery, which will serve as a solid foundation for their future academic and personal growth.
- AuthorXie Xijin
- PublisherHong Kong University Press
- Publication Date2014
This pioneering ethnographic study focuses on the Lala (lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) community and politics in China, particularly in Shanghai. Through extensive field research, the book illuminates the challenges faced by Lala individuals as they navigate a culture that restricts women's sexual autonomy and grapple with societal pressures for family harmony and forced marriage. The author also examines Chinese homophobic discourses, revealing the impact of heteronormativity on the queer community. By combining personal experiences with rigorous research, the book offers valuable insights into the current state of the lesbian community and politics in urban China, contributing to global discussions on same-sex relationships, homophobia, coming out politics, and sexual governance.
- AuthorJin Ye Road
- PublisherHong Kong University Press
- Publication Date2014
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Dr. Raymond Fung has been teaching children, teenagers, and adults with varying degrees of autism for over 20 years. He deeply understands the stress and troubles faced by these children and their parents and teachers. Raymond specializes in "Progressive Applied Behavior Analysis" (Progressive ABA) and autism education. In this book, he shares his valuable experience and focuses on the growth and education issues that caregivers of these children care about the most - improving behavioral problems, enhancing emotional management, self-care, and social skills. He proposes specific training methods to let these children shine!
- AuthorFung Yiu Man
- PublisherMingwen Publishing House
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This interdisciplinary book delves into the modern advertising culture of China, including Shanghai, Taiwan, and old Manchuria, as well as the impact of Japanese advertising. It explores the cultural translation of newspaper advertisements, commercial competition, the role of department stores on Nanjing Road, foreign advertising technology adoption, talent exchange between Shanghai and Osaka, women as symbols of "modernity," and political propaganda art of Chinese socialism. By examining how commercial visual art intertwines with "colonialism" and "socialism," it provides new research methods and perspectives. The book caters to scholars and students of various disciplines, serving as a valuable resource for those interested in modern Chinese social culture.
- AuthorWu Yongmei, Li Peide
- PublisherHong Kong University Press
- Publication Date2014
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During the 1970s, an ambitious pre-college student had his sights set on entering the University of Hong Kong. However, fate intervened when he unexpectedly crossed paths with a charming white-collar woman five years his senior.
- AuthorWu Zhao'an
- PublisherMingwen Publishing House
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The question of human nature, good and evil, and the meaning of life has been discussed throughout the ages and across cultures, yet no consensus has been reached. Drawing from decades of medical practice in Hong Kong and Australia, the author has encountered people from various parts of the world and synthesized their perspectives on human nature and life. This exploration has led the author to understand that the most basic desire of human beings is the survival of oneself and one's offspring, which gives rise to social issues such as wealth disparity, war, and refugees. The author aspires for this book to shed light on societal problems and their solutions, aiming to contribute to a world where people can live and work in peace and contentment.
- AuthorZhang Shiping
- PublisherMingwen Publishing House
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