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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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"Reading Yinghua: The Study and Teaching of Classical Chinese Language and Chapters" is a comprehensive guide for teaching classical Chinese works in middle schools. It covers theoretical principles, practical methods, and effective classroom strategies. This book is suitable for Chinese teachers, language educators, and those interested in classical Chinese teaching. The author, Luo Yanqin, is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, and the Director of the Department of Chinese Language and Literature.
- AuthorLuo Yanqin, Lin Weiyi
- PublisherHong Kong University Press
- Publication Date2016
Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves features the personal narratives of twelve women forced into sexual slavery when the Japanese military occupied their hometowns. Beginning with their prewar lives and continuing through their enslavement to their postwar struggles for justice, these interviews reveal that the prolonged suffering of the comfort station survivors was not contained to wartime atrocities but was rather a lifelong condition resulting from various social, political, and cultural factors.
- AuthorQiu Peipei, Su Zhiliang, Chen Lifen
- PublisherHong Kong University Press
- Publication Date2017
This book is the first comprehensive study of the culture and sexual customs of the theaters in the capital during the Qing Dynasty. The author uses a large number of historical materials, literary works, and pictures to deeply investigate the unique pear garden private apartment system and performance system in the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and explains the traditional concept of "promoting excellence and mentioning" in real life and literary works at that time. The implementation and expression, thus showing a vivid picture of the social life of the capital theater intertwined with male color services, and further reflecting on the actual impact of sex, social class, and power in the theater culture in the middle and late Qing Dynasty.
- AuthorWu Cuncun
- PublisherHong Kong University Press
- Publication Date2017
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"The Lamma Sha Po Puzzle" is the first comprehensive analysis of the Sha Po site on Lamma Island, which has been a focal point for archaeologists due to its 6,000 years of human activity. The book presents a cross-period examination of the site's social landscape, drawing from extensive fieldwork and excavations conducted by Mick Atha and Kennis Yip. The artifacts uncovered at Sha Po, some unique to Hong Kong, offer insights into the ancient inhabitants' interactions with their environment and the evolution of craftsmanship and societal complexity. The site's transformation from a government-controlled kiln salt industry center to a vital supplier of food and fuel for urban areas in the 19th century reflects the constant adaptation of human life. "The Lamma Sha Po Puzzle" provides a compelling narrative of human adaptation and societal evolution through the lens of this special archaeological site.
- AuthorMick Atha, Yip Ho Sze
- PublisherHong Kong University Press
- Publication Date2018
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