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The Golden Year of Fan Cheng-Ta
A re-issue of Mr Bullett's 1946 text of Fan Cheng-ta's cycle of small poems reflecting the Chinese rural year.
Trade and Society
The book examines the social and economic changes in south Fukien (Fujian) on the southeast coast of China during late imperial times. Faced with land shortages and overpopulation, the rural population of south Fukien turned to the sea in search of fresh opportunities to secure a livelihood. With the tacit support of local officials and the scholar gentry, the merchants played the pivotal role in long-distance trade, and the commercial networks they established spanned the entire China coast, making the port city of Amoy (Xiamen) a major centre for maritime trade. In the work, the author discusses four interrelated spheres of activity, namely, the traditional rural sector, the port cities, the coastal trade and the overseas trade links. He argues that the creative use of clan organizations was key to the growth of the Amoy network along the coast as well as overseas.
Chinese Environmental Aesthetics
China is currently afflicted by enormous environmental problems. This book, drawing on ancient and modern Chinese environmental thinking, considers what it is that makes an environment a desirable place for living. The book emphasises ideas of beauty, and discusses how these ideas can be applied in natural, agricultural and urban environments in order to produce desirable environments. The book argues that environment is both a product of nature and of human beings, and as such is potentially alterable by culture. The book explores the three aspects of environmental beauty whereby such alteration might be beneficially made: integrated and holistic; ecological and man-made; and authentic and ...
Easy English Cantonese & Cantonese Tonal English Dictionary
Unique two methods: i) 3D (multi-romanized); ii) Cantonese tonal English Dictionary; i) This method helps for multi-users speakers find the best unexpected easy pronunciation; go through multiple three romanized systems such as Yale /Jyutping and plain Roman; this method bring out self accurate right pronounce based on 6 tones. ii) Words are listed in alphabetically tones order. Both speakers easily self access well, even who have nothing either English or Cantonese, for lookup to English words and phrases via Cantonese tones, and Users self-able to comparative analysis with 6 tones, and it’s funny and so easy!!!; it makes 25 to 125 times faster.
