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Designing a Life
Designing A Life tells the story of Kai-Yin Lo, a determined woman born to a Hong Kong family of great wealth who built her own future in New York, and later worldwide, becoming a designer of international renown, and respected as an ambassador for cross-cultural exchange in art and design. Hers is a uniquely inspiring and compelling story.
Moving Millions
With the "merger" of the MTRC and the KCRC in 2007, the history of Hong Kong's railways turned a new page. The two government-owned corporations were exceptionally profitable. Yet, this commercially successful railway model was not without social costs and political controversies. Moving Millions critically examines the governance history of the MTRC and the KCRC over the past three decades, and sheds light on the challenges to Hong Kong's railway after the "merger". The author discusses complex relationships between railway management, government policy and politics. Critical issues are analysed, including corporate governance; railway-property development; funding and managing new projects; mismanagement and controversies; public accountability; and passenger interest in fares, choice and convenience. The book compares how differently the MTRC and the KCRC dealt with the government, civil society, the market, and with each other to achieve commercial objectives and tackle public interests issues in a post-industrial society, where public expectations are rising despite constraints in democracy.
Home Beyond the House
Based on extended fieldwork conducted between 2007 and 2019, this book aims to answer a simple question: What is the meaning of home for people living in vernacular settlements in rural China? This question is particularly potent since rural China has experienced rapid and fundamental changes in the twenty-first century under the influences of national policies such as "Building a New Socialist Countryside" enacted in 2006 and "Rural Revitalization" announced in 2018. Drawing upon ethnographic fieldwork, building surveys, archival research, and over 600 photographs taken by residents along with their life stories, this book uncovers the meanings of home from rural residents’ perspectives, who belong to a social group that is underrepresented in scholarship and underserved in modern China. In other words, this study empowers rural residents by giving them voice. This book links the concepts of place, home, and tradition into an overarching argument: The meaning of home rests on the ideas of tradition, including identity, consanguinity, collectivity, social relations, land ownership, and rural lifestyle.
You Are Brighter than the Sun
This is book 4 of You Are Brighter than the Sun. She randomly grabbed a man off the streets after finding out her stepmother had been plotting to marry her off to a forty-year-old man. "Do you want to marry me?" Jin Liyuan's girlfriend had just stood him up, so his lips curved into a small smile as he said, "Sure. I just happen to have my household registration booklet with me. Let's go register our marriage." This was how 23-year-old Yin Xiaoxiao ended up in a whirlwind marriage with a man who she had only met twice.
A Vocabulary and Hand-Book of the Chinese Language
Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
