Significant advances made by Western medicine in the treatment of cancer are well-documented, but there has been much less written in English on complementary holistic treatment with Chinese medical methods that manage its symptoms and ameliorate the side effects of surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy. This book explains the complementary approach using cases from the medical files of Professor Rencun Yu, who was trained in Western medical oncology but also practices Chinese medicine. In...

Psychosis and Schizophrenia in Hong Kong covers some of the most serious mental health conditions that top the global disease burden and affect 3% of the general population. However, most research on psychotic disorders is undertaken in the West, and few studies have been systematically carried out in Asia despite global interest in regional differences. This work offers a unique and coherent account of these disorders and their treatment in Hong Kong over the last thirty years.

Psychopathology: An Empathic Representational Approach retraces the foundations of classical phenomenological psychopathology and integrates them with modern ideas drawn from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, computational science, and evolutionary biology to synthesize a comprehensive framework and provide fresh insights.This book explores how the scientific concepts of ‘information and representation’ can be used to understand subjective mental phenomena and integrate them in...

En 1964 s’ouvrait la première ambassade de France en Chine. Loin de faire l’unanimité, la courageuse décision du général de Gaulle provoqua des réactions passionnelles. Cinquante ans plus tard, où en sommes-nous avec la Chine ? L’avenir de la deuxième puissance économique mondiale est-il aussi rose que le laissent croire ses chiffres mirobolants ? Quel rôle joue réellement l’Empire du milieu sur la scène internationale ? Dans sa livraison de décembre la Revue des Deux Mondes s’est...

This book summarizes recent efforts and advances in the roll bonding of metal laminates to reveal the potential mechanism. Based on the comprehensive understanding and our numerous original works, some important issues about the fabrication method, evolution mechanism of bonding interface and reinforcement factors of roll-bonded metal laminates are discussed and emphasized. Furthermore, some prospective viewpoints about the design, fabrication and fracture mechanism of roll-bonded metal la...

DescriptionWith delicacy and precision, the major Chinese poet Xiao Hai conjures shadows to explore philosophical questions of illusion and reality, history and time, art and language. Composed of several hundred interconnected poems, Xiao’s collection is, in his words, “a dynamic, creative, and open system of experience.” Deftly translated by Zhu Yu, Song of Shadows brings Wordsworth and Whitman into artful conversation with classical Chinese culture.Available as a bilingu...

Biotechnology of Major Cereals focuses on the recent advances and future prospects in cereal biotechnology. The first part of the book covers the world's major cereals and focus on new developments and trends. The second part is technology rather than species-led, detailing fundamental developments in technologies and significant target traits.

Drylands, a home for nearly 2.5 billion people, are highly vulnerable to anthropogenic climate change, and dryland area may expand to 50% of the Earth's surface by 2100. Climate change may aggravate the prevalence of undernutrition and malnutrition because of adverse effects on quantity and quality of food production in these regions. This book takes a holistic approach to sustainable management of drylands to make agriculture drought-resilient. Eminent scientists from around the world sha...

In the 1980s, China faced the monumental task of creating, from scratch, internationally competitive companies. This challenge was especially daunting in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. The Inside Story of China's High-Tech Industry describes the emergence and growth of this industry in China through a historically situated analysis of China's leading science park, Beijing's Zhongguancun, also known as China's Silicon Valley. Zhou challenges the prevailing view ...

殷海光自1949年起執教於臺灣大學，育英無數，林毓生即為其一。1955年，林毓生開始師從殷海光，問學之路深受影響。1960年，林毓生負笈北美，與殷海光通信不輟，相知愈契。本書匯集雙方往來書信為一帙，保存了一段難得的翰墨因緣。本書不是一般意義的師生通信，而是兩代自由主義知識人，就學術中的重大問題、國家的走向與文化的發展，平等交流、理性切磋的珍貴紀錄。在淳厚的師生情誼中，他們“同有的一幅真樸懇摯之心，流蕩於字裡行間，具有持久的魅力。這是很西方的，同時也是很中國的；這是深具文化意蘊的中西方美妙的融合。”（胡曉明教授語）從這部書裡，我們可以清楚看到他們在追求純正自由主義的道路上，如何彼此互勉，奮力以進。閱讀這部生動的師生思想互動的紀錄，必可使我們對於殷海光與林毓生懷持的共同理想，得到深入的理解；兩位自由主義先行者的思想成長與變遷歷程，對我們也必有深刻的啟發。

Open-source software supply chains wield significant influence in the software industry, drawing substantial interest from enterprises, researchers, and policymakers. Leveraging third-party libraries to build software applications is a common practice aimed at cost savings and software quality enhancement. However, heavy reliance on external libraries often leads to a state of “dependency hell”, marked by issues like incompatibilities, conflicting versions, bloated dependencies, and the in...

This book focuses on urban development in Shanghai over the past four decades, which is composed of two major development processes—the development of new spaces and the renewal of old ones. Seeking to bring the concept of space back into social analysis, the book explores changes affecting communities, interpersonal interactions, lifestyles and social mindsets in Shanghai from a spatial perspective. What’s more, all these social themes are presented using a narrative of spatial representa...