在遙遠的中國東北有一條長達近二千公里的河流，它流過東北的心臟地區，就是有名的松花江。由長白山天池流入吉林省，它在我的家鄉附近與嫩江會合，再經過哈爾濱市，注入黑龍江後進入俄國。松花江夏季江畔風景迷人，沿岸土地肥沃，民風樸實。沿江有中國最大的水力發電廠，也是中國重工業大多聚集在東北的主要原因之一。我的父親母親就出生在松花江畔一個小村落，父親是白旗滿籍，母親姓魏，是漢人，據說是唐代名臣魏征的後人，從山東省蓬萊縣渡海來到東北，已經定居在吉林有數代之久了。我的故事從松花江開始，因為我的父母親是從松花江來的，他們給了我生命，使我能夠來寫這本書呈現給讀者。我是於中國對日抗戰（1937年七七事變）發起之前幾個月出生在北平的協和醫院。直到1946抗戰勝利之後，才以義民還鄉之名乘專車回到東北。以後之幾年，曾目睹國共在關外內戰的痕跡，書中說的都是自己親身的經歷，將會在第一篇講述給讀者。同時也會將我在台灣生長的經歷，由少年進入青年時所聞所見在第二篇中呈現給讀者。但是本書最重要的部分是由第三篇開始，從1962到今天，在異國他鄉下生活五十多年的經歷。包括...

This book compares social housing privatisation in the UK and China, revealing convergent housing outcomes despite contrasting political systems. Both countries show weakened social housing, redefined as financial assets, highlighting shared policy failures and the need to rethink market-driven reforms globally.It examines global neoliberal influences, city-level implementation in Greater Manchester and Hangzhou through comparative case studies that reveal the rise of financialisat...

Chinese international students contribute billions to U.S. universities but face an "invisible tax" of institutional neglect. This mixed-method study reveals that campus climate, rather than formal support services, shapes student wellbeing, exposing how universities profit while undervaluing students' cultural and social capital.The internationalization of U.S. higher education has generated significant economic gains, yet these revenue-generating students often encounter institut...

David Wang’s Architecture and Sacrament considers architectural theory from a Christian theological perspective, specifically, the analogy of being (analogia entis). The book tracks social and cultural reasons why the theological literature tends to be separate from contemporary architecture theory. Wang argues that retrieval of the sacramental outlook embedded within the analogy of being, which informed centuries of art and architecture in the West, can shed light on cur...

The third volume of a three-volume work on children in the Qin and Han dynasties, this book explores the multiple identities and roles of children (or minors) in Qin and Han society.The study features three innovative approaches: pioneering a child-centred perspective that challenges traditional adult-centred historical narratives, combining classical texts with archaeological evidence, and employing a comprehensive interdisciplinary methodology. This third volume examines the soci...

The first of a three-volume work on children in the Qin and Han dynasties, this book presents a portrait of children's early lives during this period, examining their birth, health, play, and education.Children in the Qin and Han Dynasties I takes three innovative approaches: pioneering a child-centred perspective that challenges traditional adult-centred historical narratives, combining classical texts with archaeological evidence, and employing a comprehensive interdisci...

This book presents the findings of a ten-year longitudinal study on the experience of Chinese immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris. The author examines the impact of the evolving spaces people from Wenzhou have built for themselves in the French capital, both within immigrant communities and French society at large.The study discovers that over the course of a decade, immigrants from Wenzhou in Paris have experienced notable changes in the industries they work in, where they live, thei...

This book uses corpus analysis and experimental methods to examine the structural characteristics and cognitive mechanisms of Chinese-English code-switching. It also compares the syntactic and pragmatic features of code-switching in children and adults.The title unveils the fascinating mechanics behind Chinese-English code-switching. Drawing on real language examples and cognitive experiments, it explores the hidden rules that govern mixed speech and shows how bilinguals navigate t...

Developing Advanced Proficiency in Chinese through Modern Issues serves as a solid foundational textbook for the intermediate and advanced levels in two volumes, providing students with a comprehensive understanding of language and concepts. The 24 units include a wide range of topics, including popular culture, e-commerce, green energy, and telecommunications fraud, reflecting the dynamic nature of China’s evolving social landscape. Designed for two sequential advanced courses, t...

This book investigates the existential clause (EC) from a cross-linguistic perspective and within the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics.The prototypical EC in the less familiar languages is identified through its functional equivalents in the more familiar ones, which share the common semantic basis of ‘there exists something in some location’. Topics addressed include the morpho-syntactic features of the EC, the subject of the EC, the definiteness effect and its manifes...

This book challenges the notion that strategic narratives, which carry soft power significance, are seamlessly projected to audiences. It offers the first book-length critical analysis of the non-linear dissemination of strategic narratives in the digital age, focusing on social media.Through a case study of a Chinese state-aligned outlet’s mediation of Russian broadcaster RT’s videos and their remediation by Chinese social media users’ danmu comments on Bilibili, it revea...

Artist Management in the Music Industries: A Sui Generis Form of Management provides one of the first substantive, academic examinations of the role of an artist manager.This book deconstructs the nature of Artist Management, unveiling the pivotal role of the artist manager in creating and sustaining a dynamic environment referred to as the ‘Loop’, where success is realised by navigating four variables – Risks, Relationships, Emotions, and Expectations (2Rs and 2Es) – with...