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  • DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY IN ASIA
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    DATA GOVERNANCE AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY IN ASIA
    PAUL CHEUNG
    Data governance is the cornerstone of digital economy growth, particularly in Asia, where both the digital economy and the policy space are fast expanding. The chapters collected in this volume delve into how diverse and rapidly evolving data governance models of ASEAN countries and their Asian partners are shaping the regional digital economy integration, particularly through ...

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  • WARFARE ETHICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
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    WARFARE ETHICS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
    SUMNER B. TWISS, PING-CHEUNG LO, BENEDICT S. B. CHAN
    This volume explores East Asian intellectual traditions and their influence on contemporary discussions of the ethics of war and peace. Through cross-cultural comparison and dialogue between East and West, this work charts a new trajectory in the development of applied ethics. A sequel to the volume Chinese Just War Ethics, it expands the range of the earlier work and includes ...

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  • BASIC EMIRATI ARABIC
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    BASIC EMIRATI ARABIC
    TOMMI TSZ-CHEUNG LEUNG / DIMITRIOS NTELITHEOS / MEERA AL KAABI
    Basic Emirati Arabic: A Grammar and Workbook is an elementary-level grammar book of the variety of Gulf Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. In this book, a series of compact units provide brief and concise descriptions of the fundamental grammatical structures, accompanied by examples drawn from Emirati native language speakers and several exercises assessing the learner...

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  • CORPORA IN INTERPRETING STUDIES
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    CORPORA IN INTERPRETING STUDIES
    CHEUNG, EDITED BY ANDREW K. F
    Cheung, Liu, Moratto, and their contributors examine how corpora can be effectively harnessed to benefit interpreting practice and research in East Asian settings. In comparison to the achievements made in the field of corpus- based translation studies, the use of corpora in interpreting is not comparable in terms of scope, methods, and agenda. One of the predicaments that hamp...

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  • PERSONALIZED LEARNING
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    PERSONALIZED LEARNING
    CHEUNG, SIMON K.S.
    This self-contained monograph reports the recent approaches, methods and practices of technology-enabled personalized learning. It serves to provide some useful references for researchers and practitioners in the field in conceptualizing and deploying personalized learning. Personalized learning emphasizes student-centred learning that addresses individual learning strengths, n...

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  • FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING ASIA
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    FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS IN EMERGING ASIA
    CHEUNG, PAUL
    Foreign direct investments (FDI) play an integral role in the growth story of Emerging Asian economies. As an essential source of foreign capital, FDI bolsters the path to economic recovery from recessions, including the one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is a collection of essays investigating the reconfiguration of FDI flows to the Emerging Asian economies of ASEA...

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  • THE ART SONG IN EAST ASIA AND AUSTRALIA, 1900 TO 1950
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    THE ART SONG IN EAST ASIA AND AUSTRALIA, 1900 TO 1950
    ALISON MCQUEEN TOKITA AND JOYS H. Y. CHEUNG
    This book explores art song as an emblem of musical modernity in early twentieth-century East Asia and Australia. It appraises the lyrical power of art song – a solo song set to a poem in the local language in Western art music style accompanied by piano – as a vehicle for creating a localized musical identity, while embracing cosmopolitan visions. The study of art song reveals...

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  • THE GUIDE TO BUDDHIST COUNSELING
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    THE GUIDE TO BUDDHIST COUNSELING
    KIN CHEUNG LEE
    Buddhist concepts and practices have become increasingly popular and integrated into professional psychology. This book is the first to propose a theoretical orientation for counseling based on Early Buddhist teaching, and introduce it to counseling professionals for use in mental health treatment and practice. Lee begins his book by outlining the essential concepts required to...

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  • FACULTY MOBILITY
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    FACULTY MOBILITY
    JIN LIU / ALAN C.K. CHEUNG / FAN-SING HUNG
    Adopting curriculum vitae (CV) analysis method, this book collects CVs of university faculty from 109 universities of "The Double First Class University Plan" in China, and systematically analyses the mobility pattern of faculty in China for the first time. Examining the overall mobility frequency of Chinese faculty and its growing rate, the authors predict that after the epide...

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  • COMPARING DEFENSE INNOVATION AROUND THE WORLD
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    COMPARING DEFENSE INNOVATION AROUND THE WORLD
    TAI MING CHEUNG
    Gaining a decisive technological edge is a never-ending pursuit for defense establishments and the countries they protect. Intensifying geo-strategic and geo-economic rivalry among major powers, especially the U.S. and China, and the global technology revolution occurring in the civilian and military domains promise to reshape the nature and distribution of global power. This b...

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  • QUANTITY SURVEYING PRACTICE
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    QUANTITY SURVEYING PRACTICE
    CHUNG WAI CALVIN KEUNG / KAM LAN DAISY YEUNG / SAI ON CHEUNG
    Quantity Surveying Practice: The Nuts and Bolts is a practical guide to quantity surveying in building construction. Due to the increasing expectations of quality and performance from project clients, quantity surveyors must improve their professional skills to solve a variety of intricate problems and disputes confronting the demanding construction market. This practical book ...

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  • ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT
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    ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT
    MEE-YAN CHEUNG-JUDGE / LINDA HOLBECHE
    Organization Development (OD) is key to ensuring that organizations and their people can adapt to and engage in ongoing change in today's fast-paced and competitive world. How can those responsible for managing change determine the most appropriate course of action for their organization's needs and maximize capability? Written by two of the leading experts in the field, Organi...

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  • HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING IN CHINESE SOCIETIES
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    HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING IN CHINESE SOCIETIES
    CHAU-KIU CHEUNG / XIAODONG YUE
    This book addresses the sustainability of happiness and well-being in Chinese societies. It starts by introducing the various conceptions of well-being, particularly in the Chinese sociocultural context. The book then proceeds with the examination of the sustainability of well-being by scrutinizing the effects of sociocultural, contextual, and personal factors on well-being. Th...

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  • SOIL NAILING
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    SOIL NAILING
    RAYMOND CHEUNG / KEN HO
    Soil nailing is an in situ soil reinforcement technique that can be used to enhance the stability of slopes, retaining walls, embankments, and excavations. It involves installation of closely spaced, relatively slender unstressed tension-carrying structural elements into the ground to stabilize the soil mass. These elements, which are called soil nails, comprise steel or other ...

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  • EMIRATI ARABIC
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    EMIRATI ARABIC
    TOMMI TSZ-CHEUNG LEUNG / DIMITRIOS NTELITHEOS / MEERA AL KAABI
    Emirati Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar offers readers a reference tool for discovering and studying in detail the specific dialect of Arabic spoken in the United Arab Emirates. It covers all major areas of Emirati Arabic grammar, describing in detail its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic systems. Each grammatical point is illustrated with numerous examples d...

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  • GREEN FINANCE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
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    GREEN FINANCE, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE
    FANNY M CHEUNG / YINGYI HONG
    Can China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) promote sustainable development, alongside its primary aims of increasing commercial connectivity with China’s partners? In discussions of the BRI the focus has tended to be on the implications for infrastructure construction, connectivity, and economic diplomacy. Rather less attention has been paid to its potential impact on sustainab...

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  • THE FINITE STRIP METHOD
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    THE FINITE STRIP METHOD
    Y. K. CHEUNG / L. G. THAM
    The increase in the popularity and the number of potential applications of the finite strip method has created a demand for a definitive text/reference on the subject. Fulfilling this demand, The Finite Strip Method provides practicing engineers, researchers, and students with a comprehensive introduction and theoretical development, and a complete treatment of current practica...

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  • TITLE IV-E CHILD WELFARE EDUCATION
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    TITLE IV-E CHILD WELFARE EDUCATION
    PATRICK LEUNG / ‎MONIT CHEUNG
    BSW/MSW education funded by Title IV-E of Social Security Act ("Title IV-E Child Welfare Education") is an important incentive to encourage social workers to stay in the child protection field. It aims to demonstrate the training partnership between universities and public child welfare agencies. This book contains essential research results with a focus on the impact of Title ...

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  • CREATIVITY IN CHINESE CONTEXTS
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    CREATIVITY IN CHINESE CONTEXTS
    CHAU-KIU CHEUNG / XIAODONG YUE
    Examining creativity in Chinese societies from both a personal and contextual standpoint, this ground-breaking book offers readers a unique insight into the Chinese mind. It provides a review of the nature, origins, and consequences of creativity, deriving from empirical evidence in the Chinese context. Specifically, the book unravels the conceptualization of creativity and its...

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  • DIAGNOSTIC ENDOMETRIAL PATHOLOGY 2E
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    DIAGNOSTIC ENDOMETRIAL PATHOLOGY 2E
    YEE KHONG / ANNIE NY CHEUNG / WENXIN ZHENG
    Endometrial cancer remains the most frequent gynaecological cancer in first world countries.This bench book on endometrial pathology distils the current literature to provide a practical text on endometrial pathology. Differential diagnosis is emphasised, and the clinical correlates of pathology are also stressed to make this a clinically useful book.Fully updated and including...

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  • MARKET LIBERALISM
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    MARKET LIBERALISM
    GORDON CHEUNG
    This study analyzes the overseas effect of the market force of US foreign policy toward China. Gordon Cheung puts forward the idea of "augmented market liberalism", arguing that the US was instrumental in making China a market economy. ...

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  • IDOL WORSHIP IN CHINESE SOCIETY
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    IDOL WORSHIP IN CHINESE SOCIETY
    XIAODONG YUE / CHAU-KIU CHEUNG
    This book introduces psychosocial studies of idol worship in Chinese societies. It reviews how idol worship is perceived in Chinese culture, history, and philosophy as well as how it differs from the concept of celebrity worship that is more dominant in Western literature. Using a pioneering hexagonal model of idol worship, this book explains how idol worship is affected by var...

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  • BIM AND BIG DATA FOR CONSTRUCTION COST MANAGEMENT
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    BIM AND BIG DATA FOR CONSTRUCTION COST MANAGEMENT
    WEISHENG LU / CHI CHEUNG LAI / TUNG TSE
    This book is designed to help practitioners and students in a wide range of construction project management professions to understand what building information modelling (BIM) and big data could mean for them and how they should prepare to work successfully on BIM-compliant projects and maintain their competencies in this essential and expanding area. In this book, the state-of...

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  • FAMILY SUPPORT AND FAMILY CENTRE SERVICES
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    FAMILY SUPPORT AND FAMILY CENTRE SERVICES
    ANDREW PITHOUSE / SARAH LINDSELL / MONIT CHEUNG
    Published in 1998, the aim of this book is to identify and explore key themes and issues around the realm of welfare practice in child and family social work - that is, family centre services and related community-based types of provision. The text addresses the impact and effectiveness of family centres in supporting children, families and communities. Emphasis is placed on co...

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  • MIDWIFERY IN CHINA
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    MIDWIFERY IN CHINA
    NGAI FEN CHEUNG / ROSEMARY MANDER
    The first book to present the history, ideas, life and works of Chinese midwives and birth attendants, this volume seeks to encapsulate and explain the changing ideas about the practice of midwifery in China. Using participant observations and interviews, it examines each phase of the development of midwifery in depth. Providing a systematic study of the existing literature and...

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  • PUBLIC TRUST IN MEDICAL RESEARCH?
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    PUBLIC TRUST IN MEDICAL RESEARCH?
    PHILIP CHEUNG / S. H. LEE
    It has been claimed by fertility experts that embryos can be screened for 6,000 diseases, thereby the risk of x-linked diseases can be minimised by 'cherry-picking' male embryos that do not carry the abnormal gene. If medical scientists continue to strive for cures, genetic aberrance in human could be a phenomenon of the past...This challenging book explores issues of professio...

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  • THE ECONOMIC ROOTS OF THE UMBRELLA MOVEMENT IN HONG KONG
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    THE ECONOMIC ROOTS OF THE UMBRELLA MOVEMENT IN HONG KONG
    LOUIS AUGUSTIN-JEAN / ANTHEA CHEUNG
    In the autumn of 2014, thousands of people, young and educated in their majority, occupied the chief business district and seat of the government in Hong Kong. The protest, known as the Umbrella Movement, called for ‘genuine democracy’, as well as a fairer social and economic system. The book aims to provide a dynamic framework to explain why socioeconomic forces converged to p...

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  • AIR CARGO IN MAINLAND CHINA AND HONG KONG
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    AIR CARGO IN MAINLAND CHINA AND HONG KONG
    ANMING ZHANG / GEORGE W.L. HUI / LAWRENCE C. LEUNG / WAIMAN CHEUNG
    Air traffic and the aviation industry have grown rapidly on the Chinese mainland in the two and a half decades since China's open door policy. Accession to the WTO will further stimulate trade and foreign direct investment (FDI), intensifying the demand for air cargo services. It will also open up the Chinese economy to foreign participation in the transportation and logistics ...

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  • EMERGING ADULTHOOD IN HONG KONG
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    EMERGING ADULTHOOD IN HONG KONG
    CHAU-KIU CHEUNG
    How emerging adults, broadly referring to those aged from 18 to 29 years old, fare in civic engagement, as compared with other adults is the focus of the present work. The work takes civic engagement to comprise prosociality in civil society, sustaining social institutions, and challenging institutions. Delineating a theoretical framework based on voluntaristic theory, the work...

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  • CHINA FACTORS
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    CHINA FACTORS
    GORDON CHEUNG
    China Factors offers a first-hand perspective on political and socio-economic changes in Hong Kong after the official changeover to control by China. It reflects the author's observations, personal encounters, interviews, and experiences, especially after 1997 when the changeover occurred, and also when the Asian financial crisis emerged.The focus here is on the political econo...

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