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A Quick and Dirty Guide to Art, Music, and Culture

This is a guidebook where we discuss art and music in the context of popular culture, so chances are you will see relationships between art and music and what you are learning and the way you live, to connect them to your own experience.

Subjects:: Performing Arts and Visual Arts
Keywords:: Popular culture Art Modern Music History
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Hong Kong History and Society

Developed by the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 2009, the Hong Kong History and Society archived various types of historical materials, including manuscripts, genealogy records, photos, Hong Kong Blue Books v.1844 - 1938, etc.

Subjects:: Hong Kong Studies
Keywords:: China -- Hong Kong Manners customs History
Resource Type:: Others

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道教經典文庫

This collection of Qing Daoist texts will contribute to the study of history of Daoism in the Qing Dynasty. Daoist scholars rarely examine the history of Qing Daoism mainly due to the deficiency of primary sources. Some researchers even mistakenly conclude that the period from Qing to the Republic is the time of declination of Daoism. As it is known, although each of the major empire compiled the Daoist Canon, there is no such project from the Qing dynasty to the 20th century after the publication of Daoist Scriptures of the Great Ming (Da Ming Daozang Jing) under the reign of Ming Yingzong and the Scriptures in Supplement to the Daoist Canon of The Great Ming (Da Ming Xu Daozang Jing) in the 35th Wanli year of the late Ming.

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Taoist literature Chinese
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China and the West: music, representation, and reception

China and the West: Music, Representation, and Reception' is the first book to explore how Chinese and Western musical materials and traditions—those involving instruments, melodies, rhythms, staged diversions (including operas and musical comedies), concert works, film scores, and digital recordings of several kinds—have gradually moved closer together and become increasingly accepted, as well as exploited, in Asia as well as Europe and North America. Although aimed in large part at a scholarly audience, China and the West should appeal to general readers of many kinds: those interested in politics, cultural history and theory, gender studies, sociology, theater, and media studies as well as musical composition and performance of ‘classical’ as well as traditional and popular kinds.

Subjects:: Performing Arts
Keywords:: Music -- Western influences China Exoticism in music Music -- Chinese influences Orientalism in music Music
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漫畫中的文化大革命：廣州的諷刺宣傳畫 1966-1977

The collection “The Cultural Revolution in Images: Caricature-Posters from Guangzhou 1966-1977” showcases the two hundred and sixteen original posters from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Library. The posters are divided into two groups: Red Guards’ posters dated between 1966-1967; and images produced against the Gang of Four dated between 1976-1977. The aim of this digital collection is to make these valuable visual sources available to the academic community, and to allow scholars to employ them for research and teaching.

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: Cultural Revolution (China : 1966-1976) Caricatures cartoons
Resource Type:: Image

Courseware

Environmental Ethics, Justice, and World Views

In this course we introduce the concept of environmental ethics, a philosophy that extends the ethical concepts we traditionally apply to human behavior to the natural world. We will study the history of environmental ethics, the concept of environmental justice, and explore how our views about the natural world have changed over time. Philosophers have debated the concept of environmental ethics since the 1800s, although many consider it to be a relatively new discipline. In this course we identify key pioneers and events that have helped shape the global effort to help preserve our planet for future generations and species. We explore the notion of environmental justice and witness how a disregard for the environment can negatively impact entire communities. Finally, we explore political efforts that have promoted environmental sustainability in the United States and Europe. We see how our ethical beliefs and moral worldview can help shape the laws and regulations we create, in terms of our sense of ethical responsibility, social justice, and environmental sustainability.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Environmental ethics
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歷史管理

This course covers various chinese culture incidents and their implications.

Subjects:: Chinese Studies
Keywords:: History Management China
Resource Type:: Courseware

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Modern Revolutions

In this course, we study some of the most important political revolutions that took place between the 17th century and today. We explore the causes of each revolution, analyze the ideologies that inspired the revolutionaries, examine revolutionary uses of violence, and consider how historical revolutions still shape contemporary politics. Close and critical readings of historical sources are critical to this process.