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e-book

經濟學？講呢啲！

Chang Ha-Joon, Reader of Cambridge University once said, people tend to think that economics is difficult, and should be left for the experts; even economists share the same mood, it should better be left to us!
Nevertheless, everybody engage in economic activities everyday. Can’t we just understand economics with common sense? Suffocated by technical jargons, can economics really help us to better grasp economic reality? Or, are they merely chicaneries misleading the whole world……including top government officials who often suffer from Intellectual disability?!
It is time to awaken, and let us demystify economics together!
劍橋大學經濟學教授張夏準曾說：人們往往覺得經濟學高深莫測，若非專家不宜評頭品足；就連不少經濟學家也這樣想，經濟學還是留給我們這些專家好了！
問題在於：每個人每日都在參與經濟活動，難道就不能用常識來了解經濟？經濟學故弄玄虛的專業術語，真能幫助我們更加認識經濟現實？抑或那只是一套「語言偽術」，一直愚弄著全世界的所有人……包括那些欠缺思考能力的決策官員？
是時候共同掃盲，齊齊走出經濟學的迷障！

Subjects:: Economics
Keywords:: Economics
Resource Type:: e-book

MOOC

紅樓夢

這門課是對中國小說經典《紅樓夢》的分析與詮釋，著重於認識讀者本身與經典間的關係，並從作者的時代背景與社會階層著手，重新剖析這部人所共愛、人各有所擁戴的經典之作。

Subjects:: Chinese Literature
Keywords:: Hong lou meng (Cao Xueqin) Cao Xueqin approximately 1717-1763
Resource Type:: MOOC

Others

粵語審音配詞字庫

This database is constructed on the basis of two earlier databases developed by the Research Centre for the Humanities Computing (formerly the Humanities Computing Programme). Since the appearance of the Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton in 1996 and the Chinese Talking Syllabary of the Cantonese Dialect: An Electronic Repository in 1998, we have been receiving notes of gratitude from users from all over the Internet. Out of the many suggestions they made, the crucial one was the expansion of our databases from a pure syllabary structure into one which covers semantic information of the characters. In response to this suggestion of our users, in particular their concern for the semantic disambiguation of Chinese polyphonic characters, a database carrying the current title was planned. Being functionally versatile and user-friendly like its two predecessors, the current new database excels further in the following respects: This fully revised and expanded database covering the complete Big5 Chinese character set is now the most comprehensive syllabary of the Cantonese dialect on the Internet. It covers in the first place the syllabric data of four major works, namely, 1) S. L. Wong's A Chinese Syllabary Pronounced according to the Dialect of Canton, 2) Li Chomin's Lishi Zhongwen Zidian, 3) Zhou Wuji and Rao Bingcai's Guangzhou Hua Biaozunyin Zihui and 4) Richard Ho and Chu Kwok-fan's Yuehyin Zhengdu Zihui. To make up what is still missing, linguistic information of nine other major works are consulted. To take into account the linguistic reality of the Hong Kong society, vernacular pronunciation data provided by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong are also included. Besides pronunciations, typical word-forms or vocabularies are provided for every character in this database. These word-forms are grouped with respect to the proper pronunciation(s) of the respective head characters so that users can disambiguate polyphonic characters that are phonologically ambiguous. In cases where common vocabularies are not readily available, brief remarks or explanations will be given. It supports up to seven transciption (romanization) schemes of the Cantonese dialect. Users can switch from one scheme to the other wherever necessary. When a certain head character is being featured, basic information such as pronunciation(s), homophones, vocabularies etc. are tabulated. In addition to these, further lexical information related to that particular character will also be provided for easy reference, as, for instances, internal codes (Big5 and Unicode), Cangjie input code, radical belonging , number of strokes, basic English translation, pagination of important references and hyperlinks pointing to various online resources. We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Ms. Ginny Chan, former instructor of Yale-China Chinese Language Center, CUHK, for her courtesy in demonstrating 1,900 unique Cantonese pronunciations on a volunteer basis.

Course related:: CBS 3407 Chinese Academic Writing in Language and Speech Science, CBS532 Description of Chinese I: Words and Sentences, CBS4901 Contrastive Analysis of Chinese and English, and CBS514 Introduction to Cantonese studies
Subjects:: Chinese Language
Keywords:: Chinese language -- Dialects Dictionaries Cantonese dialects -- Pronunciation
Resource Type:: Others

Video

穿上個人防護裝備 [in Cantonese]

A video showing the steps to put on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Medical personnel -- Health hygiene Cross infection -- Prevention Medical personnel -- Clothing Infection -- Prevention
Resource Type:: Video

Video

穿上个人防护装备 [in Mandarin]

A video showing the steps to put on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).

Subjects:: Nursing
Keywords:: Medical personnel -- Health hygiene Cross infection -- Prevention Medical personnel -- Clothing Infection -- Prevention
Resource Type:: Video

MOOC

用 Python 做商管程式設計（一）

本系列課程從零開始，教授一般認為最適合初學者的程式語言「Python」，目標是讓大家在完成本課程之後，一方面獲得程式設計與運算思維的基本概念，一方面也能獨立寫出能解決運算問題的程式。本課程和一般程式設計課程最不同的地方，在於它是以解決商管領域的運算問題為導向，因此課程不會只含有質因數分解、紅球白球排列組合、三角不等式、萬年曆、數字排序等傳統程式設計課程的範例與作業，而是包含了生產、物流、存貨、投資、定價等問題，讓大家在學會程式設計的同時，也直接體會程式設計與資訊技術在商管領域的各種應用。本系列課程共分為三門課程。本門課程做為第一門課程，將介紹程式設計的基本觀念、Python 語言的基本語法、選擇、迴圈、清單，並以作業管理領域的一些簡單演算法作結。

Course related:: MM2425 Introduction to Business Analytics
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Python (Computer program language)
Resource Type:: MOOC

Video

理大人文傑出講座系列 - 日常生活中的語言學

我們的日常生活每時每刻都離不開語言，每一個人都會對語言中發生的問題感興趣，但是卻並不知道這些生活中的語言問題有沒有學術研究價值。本講座將以日常生活中的語言現象為例，重點介紹語言研究的選題、研究方法和研究路徑，以期對研究生的選題和論文寫作以及語言的跨學科研究有所啟發。
日期：2023年9月15日
講者：崔希亮教授
主辦：人文學院

Subjects:: Language and Languages
Keywords:: Sociolinguistics
Resource Type:: Video

Image

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.