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      • Proverse Hong Kong

        Proverse Hong Kong is a Hong Kong-based press publishing local and international authors with local and international content, including:  English-language and translated literary novels, short story and poetry collections, detective stories, mysteries and thrillers, non-fiction (biography, memoirs, travel, china missionary, education and law-court history; source materials including annotated archival transcriptions) ; poetry anthologies; YA fiction; books for students; academic studies (mainly with a Hong Kong and Hong Kong China focus). Formats: paperback, hardback, POD, e-books, audio. Publication awards: from local and international cultural bodies. Events: Spring and Autumn Receptions in Hong Kong with prize announcements and awards, book launches, authors’ brief talks. Prizes: We offer two annual international prizes for writing previously unpublished in English: 1) the Proverse Prize  for book-length works of fiction, non-fiction, or poetry; 2) the Proverse Poetry Prize  for single poems (max 30 lines). Open to all, 18+ irrespective of residence, nationality or citizenship.  Annual entry periods: 7 May-30 June. More information: proversepublishing.com

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2019 - December 2024

        How Did Confucius Form?

        by Bao Pengshan

        This book interprets Confucius's thoughts and remarks in prose from the aspects of moral cultivation, social and political ideals, educational ideas, Confucius figures, life and death, and so on. It elucidates the modern value of Confucius's thought, and transfers the connotation and strength of culture.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2017

        Asia in Western fiction

        by Robin Winks

        Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.

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        July 2021

        Confucius' Family Words

        by Huang Dunbin

        This book records the thoughts and words of Confucius and his disciples, and much of its content concerns major historical and cultural events, such as Confucius' travels around the world, his questioning of Laozi, his replies to the ruler of his country, and his discussions on the rituals and music system and history and nature. The Confucius Family Sayings has long been questioned as an apocryphal book, but unearthed documents from the 20th century prove that the book is not apocryphal, although there are traces of later collation and reorganisation. In the study of Confucius' disciples and Confucian family studies, the book has more obvious advantages than the Historical Records; in presenting an overall image of early Confucianism and interpreting the history of the three generations, the book has irreplaceable value. Some scholars believe that the Confucian Family Sayings is of higher value than the Analects of Confucius and is the "first book of Confucianism".

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        Philosophy

        Confucius teaches you to be a teacher

        by Sun Hanzhou

        This book is an education theory book which looks backtwo thousand and five hundred years ago to learn from thewisdom of Confucius.

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        1995

        King Kong, Spock & Drella

        Was Sie schon immer über amerikanische Popkultur wissen wollten

        by Scheck, Denis

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        Food & Drink

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food

        by Lam Chua

        Lam Chua: Travel Notes on Food involves Mr. Chua's travel notes and random thoughts on his trip for savoring food. He experiences around the world from Moscow to Buenos Aires, feasting your eyes on European and American styles and customs; he travels around China from Dalian of Liaoning to Sheung Wan of Hong Kong, savoring local culture and cuisines; he talks about food from cup noodles and sauce to fish roes and curry, airing opinions and making comments in passionate language. Besides, the book is illustrated by the Hong Kong talented artist as well as Mr. Chua's dedicated illustrator Ms. Meilo So. Her loose, flowing, and easily recognizable style add more appeal and interest to the book.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences

        Teenagers Reading Chinese Philosophy

        by Zhang Jiahua

        In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of ancient China, the philosophical views of various schools met and contended, arousing a more brilliant spark of wisdom. The epic and unprecedented movement in the academy world was called the "Contention of a Hundred Schools of Thought." Scholars of various schools have written their wisdom achievements that they strove to secure through lifetime hard work into their own academic works, leaving us with a timeless ideological wealth that can teach us morals and enlighten our wisdom.   With simple and fluent texts and concise interpretation, Teenagers Reading Chinese Philosophy systematically introduces the essence of the philosophical thoughts of philosophers including Confucius, Mencius, Mozi, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Xun Kuang, and Han Feizi. As an enlightening book of Chinese philosophy designed for children, it eliminates the barriers to reading classical Chinese in the pre-Qin period, and makes the "abstruse and mysterious" philosophy easy for children to understand.

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        Fiction
        January 2017

        Farewells on Earth

        by LIU Wen

        LIU Wen, winner of Hong Kong Youth Literary Awards, records stories about love, growing-up and courage of life in a huge, indifferent city.

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        Food & Drink

        Infinite possibility of Creative Coffee

        by Lin Dongyuan

        Written by the Asia Barista Championship judge Lin Dongyuan, the book sheds light on general knowledge and key points of creative coffee and includes 62 recipes. No matter you are a coffee lover, barista, or candidate for a barista competition, the book can offer some necessary guidance. (Hong Kong rights sold.)

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        January 2013

        Sigh In Millennium

        by Yu Qiu Yu

        Record the experience, inspiration and thinking of Mr Yu Qiuyu in his trek for 40,000 km when he followed the “Travel in Millennium” overland motorcade of Phoenix Satellite Television in Hong Kong at the beginning of millennium year. The author records and writes as he advances. This travel has stretched across the Eurasia, and he witnesses with words the great historical sites which are famous all over the world.

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        Fiction

        Never Gets Old

        by Ye Mi

        This book is filled with the obsessive search for and practice of desire, love, freedom and happiness, and bears witness to the confusion and excitement of young men and women in the course of time. One era has ended and a new one is about to dawn. Some people leave, others retired, some grow old. Only Kong Yanni, the main character of the novel, never grows old because of the love in her heart.

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        Children's & YA

        Talk with the tree

        by Jin Bo

        The book was a collection of prose by Jin Bo, a well-known children's literature writer. The author has devoted to children's literature creation for more than 50 years and produced a great many of classic prose. The book selected Jin’s works over the years. The articles of the book were written in standard modern Chinese. They are touching and graceful and are not just for young mothers but for adults to mouldtheir temperament. Many of the articles have been chosen by various Chinese textbooks in the Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        September 2024

        Covert colonialism

        by Florence Mok

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