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Weekly Picks (2026-04-01)

戰勝AI大企業面試趨勢 全球500強所需人才= Gain offer or game over
Author: 文化社會編委會
Subject: Employment interviewing--Artificial intelligence AND
Publication Info: 文化會社有限公司, 2024
ISBN: 9789887662976
Library Holding: 4/F A1 Business Administration, HF 5549.5 I6 Wen 2024
The AI era has arrived—transforming the global job market irreversibly. This book reveals that creativity is humanity's ultimate defense against artificial intelligence. Unlike the misconception that creativity is innate inspiration, it is a cultivable skill honed through deliberate practice. Using interview questions from Fortune 500 companies worldwide, this guide helps readers assess their capabilities and develop future-ready skills. Discover how creative thinking becomes your competitive advantage in tomorrow's employment landscape.
Interconnected world, lost connections : the amoebic world of social
Author: Mahajan, Sanjeev Kumar
Subject: Social media AND Social networks
Publication Info: Routledge, 2026
ISBN: 9781041125204
Library Holding: G/F C1 Circulation Counter (Borrowing Desk) : Items on Reserve, HM 741 Mah 2026
Interconnected world, lost connections : the amoebic world of socia as both a connective force and a source of fragmentation. Through amoeboid growth metaphors, the authors analyze how social platforms revolutionize global communication while creating unprecedented challenges. The book explores participatory politics, misinformation, privacy erosion, crisis response, and digital governance across twelve thematic chapters. Written by leading Indian scholars, it addresses communication professionals, policymakers, and educators. Rather than advocating disconnection, the authors propose reimagining connection through responsibility, awareness, and purpose in our age of digital integration.
Spoiled : Asian American hostility and the damage of repair
Author: Kim Lee, Summer, 1988-
Subject: Asian American art--Themes, motives AND Aesthetics--Psychological aspects
Publication Info: Duke University Press, 2025
ISBN: 9781478032052
Library Holding: 2/F A3 Education & Arts, N 6538 A83 Kim 2025
In Spoiled, Summer Kim Lee explores how contemporary Asian American artists challenge expectations that their work repair racial trauma. Through analyzing visual culture, performance, music, and literature, the author examines the "spoiled" racialized body and its destructive desires. Lee reveals latent hostility and negative affects in Asian American aesthetics—social embarrassment, imposed speech, ravenous appetites—questioning fantasies of wholeness and control. The book interrogates political desires for repair while embracing damage and spoilage as integral to reimagining what Asian American recovery might mean.
粤港澳大湾区法律规则衔接研究. 民间借貸篇 = Legal rule alignment in the Guangdong--Hong Kong--Macao Greater Bay Area : a study on private lending cases
Author: 卞飞主编
Subject: Loans, Personal--Law and legislation--China AND Loans--Law and legislation--China
Publication Info: 法律出版社, 2024
ISBN: 9787519789213
Library Holding: 4/F C1 Law & Public Administration, KNQ 891 Yue 2024
This book is a systematic study of legal rules governing private lending across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau within the Greater Bay Area framework. Published by the Shenzhen Qianhai Cooperation Zone People's Court, it analyzes regulatory differences and judicial practices based on the "Qianhai Plan" and "Qianhai Opinion." By addressing complex transnational legal issues, the work provides clear guidance for cross-border commercial entities, promoting legal harmonization and advancing regional integration and economic cooperation.
朱光潛 談讀書=[Zhu Guangqian on Reading]
Author: 朱光潛
Subject: Books and reading AND Study skills
Publication Info: 五南圖書, 2024
ISBN: 9786263666412
Library Holding: 5/F B4 Library and Information Science, Z 1003 Chu 2024
In this enlightening work, Zhu Guangqian, a pioneering Chinese aesthetician, shares profound insights on reading. Emphasizing "good books deserve repeated reading," he advocates quality over quantity, precision over randomness. The author guides readers through selecting worthy books, engaging in deep reading, and transforming inert knowledge into living wisdom. His doctrine of "broad learning with close focus" reveals the intimate connection between reading and scholarly pursuits. Infused with aesthetic sensibility and scholarly humility, these essays offer practical guidance and philosophical depth for cultivating both intellect and character.
The fear of witchcraft and witches in imperial China : figurines, familiars and demons
Author: Haar, B. J. ter, editor
Subject: Witchcraft--China--History AND Witches--China--History
Publication Info: Brill, 2025
ISBN: 9789004713680
Library Holding: G/F C1 Circulation Counter (Borrowing Desk) : Items on Reserve, BF 1584 C5 Fea 2025
This groundbreaking study by Barend J. ter Haar fills a crucial gap in global witchcraft history by examining the Chinese case systematically. The book explores two distinct forms of witchcraft fear in traditional China: figure-magic targeting individuals in personal conflicts, and demon-familiar sorcery creating community-wide panic and social exclusion. Drawing on extensive historical evidence, ter Haar reveals how supernatural anxieties shaped social structures, moral systems, and collective psychology. At 440 pages, this authoritative work by Oxford and Hamburg professor offers unprecedented insights into how Chinese civilization understood and responded to magical threats.
中國古代的鬼魂與宗教生活= Ghosts and religious life in early China
Author: 蒲慕州
Subject: Ghosts--China--History AND Ghosts--China--Folklore
Publication Info: 聯經出版, 2024
ISBN: 9789570871555
Library Holding: 2/F A3 Education & Arts, BF 1472 C5 Pu 2024
Ghosts and Religious Life in Early China by Pu Muzhou is a groundbreaking academic study examining the evolution of ghost beliefs in ancient Chinese civilization. The book traces how concepts of ghosts shaped religious practices, social customs, and cultural imagination across different historical periods. Through comparative analysis with ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, the author illuminates the universal significance of ghost beliefs in human societies. This 280-page work masterfully integrates scholarly rigor with accessible prose, offering essential insights into how supernatural concepts influenced people's daily lives and spiritual worldviews.
厚土无疆 : 古代中國的今生與來世=[Boundless Land: Ancient China's Present and Future]
Author: Rawson, Jessica
Subject: Tombs--China--History AND China--Social life and customs--To 221 B.C
Publication Info: 中信出版社, 2025
ISBN: 9787521777512
Library Holding: G/F C1 Circulation Counter (Borrowing Desk) : Items on Reserve, DS 719 Raw 2025
This masterwork by renowned sinologist Jessica Rawson explores ancient China's formative period through twelve remarkable tomb sites spanning three millennia. Integrating archaeology, history, geography, and art history, Rawson reconstructs the vibrant world of early Chinese civilization before the Qin unification. The work illuminates material culture—jade, bronze, silk, ceramics—and the unique cosmology shaping ancestral veneration. By emphasizing interactions between peripheral regions and the Central Plains, it reveals how diverse external influences fundamentally shaped the development of Chinese civilization's foundational institutions.
香港基督教史 (1807-1997) = History of Christianity in Hong Kong
Author: 李志剛, 1939-
Subject: Hong Kong (China)--Church history AND Christianity--China--Hong Kong
Publication Info: 三聯書店(香港), 2024
ISBN: 9789620454073
Library Holding: 2/F A3 Education & Arts, BR 1295 H7 Li 2024
History of Christianity in Hong Kong (1807-1997) is a comprehensive work by six renowned Hong Kong scholars that traces Christianity's 190-year journey in Hong Kong. The book charts the religion's development from missionary endeavors in Macau through the British colonial period to Hong Kong's return to China. It details the church's pioneering contributions in education, healthcare, and social welfare, examines how Christian communities responded to Japanese occupation, war, refugee crises, and political transitions. This 336-page volume provides essential insights into how Christianity shaped Hong Kong's social fabric and cultural identity.
大英帝國衰亡史=[The History of the Decline and Fall of the British Empire]
Author: 中西輝政, 1947-
Subject: Great Britain--History--19th century AND Great Britain--History--20th century
Publication Info: 遠足文化, 2025
ISBN: 9786267647035
Library Holding: 3/F C2 History & Geography, DA 530 Nak 2025
The History of the Decline and Fall of the British Empire, authored by renowned Japanese scholar Terumasa Nakanishi, examines how the world's most powerful empire gradually lost its dominance from the late 19th to mid-20th century. The book analyzes the British Empire as a "system of prestige" governed by intellectual elites, revealing the multifaceted causes of its decline. Drawing on international political history and diplomatic analysis, Nakanishi presents a comprehensive yet elegant narrative of how empires transition from global supremacy to graceful decline, offering timeless lessons for understanding great-power politics.
东亚视阈下的明初中琉关系研究(1368-1435)=[A Study of Sino-Ryukyuan Relations in the Early Ming Dynasty from an East Asian Perspective (1368-1435)]
Author: 李健
Subject: China--Foreign relations--Japan--Ryukyu Islands AND Ryukyu Islands--Foreign relations--China
Publication Info: 中國社会科学出版社, 2024
ISBN: 9787522732916
Library Holding: 3/F C2 History & Geography, DS 740.5 R9 Li 2024
This book examines Ming-Ryukyu relations spanning nearly seventy years, viewing them within the broader framework of East Asian regional order evolution. Historian Li Jian analyzes major diplomatic events including imperial edicts, tributary missions, and cultural exchanges. The work systematically explores China-Ryukyu interactions while examining their connections to the Northern Yuan, Goryeo, Joseon, Japan, and Japanese pirates. By reconstructing a comprehensive picture of early Ming East Asian diplomatic relations, the book illuminates the interconnectedness of regional states and the complex dynamics of regional order construction during this transformative historical period.