在人生的旅途上,人所作出的行動選擇是「對」或「錯」往往乃視自己能否適當的調整與本身有關的「共在」關係而定,這些共在關係例如有個人與群體,理性與感性,物質與精神,善與惡,有與無,表與裏,正與不正,私利與公利,精明與單純,進與退,動與靜,合與分,剛與柔,損與益,得與失,中與偏,我與真我,對政治、經濟與社會境況的應對等。人的行為例如「時行則行,時止則止」,「進退有度」,「剛柔轉化」,「剛柔配對」,「外柔內剛」,「外剛內柔」,「剛柔相濟」,「以柔制剛」,「以剛制柔」,「向善去惡」,「堅持與靈活」等等都需要具有「適時」、「適位」與「適中」的判斷力與適應力。而要提高人的認識能力就必需具有辯證力與推演力,才能引導出適當的判斷力。《易經》的太極思維就是辯證思維,易卦與太極陰陽圖像是辯證思維的分析工具,能提高人對境況與情景變動的辨識力。人的行為可從太極思維的角度來觀察與分析,太極思維包含了陰陽思維。當觀察的對象是一個整體時,就是整體思維「一」的觀念。當對觀察的對象作深層的分析時就轉化為「一分二」的多角性陰陽思維。通過太極與陰陽思維的分析,就能對人的行為與有關的共在關係具有較深層的認識,人有了對共在關係的認識,就會在「做人」與「做事」方面有了原則,有助於自身行為的適當抉擇。這是一本談論辯證力、變通力與修養的書,也是一本談思考方法的書。
「人人生而平等。」 「不自由,毋寧死。」 人在社會,既學習獨立自主,亦要活在一起,在家庭、學校、工作等各樣制度之下,互相依存。道德和理性有何重要價值?自由與平等是否非此即彼?本書作者認為羅爾斯所代表的自由主義左翼傳統提供的正義社會圖像,值得我們認真對待,並真誠地提出實踐之可能。 「我翻讀本書各章,既欽佩他的為學之認真、思考之縝密、追問之不懈,更注意到他的強烈道德關懷與社會意識在文字之後搏動,知道政治哲學於他不僅是知性的探索,也是追求理想社會和美好人生的困勉之旅。」─錢永祥(臺灣中央研究院)
為激發孩子們潛在的詩意,北島精心挑選101首中外名詩。除中文外,涉及阿拉伯語、希伯來語、丹麥語等近二十個外文語種,使中文世界的孩子得以跨越語言的邊界,獲得多元的精神養料、開拓世界文化的廣闊視野。作為開放性的經典詩歌選本,因編者的眼光與熱忱,品質的突出和優異,勢必在漢語世界產生廣泛、持久而巨大的影響。「讓孩子天生的直覺和悟性,開?詩歌之門,越年輕越好……對於命運中的幸運而言,詩歌正如點燃火炬──某種意義上,詩歌之光照亮突然醒來的人。」──北島
本書包含了何浩2003–2013年間的主要作品,及部分作品的創作手記。從2000年代開始至今,何浩作為一個獨立設計者,為包括艾未未、徐冰等數十位中國當代藝術最具代表性的藝術家設計了超過百部的書籍。他的工作伴隨著中國當代藝術的發展,使本書成為了一部獨特的中國當代藝術文獻。從書中收錄的作品可以看出,何浩設計中蘊含的特質,既迥異於當下中國的平面設計流行範式,也與西方過度職業化下的設計形態相疏離,顯示出了一種生長於東方文化與本土之上的當代性,由此也提示了平面設計當代轉向的一種可能。何浩的設計是從內容中生長出來的,它只關心如何發現和呈現內容本身的價值,卻不露「設計」痕跡,這種設計理念不妨稱為「元設計」。——徐冰何浩是一位迷戀時空對話的設計家,他敏感於歷史的壓力,萬物的嬗變,他在沉思冥想中安身立命,成為商業化外的獨行者。——北島An independent print-media practitioner, He Hao has been working with distinctive and representative artists in the Chinese contemporary art world, including Ai Weiwei, Xu Bing, etc., and designed more than 100 high-quality books and catalogs since 2003. Recording the current state of art development in China, his works have become an archive of significance. He Hao’s practice shows an Asian trend in today’s graphic design: the replacement of transplanted Modernism with a contemporaneity informed by the culture and lifestyle of contemporary China and the East.He Hao’s designs grow organically from the content. His sole concern is the discovery and presentation of the content, and his designs show no trace of his hand. This approach might best be called “essential design.” ——Xu BingHe Hao is a designer infatuated with the dialogue between space and time. Sensitive to both the pressures of history and the endless transformations of all life forms, he remains in deep and focused meditation, a lone sojourner outside the commercial realm.——Bei Dao
The JINTIAN [今天] series of contemporary literature features new and innovative writing from mainland China and abroad. Titles in the series are edited by Bei Dao, Lydia H. Liu, and Christopher Mattison.A collaborative venture between Zephyr Press, the Jintian Literary Foundation, and The Chinese University Press, each bilingual title highlights the ever-changing literary culture of China while simultaneously expanding the English language with a wave of new voices in translation.
A Pragmatist and His Free Spirit portrays the unconventional love between a Chinese social reformer and an American avant-garde artist. Hu Shi was a student at Cornell when he first met Edith Clifford Williams. They exchanged some 300 letters between 1914 and 1962; these, alongside Hu’s diaries, poems and other correspondence, provide the substance of this book. In Williams, Hu met his intellectual match. She helped him reconcile his self-image as an independent thinker with his acquiescence to an arranged marriage. Best known for his contribution to China’s Literary Revolution, Hu’s experimental vernacular poetry was partly inspired by his exposure to Williams’s avant-garde art.In reconstructing their romance, the authors deftly exemplify the dilemmas which confronted a generation of Chinese intellectuals, particularly those educated in the West. Although Hu shared his contemporaries’ patriotic h
你家中的小孩子,是否出現了如下的問題: ‧注意力不集中 ‧不能認讀文字及理解文章意義,字體潦草 ‧口齒不清,不能表達語意 ‧動作笨拙,手腳不協調 ‧IQ高,然而學業成績欠佳事實上,孩子的這些行為都屬於不同類型「學習差異」的特徵。那麼到底有甚麼解決的方法?本書便是專門針對一些心智健全,看起來與普通孩子無異,但在學習上卻遇上不同程度困難的兒童。這些學習差異的問題若不能改善,會窒礙孩子的正常發展。本書通過介紹各種學習差異,包括專注力不足、過度活躍症、讀寫障礙、語言溝通障礙、感覺統合困難、資優以及多重特殊需要,深入淺出地分析學習差異的特徵、評估 及改善方法,協助父母和老師及早識別孩子的實際學習困難,並嘗試發掘他們的潛能,協助這些「不一樣的孩子」走上正常發展之路。
This work is the result of a co-operation between a social anthropologist and a social historian and is focused on the social evolution of Southern China. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork study in the Pearl River Delta, which is the heartland of the Cantonese-speaking world, the book explores how the ordinary people and their society evolved in a period of time characterized by drastic change.The study reports on how history supplies people with a repository for the future and accounts for how their march towards modernity is, at the same time, a reconstruction of a tradition.
本書主要根據實錄、政書、地方志、督撫奏議及《申報》、《萬國公報》,旁考近代中外學人研究成果,對光緒初年華北大旱災的發生背景、破壞性、被災省分及中央政府賑濟措施、成效及災荒影響,都有專章作詳細而深入的論述。