A Lifetime in Academia

A Lifetime in AcademiaRayson Huang began his studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Thirty four years later, in 1972, he became the University's first Chinese Vice Chancellor and served in that position until 1986. He sat on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and on the Drafting Committee that formulated China's Basic Law for Hong Kong after its return to China in 1997. In this lively and frank autobiography, Huang reflects on his diverse university career of

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comparative analysis of the logic of modern scientific thought and of traditional teachings generally referred to as mythological and mystical

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Systematically illustrates the inescapable racism of American conservatism

That philosophical assumption is characterized by the author as 'non-dualistic' and 'anthropocosmic'

Andrea Gondos highlights shifting intellectual and cultural boundaries in the early modern period

This book presents annotated English translations of a representative collection of songs attributed to this prolific poet making them accessible to an audience of students and scholars of medieval studies

and the paradoxical struggles against being dehumanized among immigrant workers in a slaughterhouse

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and China that explore the varying roles anticorruption efforts play in solidifying or disputing democratic and nondemocratic institutions and legitimacy

and intimate and profound character portrayals

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