Using primary and secondary sources from China, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, this work revisits the wars during the period from international, political, military, and economic-financial perspectives. It sheds new light on Zhang Zuolin’s decision to fight against the Nationalists and the Communists and offers an alternative explanation to the Nationalists (temporary) victory by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during the interwar period.

本書為《東瀛遺珠：近代香港的日本人紀錄》叢書的第二冊，由《香港要覽》、《香港的工業》、《香港事情概要》、《香港的金融機關》四部份組成，內容主要為大正時代的日本人圍繞香港政治、經濟、軍事、金融等各方面的調查紀錄。

K.K. Mark’s bronze mirrors range in date from the Warring States period to the Ming and Qing periods, and the majority of them date from the Song to the Qing. There are numerous challenges in the study of transmitted bronze mirrors, which have been collected either by individuals or by public or private institutes in China or elsewhere. Recently, archaeologically excavated bronzes have attracted much attention; on the other hand, new directions for research breakthroughs on transmitted bronzes are still being explored. Scholars interested in the study of Chinese ritual and music have ignored bronze mirrors because transmitted texts have not described mirrors as material symbols of the elite of Chinese civilizations. Bronzes of the Song-to-Qing period have been seen as representative of a period
of comprehensive decline. Thus, scholars have expressed little interest in studying these mirrors. Moreover, due to the flat and almost two-dimensional (2-D) structure of the mirrors, the manufacturing technologies of mirrors have been deemed simple and coarse. Breakthroughs in mirror studies await future discoveries. The collection of mirrors donated by K.K. Mark provides us with ample research materials. Study of this collection allows us to explore many aspects of the mirror industry and, specifically, issues concerning the design and production of the mirrors. By researching the collection, we can investigate the history of material cultures over this long period. In this essay, I would like to: 1, reference the study of object-based design and production techniques to explore potential future avenues of research for transmitted Chinese bronzes; 2, re-examine mirrors produced in a time of so-called “comprehensive decline” and explore their sophistication, rather than describe them as “degraded products of inferior quality”; and 3, investigate the manufacturing techniques of the Mark’s mirrors through multiple perspectives, instead of considering them as “simple and coarse.” By doing so, I will perhaps reveal a larger world reflected in these small mirrors.

Sixty years demarcates a cycle in Chinese tradition. Evolving through the years to deliver “whole person education,” the Hong Kong Baptist University stands high at sixty, shining under the motto “Light and Truth.” For HKBU, the completion of this full cycle signified various milestones and achievements which have well-prepared the University in face of another promising cycle. As new challenges are anticipated, the University’s extraordinary journey serves as a constant reminder of the institution’s brave beginnings and future endeavors. After three years of in-depth research, Prof. Chow Kai Wing, Prof. Mak King Sang and Dr. Wong Man Kong, supported by their research team and colleagues of CPRO, have produced Reaching a New Milestone: Sixty Years of Excellence at Hong Kong Baptist University which highlights our university’s contributions to tertiary education, innovative research, community service and knowledge transfer over these years.

十九世紀初以來，自西徂東來華弘揚聖道宣教士發現寓居南洋華社、華南地區存在多種方言。因着這個社會語言人文現象，他們乃分別向潮汕、客家、廣府和閩南等方言羣傳播福音。今天，在全世界華人教會，方言仍是傳播福音、講壇宣道的重要媒介。
1949年新中國成立後，採行「三自愛國教會」之「國有化」政策，國內基督宗教出現「一體化」。海外華人教會則分途發展，其中除「國語」教會外，粵、閩、潮、客四大方言教會，成為海外華人教會的支流。可見方言教會，於近代中國基督教會之發展史上，自成一幟。隨着近日因世局丕變，種族、文化紛殊對立。各國學術界，相繼起而推動「族羣研究」，風氣日盛，從而影響近代中國基督教史學者開始關注方言教會的研究。2014年，建道神學院中國文化研究系與香港浸會大學歷史系、近代史研究中心合辦「中華族羣與基督教研討會」，邀請了香港、中國大陸、台灣和美國約三十位學者參與。本書即為研討會之成果。期盼對海內外華人教會史研究，作拋磚引玉之先導，以待來者。

第一次鴉片戰爭，表面上仍在盛世的清帝國被來自遠方的島國打敗，之後國勢急轉直下，對外屢戰屢敗。
面對從海上而來的強敵，中國海軍的知識、人才、技術和資源俱不足，海防建設更顯脆弱。值此危局，有志之士努力認識和學習海軍知識，招攬外國教官顧問，籌建艦隊和海防設施。期間走的冤枉路不少，花錢買教訓的經歷也不少。種種憂患到二十世紀還未離開中國，艱苦的歷程更為艱苦。
本書收錄的十七篇文章，有對清末海防的人物、知識、設備與佈局的細緻梳理，也有對抗戰結束後國民黨海軍發展歷程的深入追尋，還有對二十世紀上半葉香港海防風雲的忠實記錄。可以說，全書訴說的正是近代中國海防建設的經歷、苦難與奮鬥。

This book traces the origins of the Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood in Hong Kong and their history up to the early 1970s, and contributes to the neglected area of Chinese Catholic women in the history of the Chinese Catholic Church. It studies the growth of an indigenous community of Chinese sisters, who acquired a formal status in the local and universal Catholic Church, and the challenge of identifying Chinese Catholic women in studies dealing with the Chinese Church in the first half of the twentieth century, as these women remained "faceless" and "nameless" in contrast to their Catholic male counterparts of the period. Emphasizing the intertwining histories of the Hong Kong Church, the churches in China, and the Roman Catholic Church, it demonstrates how the history of the Precious Blood Congregation throws light on the formation and development of indigenous groups of sisters in contemporary China.

小說是文學的重要組成部分，文學是一個時代的縮影和寫照。中國古典小說多取材於歷代史事，再添加文學手法改編，影響著世道人心、反映著社會變遷。全書文史並濟，結合作者梳理的圖表，分析明清時期歷史轉折與小說形態轉變的關係，講述如何通過小說本身作為歷史研究的參考材料，是一本了解明清小說及其發展歷史的入門必備讀本。