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Comparing the impact of housing purchase restrictions on house prices in Guangzhou and Shenzhen
Get PDFThis paper will quantify the housing restriction policies in Guangzhou Shenzhen using the principal component analysis of previous researchers. The correlation coefficient between the quantified results of the policies from 2012-2021 and the house prices from 2012-2021 will be calculated and the conclusion shows that as the housing restriction policies increase (become stricter) it does not cause house prices to fall, it only eases the rate of house price increase. This is consistent with the results of the questionnaire research. A quantitative study was also conducted to assess the effect of individual policies, using the example of Shenzhen\u27s Reference Price Policy for Second-House Transactions , which showed that after the enactment of Shenzhen\u27s Reference Price Policy for Second-House Transactions , the down payment ratio for first home buyers would reach 51%. This has made it more difficult to purchase a home. This result is also confirmed by the results of the questionnaire
Multidimensional case study of age-friendly cities and communities in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore
Get PDFThis multidimensional case study aims to capture the urban characteristics of age-friendly cities and communities in three international cities, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore. As the aging population has become global phenomena, various aging ideologies were proposed to address the issues caused by the significant demographic shift. The four common aging ideologies: healthy aging, productive aging, successful aging, and active aging that is widely adopted in age-friendly development; apart from the above aging ideologies, positive aging, a distinctive branch found in geropsychology study suggested that individual’s preparedness is as important as societal readiness emphasized in the four environment-related wellbeing regarding aging population. Through literature reviews of the aging ideologies, similarities found in the intersections of various aging approaches that elderly wellbeing is subjected to individual’s perceptions or interpretations towards life events occur; and the different implementations of these aging well ideologies in countries and regions reveal that urban features hold important role in designing tailored age-friendly measures. Together with the evidence found in the three selected cities summarized a unique aging concept related to human geographic aspects and the correlation of human and ecology.
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In this case study, multiple elements have been covered to demonstrate the transitive relation between aging, elderly wellbeing, and retirement in order to present 1) Ecological aging contexts; and 2) Urban age friendly
Evaluation of preview cues to enhance recall of auditory sequential information
Get PDFBackground: In previous work, an auditory vital sign display of five patients was developed. Sounds denoting the vital signs of each patient were delivered in order, with a special sound for any patient whose vital signs were all normal. Although the display was effective, accuracy decreased as the number of abnormal patients increased. We wondered whether accuracy would improve with a preview sound indicating the number of patients with abnormal vital signs in the upcoming sequence by reducing working memory load. We also wondered whether the preview sound would affect the performance of responding to concurrent task.
Methods: A 3 (preview cue type) x 4 (number of abnormal patients) mixed-factorial design was adopted. Preview cue type (between-subjects) was either time-compressed speech or an abstract sound containing white noise pulses to indicate the upcoming number of abnormal patients, or no preview cue. The number of abnormal patients (within-subjects) was zero, one, two, or three.
Results: Preview cue did not improve non-clinician participants’ability to identify the location in the sequence or the vital signs of patients with abnormal vital signs. Response accuracy dropped as the number of patients with abnormal vital signs increased. The preview cue types did not affect the accuracy of responding to the concurrent task, However, the users tended to ignore the concurrent task when preview cue created by abstract sound with white noise pulses was used.
Conclusion: The current preview cue did not improve or hurt the performance of identifying abnormal patients’locations and vital signs. However, it would degrade the concurrent task performance. Therefore, the current design of preview cue can be eliminated in future auditory display design
「回首．動情．傳承」長者生命故事計劃
Get PDF嶺南大學亞太老年學研究中心獲華人永遠墳場管理委員會（「華永會」）資助為期一年的「回首．動情．傳承」長者生命故事計劃(「計劃」)。此計劃旨在讓青年人認識長者生命經驗，學習克服困難與挫折以提升抗逆力，建立正向人生觀。
近年，主流媒體經常批評年輕人的負面人生觀，例如：「躺平主義」、「享樂主義」、「犬儒心態」等，亦不時看到青年人輕生的新聞。我們曾在大學內處理過不少受情緒困擾及企圖自殺的個案，與學生深入交流後，發現他們面對着沉重的學業壓力、財政困難或複雜的家庭關係，內心充滿掙扎不安。
此計劃讓嶺大學生與長者導師進行深度的對談，透過了解長者走過的路、他們經歷過的挫折和教訓，給予年輕人生命的啟示。如果我們以旅遊比喻人生，長者就像環遊世界的資深背包客，即使大家遊覽不同的地點、觀賞過不同的風景，他們總能夠分享一些旅遊的心得，讓新手遊客走少一點冤枉路，或領悟到旅遊的樂趣和意義。長者亦可以藉由敍述人生片段回顧他們生命中的故事，學習接納過去，增加自我認同感。青年人創作生命教育書冊，將長者積極的人生觀傳給年輕一代，並藉此鼓勵其他長者豁達地度過餘年。
我們於2022年初招募嶺南大學學生接受「生命故事敍述」培訓，內容包括：本港的人口老化現象、敍述治療理論、與長者溝通的技巧及模擬實踐練習等，以裝備同學的知識和技巧。本中心再向屯門、元朗區的長者機構發邀請信，誠邀長者擔任生命導師接受訪問。
嶺大安排同學以兩人一組的小隊形式，於2022年6至7月期間前往長者中心、日間護理中心、嶺南大學或長者家中，與十二位長者進行深入訪談。訪談結束後，同學根據訪談的內容，為長者書寫他們獨特的生命故事。例如在人離鄉賤的異國環境下，努力打拼事業的Alfred；堅持不懈持續進修的淑芹和馮春林；即使沒機會求學，仍憑一雙巧手闖出一片天的譚惠；在文化大革命的漩渦中，憑着熱忱而改變命運的蘭英；還有為家人無私奉獻的鳳群、歐婆婆、雅芳及細女；離鄉別井勇闖異地的阿美和阿水；即使被家人賣去做「妹仔」，仍能以「阿Q精神」面對的諒餘。
為保障長者的私隱權益，本書內所有刊登之故事皆經過受訪者或社工審閱，部份受訪者選擇以化名的形式來分享自己的故事，我們亦移除了部份敏感的個人資料。https://commons.ln.edu.hk/apias_guide/1008/thumbnail.jp
Women and Poetry in the Tang Dynasty : A traitor and a murderess : the poetic nuns Li Ye and Yu Xuanji
Get PDFThis episode tells the stories of two Daoist nuns, Li Ye, who became a palace woman, and Yu Xuanji, who became a courtesan. Both left behind highly regarded poems but lost their lives to execution. The episode explores the perception of literary talent as it intersects with femininity
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Get PDF小說主要講述在傳統家庭成長的阿欣如何逐步擺脫桎梏，面對自己內心的情感和想法。阿欣從小被母親用傳統方法教育，以情緒勒索的方式教養出千依百順的她，用語言和行為操控女兒。阿欣即使已經踏入社會，仍逃不出母親所置的無形枷鎖，不斷被母親和上司、同事等人情緒勒索而感到窒息。有着敏感個性的阿欣，為了不令任何人失望，往往妥協、忍讓，以至忽略甚至壓抑自己的想法和需要，只用不治本的方式排遣不快、逃避問題。阿欣在父親去世後面對生活，慢慢明白要為自己着想、為自己的情緒、行為負責，而非單單將所有問題歸咎於同樣缺乏安全感的母親，不再逃避，逐步走出陰霾
Hong Kong Xiqu Overview 2020
Get PDF2020, Hong Kong Chinese opera’s year of mischance (for that matter, same to all performing arts and other arts fields). Since early 2020, COVID-19 quickly turned a global pandemic causing lockdowns of almost everything. A year back, 2019, Hong Kong Chinese opera enjoyed a blossoming year beginning with the January grand opening of the magnificent West Kowloon Cultural District Xiqu Centre. 2020, the industry was like being thrown into an apocalyptic dystopia of contagion. New productions, large scale shows, ritual drama performances, overseas and non-local troupes’ visits, educational and promotional activities were all drastically shrunk, rescheduled, relocated to virtual space, or simply cancelled. COVID-19 cancelled culture, in a sense, amongst other things in everyday life. Hong Kong Chinese opera practitioners have been syncretic, flexible, and enduring in face of the devastating pandemic. Some turned more to social media platforms, some grabbed any chance of face-to-face meeting live audiences whenever circumstances allowed, and some strived for raising fund to help sustain the industry.
With COVID-19 entering the stage in the role of a game changer, Hong Kong Xiqu Overview 2020 opens with a general review chapter, followed by another chapter listing the year’s important events in the shadow of the pandemic. In the third chapter Lum Man Yee traces the origins and transformations of ritual drama, consulting primitive sources as far back to the 11th century, and examines the current existential conditions of this old tradition. Based on her fieldwork in 2019 and 2020, Lum examines how the local Chinese opera industry has been debilitated by COVID-19, and the industry’s response to this incessant pandemic with various tactics of survival. Chan Yee Lam in the fourth chapter reflects on the private sector’s contributions to the transmission of the art of Chinese opera. Attention was paid to the pandemic’s impact on these private groups’ survival. Chan summarized their technological tackling of the challenges, marking aspects of how the transmission of Chinese opera was still being managed in the time of COVID-19. The last chapter by Arthur Pang reviews Hong Kong Chinese opera’s artistic-administrative practices, contrasting the Chinese opera programs in 2019 and 2020 with respect to social stability and instability, and mapping the strategies of programming regional Chinese operas of the Chinese Opera Festival and the Xiqu Centre.
A stubborn cultural structure in Chinese opera for 800 years (counting from the maturation of traditional Chinese theatre in the Mongolian dynasty from the 13th century) is that, unlike European drama that has privileged tragedy since the ancient Greeks, there is necessarily, almost always a happy ending. Even when occasionally there emerged a play with a sad ending in which good people suffered and got unjustly killed in tragic sublime, the dejected ending will be altered and replaced by a comic resolution in later adaptations with a full happy reunion. Thus lived Hong Kong Chinese opera.https://commons.ln.edu.hk/ccrd_xiqubook/1003/thumbnail.jp
Pink and yellow ribbons : iconographies of resistance and the construction of sexual and gender identity in dating apps
No full textCao discusses how women and gay men use iconographies of resistance in how they construct their sexual identities on dating apps. Recently, political ideologies and partisan politics have become embedded in how people construct their identities in search of romance, intimacy, and sex. This is especially pronounced among the members of the political opposition. In the Philippines, it is the pink ribbon, the campaign emblem of Vice President Leni Robredo, the opposition figurehead against President Rodrigo Duterte’s macho public image and against the former Senator Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., the son and namesake of the late dictator Marcos Sr. In Hong Kong, the yellow ribbon became the symbol of the political opposition that represent pro-democracy, and to some extent, anti-Mainland Chinese sentiments. This talk will discuss how dating app users incorporate their political stance in the construction of sexual identities among women and gay men with Manila and Hong Kong as case studies. It will compare the experiences and rationale of women and gay men in Manila and Hong Kong behind their inclusion of their politics in their construction of gender and sexual identity. Traditionally situated within the public sphere, the political discourse is increasingly becoming invasive and has manifested within the traditionally private realms of sexual, romantic, and intimate desires. Not only has the personal become political, but the political has become personal as well. This talk aims to shed light on the construction of political resistance in the realm of the intimate desires and what it means to the discourse of media, identity, and politics
Pentasyllabic Shi Poetry : Landscape poetry : Tao Qian\u27s Fields and Gardens
Get PDFTao Qian (365–427) is premodern China\u27s most famous recluse. After relinquishing his official career at around age 40, Tao returned to his rustic hometown to hide away from what he often suggested was a corrupt court and society. In the hermitage he made for himself at the foot of Mt. Lu, Tao wrote poetry that, on the one hand, extolls his enjoyment of life on the rural margin between the human world and the wilderness and, on the other, narrates the difficulties he had making a living there. For the first time in Chinese history, this is a poetry that grapples in a realistic way with both the beauty and the recalcitrance of the natural landscape
The Book of Poetry : The Han canonization : Romeo and Juliet-like rendezvous
Get PDFThis episode features a poem that enacts, through incremental repetition, the unfolding drama of a young woman being torn by longing, hesitancy, love, and fear while a suitor is crushing all physical barriers to have a tryst with her. To sanitize this poem, Han commentators resorted to an allegorizing strategy called “cutting off a section to create a new meaning,” constructing a political allegory on the thinnest of evidence