Bach, Beethoven and the Boys: Music History As It Ought to Be Taught

David W. Barber
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David W. Barber has delighted readers around the world with Accidentals on Purpose, When the Fat Lady Sings and other internationally bestselling books of musical humor. His bestselling Bach, Beethoven and the Boys chronicles the lives of the great (and not-so-great) composers as you’ve never read them before — exploring their sex lives, exposing their foibles and expanding on our understanding of these all-too-human creatures. Filled with information, interesting facts and trivia, this hilarious history covers music from Gregorian chant to the mess we’re in now. From Bach’s laundry lists to Beethoven’s bowel problems, from Gesualdo’s kinky fetishes to Cage’s mushroom madness, Barber tells tales out of school that ought to be put back there. (Think how much more fun it would be if they taught this stuff.)

As always, Dave Donald had provided witty and clever cartoon illustrations to accompany the text.

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Composers
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Beethoven, Ludwig van

我的音樂往事

李歐梵 著
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作為一個音樂世家之子，李歐梵選擇了文學作終生職業；而作為一位享有國際聲譽的文學教授，他又偏偏將自己的靈魂安頓在古典音樂的海洋裡。在這本書中，我們看到的不是作為哈佛名教授的李歐梵，而是一個充滿真情摯意，醉臥音樂之鄉的“樂迷”。靜聆內心深處的旋律，追憶音符飄揚的人生歲月，與最偉大的音樂家們進行靈魂對話，將所熱愛的音樂與對音樂的熱愛鐫刻在人生邊上。在這本書中，你不僅可以欣賞到美妙的音樂和音樂故事，還可以感受到一種天籟般動人的靈魂的回音。

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Playlist: Classical Harmonies for Contemplation—Orchestral Music

Hong Kong Culture: Word and Image

Edited by Kam Louie
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This book contains thirteen essays on post-1997 Hong Kong culture by some of the world's best authorities on this topic today. The majority of the essays are on literature and film. As well as these two genres, some essays also explore new types of texts such as protest art.

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香江法政縱橫: 香港基本法學緒論

朱國斌
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香港作為中國獨特架構的一個行政區劃，是廣義中國法律之下的一個獨特法域，也是中西文化交匯後自成體系的文化場域。作者就香港回歸以來，其撰寫的公開發表的法律和政論性文章集結成冊，文章多發表在《法學研究》、《法學家》、《中外法學》、《明報》、《信報》、《大公報》、《東方日報》、《蘋果日報》、《香港經濟日報》、《信報財經月刊》、《紫荊月刊》等。儘管若干內容因時過境遷只有記錄歷史的意義，但大部分還是有現實意義並提出了一定的學術觀點。

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本書內容針對香港基本法圍繞以下時政性論題展開：“一國兩法”、“人大釋法”制度及其論爭、“二十三條”立法論爭、“二五之爭”及其法理、京港關系與政治。

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God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga

Natsu Onoda Power
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Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka [手塚治虫] (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph.D. in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese comic book industry, creating narratives with cinematic flow and complex characters. This style influenced all subsequent Japanese output. God of Comics chronicles Tezuka's life and works, placing his creations both in the cultural climate and in the history of Japanese comics.

The book emphasizes Tezuka's use of intertextuality. His works are filled with quotations from other texts and cultural products, such as film, theater, opera, and literature. Often, these quoted texts and images bring with them a world of meanings, enriching the narrative. Tezuka also used stock characters and recurrent visual jokes as a way of creating a coherent world that encompasses all of his works.

God of Comics includes close analysis of Tezuka's lesser-known works, many of which have never been translated into English. It offers one of the first in-depth studies of Tezuka's oeuvre to be published in English.

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豐子愷漫畫選

畢克官 編
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在舊中國，豐子愷先生是最為群眾所熟悉的一位漫畫家。他的《子愷漫畫》深受讀者歡迎。他一生的作品，數量很多，僅出版的畫集就達四十餘部……

《子愷漫畫》在二十年代所以受到社會的重視，主要在於它的獨特性。這些漫畫取材新穎，表現手法別致，在當時美術園地裡別開生面，獨樹一幟，開拓了新的天地。我們知道，一九二五年前後，新文學陣營與復古派和鴛鴦蝴蝶派之間進行着激烈的論戰。以上海為例，當時除了少數報刊發表時事畫和政治畫外，美術市場主要是美人畫和形形色色低級庸俗的東西。中國人物畫多畫是古人，西洋畫則是靜物、風景和模特兒寫生，都遠離社會生活。在這樣的狀況下，突然有那麼一位畫家向人們展示出像 《花生米不滿足》、《阿寶兩只腳》、《瞻瞻的車》這樣率真而生動的兒童漫畫；像《都市之春》、《買粽子》、《紅了櫻桃綠了芭蕉》、《人散後，一鈎新月天如水》等充滿生活情趣又耐人尋味的作品，確實是令人耳目一新，感到親切……

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