This volume presents a rich selection of anonymous Chinese proverbs, beautifully illustrated, alongside Romanized Chinese versions and English translations, including corresponding calligraphic characters. It highlights the depth of Chinese wisdom beyond Confucius's well-known aphorisms.
Hong Kong's skyline is ever in transition, a flamboyant affirmation of this city's determination to let nothing stand in its way as it forges full steam ahead into the future. Such unquenchable aspirations produce a seemingly endless succession of architectural marvels, but leave too little trace of historical, driving spirit of a metropolis forever creating better and grander manirestations of itself, and as a reminder of whence it came, as enchrined in the few traces of antiquity that survive that headlong progress.
Confucius has become the oft-quoted fount of aphorisms and analects far wider and more comprehensive in their didactic scope than any attributed to sages elsewhere in the world. But the real gems of Chinese wisdom lie in the anonymous and ageless proverbs, of which this volume contains a formidable and beautifully illustrated selections.
Its Architecture is Hong Kong's sublime art, conditioning the way this ever-changing city hes evolved. The thrust is more upward than outward, shaping the vertical profile of this intensely concentrated metropolis and ensuring that, whatever changes are in store, Hong Kong continues building its fabled reputation as the 'Many Splendoured Thing'.
Hong Kong has far outstripped its chroniclers. Its ceaseless quest to make its better best ensures a perpetual remodeling of the way it lives, works, and functions, so that the skyline is always under reconstruction, the image always shifting. The only constants are the process of change and the excitement this engenders.
