Peter Chan: 8 books
Bonsai
The Art of Growing and Keeping Miniature Trees
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
For everyone from beginners to masters, the one essential book to growing, grooming, and caring for your bonsai tree.
Bonsai is the ancient craft of carefully regulating the growth and shape of trees in order to produce miniature versions of mature trees. Dating back over one thousand years...
The Bonsai Bible
The definitive guide to choosing and growing bonsai
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
The Japanese and Chinese have been creating bonsai trees for centuries and it is now an internationally popular pastime. This compact and stylish guide will provide everything you need to know to grow bonsai successfully, including shaping with wires, watering, seasonal maintenance, tackling common...
A Scholar's Path
An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poems and Prose of Chen Qing ShanA Pioneer Writer of Malayan-Singapore Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan
Reviewed by Chan Chiu Ming
An original English translation from the Chinese text:
Comprises 60 poems (85 verses) and three prose compositions
Opens a window to the heart and mind of a Chinese scholar who lived from the...
by Harvard Business Review, Michael D. Watkins, Peter F. Drucker
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
Becoming a manager for the first time means mastering a new set of business and personal skills. HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers Collection offers the ideas and strategies to help get you there. Included in this set are HBR's 10 Must Reads for New Managers, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People,...
Corporate Cthulhu
Lovecraftian Tales of Bureaucratic Nightmare
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
YOUR CALL TO CTHULHU IS IMPORTANT TO US. PLEASE HOLD.
Red tape. Catch-22s. Circular chains of command. Whether you're a customer or co-worker, bureaucracies drive us all insane. Even management is just a cog in a vast machine. Information, items, and even people get lost in the system, never...
Public Policymaking in Hong Kong
Civic Engagement and State-Society Relations in a Semi-Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Why and how has civic engagement emerged in the policy process of Hong Kong as an Asian semi-democratic state? This book attempts to answer this question through examining six cases that straddle diverse policy domains. It identifies three explanatory factors, namely, the profile of a policy domain,...
The Mystery of Mind
A Systematic Account of the Human Mind Toward Understanding Its Own Realization
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2003
The Mystery of Mind is a systematic and critical introduction to the philosophy of mind. At issue is what is known as the mind-body problem. How does a body support a mind with its brain?
Pivotal to the book is the author's working out of an adverbial concept of mind that is user-friendly to...
Reviving Legitimacy
Lessons for and from China
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
The Chinese government has attempted to bolster its legitimacy as a political response to emerging social, cultural, political, economic, environmental challenges and crises experienced during market-oriented reforms and rapid modernization in China. However, contrary to the Western preference for...