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Penggunaan prinsip 'Feng Shui' (Chinese Geomancy) dalam perancangan bandar

'Feng Shui' adalah satu kesenian geomansi masyarakat Cina berkenaan dengan penempatan dan perletakan bangunan serta struktur binaan untuk mencapai keharmonian dan memberi manafaat kepada persekitaran fizikal. Masyarakat Cina menyedari bahawa mereka berkongsi nasib dengan bumi, jikalau bumi sihat dan sempurna, mereka akan berkembang maju, sabaliknya keseimbangan ini dimusnahkan, mereka akan menerima kesengsaraan. Ini menyebabkan 'Feng Shui' telah dianggap sebagai satu fenomena untuk meningkatkan kualiti keadaan persekitaran daripada merosakkannya. Pada masa sekarang, keseluruhan bandar telah dipenuhi dengan struktur binaan berbanding dengan ciri-ciri lanskap semulajadi. Bukit telah diganti dengan bangunan yang tinggi, jalan telah menggantikan fungsi sungai sebagai jalinan aktiviti manusia. Sebagai seorang jururancang bandar, penumpuan yang khas perlu diberikan kepada ciri-ciri saiz, bentuk dan warna bangunan-bangunan tinggi; arah dan jalinan jalan; penjuru bangunan; bentuk bangunan dan sebagainya untuk mengelakkan percanggahan antara kerja pembangunan dan 'Feng Shui'. Kajian pandangan yang dijalankan keatas jururancang, arkitek, jurunilai dan pemaju kelas A di Kawasan Perancangan Pusat (KPP) telah menunjukkan kaitan yang kukuh antara prinsip rekabentuk dengan prinsip 'Feng Shui' dalam kerja-kerja pembinaan yang dijalankan. Mereka telah mengambilkira prinsip 'Feng Shui' dalam skim-skim pembangunan berdasarkan sebab-sebab berikut : (1) Untuk memenuhi permintaan golongan yang mengamalkannya. (2) 'Feng Shui' dianggap sebagai satu kepercayaan yang berasaskan sebab-sebab logikal. (3) Penggunaan 'Feng Shui' dengan sempurna dapat mencapai perasaan kebahagiaan dan kesejahteraan. (4) 'Feng Shui' telah digunakan sebagai faktor dorongan manusia untuk memperolehi kejayaan. (5) 'Feng Shui' yang baik juga merupakan prinsip perancangan tapak yang baik. 'Feng Shui' juga mempengaruhi nilai hartanah dan bangunan. Bagi pembeli-pembeli yang mempercayai 'Feng Shui' akan mengelakkan diri dari membeli hartanah yang mempunyai 'Feng Shui' yang negatif. Bagi pembeli yang tidak mempercayai 'Feng Shui' peranaan was-was timbul kerana bimbang akan penurunan nilai berlaku apabila hartanah tersebut dijual semula. Kini, prinsip 'Feng Shui' boleh dan telah digunapakai dalam setengah konsep perancangan bandar. Bukit, sungai, taman, pokok, jalan dan bangunan-bangunan dianggap membawa 'Chi' yang tersendiri dan memberi kesan kepada penghuni tempatan. Terdapat kesedaran yang mendalam terhadap 'Feng Shui' kepada alam semesta ini, kesedaran ini dianggap sebagai merancang untuk memenuhi kesejahteraan dan keselesaan manusia. Ia kadangkala boleh dilihat sebagai satu tanggapan yang dongeng tetapi dapat diterangkan dengan contoh-contoh yang logikal. Secara amnya, kajian ini telah memberi panduan terhadap prinsip-prinsip 'Feng Shui' yang bersesuaian dan telah digunapakai dalam pembangunan bandar, misalnya pemilihan lokasi yang baik, orientasi yang tepat, gunatanah dan rekabentuk yang sesuai.

'Feng Shui' adalah satu kesenian geomansi masyarakat Cina berkenaan dengan penempatan dan perletakan bangunan serta struktur binaan untuk mencapai keharmonian dan memberi manafaat kepada persekitaran fizikal.

Advising International Chinese Students: Issues, Strategies, and Practices

Like all of higher education, the academic advising field has expanded beyond North America in the last two decades. Thus, the first offering chosen for the new NACADA Digest Collection educates academic advisors on the issues faced by students coming from China to the United States in pursuit of their college educations. Advising International Chinese Students: Issues, Strategies, and Practices informs and helps academic advisors to better connect specifically with the largest incoming cohort, from China, but the general suggestions also apply to all international students. NACADA introduces this new publication venue in traditional print, EPub, and E-Mobi platforms thus making important literature in the field easily and quickly accessible to 21st century advisors. www.nacada.ksu.edu

Circumstance and personal preference guide advisor strategy: Some will
articulate the underlying concepts explicitly early in the advising relationship;
others will introduce ideas gradually, implicitly, and consistently over the course
of time.

Personal and Professional Problems of Chinese Students and Former Students in the New York Metropolitan Area

A Report of a Type C Project

English Language Assessment and the Chinese Learner

'This volume addresses a very timely and important topic, and provides both broad and in-depth coverage of a number of large-scale English tests in China, including Hong Kong and Taiwan, and about the Chinese learner.' – Lyle F. Bachman, From the Foreword Building on current theoretical and practical frameworks for English language assessment and testing, this book presents a comprehensive, up-to-date, relevant picture of English language assessment for students in China (Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan) and for Chinese learners of English around the world. Written by well-recognized international scholars in language testing, it covers: the history of tests and testing systems, issues and challenges, and current research in China both test-designers’ and test-users’ points of view on test development and test validation within a range of political, economical, social, and financial contexts in China theoretical/conceptual perspectives on the use of the English language assessment at different levels, including societal, university, and schools empirical research related specifically to test development, curricular innovation, and test validation Given the long history of objective testing and its extensive use in Chinese society, and considering the sheer number of students taking various tests in English in China and elsewhere, an understanding of the impact of English language testing is essential for anyone involved in testing and assessment issues in China and elsewhere in the world. This is a must-read volume for testing and assessment policy makers, curriculum designers, researchers, ESL/EFL materials writers, graduate students, and English language teachers/researchers at all levels.

The English and Japanese teaching/research teams have published the
following learning materials: English Pronunciation Practice; English
Pronunciation Made Easy; Getting Into English; Shopping: Cash or Charge?;
Taking a Taxi: Where ...

Research in Chinese as a Second Language

The book aims to address one of the main problems of Chinese language teaching: lack of research base. The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resulted in the development of a strong research background. This book attempts to change the current situation. The volume consists of three chapters. Chapter I: Research Base for Practice contains three papers, each of which uses research findings as a basis for solving issues connected with practical language teaching. Chapter II: Integrating Culture and Language is about one of the most intriguing topics of current language-oriented research: how to integrate culture into the process of language teaching. Chapter III: Acquisition of Language Structures consists of studies that investigate the acquisition of certain grammatical structures in Chinese. There are only a few papers in the literature on this issue, so the articles in this chapter are especially important for further research. One of the most important features of the volume is that each paper makes an attempt to bring together theory and practice by focusing on theory-building based on practice or theory application in practice. Thus the book can be recommended to both researchers and practitioners.

The rapidly growing interest in Chinese language teaching has not resulted in the development of a strong research background. This book attempts to change the current situation. The volume consists of three chapters.

Chinese International Students' Perceptions and Attitudes Toward Seeking Psychological Counseling Services

A Qualitative Exploration

Postscript with a Chinese accent

memoirs and diaries, 1972-1973

I started by asking what he thought of Australian Prime Minister Whitlam's idea of
an expanding Asian- Pacific consultative community. As translated, he answered:
"Actually, as an objective ultimately, such a group is a good idea. But there are ...