HONG KONG, Aug 8, 2025 – (ACN Newswire) –The 35th Hong Kong Book Fair was held at Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre from July 16 to 22, 2025. Organized by Hong Kong Trade Development Council, this year’s style was “Food Culture • Future Living.” The occasion united publishers, authors, and readers to promote a culture of reading.
Sino United Publishing’s subsidiaries, consisting of Joint Publishing (H.K.), Chung Hwa Book Company (H.K.), and The Commercial Press (H.K), took part in the exhibit, renting over 200 cubicles and showcasing almost 1,000 brand-new titles, using readers an abundant literary banquet.
Readers at the Booth of Joint Publishing(H.K.)
Amongst the titles showed by Joint Publishing, one book stood apart for its positioning with the fair’s style– Shiology, which gathered substantial attention. Released in Hong Kong in 2025. the essay presents the meaning of a brand-new discipline system, shiology, its research study topic, goals, disciplinary system and its subfields, basic concepts, and research study worth, covering all elements of human food+consuming affairs.
Shiology at Hong kong Book Fair
In today’s world of quick technological improvement and as the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals approach, around 673 million individuals around the world still battle with cravings. The origin depends on the absence of a detailed and holistic understanding of food-related problems. Shiology incorporates fragmented and compartmentalized understanding of food+consuming affairs into a merged structure, intending to holistically attend to mankind’s present food difficulties by taking a look at 3 crucial measurements: eaters’ requirements, food acquisition, and shi order.
In marking the epistemological structure of shiology, the essay develops a fundamental lexicon for the discipline, such as “eater,” “shiance” (a mix of shi and -ance, with shi referring both food and consuming in Chinese), “shiology” (a mix of shi and -ology), and “shiorder” (a mix of shi and order). An “eater” describes human beings conceived through the lens of dietary requirements, consisting of all people based on food, regardless of age, gender, profession, choice, and so on “Shiance” describes the phenomena and human activities of food acquisition and its correct usage. It consists of vast array of practices and procedures, consisting of wild food usage, food domestication, circulation, processing, intake, in addition to those associated to laws, economy, administration and education so regarding keep shiorder. “Shiology” is a unified understanding system that exposes the laws governing shiance, resolves its systemic difficulties, examines the relationship in between human beings and food systems, and traces the historic advancement of shiance-related habits. “Shiorder” describes the reasoning and connection of human shiance habits, officially called “shiance order”It functions as the structure of social order– if shiorder collapses, so does social order. Improving shiorder can drive the development of social civilization.
The essay consists of various additions and modifications compared to its streamlined Chinese edition released in mainland China in 2020, making it the most thorough scholastic work on shiology to date. It will assist promote the discipline’s principles and holistic governance services worldwide, adding to the accomplishment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and methodically resolving worldwide cravings.
The author, Liu Guangwei, is the director of the Research Center for Shiology at Renmin University of China, the creator of the shiology discipline system, chairman of the World Shiology Forum (WSF), and president of Beijing Shiology Research Institute. He went into the catering market in 1983 and developed the WSF in 2017, arranging 4 worldwide conferences and launching results such as the Awaji Island Declaration and the Hainan Initiative.
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