Moving millions

With the "merger" of the MTRC and the KCRC in 2007, the history of Hong Kong's railways turned a new page. The two government-owned corporations were exceptionally profitable. Yet, this commercially successful railway model was not without social costs and political controversies. Moving Millions...

Hong kong's new constitutional order

This is the first systematic analysis of the constitutional, legal, economic, social and political systems of Hong Kong as a special administrative region of China. It examines the Basic Law against its historical and socio-economic contexts, including its international and domestic foundations, ...

Merchants' daughters

Historians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hierarchies are juxtaposed with unorthodox trading cultures, multi-ethnic colonial encounters, and market-driven consumption. The divergent paths taken by women in Hong Kong and Guangdong ...

The shek kip mei myth

Alan Smart raises serious questions about the standard view that Hong Kong's mass public housing programme was a direct and humane response by the Government to the Shek Kip Mei fire. Rather he argues that the Government's response to that fire was grudging and incremental rather than a sharp and...

School guidance and counselling

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to school guidance and counselling services in Hong Kong. It draws extensively on current research in the field, with a special emphasis on how guidance and counselling could be systematically planned to meet the personal, social and educational and...

Asian diasporas

Asian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation, where the focus is on issues of crime, housing, employment, racism and related concerns. The essays in this volume view Asian diasporic movements in the context of globalization and global citizenship, in whi...

Building hong kong

In the 1999 Policy Address by Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Mr Tung Chee-hwa, one major target listed is 'Making Hong Kong an Ideal Home . . . Every citizen, every business, every government department and bureau need to start working in partnership to achieve what is known as "sustainable develop...

Independent language learning

Independent learning is not a new concept for language educators but while teachers, curriculum designers and policy makers have embraced it as underpinning modern notions of education, it remains a dynamic and vibrant field for researchers and academics who aim to broaden its scope and deepen ou...

Internationalizing higher education

Globalization is a multifaceted phenomenon, and one of its major components is the internationalization of education. The increasing pace and complexity of global knowledge flows, and the accelerating ex- change of educational ideas, practices and policies, are important drivers of globalization....

Tradition to contemporary: ink painting and artistic development in 20th-century china

Chinese overseas

This book examines issues of cultural change and identity construction of Chinese overseas, as well as other important issues such as Chinese and non-Chinese relations, and cultural and economic performance. It offers a perspective of understanding Chinese overseas in nation-states and beyond, in...

Stepping forth into the world

The Chinese Educational Mission was the earliest effort at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 young boys to New England to live and study for a decade, before abruptly summoning them home to China in 1881. The returned stud...

The archaeology of hong kong

Archaeological investigation began in Hong Kong in the 1920s and showed that the territory had a considerable prehistoric occupation, now known to extend back at least 7,000 years. Sites abound on outlying islands and along the coastline of the New Territories. More than two hundred sites of the ...

Drawing new color lines

The global circulation of comics, manga, and other such visual mediums between North America and Asia produces transnational meanings no longer rooted in a separation between "Asian" and "American." Drawing New Color Lines explores the culture, production, and history of contemporary graphic narr...

The peach blossom fan

The story is set in the last days of the Ming Dynasty, when the Manchu invaders were already in close proximity to the capital. Instead of fighting the enemy, the great officials of state devoted themselves to intrigues, corruption and self-aggrandizement. A few concerned individuals, mostly memb...

Discourse as cultural struggle

Discourse as Cultural Struggle challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a culturalist perspective in facilitating better intercultural exchange amidst accelerated processes of globalization. It is the first engagement with discourses in non-mainstream cultu...

Mu shiying

Shanghai's "Literary Comet" When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of the city's Jazz-Age nightlife. Mu's highly original stream-of-consciousness approach to short story wri...

Horror to the extreme

This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures. Individual essays highlight common themes including technology, digital media, adolescent audience sensibilities...

China bound and unbound

In this first-hand account of an early returnee's life in communist China, Frances Wong relates her personal experiences in China from 1949 to the present, detailing numerous political movements, including the devastating experiences of the Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution. Afte...

Americans and macao

The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics, and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The essays address topics such as the role of the China trade in US pacific expansion and exploration, US ...

Pain medicine

This is designed as a textbook for medical practitioners preparing for higher qualification examinations in pain medicine, as well as a reference book for other medical and allied healthcare workers. A unique feature of the book is its multidisciplinary approach to manage pain. This is reflected ...

Narratives of free trade

This collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social transformation and a fledgling United States struggling to assert itself globally as a distinct nation after the Revolutionary War with Great Britain. In early accounts of these encounters, ...

Harbin to hanoi

Colonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes as an expression of imperial aspirations, a manifestation of supremacy, a mission to civilize, a re-creation of a home away from home, or simply as a place to live and work. In this volume, scholars of ...

Ecologies of urbanism in india

Essays follow rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive Indian urbanism in everyday environments. Case studies on nature conservation in cities, urban housing and slum development, waste management, urban planning, and contestations over the quality of air, water, and sanitation in Delhi and M...

Philippine english

The Philippines is one of the most significant and most interesting English-using societies in Asia, where there has been a general awareness and recognition of a localized variety of English characterized by its own distinct lexicon, accent, and variations in grammar. The distinctiveness of Phil...

Family governance and surplus wealth

Family Governance and Surplus Wealth: Sustaining Family Fortunes de-mystifies the topic of family governance and shows advisers and families how governance can assist with the challenges of managing and transitioning surplus wealth.

Dyes in history and archaeology 21

Topics range from the economic impact of medieval woad in Catalonia and Roussillon to the complexities of madder use in Roman and Coptic Egypt. Case studies include pigment use in illuminated manuscripts, Japanese armour, and European paintings, with a focus on both invasive and non-invasive anal...

State beds and throne canopies

This richly illustrated volume focuses on the history, care, and conservation of the state beds and throne canopies at Hampton Court and Kensington Palaces. Combining historical context with practical conservation guidelines and case studies, it offers invaluable insights into the preservation of...

The art of all colours

This book examines medieval technical treatises on the arts, exploring their content, context, and relationship to artistic practice before 1500. It includes a detailed catalogue of over 400 manuscripts, many previously overlooked, with descriptions, extracts, and a full bibliography.

Studying 18th-century paintings and works of art on paper

Proceedings from the second CATS conference explore 18th-century art and artists� materials, with papers on workshop practice, technical analysis, trade, and the impact of European Art Academies. Topics span painting, drawing, conservation science, and historical source research.

Microanalysis of parchment

A presentation of cutting-edge sampling techniques and microanalytical, semi-microanalytical, and non-destructive methods for examining historic parchment, focusing on visual, microscopic, chemical, and physical approaches. Drawing on the achievements of the European project 'Methods in the Micro...

A perfect ground

Maartje Stols-Witlox offers the first in-depth study of historical recipes for preparatory ground layers used by painters in North West Europe between 1550 and 1900. Drawing on artists� manuals and recipe books, she explores materials, techniques, and regional practices, revealing how grounds inf...

Ground layers in european painting 1550-1750

This volume, based on the 2019 CATS conference Mobility Creates Masters, explores how artists� movement across Europe from 1550 to 1700 influenced the materials and techniques used to prepare paintings. Focusing on coloured ground layers, the studies examine documentation, regional practices, and...

Standards in architectural paint research

This volume explores the need for international standardisation in Architectural Paint Research amid increasing global collaboration. Papers from the conference Innovation through Baseline Proficiencies address sampling, analysis and documentation challenges, and propose future frameworks includi...

Mixing and matching

This volume brings together papers from three specialist workshops on retouching techniques, organised by ICON�s Paintings Group and BAPCR at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Divided into sections on egg tempera, resin-based methods, and retouching complex surfaces, it explores the history, materi...

Textiles and text

An exploration of the dynamic relationship between archival and bibliographic research and the close study of extant textiles and dress. Contributors�including conservators, curators, historians, and scientists�examine how documentary sources inform our understanding of textile production, use, a...

Scientific research in the field of asian art

This volume celebrates fifty years of scientific research into Asian art at the Freer Gallery of Art, featuring papers from international experts that explore materials and techniques across Asia's vast cultural and temporal landscape. Covering subjects from Chinese bronzes to Japanese paintings ...

Public paintings by edvard munch and his contemporaries

This volume, published in association with the University of Oslo Conservation Studies, explores changes in the appearance of Edvard Munch�s paintings through traditional and advanced scientific analysis. Covering works in major Norwegian collections and public commissions, the papers examine Mun...

Migrants: art, artists, materials and ideas crossing borders

Artistic production and the preservation of cultural property have always been subject to the ebb and flow of international influences. Major factors have included the supply of materials, the migration of artists, designers and craftspeople, as well as evolving conservation theory and practice w...

Tempera painting 1800 - 1950

These texts explore the revival of tempera painting between 1800 and 1950 from the perspectives of art history, technical art history, conservation and scientific analysis. They provide an overview on the historical background of tempera painting, its terminologies,commercial production and the r...

Desalination of historic buildings, stone and wall paintings

The result of research from the European Desalination project which investigates the use of poultices to treat salt damage in porous cultural heritage objects. While poulticing is widely practiced, its effects are often irreversible. The papers explore key topics including poultice material selec...

Artists' pigments

This is the fourth volume in the series�Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of their History and Characteristics�published by National Gallery of Art in association with Archetype Publications Ltd.�

Scientific research on historic asian ceramics

This volume explores Asian ceramics through scientific and typological analysis, highlighting technologies, cultural context, and East�West exchanges. Topics include high-fired wares, glazes, kilns, inscriptions, and funerary art.

Authenticity and replication

This volume explores the evolving concepts of authenticity and replication in the interpretation, display, and conservation of cultural heritage. Challenging traditional Western emphasis on original materials, the papers examine how scientific analysis, historical context, and conceptual signific...

Hamilton kerr institute bulletin no. 10, 2024

This volume is the tenth in this biennial series which presents the recent research into the conservation, structure, materials, history etc. of paintings carried out by past and present staff and students of the Hamilton Kerr Institute.

On the ethics of cultural heritage conservation

A collection of previously published papers, original texts based on lectures delivered by the author and several pieces written solely for this publication. Each analyses one of the core notions that shape the traditional conservation discourse (minimal intervention, artist's intent etc.). These...

The public face of conservation

A collection of papers from the conference Playing to the Galleries and Engaging New Audiences, held in Williamsburg, Virginia. It explores the evolving role of conservators in public engagement and the challenges of communicating conservation work through exhibitions, tours, and digital platform...

Early painting in the northern netherlands

This volume, published in association with the Rijksmuseum, investigates the materials and techniques of early Northern Netherlandish paintings in the museum�s collection. Scientists, conservators, and art historians examine 14 works to uncover details about panels, pigments, oils, and methods, l...