六七暴動

六七暴動堪稱香港戰後歷史的分水嶺，本書分析六七暴動的成因、經過及影響，詳細敘述騷亂的導火線及主要事件，包括沙頭角邊境衝突、炸彈浪潮及火燒英國駐北京代辦處等。 　　本書根據近年解封的英國政府機密檔案，披露英國政府當年處理騷亂及中英關係的策略。作者採訪了多位來自港英政府及左派陣營的當事人，包括負責鎮壓暴動的港督私人助理姬達、新華社香港分社副社長梁上苑、目前擔任立法會主席的曾鈺成及民政事務局局長的曾德成。作者也敘述了多位響應左派號召參與反英抗爭，而付出沉重代價的參與者的遭遇。由於部分被訪者已相繼辭世，這些珍貴的訪問紀錄為這段歷史留下不可或缺的口述歷史資料。

香港振翅

隨著香港發展成為強大的經濟體，商業航空逐漸成型。王迪安博士認為香港能夠發展成為區域及全球航空業樞紐並非全球流動時代的必然結果。《香港振翅》一書探討香港如何轉變成為航空業樞紐，旨在敘述源於亞洲間及區域結構的全球化，以及全球網絡成形的過程。作者以航空業的角度審視香港的全球化，並探討香港政策制定者與商界人士如何與國際合作夥伴和競爭對手，在各自維護自身利益的前提下，努力尋找機會，以期獲得社會經濟效益，而且就著香港的經濟成功，協商他們之間的利益，並清楚地表達了他們對現代性的看法。

帝國夾縫中的香港

高馬可認為自鴉片戰爭後的一個世紀，香港的殖民地性質孕育了一批本地華裔商業精英。及至十九世紀末，殖民地政府視華裔商人為盟友，以發展香港為商業中心。兩者所以能連結起來，正因為他們都相信中國商機處處。華裔領袖和港英當局在共同關注的問題上均有合作，例如資本主義擴張，以及為陷入困境的中國提供政治和經濟方面的籌謀獻策等。這些華裔精英也在這殖民地架構中找到生意和商業上的機遇。他們利用香港的戰略地位把自己塑造成與內地商人不同的一個獨特社群。國族主義在香港帶有其本地特色。同時，通過為英國籌措軍費、接待訪港的英國皇室成員、出席大英帝國的貿易展覽，華裔精英有助香港成為大英帝國中活躍的一員。在《帝國夾縫中的香港...

我在山東當院長

2017年1月1日，加拿大籍學者貝淡寧（Daniel A. Bell）獲任命為山東大學政治學與公共管理學院院長。他既非公民，也不是中國共產黨黨員，卻因研究儒家思想成就斐然，成為中國首位重要高校的政治學學院院長。本書記錄了貝淡寧這位外籍「小官」的獨特經歷，也記述了他觀察中國學術界與政治體制互動的感想與建言。雖然「小官」貝淡寧自陳，他在院長任內並非一帆風順，「錯失與誤解不斷」，但顯然無損他站在高點觀察、點評中國社會與學術界的能力。例如，他解釋了中國官員（包含大學的管理者）普遍習慣染髮的原因。再如，他生動地描述山東飲酒文化，如何從孔子口中的「唯酒無量」演化到「不及亂」的過程。此外，貝淡寧直問了...

市井香港

1937年抗日戰爭爆發，大批南來文人和電影製片人在上海淪陷後遷居香港，拍攝了不少粵語抗日宣傳電影，又稱「國防電影」。在《市井香港：戰前香港的粵語電影、宣傳電影和文化空間》中，趙傑鋒以這段發生在香港的歷史為開端，闡釋了抗日宣傳電影如何與香港的通俗文化交匯，藉此重組由晚清到戰前香港的通俗文化空間。在這個「眾聲喧嘩」的文化空間中，粵劇和電影、影像和聲音、傳統與現代之間的辯證，意外地開闢了一條渠道予各種文化想像和新可能。這種種因素不但影響了戰前香港粵語電影的發展，更為戰後香港的電影業奠下堅實的基礎。本書亦為1937年至1941年的香港電影史，補上一塊或缺已久的拼圖。

大交流

在《大交流：伍秉鑑的怡和行與十九世紀的全球貿易》中，王迪安通過清代十三行行商伍秉鑑的視角，探討了廣州體制下的貿易網絡如何塑造現代商業世界。當時，伍秉鑑的貿易網絡和金融聯繫從中國延伸至印度、美國和英國。這一時期的中國商人往往被視為西方重商主義崛起與中國抑商傳統觀念的受害者，但伍秉鑑並非如此。他早在西方世界秩序確立前的跨國交流中，就成功地在自身商業利益與中國及西方同行的利益之間取得了複雜的平衡。當今的政治勢力不斷相互制衡，以西方為中心的世界體系越來越難以維持，國際商人動態需適應一個中國再次佔據舞台中心的新世界秩序。伍秉鑑的怡和行在十九世紀早期流動的背景下成功部署商業網絡，對我們來說仍然饒有啟示。

Designing jewels

France has a long-standing, distinguished and highly influential history of jewelry making. The exhibition Designing Jewels: 200 years of French Savoir-Faire (1770–1970), along with its accompanying catalogue, explains individual achievements by showcasing the culture of developing jewelry design...

Above the city

Above the City: Hiking Hong Kong Island is a unique comprehensive guide to walks and hikes on Hong Kong Island. Many Hong Kong residents and visitors enjoy a few famous hikes, but then are at a loss to find more routes. Above the City takes the walking enthusiast beyond the well-trodden paths and...

Creativity and academic activism

Prominent cultural studies scholars from around the world reflect on their institution-building triumphs and setbacks in an era of university managerialism, marketization, and globalization.

Crisis and transformation in china's hong kong

Banana bending

Cdm and sustainable development in china

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is a mechanism under the Kyoto Protocol that was created in the third Conference of Parties in 1997. This book examines the current status and characteristics of CDM projects in developing countries. Secondly, it clarifies ways to adjust the differences in concer...

延安精神探索

延安精神探索》為魯直先生的文章結集。作者畢生從事革命事業，並曾在《解放日報》、《人民日報》和其他報刊發表大量文章。本書共有三個部分，刊載了作者對於陝甘寧邊區建設、軍隊政治與文化工作和新中國經濟發展的各種意見。魯直的文章不但體現了「延安精神」，更能令讀者了解他的個人經歷和1940至1950年代中國的革命氛圍。本文集亦為學者提供了寶貴的原始史料，對研究中國革命歷史和社會主義經濟建設的歷程，極具參考價值。

American-designed shopping malls in china

China’s remarkable journey from poverty to becoming the world’s second-largest economic power is marked by extraordinary urban growth and consumption capacity of its urban population. Central to this development fervor are multifunctional commercial complexes and shopping malls, now key features ...

The sublime object of orientalism

The Sublime Object of Orientalism proposes that globalised Asian physical cultural practices such as taiji, qigong, yoga, and meditation can be understood by examining the intimate connection between Western orientalism and the Romantic aesthetic notion of the sublime. The book recasts ‘orientali...

Across time and space

In the early twentieth century, oil painting as a non-indigenous medium began to be taught in Chinese art academies. Since that time, it has become an important and increasingly popular portal, inviting artists to explore cross-cultural dynamics and experiment with individual creative expression....

Cultivation

Zhao Hai Tien’s creative explorations are characterized by the diversity of media in her work—from airbrush on glass and acrylic on canvas to calligraphic experiments, large-scale public murals and oil paintings. Her practice blends technical precision with expressive freedom and spiritual influe...

心路

《心路：走進他人內心世界的心理治療藝術》是一本把西方理論與中華智慧相融合的心理治療實踐指南。黃麗彰博士憑藉逾三十年的心理治療工作經驗，重新審視了西方心理治療理論在華人群體中的應用；張艷博士從實證研究角度深化了書中的論點。本書旨在幫助讀者洞察心理治療中的文化敏感度，並啟發未來的心理治療實踐。本書系統回顧了西方心理治療理論和框架，大量收錄了心理治療真實案例中的珍貴細節，深入探討了走進受助者內心世界的技巧、人生故事的重塑、內在世界的修和、未盡之事和創傷經驗的處理等與人內在體驗相關的主題。因我們共有的人性，不論你是心理治療的專業從業者抑或是愛好者，相信都能透過閱讀本書，享受這段探索人性內在世界的...

疫下心境

新冠疫症是一場全球危機，影響了數百萬人的生命，也令精神健康問題成為眾所矚目的焦點。香港異於其他地方的嚴格防疫規定、檢疫措施和旅遊限制，使情況雪上加霜。與疫情相關的精神健康問題，並未隨口罩令解除而結束。相反，這些衝擊才剛剛開始浮現，其餘波在往後多年持續存在。這本令人眼界大開的書，記述了普通香港人在疫症期間面對極具挑戰的故事。本書糅合了第一身敘述、心理學見解和具體數據，以引人入勝且簡單易明的方式，深入探討新冠疫症對香港人精神健康造成的影響。然而，此書不僅僅是一本苦難的紀實，也是通往療癒和希望的指南。書中提供了一些實用建議，幫助人們克服因疫情引發的精神健康問題，建立韌性和促進身心健康。同時，本...

Ikat textiles of timor

Crime and pangolins

Travels and revelations

Travels and Revelations: 23 Essays by Zhang Chengzhi is about cultures which the author knows intimately. With sophisticated sensibility, he describes the tangible cultures of Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Gansu, Ningxia and Xinjiang in recent decades – the landscapes and cityscapes, the roads and wat...

The heart sūtra

In The Heart Sūtra: Revisiting Its Texts, History, and Meaning, Henry C. H. Shiu investigates the historical origins of the Heart Sūtra, a significant Buddhist scripture. He compares the Sanskrit texts with their Chinese and Tibetan translations to analyse whether the Heart Sūtra might be a Chine...

Understanding south asian minorities in hong kong

People of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kong's population. Most have found ways of prospering despite social and economic obstacles and widespread discrimination. Focusing on three important groups--Indians, Pakistanis, and Nepalese--Erni and Leung ...

Buying beauty

Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain "beauty capital" to increase opportunities for social and career success. Build...

Toward critical patriotism

This book considers, in the context of political education in China and colonial Hong Kong, the effects of critical thinking on university students' attitudes toward the nation. Its objective is to understand how students' attitudes toward patriotism diverge from those held by the majority. The a...

War and revolution in south china

In War and Revolution in South China, Edward Rhoads recounts his childhood and early teenage years during the Sino-Japanese War and the early postwar years. Rhoads came from a biracial family. His father was an American professor while his Chinese mother was a typist and stenographer. In the late...

Hong kong's link to the us dollar

Hong Kong's Link to the US Dollar covers the origins of the city's currency crisis in 1983, the initial resolution of the crisis by creation of a traditional currency board, the subsequent problems leading to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98, and the later reforms. The epilogue traces Hong K...

Chinese fiction of the cultural revolution

As the first comprehensive study of Chinese fiction of the Cultural Revolution, this pioneering work explores the position of the literature of this turbulent period in the context of contemporary China. The book covers the choice of subject matter, authorship and readership of Cultural Revolutio...

A dictionary of hong kong english

This book is the first dictionary of Hong Kong English and one of the few non-native variety dictionaries of English. It includes only words and word senses that are particular to this variety or have a specific reference to Hong Kong, and thus contributes to legitimizing Hong Kong English as a v...

Change in use of land

Change in Use of Land: A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong is a guide for professionals in real estate development in Hong Kong. This third edition provides an account of the concepts of the use and change in use of land, followed by an outline of the procedures for lease modifications ...

Queer singapore

Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts for the rise of mediated queer cultures in Singapore's current milieu of illiberal citizenship. This ...

Hypocrisy

Although the official propaganda surrounding the drug detainees in China is that of helping, educating, and saving them from their drug habits and the drug dealers who lure them into drug abuse, it is clear, according to Vincent Shing Cheng, that those who have gone through the rehabilitation sys...

Christianity and education in modern china

In Christianity and Education in Modern China, Wong Man Kong, George Kam Wah Mak, and other contributors demonstrate how Christianity served as a driving force in the development of modern education in China. Each of the chapters offers new insights into Christian involvement in different issues ...

Hong kong metamorphosis

Apart from eleven years in England for school, university and National Service, and a three-year 'overseas posting' as Hong Kong Commissioner in London, Denis Bray has lived all his life in Hong Kong and China. The metamorphosis is of the man himself as he grew up from childhood, through adolesce...

In the ruins of the japanese empire

In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire concludes that early East Asian Cold War history needs to be studied within the framework of post-imperial history. Japan’s surrender did not mean that the Japanese and former imperial subjects would immediately disavow imperial ideology. The end of the Japanes...

Town planning in hong kong

As Hong Kong town-planning legislation develops, there is an ever-growing demand for a better understanding of the rules and principles behind the discretionary decisions of the Town Planning Board regarding planning applications. Town Planning in Hong Kong A Review of Planning Appeals is a thoro...

Chinese cinema

In Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, a variety of scholars explore the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second largest film industry in the world. Exploring the various ways that Chinese cinema engage...

Anglo-china

For its earliest promoters, Hong Kong was an island 'bespread with palaces, a beautifully and well ordered city, a miracle of British enterprise and dormant power' at the edge of a crumbling Chinese Empire. This 'capital of Anglo-China', as some of them called it, was a place where Chinese and Eu...

Public success, private sorrow

Living most of his adult life as an official in the Chinese Imperial Customs Service, Charles Brewitt-Taylor also achieved distinction as a scholar of Chinese. He prepared a masterly translation of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms making this the first of the major traditional Chinese novels to ...

Pandemic minds

The COVID-19 pandemic was a global crisis that affected millions of lives and brought mental health challenges to the forefront. In Hong Kong, the situation was worsened by uniquely strict COVID-19 regulations, quarantine measures, and travel restrictions. The mental health issues associated with...

The search for a vanishing beijing

The Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive narrative about the cultural mosaic of the capital of China. The author leads the reader through palaces, temples, back streets and markets while bringing back to living memory forgotten o...

Cases on international business and finance in japanese corporations

While Japan's export-oriented economy has been advancing with astounding speed, significant differences remain between the management philosophy and techniques used within Japanese companies and those used in the West. These include the significant differences in the use of capital budgeting tech...

Teaching abroad

Teaching Abroad addresses the question of moving abroad to teach in a cross-cultural university classroom. It discusses the recent flourishing of international education and developments in educational structures and practice, and traces the historical development of, and recent changes in, unive...

Pilgrimages

These rich and lucidly composed personal essays on the author's early life journeys in Portuguese Macau and British Hong Kong offer vivid remembrances of colonial landscapes, architectures, and livelihoods of recent decades. Ng candidly depicts many humorous and painful episodes navigating family...

Desiring hong kong, consuming south china

Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China is a study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, Eric Ma traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as...

Malaysian cinema in the new millennium

Malaysian Cinema in the New Millennium offers a new approach to the study of multiculturalism in cinema by analysing how a new wave of filmmakers champion cultural diversity using cosmopolitan themes. Adrian Lee offers a new inquiry of Malaysian cinema that examines how the ‘Malaysian Digital Ind...

Opulence of the jao's lotus

This book is published in three editions (Chinese, Japanese, and English with different contents) Since the beginning of the new century, Professor Jao has been furthering his techniques of lotus painting with modulation through brush method, coloration and even composition, many of which has not...

Robert lettner

Professional housing management practices in hong kong

Professional housing management is of growing importance in Hong Kong and the "Hong Kong management model" is adopted in many neighbouring high-density cities. However, there has been by far no literature on the subject of housing management practices in Hong Kong. This book is therefore crucial ...

Outlaws of the sea

In Outlaws of the Sea, Robert J. Antony provides a comprehensive account of the history of maritime piracy in coastal south China from the 1630s to the 1940s. He neither romanticizes nor maligns pirates, but rather analyzes them in the context of their times and the broader world in which they li...

City at the end of time

Written by Leung Ping-kwan in the 1980s and 1990s, this volume of poetry evokes the complexity of Hong Kong city life in the critical moments preceding the 1997 handover. The poet muses upon the problems of cultural identity and the passing of time, and explores the relationship between poetry an...

The quest of noel croucher

Noel Croucher was a legend in his own time - a raconteur, yet a recluse, conventional yet eccentric, extremely rich yet mean to himself. And all the while, he had a secret penchant for philanthropy. From simple beginnings in England, he arrived in Hong Kong at the turn of the century to live thro...

The bewitching braid

The Bewitching Braid, set in Macau in the 1930s, is a tale of forbidden love between a Macanese boy from a privileged family in the 'Christian' city and a beautiful water-seller from the 'Chinese' quarter of Cheok Chai Un. Against a background of small-town prejudice, the story traces the trials ...

Wuming (no name) painting catalogue vol. 1 du xia

World weavers

World Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fiction. Scientific innovations provide citizens of different nations with a unique common ground and the means to establish new connections with distant lands. This study attempts to investigate how our w...

The book worlds of east asia and europe, 1450-1850

This volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in Eurasia between 1450 and 1850. Prominent scholars in book history explore different approaches to publishing, printing, and book culture. They discuss the extent of technology transfer an...

Shipping and logistics law

This book provides a general introduction to the basic principles of shipping and logistics law in Hong Kong. It contains many practical examples and illustrations from case law. Extracts of the relevant legislation and sample shipping documents are annexed in this book for reference. In this sec...

The pusan international film festival, south korean cinema and globalization

This book provides a political and cultural exploration of the Pusan International Film Festival in South Korea since its inception in 1996. By paying a particular attention to the organizers' use of an Asian regionalization strategy, SooJeong Ahn reveals how the festival staked out a unique and ...

Civility and its development

This is the first book-length study of the development of civility in Chinese societies. Although some social scientists and political philosophers have discussed civility, none has defined it as an analytical tool to systematically measure attitudes and behavior, and few have applied it to a non...

The poetics of difference and displacement

The Poetics of Difference and Displacement is the first book in English that systematically investigates the twentieth-century Chinese-Western intercultural theatre. It demonstrates that what is central to the making of the twentieth-century Chinese-Western intercultural theatre is what the autho...

Psychopathology

Psychopathology: An Empathic Representational Approach retraces the foundations of classical phenomenological psychopathology and integrates them with modern ideas drawn from anthropology, cognitive neuroscience, computational science, and evolutionary biology to synthesize a comprehensive framew...

Scribes of gastronomy

The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in a range of literary productions. From stanzas on food and wine in the Classics of Poetry to the articulation of refined dining in The Dream of...

Citizenship education in asia and the pacific

This book is a landmark in citizenship and citizenship education discourse. It combines conceptual debates with case studies on the question whether the notion of Asian Citizenship can be established, and if yes, what its research agenda would be. The book contains polemic discussion, empirical d...

Globalization and the humanities

This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of power for the increasing...

Sketching hong kong — the drawings of eddie chau

Western medicine for chinese

The founders of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (HKCM) had the lofty vision of helping to bring Western science and medicine to China, which, they hoped, would contribute to the larger objective of modernizing the nation. That this latter goal was partly realized through the non-med...

Cinema at the city's edge

This anthology presents a number of leading voices on contemporary Asian cinema studies, including Ackbar Abbas, Chris Berry, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, Dudley Andrew, Yomi Braester, Susie Jie Young Kim, Akira Mizuta Lippit, James Tweedie, Yiman Wang and Zhang Zhen. Through a rang...

The lending power of pisa

The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a project of the Organization for Economic operation and Development (OECD) designed to provide policy-oriented international indicators of the skills and knowledge of 15-year-old students. In this book, Eduardo Andere suggests that the...

Staging revolution

Staging Revolution refutes the deep-rooted notion that art overtly in the service of politics is by definition devoid of artistic merits. As a prominent component shaping the culture of the Cultural Revolution, model Beijing Opera (jingju) is the epitome of art used for political ends. Arguing ag...

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...

Carl crow--a tough old china hand

Carl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, working there as a journalist, newspaper proprietor, and groundbreaking adman. He also did stints as a hostage negotiator, emergency police sergeant, gentleman farmer, go-between for the American g...

Eileen chang

Eileen Chang (1920-1995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the most popular writers in 1940s Shanghai, but her insistence on writing about individual human relationships and mundane matters rather than revolutionary and political movements meant t...

Information technology and innovation in language education

This book presents a critical analysis and investigation of current developments and debates in the use of information technology (IT) in English language teaching (ELT) internationally. The first section of the book provides an overview of the key issues in IT and innovation in English language ...

They were in nanjing

The Nanjing Massacre, which took place after the Japanese attacked and captured Nanjing in December 1937, shocked the world with the magnitude of its atrocities. With newly uncovered eye-witness material left behind by American and British journalists, missionaries, and diplomats, They Were in Na...

When the yellow river floods

When the Yellow River Floods explores the relationship between environmental degradation, hydraulic engineering, and nation-building in the context of Liu E’s The Travels of Lao Can. This book contributes to the field by providing a unique perspective on modern Chinese literary history that goes ...

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...

Enclave to urbanity

Cross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English that examines how the architecture and the urban landscape of Guangzhou framed the relations between the Western mercantile and missionary communities and the city’s predominantly Chinese population. ...

Humour in chinese life and culture

This volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in China's public and private spheres, including comic films and novels, cartooning, pop songs, internet jokes, and advertising and educational humour. The second of two multidisciplinary volumes on humour in Chinese life and letters, thi...

The hong kong region, 1850-1911

In this classic study (1977), James Hayes examines local leadership in six villages and townships in Hong Kong's rural New Territories during the late Qing. Drawing on a wealth of documentary sources and on fieldwork carried out while serving as a district officer, Hayes makes a powerful argument...

Hong kong's housing policy

This book examines housing policy in Hong Kong using a new and unique interdisciplinary approach - combining the philosophical discussion on social justice with policy and housing studies. It considers both Western and Chinese concepts of social justice, and investigates the role of social justic...

A world within

This bilingual exhibition catalogue, A World Within: The Art and Inspiration of Irene Chou, is published on the occasion of Asia Society Hong Kong Center's eponymous exhibition. The catalogue celebrates Chou as one of the most inventive artists at the forefront of Hong Kong's New Ink Painting Mov...

Governors, politics and the colonial office

This book explores the making of public policy for Hong Kong between 1918 and 1958. During much of this period, the Hong Kong government had limited policymaking capabilities. Many new policies followed initiatives either from the Colonial Office or from politicians in Hong Kong. This book examin...

Sino-french trade at canton, 1698-1842

Sino-French Trade at Canton, 1698–1842 presents a rare and lively view of the French experience at Canton, and calls for a reappraisal of France’s role in that trade. France was one of the two most important Western powers in the eighteenth century, and was home to one of the three major European...

Hong kong land for hong kong people

Hong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values, and housing provision are inextricably linked with the city’s economic growth and questions of economic equality. In Hong Kong Land for Hong Kong People, Yue Chim Richard Wong traces the history of Hong K...

The truth about lying

New Plays Selection 2012, commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival The Truth About Lying is part of the Hong Kong New Plays Selection series, a bilingual collection of theater works representing the best of contemporary Hong Kong drama. The Truth About Lying won Best Script Award at the 2011 H...

From object to concept

Ming porcelain is among the world's finest cultural treasures. From ordinary household items to refined vessels for imperial use, porcelain became a dynamic force in domestic consumption in China and a valuable commodity in the export trade. In the modern era, it has reached unprecedented heights...

A handbook of practical medical terms (english-chinese), fourth edition

This book has been most useful as a handy reference for those practitioners whose first language may not be English or those who wish to know the current Chinese nomenclature of a well-known medical term.

Burden or legacy

The Cultural Revolution in China (1966–1976) has often been regarded as a period of disruptive turbulence and frenzied savagery. Its legacy to artistic growth and expression amounts to nothing except a burden of haunting traumas. Or does it amount to more than that?The seven authors in this antho...

Situating sexualities

This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Positioned at the crossroads of queer theory and postcolonial cultural studies, this book intervenes in current debates on sexuality and globalization to arg...

Places of nature in ecologies of urbanism

If twenty-first-century urbanization is understood as a problem, its regional epicenter is the cities in Asia. Facing unprecedented diversity in scale, scope, and environmental dynamics in the Asian urban experience, scholars will need an approach that can truly capture the significance of place ...

Making icons

One distinctive feature of post-war Japanese cinema is the frequent recurrence of imagistic and narrative tropes and formulaic characterizations in female representations. These repetitions are important, Jennifer Coates asserts, because sentiments and behaviours forbidden during the war and post...

My first trip to china

Thirty leading China experts--ranging from Perry Link, Andrew Nathan and Jonathan Mirsky to W. J. F. Jenner, Lois Wheeler Snow and Morton Abramowitz--recount their first visits to China, recalling their initial observations and impressions. Most first traveled to China when it was still closed to...

English in asian popular culture

Linguistic research has dealt with culture as one of its main concerns, but popular culture has not been the main focus. Considering how readily available pop culture is across different speech communities and how routinely it is consumed by so many people on a daily basis, it is crucial for ling...

Imperial to international

Founded in 1849, St John's Cathedral is the oldest neogothic cathedral in East Asia and China's oldest surviving Anglican church still in operation. In its early decades it was a centre of colonial life in Hong Kong. More recently, it has opened itself widely to other communities in Hong Kong, be...

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...

Eastern figures

Eastern Figures is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East - centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific - in the colonial and postcolonial period. It takes as its subject "the East" that was real to the British imagination, largely the ...