Hong Kong University Press – förlag

The book provides a comprehensive overview of To's career as a director of action films.

The BRICS+ countries include the original five members of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, alongside the four new members Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates, with Saudi Arabia also invited to join.The Global South both as a concept and the loosely defined collection of countries has gained increasing traction in public and policy discourse. BRICS+ countries may become precipitously important in economic, trade, and financial terms, as well as in the interplay of geopolitics and other multilateral institutions. Amid the growing role these powers play in the global food and energy supply chains, academics cannot avoid engaging with and reflecting upon the past, present, and future of the BRICS+ countries. This compendium draws upon scholars across numerous continents, spheres, and disciplines, examining the future of BRICS+ in a rigorous and evidence-informed manner to provide a robust and accurate assessment of both the strengths and weaknesses of BRICS+.While the energy, financial, and supply chain complementarities between its original five members are comparatively evident, with the entry of four new countries, questions have inevitably arisen over the tenability and coherence of the grouping, as well as the extent to which internal rifts and divergences can be managed. Many non-BRICS+ nations and observers remain cautious of the viability and desirability of BRICS+ as a force that could counterbalance the conventionally defined G7 countries. Though the significance of the BRICS+ as a geopolitical force remains to be fully seen, understanding BRICS+ would prove vital for policymakers and businesses across the world.

This volume analyzes Asia's postcrisis experience with using monetary policy to manage the resurgence in capital inflows postcrisis. It also examines the theoretical and policy issues associated with international capital flows, the increasing degree of integration of financial markets and exchange rates for emerging Asian economies more generally.

Chan looks at the dramatic post-1997 surge in Chinese presence in Hollywood, especially through the works of Ang Lee, John Woo, etc.

This book distills over decades of professional experience of the contributors as HR professionals, consultants, legal experts/advisors and academics. It shares the full spectrum of professional HRM practices in relation to their strategic contributions to organizations. In a hands-on and lively fashion, it provides up-to-date HRM knowledge and skills with practical guidelines to various stakeholders of HRM so as to equip them with theoretical and practical knowledge that they would have good impacts on business results and add value.

This book engages with cultural representations of the multifarious subjectivities of Chinese migrant communities, including analyses of aesthetic texts, as well as theoretical approaches in cultural studies.

In this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors shed new light on their causes, their impact on future government policy and on Sino-British relations, and their legacy for Hong Kong society and governance, and the people of the territory.

This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem through the lens of cinema from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume breaks new ground in Chinese and global film studies.

This anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem through the lens of cinema from a non-anthropocentric point of view. By proposing "ecocinema" as a new critical framework, the volume breaks new ground in Chinese and global film studies.

This book is an inter-disciplinary study of the subject of anime, a popular form of Japanese animation. Using a variety of research methods and spanning a period of nine years including intensive fieldwork conducted in Japan and other parts of Asia, the study aims to provide an alternative account of the growth of the medium-genre particularly from an Asian perspective.

This book recounts the previously-untold history of Hong Kong's deeply flawed but spectacularly successful tax system. It is a story shedding new light on the political process in Hong Kong, and on relations between Hong Kong and London. Given the successes of Hong Kong's tax system, it is also a story which governments and policy-makers everywhere might find instructive.

The book examines the historical development of national identity across the Taiwan Strait, and argues for a hybrid of federation and confederation as a compromise solution to the current political impasse. It emphasizes the important role of the state and intellectuals in shaping national identities across the Strait.

This volume offers a comprehensive, first-hand look at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China's top stories in recent years.

This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce.

This interdisciplinary book provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce.

This book, the first of its kind ever written in Hong Kong, describes the practical application of Conditions of Contract for Civil Engineering Works. The author has condensed his legal knowledge, many years of contract management experience and ten years as Contract Adviser in major Government projects into this book.

This book provides a systematical analysis of all available social and demographic data released by the Chinese government. Additional to western literature, this book provides a good review of relevant research literature published in Chinese. With anacademic background of sociology and demography, the author focuses his analyses on various issues such as migration, marriage, income, consumption and education.

Pilgrimages is a timely account of the author's childhood in the 1950s and 60s in two colonial outposts. It also provides critical analysis of the autobiographical genre.

Hong Kong's approach to heritage conservation has focused mainly on saving an old building here and there with little or no regard to its surroundings. Recent public debates challenging proposals to demolish the former Central Government Offices have highlighted this problem and, for the first time, acknowledged that the heritage value of the buildings is enhanced by their contribution to the broader 'cultural landscape' of Government Hill. Not all of Hong Kong's heritage cultural landscapes have been so fortunate. Landscapes Lost and Found illustrates the concept of cultural landscape using wonderful local examples and champions this new approach to interpreting and conserving Hong Kong's heritage sites more effectively.

This is a collection of about 50 papers presented at the First International Conference on the Marine Biology of Hong Kong and South China Sea held at the University of Hong Kong in October 1990.

This book deals with the ecology of rivers and streams in the Oriental Region, and describes the composition of their unique fauna - especially the diverse array of animals which live on and among the bottom sediments.

In this volume, dedicated to the memory of Hong Kong University students, faculty and members of the Court who lost their lives as a result of hostilities in the Far East during 1941-1945, we ask what happened to the University during those years of Japanese occupation when there was only the shell of a campus left standing on Pokfulam Road.

This book is the first systematic attempt to introduce the current practice and statistics of town planning in Hong Kong.

This visionary novel by an anonymous author has been forgotten for a hundred years. Yet when published as The Back Door during the negotiations between Imperial China and Great Britain over the lease of the New Territories, the story aroused serious British fears about the possibility of defending Hong Kong against attack.

The growing impact of globalization has affected educational development in many parts of the globe. In order to maintain national competitiveness in the global marketplace, governments across the world have started to review their education systems and introduce different reform initiatives in education in order to enhance the global capacity of their citizens. This book adopts the wider perspective of globalization in order to examine and critically reflect upon the origin, evolution and development of the Quality Education Movement in Hong Kong. It pays particular attention to how Hong Kong's education has been affected by the global trend to economic rationalism and managerialism. More specifically, the major aim of this book is to examine and analyse the most recent reform measures adopted by the HKSAR in its quest for quality education in Hong Kong.

This is an extraordinary and original way of telling the story of those years, and of examining the forces and phenomena behind that story. It can be enjoyed for its photography, considered as an excitingly different way of recording history, and read as a profound reflection on a city foreseeing and then experiencing an historical transformation.

This book studies the development of approaches to combating malaria in Hong Kong, Okinawa, Taiwan, and mainland China in the colonial and post-colonial periods as a dynamic process of interaction between the objectives of the state, international interests, emergence of new medical knowledge and technology, changing concepts of disease, as well as local society.

The book witnesses and chronicles the 90 years wherein the University of Hong Kong and its graduates were intimately engaged in the development of Hong Kong.

Chiu recounts the events of June 1986, during which a Japanese watch factory in Hong Kong tried to fire 36 of its women workers. This provoked an unprecedented sit-in by 300 of the women employed at the plant.