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Frames of Anime – Culture and Image–Building
Av Tze–yue Hu
Inbunden, 2010
341 kr
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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 …
Above the City – Hiking Hong Kong Island
Häftad, 2005
223 kr
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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.
Burden or Legacy – From the Chinese Cultural Revolution to Contemporary Art
Av Jiehong Jiang, Jiehong Jiang
Häftad, 2007
426 kr
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This book consists of six papers by the scholars and the artists in China and in the UK, discussing contemporary Chinese art with the influence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
Profits, Politics, and Panics – Hong Kong`s Banks and the Making of a Miracle Economy, 1935–1985
Inbunden, 2007
435 kr
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This book recounts the banks' painful struggles to adapt to dramatic economic and political changes in China and Hong Kong between 1935-85. It identifies how misguided government decisions led to recurrent banking crises. Nevertheless, the banks almost single-handed financed first the manufacturing …
Empress and Mrs. Conger – The Uncommon Friendship of Two Women and Two Worlds
Inbunden, 2011
625 kr
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In winter 1902, in the ruins of post-Boxer Uprising Beijing, two women from two different worlds joined hands in friendship-the former concubine and legendary tyrant Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Midwest-born, devoutly Christian diplomat's wife Sarah Pike Conger. Together, they made history.
Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan
Häftad, 2011
422 kr
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Examining the deployments of gender and sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan, this book chronicles a queer historiography that illuminates the production of sexual identities and the formation of sexual modernity. Through primary research and historical investigation, Hans Tao-Ming Huang …
Sinking of the Lisbon Maru – Britain′s Forgotten Wartime Tragedy
Av Tony Banham
Inbunden, 2006
437 kr
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Almost 2,000 British Prisoners of War were aboard the Japanese freighter Lisbon Maru when an American submarine torpedoed and sank her in October 1942. This book tells the story of those men, from the fighting in Hong Kong, through the sinking, and - for some - to liberation and beyond.
Tracing China – A Forty–Year Ethnographic Journey
Av Helen Siu
Inbunden, 2016
938 kr
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Tracing China chronicles forty years of fieldwork. The journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of community in South China; it spans decades of persistent rural-urban divide and eventually uncovers China's global reach and Hong Kong's cross-border dynamics. Siu traverses …
No Man an Island
The Cinema of Hou Hsiao-hsien, Second Edition
Av James Udden
Häftad, 2017
500 kr
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Taiwan is a peculiar place resulting in a peculiar cinema, with Hou Hsiao-hsien being its most remarkable product. Hou’s signature long and static shots almost invite critics to give auteurist readings of his films, often privileging the analysis of cinematic techniques at the expense of the …
Chinese Literati on Painting
Su Shih (1037-1101) to Tung Ch'i-ch'ang (1555-1636)
Av Susan Bush
Häftad, 2012
498 kr
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This classic work, first published in 1971, explores the transition in painting styles from the late Sung period to the art of Yuan dynasty literati. Building on the pioneering work of Oswald Siren and James Cahill, Susan Bush's investigations of painting done under the Chin dynasty confirmed the …
Pacific Crossing
California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong
Häftad, 2012
435 kr
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During the nineteenth century, tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, and settle in California. Making use of extensive research in archives around the world, Pacific Crossing charts the rise of Chinese Gold Mountain firms engaged in all kinds of transpacific …
Lone Flag – Memoir of the British Consul in Macao During World War II
Av John Pownall Reeves, Colin Day m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
569 kr
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When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China Coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being …
Introduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law
Häftad, 2017
463 kr
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The Hong Kong Basic Law is the constitutional document which sets out the general policies and system of government for Hong Kong under the "one country, two systems" formula. It promises Hong Kong a high degree of autonomy, seeks to preserve a separate common law system with an independent …
Empires of Panic – Epidemics and Colonial Anxieties
Av Robert Peckham, Robert Peckham
Inbunden, 2015
603 kr
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Empires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and managed across different colonial, imperial, and post-imperial settings-from early nineteenth-century East Asia to twenty-first-century America. Contributors consider panic in relation to colonial …
Foreigners Under Mao – Western Lives in China, 1949–1976
Western Lives in China, 1949-1976
Inbunden, 2016
629 kr
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Foreigners Under Mao is a pioneering study of the Western community during the turbulent Mao era. Based largely on personal interviews, memoirs, private letters, and archives, this book 'gives a voice' to the Westerners who lived under Mao. It shows that China was not as closed to Western residents …
Enclave to Urbanity – Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
Canton, Foreigners, and Architecture from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2016
576 kr
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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. …
Ultra–Modernism – Architecture and Modernity in Manchuria
Av Edward Denison, Guangyu Ren
Inbunden, 2017
519 kr
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The first half of the twentieth century was fraught with global tensions and political machinations. However, for all the destruction in that period, these geopolitical conditions in Manchuria cultivated an extraordinary variety of architecture and urban planning, which has completely escaped …
Understanding Chinese Company Law
Av Minkang Gu
Inbunden, 2017
718 kr
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First published in 2006, Understanding Chinese Company Law covers the major topics in the area of company law in this fast-changing country. This third edition has incorporated the discussions on new laws and regulations that have sprung up over the past few years, including the China Company Law …
Merchants of War and Peace – British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War
British Knowledge of China in the Making of the Opium War
Inbunden, 2017
536 kr
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Merchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium War were the infamous opium smuggling trade, the defense of British national honor, and cultural conflicts between 'progressive' Britain and 'backward' China. Instead, it argues that the …
Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism
Av Anne Rademacher, K. Sivaramakrishna m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
367 kr
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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 …
Boys` Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols – Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
Av Maud Lavin, Ling Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
830 kr
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Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys' Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans …
Reduced to a Symbolical Scale – The Evacuation of British Women and Children from Hong Kong to Australia in 1940
Av Tony Banham
Inbunden, 2017
603 kr
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In July 1940, the wives and children of British families in Hong Kong, military and civilian, were compulsorily evacuated, following a plan created by the Hong Kong government in 1939. That plan focused exclusively on the process of evacuation, but issues concerning how the women and children …
Making and Remaking of China`s "Red Classics" – Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture
Av Rosemary Roberts, Li Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
819 kr
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This book brings together research on the "red classics" across the entire Maoist period through the reform era. It covers a range of genres including literature, film, TV, and visual art, offering a panoramic view of the production and reception of the original "red classics" and their adaptations …
Gender, Health, and History in Modern East Asia
Av Angela Ki Che Leung, Izumi Nakayama m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
584 kr
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This groundbreaking volume captures and analyzes the exhilarating and at times disorienting experience when scientists, government officials, educators, and the general public in East Asia tried to come to terms with the introduction of Western biological and medical sciences to the region. The …
China—Art—Modernity
A Critical Introduction to Chinese Visual Expression from the Beginning of the Twentieth Century to the Present Day
Av David Clarke
Häftad, 2019
621 kr
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First Estates
The Story of Fairview Park and Hong Lok Yuen with Documents
Av Roger Nissim
Inbunden, 2020
688 kr
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Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities
Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
Av John Wei
Inbunden, 2020
901 kr
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Whampoa and the Canton Trade
Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842
Inbunden, 2020
853 kr
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