Hong Kong University Press - Böcker

This book analyses the roles of the market and media - especially cinema and the Internet - in these transformations, and considers the ambiguous consequences that the growing commodification and mediatisation of queer lives have had for LGBT righ...

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This is an autobiography by Elizabeth Doery, a granddaughter of Sir Robert Ho Tung and daughter of Jean Gittins, one of whose books, Stanley: Behind Barbed Wire, was published in 1982 by the HKUP. Elizabeth Doery was born into a minority Eurasian ...

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The City as a Centre of Change in Asia brings together twenty-one original contributions which examine the major features of the rapid urban growth occurring in Asia today. The book is in four major sections Economic, Social and Political Change; ...

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Based on phonetic and contrastive methods, the book is not only useful for the learning and teaching of Mandarin pronunciation but also as a contribution to comparative linguistics.

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Paints a clear, research-based picture of how Chinese students and their teachers see the context of their learning both in Hong Kong and abroad. The focus of much of this research is the question, "How can Chinese learners be so successful academ...

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In the first decade of the twentieth century while other intellectuals were concerned with translating works of political and scientific import into Chinese, Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927) looked to Western philosophy to find answers to the fundamental ...

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This book attempts to explain this aspect of Yuan Shih-k'ai's political power by analysing the relationship between him and Sir John Newell Jordan, British minister at Peking from 1906 to 1920.

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In this volume of collected studies, social workers in Hong Kong and Singapore tell of their experience in attempting to resolve some of the problems that exist in the communities of these two city-states.

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The University of Hong Kong is one of Hong Kong's largest single community enterprises. First incorporated as a self-governing body of scholars by the University Ordinance of 1911 its first faculties were formed from the Hong Kong College of Medic...

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This book provides a comprehensive and up to date review and critique of corporate governance reforms and related financial reforms in China during the country's transition to a market economy, involving its enterprise, banking and capital markets...

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The book centres around a major theme: the first 'confrontation' between the Supreme Ultimate (or T'ien) of the Confucian cosmological order and the Christian anthropomorphic God as conveyed to the Chinese literati by the Western mi...

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This collection of papers provides an account of current trends in endocrinological research and highlights the problem areas which still remain to be resolved. The work sould serve as a valuable source of information for biological scientists and...

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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 deg...

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Louise Ho is a Chinese poet from Hong Kong who finds her feet in English. Since her first publications more than thirty years ago, her poetry collected here has been a reflection of the fortunes of the city and its people, their hopes and anxietie...

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

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

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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 contrib...

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Opening with a vivid description of the first English voyage to China in 1637. Macao and the British traces the ensuing course of Anglo-Chinese relations, during which time Macao skillfully - and without fortifications - escaped domination by the ...

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The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. This moving novel that captures the time and place so convincingly is a historical reconstruction of the years 1780 to 1795 and the lives of Martha...

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In this short study, the author explains how the Portuguese came to the Far East and how they settled in Macao with tacit Chinese goodwill. Macao's golden age from 1557 to the disastrous collapse in 1641 is vividly reconstructed.

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Set in 1950s Hong Kong, The Road paints an evocative picture of comfortable colonial life, while at the same time presenting the local people with the shrewd understanding that the author had acquired as District Offi cer in rural Hong Kong.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 governa...

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Qian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Mountain is a close examination of the practice of travel writing in seventeenth-century China, presenting a new reading of the youji genre that combines meticulous research and an innovative theoretical positio...

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