Hong Kong University Press - Böcker

Discover why Mongolia may lead the future of Asia. Mongolia, a vibrant democracy landlocked between Russia and China, stands on the edge of becoming Asia's next boom nation--one of the richest countries per capita in the region. Referred to as the...

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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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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 missionaries.

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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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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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Hou Hsiao-hsien is arguably the most celebrated Chinese-language film director in the international film festival realm. However, this is not due to an inert cultural tradition so much as to numerous historical/contextual factors-most of all his b...

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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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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 n...

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A collection of papers presented to the Second International Workshop which reports the most recent research findings on the molluscan fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China.

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A portfolio of 38 works painted from 1961-82. Each painting is accompanied by a brief background history written by the artist.

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This book describes and analyses the role of the public sector in the often-charged political atmosphere of post-1997 Hong Kong. It discusses critical constitutional, organisational and policy problems and examines their effects on relationships b...

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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.

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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 t...

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The United States Constitution is the oldest written constitution in the world. But what were its origins? Is it a "living" organism or, as the only alternative, a dead one? What influence, if any, has the U.S. Constitution had on Asian ...

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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. Wi...

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This volume is the compilation of the series of original articles presentes at the International Symposium on Basic and Applied Aspects of Vestibular Function held in Hong Kong, September 13-16, 1987, in conjunction with the centenary celebration ...

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There are twelve chapters in this book. The subjects discussed include the mechanisms of eosinophilia in parasitic infections, piscine immunity to protozoan diseases, survival strategies of trichuroid nematodes, sero-diagnosis, purine and pyrimidi...

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Land-use change is ubiquitous. This volume, in bringing together a range of studies presented at a Symposium held in Hokkaido, Japan, in August 1987, illustrates this. Urbanization has brought in its train vast changes in peri-urban zones and in d...

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A three volume work of the proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop on the Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China.

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The volume is a memorial to his achievements and comprises 22 papers presented at a symposium in his honour during the IX International Malacological Congress, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1986. It contains 4 sections: Evolution, Feeding and Digestion, Fu...

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To reflect the development and history of education in Hong Kong, the author has collected a wide range of fascinating and illuminating material from different sources, and, wherever appropriate, has included his own commentaries.

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A selection of popular extant Cantonese children's songs, studying both their linguistic and non-linguistic aspects. The Chinese texts of the songs are printed together with their English translations.

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A selection of papers presented at the Symposium on English Literature by Asian authors entitled Asian Voices in English held at The University of Hong Kong, 27-30 April 1990.

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