General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Ian Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsFirst published in 1963, The International Film Guide enjoys an unrivalled reputation as the most aut...

• Author(s): William Gaddis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralNow recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98), author of The Recognition...

• Author(s): Kuiyi Shen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe catalogue documents the stories of twenty-two artists from the Wuming, Xingxing and Caocao art groups presen...

• Author(s): Alexandra Green • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralRethinking Visual Narratives covers topics from the first millennium BCE through the present day, testify...

• Author(s): Eddie Lui • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralThe University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong, is delighted to present A...

• Author(s): Y. Kong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseHuangdi Neijing is a classic medical text of ancient China. Composed of two sections, Suwen and Lingshu, the book i...

• Author(s): Jill Cottrell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ResearchThis book is designed especially for use in Hong Kong to teach the basic skills of finding legal materials, both pri...

• Author(s): Fred Y. L. Chiu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryIn June 1986, a Japanese watch factory in Hong Kong tried to fire 36 of its women workers. This provoked a...

• Author(s): Gabriel Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care IssuesThis book provides a significant contribution to the discussions about the future of the system.The eviden...

• Author(s): Geoffrey C. Gunn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAstride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, premodern East and Southeast Asia can be ...

• Author(s): Jeremy Tambling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralWalking Macao, Reading the Baroque is a guide-book with a difference. It brings to the reader the art and...

• Author(s): Meaghan Morris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThe second volume of the Traces series, “Race” Panic and the Memory of Migration, explores complex ...

• Author(s): Hualing Fu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsThere has been intense interest in the proposals to implement Article 23, both in Hong Kong and abroad. This book w...

• Author(s): David Gray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThis is the first complete, critical English translation of the Cakrasamvara Tantra, also known as the Sriher...

• Author(s): Stephen Mcdowall • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesQian Qianyi’s Reflections on Yellow Mountain is a close examination of the practice of travel wri...

• Author(s): Vaudine England • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Rich & FamousNoel Croucher was a legend in his own time – a raconteur, yet a recluse, conventional yet eccentric, extr...

• Author(s): John Ure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralNo industry has expanded faster than telecommunications, gained so many new users, added so much value, spread so rapidly ...

• Author(s): Stephen Selby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ArcheryChinese Archery is a broad view of traditional archery in China as seen through the eyes of historians, philosophers,...

• Author(s): Robert Nield • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaDuring the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the United States, ...

• Author(s): Paul A. Van Dyke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMerchants were central to the huge growth in China’s foreign trade and contributed to the development of worl...

• Author(s): Barbara Connell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesFeaturing the input of highly experienced instructors, this exciting textbook explroes key concepts and devel...

• Author(s): Yamuna Kachru • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book is the first comprehensive treatment of the spread, acculturation, functions and evo...

• Author(s): David Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe book brings together a series of essays about art in Hong Kong written over the last ten years, with the intention...

• Author(s): Stephen D. Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: InternationalProviding a modern-day guide to Hong Kong’s general principles of law, this volume makes an ideal companion fo...

• Author(s): Lee-Ann Hayek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyA user-friendly primer to the essential techniques of quantitative field ecology, or paleoecology, in...

• Author(s): Jacques M. Downs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsBefore the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where fore...

• Author(s): F. Helen Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTracing China’s journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of comm...

• Author(s): John Strickland • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not ...

• Author(s): Susanne Duesterberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social HistoryPopular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon. By focusing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schl...

• Author(s): Bina Gupta • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HinduThe first English translation of the "First Section" (Prathama Varnakam)-the "Section on Inquiry" (Jijnasadhikaranam)-of t...

• Author(s): M. A. Aldrich • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive nar...

• Author(s): Christine Loh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralFUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES A Unique Feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council provides detailed information...

• Author(s): Jörgen Schäfer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Mixed MediaWhile literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer sc...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Sinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe papers collected in this anthology look at Chinese overseas, residing in five continents in the half centur...

• Author(s): Anthony G. O. Yeh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Regional PlanningThe Greater Pearl River Delta in south China with a population of 47 million is one of ...

• Author(s): Betty Peh-T'I Wei • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EducatorsThis study explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (Juan Yuan 1764-1849), a scholar-official in 19th century Ch...

• Author(s): Michael Agelasto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformSince the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, China has embarked upon the Four Modernizations r...

• Author(s): Claire Roberts • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book documents in letters, photos, and paintings a special friendship between two highly creative indiv...

• Author(s): Xi Xu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - General‘Hong Kong has a soul and this anthology proves it.’ ‘City Voices has poignant, gorgeous, stunning, disturbing, exhil...

• Author(s): F. Helen Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Regional StudiesIn this interdisciplinary study, the authors argue that Hong Kong must develop and strengthen the mobility, b...

• Author(s): David Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralThe book offers a bridge into the critical understanding of modern Chinese art through its encounter with th...

• Author(s): David Gray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThis is the first in a two-volume annotated translation of Tsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas ...

• Author(s): Mick Atha • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyHong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma ...

• Author(s): Christine Loh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismUnderground Front is a pioneering examination of the role th...

• Author(s): Susan Lam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralThis volume documents an exhibition at the University of Hong Kong presenting 94 repr...

• Author(s): F. Helen Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHistorians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hier...

• Author(s): Shane N. Phillipson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralA unique feature of Learning Diversity in the Chinese Classroom is its Chinese context for ...

• Author(s): Marguerite Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralMiss MacIntosh, My Darling is written with oceanic music moving at many levels of consciousness and perception; bu...

• Author(s): William Gaddis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ClassicsWinner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the A...

• Author(s): Rowena Y. F. Kwok • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationThis book attempts to answer the questions related to the important election on the b...

• Author(s): Y. Y. Kueh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe book confronts the popular conjecture of a Pax Sinica emerging to replace Pax Americana in...

• Author(s): B. M. Walden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Plants - FlowersThe distinguished botanist S. Y. Hu and watercolorist B. M. Walden present in this book beautiful and accurat...

• Author(s): Braj B. Kachru • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaThis book provides crucial reading for students and researchers of world Englishes. It is an insightful ...

• Author(s): J. Neil C. Garcia • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Gay StudiesPhillipine Gay Culture is a descriptive survey of popular and academic writings on and by Fili...

• Author(s): Joseph Loizzo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThe Reason Sixty is the most concise philosophical work by the second-century Indian Buddhist philosopher ...

• Author(s): Doreen Weisenhaus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media & the LawThis expanded second edition of Hong Kong Media Law aims to help anyone who uses any publishing devic...

• Author(s): Ruru Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismAny traditional theatre has to engage the changing world to avoid becoming a living fossil. How h...

• Author(s): Raymond Wacks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThe 12 essays in this volume, written from different theoretical standpoints, de...