General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Carlos Wing-Hung Lo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralAfter decades of nihilistic rule under Mao Zedong, can legal order be restored in China? How suc...

• Author(s): Vesna Wallace • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThis is the first complete English translation of the second chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratan...

• 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): Cath Davies • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalApproaches to Pop Music is designed to make teaching the different concepts, issues and aspects...

• 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): Marguerite Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralOne of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of the twentieth century, "Miss Macintosh, My Darli...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThe Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara) was transmitted from the bodhisattva Maitreyan...

• Author(s): Edward Henning • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - TibetanKalacakra and the Tibetan Calender describes the contents of current Tibetan almanacs, from basic mathmat...

• Author(s): Fran Martin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThis is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality ...

• Author(s): Diana Yue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralFrom the pen of one of Hong Kong’s leading writers, Xi Xi (1938 - ), Flying Carpet mirrors the past and present of Fertil...

• Author(s): Grant Hayter-Menzies • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: WomenDaughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classi...

• Author(s): Grant Hayter-Menzies • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralThe story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apart—imperial China and the Ameri...

• Author(s): Danny Gittings • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionsThe Hong Kong Basic Law is the constitutional document which sets out the general policies and system of gover...

• Author(s): Dominique Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralYoshitomo Nara is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the day....

• Author(s): Thomas Wai Hung Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book is published in three editions (Chinese, Japanese, and English with different contents) Sinc...

• Author(s): Michael Ingham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)City Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama written for Hong Kong p...

• 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): 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): Martha C. Pennington • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume offers a view of the linguistic situation in Hong Kong in the final years of the twe...

• Author(s): Heike Schwarz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralThis interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric dia...

• Author(s): Charles Le Blanc • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternThe universe, in Chinese eyes, is a harmonious organism; its pattern of movement is inherent and not imposed from ...

• 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...

• Author(s): Edward J. M. Rhoads • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Chinese Educational Mission was the earliest effort at educational modernization in China. As part of ...

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeApproaches and methods in comparative education are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attenti...

• Author(s): Danny Gittings • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipEffective since China's resumption of sovereignty on July 1, 1997, the Hong Kong Basic Law lays dow...

• Author(s): Richard J. Garrett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe forts built from the early seventeenth century onwards, the ships that defended Macau’s waters, the wea...

• Author(s): Michael Wolf • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralFollowing the success of Hong Kong Corner Houses (2011), German photographer Mich...

• Author(s): Jean-Philippe Béja • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human RightsIn December 2008 some 350 Chinese intellectuals published a manifesto calling for reform of the Chinese con...

• Author(s): Bang-Yan Feng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaInsurance is one of Hong Kong’s oldest industries. In the nineteenth century the lucrative trade between China a...

• Author(s): Paul A. Van Dyke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHundreds of Chinese export paintings of Canton trading houses and shopping streets are in museums and private...

• Author(s): David Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Travel - GeneralBetween the end of 1994 and the beginning of 2000 - the last five years of the previo...

• Author(s): Katarzyna Sobolewska-Myslik • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThis book attempts to paint the widest possible picture of the organizational structures o...

• Author(s): Gary N. Heilbronn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Air & SpaceA collection of essays by legal professionals on various topics relating to aviation and travel law in Ho...

• Author(s): Brett De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HigherIn the world of English-language academic publishing, the future of the university has increasingly attracted the atte...

• Author(s): Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralAn overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and ...

• Author(s): Alfred Kadushin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkFor twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human...

• Author(s): Thomas Yarnall • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - TibetanTsong Khapa's Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra (Sngags rim chen mo)-considered by the present Dalai...

• Author(s): Elisabeth Bronfen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureIn the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consc...

• Author(s): Yee Wang Fung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe history of the Diocesan Boys' School (DBS) — in 1869 — dates back to the very early days of Hong Kong. DBS's...

• 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): Tony Banham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIWe Shall Suffer There is the first work that documents the experiences of Hong Kong’s prisoners of war ...

• Author(s): Lawrence M. W. Chiu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HigherProfessional and continuing adult education opportunities have grown enormously in Hong Kong over the last twent...

• Author(s): Yu Hai Eric Chen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Psychiatry - PsychopharmacologyTaking into account cultural differences between Asian and Western patients, this book foc...

• Author(s): Michael Littlewood • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - ComparativeThis book tells an instructive tale of Hong Kong’s tax system from 1940 (when taxes on income we...

• Author(s): Sheldon Lu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis anthology is the first book-length study of China's environmental condition and ecosystem th...

• Author(s): Newman M. K. Lam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe small city of Macao — formerly a Portuguese colony, now a Special Administrative Region of China — libera...

• Author(s): Ian Nish • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a memorial volume which pays tribute to the late Professor Keith Thurley. It collects a number of critical and ins...

• Author(s): Jürgen Straub • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social PsychologyThe fields of cross-cultural and cultural psychology both acknowledge the role of `culture' for the constit...

• Author(s): Koichi Iwabuchi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Television - GeneralThe recent transnational reach of Japanese television dramas in East and Southeast Asia is unprecedent...

• Author(s): Wah Sang Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book examines in detail the external walls of buildings in Hong Kong. It is organized into two parts. The first ...

• 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): Silke Schmidt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Colonialism & Post-ColonialismMedia depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dan...

• Author(s): Lan Yang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralAs the first comprehensive study of Chinese fiction of the Cultural Revolution, this pioneering work explores the ...

• Author(s): Minkang Gu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this new edition, besides offering a systemic discussion of the nature of companies, the constitution of compani...

• Author(s): Raymond Wacks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Professional ResponsibilityAre judges morally accountable? Is legal validity value-free? Do animals have rights...

• Author(s): Stacey Pierson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CeramicsMing porcelain is among the world’s finest cultural treasures. From ordinary household items to refined vessels for...

• Author(s): Michael J. Fisher • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis revised and expanded second edition of Contract Law in Hong Kong is the...

• Author(s): Jessica Milner Davis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in China’s publi...