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• Author(s): Anna Po-Yung Tsui • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFaced with external and internal challenges such as globalization, social changes and responsiveness to cust...

• Author(s): James Stanlaw • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book gives an in-depth analysis of the use of the English language in modern Japan. It explores th...

• Author(s): Ying Zhu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismArt, politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, int...

• Author(s): Petula Sik Ying Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralThis anthology collects fifteen years of sexuality research by Ho Petula Sik Ying and Tsang Ka...

• Author(s): John Greenwood • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book covers the origins of Hong Kong's currency crisis in 1983, the initial resolution of the crisis by creatio...

• Author(s): Yan Tan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe construction of the Three Gorges dam in China involves the relocation of more than 1.2 million people over 17 years. Th...

• Author(s): Tim Luard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaOn 25 December 1941, the day of Hong Kong's surrender to the Japanese, Admiral Chan Chak—the Chinese government's ch...

• Author(s): Minkang Gu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Business & FinancialFirst published in 2006, Understanding Chinese Company Law covers the major topics in the area of compa...

• Author(s): Gilbert Sorrentino • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralMulligan Stew takes as its subject the comic possibilities of the modern literary imagination. As avant-garde no...

• Author(s): Kerry Kennedy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ResearchHow are students in Asia and the Pacific taught to be effective citizens? Following two successful volumes previousl...

• Author(s): Scott D. Seligman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralChinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a l...

• Author(s): Paul Hackett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThis is the first volume of a two volume set providing detailed cataloging information for the recently pub...

• Author(s): Christopher Munn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralFor its earliest promoters, Hong Kong was an island ‘bespread with palaces, a beautifully and well ordered city, a...

• 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): Henry S. R. Kao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat are the linguistic constituents and structural components of Chinese characters and words? Does ...

• Author(s): Philippe Espinasse • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralIn this practical guide to initial public offerings, Philippe Espinasse explains the pros and cons of ...

• Author(s): Stephen Davies • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralIn December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for Lon...

• Author(s): Solomon Matthew Bard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaSolomon Matthew Bard’s life has been an extraordinary story of a peripatetic youth, of incident and adven...

• Author(s): Gillian Bickley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaNo. It is not what you think. The year is 1897, not 1997. This is a fictional account of Hong Kong being invad...

• Author(s): David Leiwei Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralThis is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary hum...

• Author(s): Gary Tubb • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Translating & InterpretingThis volume gives a complete introduction to the techniques and procedures of Sanskrit commentarie...

• Author(s): César Guillén Nuñez • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralMacao’s Ruins of St. Paul (correct name Church of Madre de Deus) is the only example of Baroque art a...

• Author(s): David W. Chapman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThis book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across Eas...

• Author(s): Ali Farhoomand • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EntrepreneurshipA practical guide for executives and a comprehensive resource for management courses, based on hands-on, pr...

• Author(s): Helen Spencer-Oatey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Computers & Technologye-Learning Initiatives in China provides research and application insights into e-learning i...

• Author(s): David Faure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book puts together historical documents that illustrate the lives and concerns of Hong Kong people through a ...

• 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): Peter Jackson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country’s gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. Th...

• Author(s): Stuart Wolfendale • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFounded in 1849, St John’s Cathedral is the oldest neogothic cathedral in East Asia and China’s oldest survi...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Sinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaDuring the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, an...

• Author(s): Bernie Owen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental ScienceHong Kong has a largely mountainous terrain, very little flat land, no major rivers, no great forests, an...

• Author(s): Kendall Johnson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social tra...

• Author(s): Peterson Instit Economics • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralPerhaps the most popular of all Institute products, selected Working Papers are now available...

• Author(s): Anthony Walker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong’s impressive skyline and staggering infrastructure bear witness to the success of its construction in...

• Author(s): Melissa Curley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social

• Author(s): Elizabeth Sinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - China

• Author(s): Toby Haggith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralBased on an event held at the Imperial War Museum in London, this book is a unique blend of voices and perspect...

• Author(s): Hong Hkup • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - General

• Author(s): Z Lett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General

• Author(s): Gungwu Gungwu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social

• Author(s): Kyle Edwards • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Hollywood B-Film offers readers a concise overview and compelling analysis of the so-called...

• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis book reviews the factors creating and maintaining Hong Kong's living shore, and describes the wid...

• Author(s): W. N. Holmes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Endocrinology & MetabolismThis collection of papers provides an account of current trends in endocrinological research an...

• Author(s): James Graham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryIt has been polemically argued that the most important aesthetic productions of the twentieth century h...

• Author(s): Mark Wasiuta • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningFormed by a group of young architects, photographers, and psychologists in the Venice Beach of t...

• Author(s): K. K. Pun • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: DiseasesOsteoporosis is one of the most common diseases endangering the aged. Its prevention, early diagnosis, and prompt treatm...

• Author(s): Maria Jaschok • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThis collection reveals the many forms of servitude that Chinese women have endured, and the a...

• Author(s): Chris Bale • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong is the epitome of the modern city and a crossroads between Eastern and Western cultures. Today the city i...

• Author(s): Bernard Mellor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - China The University of Hong Kong is one of Hong Kong’s largest single community enterprises. First incorporated as ...

• Author(s): John Carroll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis monograph examines colonial Hong Kong from the early 1800s to 1941 as a political and cultural encounter bet...

• Author(s): Joanna Rydzewska • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAlready regarded as one of the most important contemporary British and Polish directors, Pa...

• Author(s): Joanna Rydzewska • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAlready regarded as one of the most important contemporary British and Polish directors, Pa...

• Author(s): Andrei Sinyavsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionAndrei Sinyavsky wrote In Gogol's Shadow while serving time in a Soviet labor camp. Open...

• Author(s): Peterson Inst Peterson Instit • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsPerhaps the most popular of all Institute products, selected Working Papers are now...

• Author(s): Jiang Jiehong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe Cultural Revolution in China (1966–1976) has often been regarded as a period of disruptive turbulence and...

• Author(s): Ruth Hayhoe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EducatorsChina’s economic rise has surprised the world, and most governments and large corporations feel the need for a China-...

• Author(s): P. Kevin Mackeown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this colourful story of the Hong Kong Observatory, P. Kevin MacKeown takes us through the development of ...

• Author(s): Rosmarie W. N. Lamas • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMacau in the 1820s and 1830s was the centre of life for foreigners trading with China through the only pe...