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English in Asian Popular Culture
Jamie Shinhee Lee
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• Author(s): Jamie Shinhee Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralLinguistic research has dealt with culture as one of its main concerns, but popular culture has not been the main...
View full detailsThe Kalacakra Tantra - The Chapter on Sa
Vesna Wallace
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• Author(s): Vesna Wallace • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThis is the first complete English translation of the fourth chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakra Ta...
View full detailsBeing Eurasian - Memories Across Racial
Vicky Lee
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• Author(s): Vicky Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & RacismIncludes excerpts from: Looking at the stars / Joyce Symons ; Stanley : behind barbed wire / Jean Git...
View full detailsScholar, Patriot, Mentor - Historical Es
Richard Spence
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• Author(s): Richard Spence • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Baltic StatesThis fully flexible, full-colour course covers the revised National Curriculum and the Framework for ...
View full detailsEducational Leadership and Change - An I
K. C. Wong
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• Author(s): K. C. Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralThis book arises from the regional conference of the Commonwealth Council for Educational Administra...
View full detailsAsian Englishes
Braj B. Kachru
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• 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 ...
View full detailsResist to the End - Hong Kong, 1941 - 1945
Charles Barman
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• Author(s): Charles Barman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IICharles Barman was a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Royal Artillery during the battle for Hong Kong i...
View full detailsScreening Nostalgia
Alexandra Ludewig
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• Author(s): Alexandra Ludewig • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableThe Heimat film genre, assumed to be outdated by so many, is very much alive. Who would have thought tha...
View full detailsLanguage Education in China - Policy and
Agnes Lam
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• Author(s): Agnes Lam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformLanguage Education in China Policy and Experience from 1949 is unprecedented as a comprehensive s...
View full detailsMusings - Reading Hong Kong, China and t
Leo Ou-Fan Lee
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• Author(s): Leo Ou-Fan Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThese essays explore cosmopolitanism in postwar Chinese literary culture-from the Hong Kong identity, and in...
View full detailsA Documentary History of Hong Kong
David Faure
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• Author(s): David Faure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaEconomic history deals with daily life, but also goes beyond that to interpret the important turning points which ...
View full detailsDiasporic Histories - Cultural Archives
Andrea Riemenschnitter
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• Author(s): Andrea Riemenschnitter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationChinese migrant communities have reinvented their histories in many contexts, but the p...
View full detailsCelebrity in China
Louise Edwards
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• Author(s): Louise Edwards • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialCelebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquir...
View full detailsCommon Interests, Uncommon Goals - Histo
Vandra Masemann
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• Author(s): Vandra Masemann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThe World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES) was established in 1970 as an umbrella body which ...
View full detailsExploring the Media - Text, Industry, Au
Barbara Connell
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• Author(s): Barbara Connell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - General"A wealth of well-researched and informative material.... I'd suggest investing in half-a-dozen copies for t...
View full detailsThe Archaeology of Hong Kong
William Meacham
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• Author(s): William Meacham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaArchaeological investigation began in Hong Kong in the 1920s and showed that the territory had a considerable ...
View full detailsRoman Catholicism in America
Chester Gillis
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• Author(s): Chester Gillis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralWho are American Catholics and what do they believe and practice? What is distinctive about...
View full detailsIntroduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law
Danny Gittings
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• 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...
View full detailsImperial Contagions
Robert Peckham
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• Author(s): Robert Peckham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralImperial Contagions complicates common historical narratives portraying a straightforward shift from older, e...
View full detailsA Spectre Is Haunting Arabia
Miriam Müller
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• Author(s): Miriam Müller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFascism, Islamism, and Communism each speak of transcendent truth, salvation, and a common ...
View full detailsThe Book Worlds of East Asia and Europe,
Joe P. Mcdermott
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• Author(s): Joe P. Mcdermott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis volume provides the first comparative survey of the relations between the two most active book worlds in...
View full detailsInheriting Dance
Marc Wagenbach
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• Author(s): Marc Wagenbach • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletHow should we archive dance? How do we process performative heritage in the twenty-first cent...
View full detailsEnglish in Singapore - Modernity and Man
Lisa Lim
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• Author(s): Lisa Lim • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsEnglish in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the vari...
View full detailsCyber - Crime - The Challenge in Asia
Rod Broadhurst
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• Author(s): Rod Broadhurst • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis collection is innovative and original. It introduces new knowledge and is very timely because of th...
View full detailsWhen True Love Came to China
Lynn Pan
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• Author(s): Lynn Pan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseMost people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessential...
View full detailsDeveloping Learning Environments - Creat
Ora Kwo
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• Author(s): Ora Kwo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HigherThis book addresses critical challenges for university renewal, and sketches critical issues in Hong Kongs higher education...
View full detailsAcademic English - Skills for Success 2e
Miranda Legg
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• Author(s): Miranda Legg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThis book features five theme-based units on cross-disciplinary academic English skills, focusing...
View full detailsElecting Hong Kong's Chief Executive
Simon N. M. Young
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• Author(s): Simon N. M. Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsIn 2007, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region held its first-ever co...
View full detailsLegal Discourse Across Cultures and Syst
Vijay K. Bhatia
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• Author(s): Vijay K. Bhatia • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat exactly is legal about legal language? What happens to legal language when it is used across lin...
View full detailsRehabilitation - A Life's Work
Lawrence Jeffery
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• Author(s): Lawrence Jeffery • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Medical - GeneralRehabilitation A Lifes Work is the autobiography of a remarkable man and his remarkable career. Sir Har...
View full detailsThe Canton Trade - Life and Enterprise o
Paul A. Van Dyke
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• Author(s): Paul A. Van Dyke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port...
View full detailsLGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative C A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice
Kimberly D. Acquaviva
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• Author(s): Kimberly D. Acquaviva • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Terminal CareThis is the only handbook for hospice and palliative care professionals looking to enhance their care d...
View full detailsI - Hsing Teapot
Tsung-I Jao
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• Author(s): Tsung-I Jao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe album recorded Mr. Shen Zhi-yi’s collection of seventy-one I-Hsing teapots carved with paintings of ten Sha...
View full detailsThrough the Looking Glass - China's Fore
Paul French
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• Author(s): Paul French • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with newspapers printed in the European factories of...
View full detailsTerrorism in Cyberspace - The Next Gener
Gabriel Weimann
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• Author(s): Gabriel Weimann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: TerrorismThe war on terrorism has not been won, Gabriel Weimann argues in Terrorism in Cyberspace, the successor to his se...
View full detailsClassical, Modern, and Humane
David Hawkes
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• Author(s): David Hawkes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralText: English, Chinese
The Power of Supply and Demand - Thinkin
Wai Chung Lawrence Lai
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• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralIn contrast to many economics texts, which are often abstract and mathematical, this book uses s...
View full detailsThree Leaps of Wang Lun
Alfred Döblin
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• Author(s): Alfred Döblin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsHere for the first time in English is Alfred Döblin's astonishing epic of eighteenth century China, hailed on its ...
View full detailsA Student Handbook for Chinese Function
Jiaying Howard
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• Author(s): Jiaying Howard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseA guide to the use of Chinese function words, such as prepositions, auxiliaries, conjunctions and articles. It conta...
View full detailsAmbiguity in Star Wars and Harry Potter
Christina Flotmann
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• Author(s): Christina Flotmann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralThe study combines theories of myth, popular culture, structuralism and poststructuralism to e...
View full detailsThe Spanish Experience in Taiwan 1626 - 16
Jose Eugenio Borao
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• Author(s): Jose Eugenio Borao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Spain & PortugalTaiwan in the seventeenth century was a pivotal site of conflict between the expansionist ...
View full detailsThe Social Work Interview 4e - A Guide f
Alfred Kadushin
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• 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...
View full detailsImagining Gay Paradise
Gary L. Atkins
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• Author(s): Gary L. Atkins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Gay StudiesThe book depicts gay paradises in Southeast Asia and the men who created them. It studies the obs...
View full detailsMedia, Culture, and Mediality
Ludwig Jäger
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• Author(s): Ludwig Jäger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - General Current culturally oriented media studies have significantly advanced central concepts such as mediali...
View full detailsSoutheast Asian Independent Cinema
Tilman Baumgärtel
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• Author(s): Tilman Baumgärtel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe rise of independent cinema in Southeast Asia, following the emergence of a new generation of filmmaker...
View full detailsReturn Migration and Identity
Nan M. Sussman
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• Author(s): Nan M. Sussman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe global trend for immigrants to return home has unique relevance for Hong Kong. This work of cross-cultural ...
View full detailsContract Law in Hong Kong
Michael Fisher
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• Author(s): Michael Fisher • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsContract Law in Hong Kong: A Comparative Analysis provides readers with a clear understanding of contract law in H...
View full detailsVisualizing Beauty - Gender and Ideology
Aida Yuen Wong
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• Author(s): Aida Yuen Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralWhat does it mean to be a modern woman in Asia? How do institutionalized gender divisions affect creativity?...
View full detailsThe Book of Change
Eileen Chang
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• Author(s): Eileen Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - General"Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erase...
View full detailsThe Memoirs of Jin Luxian V 1 - Learning
Luxian Jin
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• Author(s): Luxian Jin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ReligiousJin Luxian is considered by many to be one of Chinas most controversial religious figures. Educated by the Jesuits, h...
View full detailsHong Kong Images - People and Animals
Hugh Baker
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• Author(s): Hugh Baker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaA selection of attractively written articles by Dr Hugh Baker, Head of the Far East Department, School of Oriental ...
View full detailsHands On or Hands Off? - The Nature and
Tony Latter
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• Author(s): Tony Latter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - MacroeconomicsIs Hong Kongs approach to economic policy really as hands off as we are led to believe? How are e...
View full detailsNight Passages Philosophy, Literature, and Film
Elisabeth Bronfen
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• 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...
View full detailsDogs - Their Fossil Relatives and Evolut
Xiaoming Wang
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• Author(s): Xiaoming Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PaleontologyXiaoming Wang and Richard H. Tedford have spent the past 20 years studying the evolutionary history of the famil...
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Shiona Airlie
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• Author(s): Shiona Airlie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralColonial administrator, writer, explorer, Buddhist, and friend to China's last emperor, Sir Reginald Joh...
View full detailsRomanian Extreme Right - The Nineteen Th
Z. Ornea
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• Author(s): Z. Ornea • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis fascinating study of the intellectual origins and ideological and political evolution of the extreme...
View full detailsRevisiting the Chinese Learner - Changin
Carol K. K. Chan
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• Author(s): Carol K. K. Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThis book, which extends pioneering work on Chinese learners in two previous volumes, examines teaching and le...
View full detailsQueer Politics and Sexual Modernity in T
Hans Tao-Ming Huang
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• Author(s): Hans Tao-Ming Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesExamining the deployments of gender and sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan, this book chroni...
View full detailsTroubling American Women - Narratives of
Stacilee Ford
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• Author(s): Stacilee Ford • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesAmerican women have lived in Hong Kong, and in neighboring Macao, for nearly two centuries. Many were changed ...
View full detailsIntimating the Sacred - Religion in Engl
Andrew Hock Soon Ng
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• Author(s): Andrew Hock Soon Ng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralReligion has featured in Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. In Intim...
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