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Teaching and Learning Chinese as a Forei
Zhiqun Janet Xing
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• Author(s): Zhiqun Janet Xing • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseThis book provides a research-based account of how to teach and learn Chinese as a foreign language. In addition ...
View full detailsChinese Ideas About Nature and Society -
Charles Le Blanc
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• 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 ...
View full detailsCultural Studies and Cultural Industries
Chris Berry
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• Author(s): Chris Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralWhat difference does a region make? Are the new regional cultures of Northeast Asia the product of individuals f...
View full detailsFeeling Asian Modernities - Transnationa
Koichi Iwabuchi
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• 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...
View full detailsThe Dynamics of Social Movements in Hong
Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu
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• Author(s): Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralStudies of Hong Kong society have long focused one-sidedly upon economic proserity and political ...
View full detailsThe Scripting of a National History - Si
Lysa Hong
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• Author(s): Lysa Hong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaRather than presenting another narrative of Singapore history, The Scripting of a National History Singapor...
View full detailsThe Aesthetics of Net Literature
Peter Gendolla
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• Author(s): Peter Gendolla • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesFeatures chapters that focus on the following questions: In which literary projects can we discover a ...
View full detailsHong Kong Metamorphosis
Denis Bray
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• Author(s): Denis Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalApart from eleven years in England for school, university and National Service, and a three-year overseas posting as...
View full detailsFrames of Anime - Culture and Image - Buil
Tze-Yue G. Hu
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• Author(s): Tze-Yue G. Hu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book is an inter-disciplinary study of the subject of anime, a popular form of Japanese animation. Using ...
View full detailsCity Stage - Hong Kong Playwriting in En
Michael Ingham
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• 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...
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Bob Adamson
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• Author(s): Bob Adamson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - General"This book traces the history of English education in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the pre...
View full detailsThe Dynamics of Beijing - Hong Kong Relati
Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
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• Author(s): Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book critically assesses the implementation of the one country, two systems in the Hong Kong Special Admi...
View full detailsThe Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa
Yukichi Fukuzawa
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• Author(s): Yukichi Fukuzawa • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralYukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a leading figure in the cultural revolution that transformed Japan f...
View full detailsRepositioning the Hong Kong Government -
Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu
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• Author(s): Stephen Wing-Kai Chiu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe relationship between government and society in Hong Kong has become an intensely debated topic as th...
View full detailsTwentieth Century Hungary and the Great
Ignac Romsics
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• Author(s): Ignac Romsics • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungarySpecialists from the West and Hungary examine the impact of power politics on Hungary.
English 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: Asia - GeneralEnglish in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surro...
View full detailsThe Virgin Mary and Catholic Identities
Jeremy Clarke
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• Author(s): Jeremy Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Chinese Catholic Church traces its living roots back to the late sixteenth century and its historical roots ...
View full detailsStepping Forth Into the World - The Chin
Edward J. M. Rhoads
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• 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 ...
View full detailsProfits, Politics, and Panics - Hong Kon
Leo F. Goodstadt
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• Author(s): Leo F. Goodstadt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralBetween 1935 and 1985, Hong Kongs growth seemed unstoppable. The economy flourished despite wars, revolution and ...
View full detailsFree Trades First Missionary - Sir John
Philip Bowring
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• Author(s): Philip Bowring • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralReformer, intellectual, colonial governor, Sir John Bowring (1792–1872) was the archetype of the ambiti...
View full detailsLearning and Teaching in the Chinese Cla
Shane N. Phillipson
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• Author(s): Shane N. Phillipson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralLearning and Teaching in the Chinese Classroom provides an essential starting point for understan...
View full detailsPost - Classical Cinema
Eleftheria Thanouli
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• Author(s): Eleftheria Thanouli • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDoes the term 'post-classical' have any relevance in current debates on contemporary cinema? This book ...
View full detailsConfucianism and Christianity - The Firs
John Young
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• Author(s): John Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ConfucianismThis is a pioneer study of the Christian missionaries in late Ming and early Ch'ing China - in the sense that it dr...
View full detailsFixing Inequality in Hong Kong
Yue Chim Richard Wong
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• Author(s): Yue Chim Richard Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LaborWhen discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of go...
View full detailsGaming, Governance, and Public Policy in
Newman M. K. Lam
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• 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...
View full detailsEcologies of Urbanism in India - Metropo
Anne Rademacher
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• Author(s): Anne Rademacher • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EcologyEssays follow rapidly proliferating and resource-intensive Indian urbanism in everyday environments. Case studies o...
View full detailsErich Lessing
Johannes Rambarter
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• Author(s): Johannes Rambarter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe University Museum and Art Gallery collaborates with the Austrian Consulate for Hong Kong and Macau as well a...
View full detailsArmed Forces and Society in Spain Past a
Thomas Barker
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• Author(s): Thomas Barker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - General
World Weavers - Globalization, Science F
Kin Yuen Wong
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• Author(s): Kin Yuen Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyWorld Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fic...
View full detailsChanging Education - Leadership, Innovat
Peter D. Hershock
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• Author(s): Peter D. Hershock • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformThis book responds to the growing unease of educators and non-educators alike about the i...
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Chris Davison
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• Author(s): Chris Davison • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThis book presents a critical analysis and investigation of current developments and debates in ...
View full detailsCitizenship Education in Asia and the Pa
Wing On Lee
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• Author(s): Wing On Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsThis book is a landmark in citizenship and citizenship education discourse. It combines conceptual debates with ca...
View full detailsThe Public Sector in Hong Kong
Scott Ian
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• Author(s): Scott Ian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book describes and analyses the role of the public sector in the often-charged political atmosphere of post-199...
View full detailsEast Asian Pop Culture - Analysing the K
Beng Huat Chua
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• Author(s): Beng Huat Chua • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesThe international group of contributors of this volume provides, collectively, a multi-layered analysis of the...
View full detailsHong Kong English - Autonomy and Creativ
Kingsley Bolton
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• Author(s): Kingsley Bolton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe dominant view of many linguists and educators has been that Hong Kong English is a variety of the...
View full detailsCorporate Governance and Financial Refor
Jing Leng
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• Author(s): Jing Leng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe world economy is facing unprecedented challenges brought by the still unfolding global financial crisis. At this crit...
View full detailsTeachers as Learners - Critical Discours
Ora Kwo
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• Author(s): Ora Kwo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - GeneralIn movements of educational reform across the world, educators are forging new roles, id...
View full detailsImpacts of Modernities
Thomas Lamarre
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• Author(s): Thomas Lamarre • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialImpacts of Modernities, the third volume of the Traces series, explores the problem of ...
View full detailsShashibiya - Staging Shakespeare in Chin
Ruru Li
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• Author(s): Ruru Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismShashibiya is an intriguing discussion of the levels of ‘filtering’ that any Shakespeare performa...
View full detailsCarl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand - The
Paul French
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• Author(s): Paul French • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralCarl Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 and made the city his home for the next quarter of a century, workin...
View full detailsDirector in Action - Johnnie To and the
Stephen Teo
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• Author(s): Stephen Teo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralDirector in Action examines the career of Johnnie To, whose art-house action hits include A Hero Never Dies, The...
View full detailsEducation for Social Citizenship - Perce
Wing On Lee
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• Author(s): Wing On Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ResearchCitizenship education calls for the education of knowledge, skills and values that help the young to become informed a...
View full detailsReading Moving Letters
Roberto Simanowski
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• Author(s): Roberto Simanowski • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralDigital media is increasingly finding its way into the discussions of the humanities classroom. This book presen...
View full detailsVoluntary Organizations in the Chinese D
Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce
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• Author(s): Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Volunteer WorkDo Chinese voluntary organizations continue to have a role in modern societies enmeshed in a globalizin...
View full detailsColonial Hong Kong and Modern China - In
Pui-Tak Lee
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• Author(s): Pui-Tak Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and now a Special Administrative Region at Chinas door step, has ...
View full detailsGovernors, Politics, and the Colonial Of
Gavin Ure
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• Author(s): Gavin Ure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book fleshes out the impact of political figures and how their actions, and inactions, affect various imperial ...
View full detailsLife's Journey - An Autobiography
Eugene Bak
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• Author(s): Eugene Bak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe author chronicles the experiences of his family in pre-war and wartime Poland, the Soviet Union, Ir...
View full detailsThe First Chinese American - The Remarka
Scott D. Seligman
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• 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...
View full detailsThe New Chinese Documentary Film Movemen
Chris Berry
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• Author(s): Chris Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is the first English-language book on Chinese document...
View full detailsThe Fall of the Pagoda
Eileen Chang
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• Author(s): Eileen Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe Fall of the Pagoda, the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally by Eileen Chang in En...
View full detailsDoing Comparative Education - Three Deca
Harold J. Noah
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• Author(s): Harold J. Noah • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe writings of Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein are well known in the field of comparative education. For over th...
View full detailsThe Sources of Hong Kong Law
Peter Wesley-Smith
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• Author(s): Peter Wesley-Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralHong Kong has a curious mixture of laws old and new, written and unwritten, home-grown and import...
View full detailsHumour in Chinese Life and Letters - Mod
Jessica Milner Davis
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• 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 Chinas publi...
View full detailsUniversities in Translation - The Mental
Brett De Bary
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• 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...
View full detailsChina Abroad - Travels, Subjects, Spaces
Yee Lin Elaine Ho
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• Author(s): Yee Lin Elaine Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialChina Abroad Travels, Subjects, Spaces is a pioneering work which brings together ac...
View full detailsART POLITICS COMMERCE CHINESE CINEMA
Ying Zhu
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• Author(s): Ying Zhu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralArt, politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate, and elem...
View full detailsReforming Law Reform - Perspectives from
Michael Tilbury
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• Author(s): Michael Tilbury • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeAs a special administrative region of China, Hong Kong has its own legal syste...
View full detailsMaintaining Control - Autonomy and Langu
Richard Pemberton
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• Author(s): Richard Pemberton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhereas in previous decades autonomous, self-directed or independent learning may have been assum...
View full detailsCases on International Business and Fina
Mitsura Misawa
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• Author(s): Mitsura Misawa • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhile Japan’s export-oriented economy has been advancing with astounding speed, significant differences remain betwe...
View full detailsReluctant Heroes - Rickshaw Pullers in H
Chi Ming Fung
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• Author(s): Chi Ming Fung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThrough the history of rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, Reluctant Heroes provides a rich portrait of th...
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