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• Author(s): Robbie B. H. Goh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis volume discusses the urban history and cultural landscape of Singapore in relati...

• Author(s): Stefan Werning • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe book analyzes the multifarious exchange of algorithmic technologies and concepts between the military and the me...

• Author(s): Qingxin Lin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis is the first book-length study of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF), whose rise marks the birth of ...

• Author(s): Marian Harris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThe number of children of color entering the child welfare system in the United States is disproportionate...

• 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): James Udden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis is a book-length study of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan's famous director of movies such as 'T...

• Author(s): Charles Le Blanc • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalHuai-nan Tzu (139BC) was viewed, for its great diversity of subject-matter...

• 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): Ching Yau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - China"This is the first sustained collection of writings by established and young scholars on how sexualities are negotia...

• Author(s): Jason Wordie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaJason Wordie has established an enviable reputation as a historian of Hong Kong who can communicate to a general ...

• Author(s): Barbara Pinchler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismJames Benning's films are among the most fascinating works in American cinema. He explores ...

• 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): Geng Song • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the frag...

• 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): K. T. Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Geometry - AlgebraicThis book introduces the important concepts of finite-dimensional vector spaces through the careful study ...

• Author(s): Min Tian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Poetics of Difference and Displacement is the first book in English that systematically investigates the twentieth-cen...

• Author(s): Lozang Jamspal • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis is a study and the first complete English translation of the Mahayana Sutra, the Bodhi-sattva-gocara, w...

• Author(s): Paul Morris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaHong Kong is a fascinating place for the study of curriculum. Its schooling system is influenced by the legacies of a...

• Author(s): Beverley Hooper • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaForeigners under Mao Western Lives in China, 1949–1976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during t...

• Author(s): Francis L. F. Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesPhone-in programs on public and commercial radio channels have been a staple of popular Hong Kong politics ...

• Author(s): Andras Bozoki • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryThe authors examine the various currents of anarchism in fin-de-siecle Hungary. They stress th...

• Author(s): Esther M. K. Cheung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismGlobal connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema. Energized by tra...

• Author(s): Jocelyn Chey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseHow do Chinese societies approach humour in personal life and in the public sphere? This book addresses the et...

• Author(s): Chi Man Kwong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaCelebrated as a trading port, Hong Kong was also Britain’s “eastern fortress”. Likened by many to Gibraltar and ...

• Author(s): Jocelyn Chey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseHow do Chinese societies approach humour in personal life and in the public sphere? This book addresses the et...

• Author(s): R. D. Hill • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Geography

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralCERC Studies in Comparative Education No.7 Hong Kong and Macao have much in common. The dominant populations in both terr...

• Author(s): Xuelin Zhou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralHas China in the 1980s gone through a phase of “youth rebellion” comparable with that represented in films such ...

• Author(s): Johnathan Andrew Farris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralCross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English ...

• Author(s): Isidore Cyril Cannon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableThe story of an Englishman who lived through the last years of the Qing dynasty, was trapped in the B...

• Author(s): Kin-Ming Liu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThirty leading China experts, including Perry Link (Princeton Univeristy), Andrew Nathan (Columbia University), Jonath...

• Author(s): Jörg Huber • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThis publication enquires into the role and treatment of the body in the visual culture of contemporary C...

• Author(s): Aaron Benavot • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaSchool curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined ...

• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningChange in Use of Land A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong is a guide for pro...

• Author(s): Patrick Shuk-Siu Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe author comes from a distinguished family in Hong Kong. His father, Yu Wan, was an eminent figure in educati...

• Author(s): Ying Zhu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThis collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China....

• Author(s): Su-Yan Pan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book explores the role of universities in responding to ongoing changes in China, and in shaping the relations betw...

• Author(s): Sylvia Opper • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWritten for local students of early childhood education, kindergarten teachers and child care workers, this book prese...

• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EnvironmentalThis book is the first systematic attempt to introduce the current practice and statistics of town pla...

• Author(s): Priscilla Pue Ho Chu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women in BusinessThis book provides a detailed account of Chinese industrial entrepreneurs, and describes and explain...

• Author(s): Hua Wen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesCosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition...

• Author(s): Anthony Walker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - GeneralThe last twenty years have seen dramatic changes in China as the country has moved from a centrally ...

• Author(s): David Pingree • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesThis is the only complete catalogue of the nearly four hundred Sanskrit manuscripts contained in...

• Author(s): Zhidong Hao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Regional StudiesThis is one of the few books that argues for a feasible compromise solution to the political conflict across t...

• Author(s): Susanna Hoe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LettersRelations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong o...

• Author(s): Koichi Iwabuchi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralRogue Flows brings together some of the best and most knowledgeable writers on consumption and cu...

• Author(s): Karl Ashoka Britto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - Arms ControlThis book explores literary representations of cultural hybridity spanning nearly...

• Author(s): Charles Booth • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis book focuses on current issues and developments in eight areas of commercia...

• Author(s): Cecilia Lai-Wan Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFear marks the boundary between the known and the unknown. Some Chinese people be...

• Author(s): Siu Leung Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismThe enchantment of the figure of the “male dan” — female impersonator — remains a residual e...

• Author(s): Wing Sang Law • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralLaw Wing Sang provides an alternative lens for looking into Hong Kong’s history by breaking away for the usual coloni...

• 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...

• Author(s): Francis Raška • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralA continuation of his earlier work on Czechoslovak exile organizations, Fighting Communism from Afar: The Co...

• Author(s): Judith Kohlenberger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - General"Our society has undergone a paradigm shift. In the information age, you and I are the alpha ...

• Author(s): C. J. W.-L. Wee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Regional StudiesHow does one comprehend the phenomenon of the modernization of an Asian society in a globalized East Asian...

• Author(s): Dorothee Wagner Von Hoff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis book presents the meticulous case studies of three individual houses from diffe...

• Author(s): Chee-Beng Tan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book examines issues of cultural change and identity construction of Chinese overseas, as well as other imp...

• Author(s): Alain Cabantous • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOur world is steeped in attitudes and concepts derived from a sacred worldview, and this book helps us ...

• Author(s): Xiao-Bin Ji • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThis is the first book, in English, offering a comprehensive study of Sima Guang's career and thought.Poli...