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• Author(s): Leo F. Goodstadt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe 2007-09 global financial crisis was predictable and avoidable but American and British regulators chose n...

• Author(s): Leo Goodstadt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years living conditions for the av...

• Author(s): Bob Adamson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administration - GeneralThis book presents accounts of the repositioning of higher education institutions across a range of na...

• Author(s): Leo F. Goodstadt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn Uneasy Partners, Leo Goodstadt draws on his vast experience of government and business in Hong Kong to put...

• Author(s): Lu Xiao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - General"What forces continue to oppress and restrain women artists in contemporary China? Some powerful answers are provid...

• Author(s): Audrey Yue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Gay StudiesSingapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet i...

• 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): Christopher A. Daily • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaSent alone to China by the London Missionary Society in 1807, Robert Morrison (1782–1834) was one of the ...

• 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 ecosystem through the lens of cinema. Pr...

• Author(s): Robert J. Antony • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book examines the extent, diffusion, and characteristics of piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Se...

• Author(s): Soojeong Ahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book provides a political and cultural exploration of the Pusan International Film Festiva...

• Author(s): Alan Rogers • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryThis is the first full study of non-formal education on an international scale since the 1980s. The book describes the ...

• Author(s): Steve Clark • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe fourteen chapters in this book examine various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and So...

• Author(s): Yang Liu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LaborIn the last two decades, expanding China’s urban labor market has gone through a dynamic job creation and destruction, and l...

• Author(s): Erwin H. Epstein • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThe Comparative and International Education Society (CIES) is the oldest and largest body of its kind, and is ...

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HigherHigher education in Macau has expanded dramatically in recent years. Before 1981, Macau had no higher education institutio...

• Author(s): Joshua Ka-Ho Mok • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformThe growing impact of globalization has affected educational development in many parts of ...

• Author(s): D. J. Dwyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Regional StudiesThe City as a Centre of Change in Asia brings together twenty-one original contributions which examine the maj...

• Author(s): Wallace Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CriticismThe rediscovery of who we are and where we live has urged us to reconsider our passive attitude. However, there wil...

• Author(s): Tony Cavoli • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsWith the rise of China, India and the re-emergence of East Asia from the financial crisis of 1997–98,...

• Author(s): Paul O’Connor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Islamic StudiesMore than a quarter of a million Muslims live and work in Hong Kong. Among them are descendants of families w...

• Author(s): Sun Jung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialSouth Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in man...

• Author(s): Robert Levine • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Philosophy, Theory & Social AspectsThis book on the socialization of the child in diverse cultures focuses on parent-chi...

• Author(s): Noella Brada-Williams • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWith the increasing globalization of culture, American literature has become a significant body of...

• Author(s): Sally Steward • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyThis book is about the ethical issues arising in the course of business, especially those affec...

• Author(s): Jinhee Choi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national cont...

• Author(s): Jason Wordie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Travel - GeneralThe book starts with a district familiar to all visitors – Tsim Sha Tsui – but then m...

• Author(s): Winnie Cheng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Business Communication - GeneralProfessional Communication presents ten studies of communication practices in a variety of pr...

• Author(s): Wilfred Lau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSmart Green Resilient (SGR) is a new planning approach developed by Arup and is based on over a d...

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativePrivate supplementary tutoring, widely known as shadow education because of the way that it mimics mainstream schooli...

• 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...

• 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...

• Author(s): Kenneth Michael Bauer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralDolpo is a culturally Tibetan enclave in one of Nepal's most remote regions. The Dolpo-pa, or ...

• Author(s): Edward Vickers • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaIn most societies the school subject of History reflects and reinforces a sense of collective identity. However, i...

• Author(s): Andrea Riemenschnitter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialChinese migrant communities have reinvented their histories in many contexts, b...

• Author(s): S. F. Lam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History- Which year did Lee Lai-shan win a gold medal in windsailing in the Olympics? - What do Catherine Che, Wong Kam-po and N...

• Author(s): Reinhard Heil • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social AspectsThis book presents results of an international conference which addressed the interaction of aesthetical and t...

• Author(s): Xianyi Yang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralA memoir of Yang Xianyi, renowned scholar, translator and interpreter of Chinese and Western literatur...

• Author(s): Sechin Y. S. Chien • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralContributors to this book argue that everyday struggles for dignity and equality in the states of East As...

• Author(s): Ping-Kwan Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWritten by Leung Ping-kwan in the 1980s and 1990s, this volume of poetry evokes the complexity of Hong Kong city li...

• 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...

• Author(s): Katsuhiko Suganuma • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book sheds light on ‘contact moments’ between Japanese male-queer culture and that of the West in the postw...

• Author(s): Steven R. Schwankert • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - NavalRoyal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a freighter during routine exercises in 1931...

• 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...

• Author(s): Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralCantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world...

• Author(s): Florian Knothe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EuropeanIllustrious Illuminations presents a selection of illuminated Christian Manuscripts from the McCarthy Collection. R...

• Author(s): Paul A. Van Dyke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics, and cultu...

• Author(s): John Nguyet Erni • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralPeople of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kong’s populat...

• Author(s): Andy Kirkpatrick • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has im...

• Author(s): Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis work illustrates the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese a...

• Author(s): John Pownall Reeves • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaWhen Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on th...

• Author(s): Jean Ma • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionMa offers an innovative study of three provocative Chinese directors Wong Kar-wai, Hou Hsiao-hsie...

• Author(s): Eileen Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: BiographicalThe Fall of the Pagoda, the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally by Eileen Chang in Engli...

• Author(s): John Lagerwey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateOver the last forty years, our vision of Chinese culture and history has been transformed by t...

• Author(s): Manish Chalana • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSeemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order ...

• Author(s): Mahlon Meyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAt the close of the Chinese Civil War, two million Chinese fled from the victorious communist army under Mao Zedo...

• Author(s): Y. C. Jao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - General

• Author(s): Pang Laikwan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be ...

• Author(s): Moira Chan-Yeung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ReligiousAs the longest serving and the most influential bishop of Hong Kong during one of the most tumultuous periods in...

• 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...