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• Author(s): Gary Clyde Hufbauer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralEconomic sanctions continue to play an important role in the response to terrorism, n...

• Author(s): Denise Tse-Shang Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Lesbian Studies

• 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...

• Author(s): Philip L. Wickeri • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - AnglicanWritten by a team of internationally recognized scholars, Christian Encounters with Chinese Cultu...

• Author(s): Chun-Chieh Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralGives readers a better understanding of Chinese notions of time in the tradition of Chinese historical thinking. T...

• Author(s): Neil H. Andrews • 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...

• Author(s): Phil Hutchinson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralOn what basis do we make policy decisions? And how should we assess the ones that have been made? I...

• Author(s): Tony Banham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIAlthough never previously studied in any depth, the sinking of the Lisbon Maru was the most costly Amer...

• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Taxation - GeneralThe book will continue to cover the major areas of Hong Kong taxation―Profits Tax, Salaries Tax, P...

• Author(s): I. M. Destler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - General"American Trade Politics" is the most influential and widely read analysis of the US trade ...

• Author(s): Nikos Papastergiadis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesLarge public screens have now become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary cityscape. Far from being sim...

• Author(s): Chris Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhat difference does a region make? Are the new regional cultures of Northeast Asia the product of individuals fighting...

• Author(s): Kenneth Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe dramatic surge of Chinese visibility in Hollywood has been spurred by Sino-chic talents ...

• Author(s): Zhiqun Janet Xing • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe nine essays in this volume present the most recent developments in the study of Chinese linguistic research u...

• Author(s): Janette Ryan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeInternational Education and the Chinese Learner is one of the first full-length studies in the relatively new fiel...

• Author(s): Yomi Braester • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film & VideoThis anthology presents a number of leading voices on contemporary Asian cinema studies, including Ackbar Ab...

• Author(s): Wheeler Winston Dixon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismVisions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nucle...

• Author(s): Michael Keevak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe thesis of this book is that when Westerners discussed the Nestorian monument they were not really talking about ...

• Author(s): Douglas Kerr • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis title is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East centered on India but r...

• Author(s): E. Ann Kaplan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume addresses the relation of trauma to transnational modern mass media. The first of ...

• Author(s): Elizabeth J. Leppman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe book deals with a topic of perennial interest to Chinese and non-Chinese alik...

• Author(s): Jessica Yeung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIn this pioneering study of the entire written works of Gao Xingjian (???), China’s first winner of the Nobel...

• Author(s): Frederic G. Reamer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkFor more than a decade, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values an...

• Author(s): Joe P. Mcdermott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this learned, yet readable, book, Joseph McDermott introduces the history of the book in China in the late...

• Author(s): Martina Moeller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film & VideoTraditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low ar...

• Author(s): James Shapiro • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & RacismGoing against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the im...

• Author(s): Kathryn Tan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Education & TrainingMedicine is an ever-changing science. Since this book was first published in 2006, there have been maj...

• Author(s): Rikkie Yeung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWith the “merger” of the MTRC and the KCRC in 2007, the history of Hong Kong’s railways turned a new page. The two gov...

• Author(s): Tze-Yue 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 a v...

• Author(s): Lai-Chu Hon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralA patient escapes from an asylum, to spend his life as the perfect mannequin in a department store display; when living...

• Author(s): Chris Fraser • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyEarly Chinese ethics has attracted increasing scholarly and social attention in recent years, as...

• 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): Ulrike Joras • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralThe role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent ye...

• Author(s): Song-Chuan Chen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMerchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium ...

• Author(s): Laura Victoir • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralColonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes as an expres...

• Author(s): Jing Leng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThe world economy is facing unprecedented challenges brought by the still unfolding global financial crisis....

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Sui-Jeung Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIHong Kong’s story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forc...

• Author(s): Yun-Tong Luk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - General

• Author(s): Anna Krasnowolska • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - IranToday, the Iranian world, which encompasses the whole Persian-speaking and culturally "Persianate" reg...

• Author(s): Bruce Morrison • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIndependent learning is not a new concept for language educators but while teachers, curriculum design...

• Author(s): Jiang Yang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe characters in this vivid, witty, and engrossing novel, set in a Beijing literary institute right after the revolutio...

• Author(s): Beng Huat Chua • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThe international group of contributors of this volume provides, collectively, a multi-...

• Author(s): Maria N. Ng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultur...

• 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): Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe book is concerned with the effects of globalization on living space (I.e. the space of everyd...

• Author(s): Mascha Brichta • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralPopular newspapers like the British "The Sun" and the German "Bild" regularly invite contro...

• Author(s): Robert Bickers • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors of May Days in Hon...

• Author(s): Katherine P. H. Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyAlthough the ideal of companionate marriage has gradually been established in Hong ...

• Author(s): David Bandurski • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismDespite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism ha...

• Author(s): Elsie Tu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralElsie Tu is well known as a social activist and crusader against injustice and corruption in Hong Kong. In this powerful p...

• Author(s): Stephen Teo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe book provides a comprehensive overview of To's career as a director of action films.

• Author(s): Mario D'Amato • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe Madhyantavibhaga is classified by later Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan traditions as belonging to the Yogac...

• Author(s): Eva Gerharz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Globalization Do the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? Ho...

• Author(s): Graham Russell Gao Hodges • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralAnna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Ho...

• 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...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Charles Emerson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong Internment, 1942–1945 Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley tells the story of the ...

• Author(s): Beng Huat Chua • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralEast Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Jap...

• Author(s): Richard L. Davis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMingzong (r. 926–933) was the most illustrious emperor of the Five Dynasties, and one of the most admired of ...