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The Old Shanghai A - Z
Paul French
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• Author(s): Paul French • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its bes...
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 detailsCurrent Concepts in Parasitology
Ronald C. Ko
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• Author(s): Ronald C. Ko • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ParasitologyThere are twelve chapters in this book. The subjects discussed include the mechanisms of eosinophilia in parasiti...
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 detailsNew Television, Globalisation, and the E
Michael Keane
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• Author(s): Michael Keane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesChallenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalisation and combining cultural theory with med...
View full detailsArt/Commerce
Maria Slowinska
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• Author(s): Maria Slowinska • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book compellingly argues how and why art and marketing often look alike today. Combining the histo...
View full detailsCritical Zone 2 - A Forum of Chinese and
Q. S. Tong
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• Author(s): Q. S. Tong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesDespite globalizing forces, whether economic, political, or cultural, there remain conspicuous differences...
View full detailsJumping Through Hoops - Autobiographical
Jing Wang
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• Author(s): Jing Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: WomenJumping Through Hoops is a collection of nine intense and dramatic stories that sheds new light on the experiences of Chine...
View full detailsThe Book of Literary Design
Siu-Kit Wong
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• Author(s): Siu-Kit Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe earliest book-length treatise in Chinese literary criticism, the Wenxin diaolong is of central importance ...
View full detailsProtecting Free Trade - The Hong Kong Pa
Lawrence Mills
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• Author(s): Lawrence Mills • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - GeneralProtecting Free Trade is the story of a paradox that both limited and stimulated Hong Kong’s post-wa...
View full detailsOn Screenwriting
Freddie Gaffney
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• Author(s): Freddie Gaffney • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - ScreenwritingWriters have been publishing screenwriting books for over half a century now, full of "inside tips" on...
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 detailsWorld 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 detailsThe Mangrove Ecosystem of Deep Bay and t
Shing-Yip Lee
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• Author(s): Shing-Yip Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThis volume comprises original research papers reporting findings collected by participants of the In...
View full detailsAged Young Adults
Anita Wohlmann
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• Author(s): Anita Wohlmann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWhen Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when...
View full detailsEuropean Visions
Janelle Blankenship
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• Author(s): Janelle Blankenship • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film & VideoThis volume examines the challenges cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It expl...
View full detailsA Glossary of Translation Terms
Sin-Wai Chan
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• Author(s): Sin-Wai Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis book is a bilingual glossary of translation terms which appear frequently in literature on trans...
View full detailsGolden Peaches, Long Life
Elizabeth Doery
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Doery • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: WomenThis is an autobiography by Elizabeth Doery, a granddaughter of Sir Robert Ho Tung and daughter of Jean Gittins, one ...
View full detailsThe Seventies
Theodore Huters
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• Author(s): Theodore Huters • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Seventies is a remarkable compendium of essays recollecting the decade that is now mostly thought of as an...
View full detailsChanging Church and State Relations in H
Beatrice Leung
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• Author(s): Beatrice Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateThe book gave detailed account of Hong Kong's church-state relationship in metamorphosis. It ...
View full detailsThe Chinese Exotic - Modern Diasporic Fe
Olivia Khoo
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• Author(s): Olivia Khoo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Chinese Exotic examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging f...
View full detailsTeaching Abroad - International Educatio
Gordon E. Slethaug
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• Author(s): Gordon E. Slethaug • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Multicultural EducationTeaching Abroad addresses the question of moving abroad to teach in a cross-cultural university ...
View full detailsImagineering Cultural Vienna
Johannes Suitner
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• Author(s): Johannes Suitner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentMedia and public discourses often consider Vienna as a »cultural cit...
View full detailsThe Administrative History of the Hong K
Pui-Yin Ho
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• Author(s): Pui-Yin Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Government & BusinessIn 2002, prior to the restructuring on July 1, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative ...
View full detailsFamily Mediation - Theory and Practice w
Howard Irving
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• Author(s): Howard Irving • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civil LawIt is important to understand that when a marriage is over, it is not the time for retribution and revenge, but rat...
View full detailsMittelbau-Dora: American and German Repr
Bruno Arich-Gerz
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• Author(s): Bruno Arich-Gerz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralIn 1945, U.S. Americans liberated the Nazi concentration camp complex of Mittelbau-Dora, and retri...
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 detailsCitizenship Curriculum in Asia and the P
David Grossman
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• Author(s): David Grossman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaBased on case studies of 11 societies in the world's most dynamic region, this book signals a new direction of stu...
View full detailsLife Beyond Survival
Katharina Thurnheer
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• Author(s): Katharina Thurnheer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAt the heart of this in-depth ethnographic study lie the daily life situations of ...
View full detailsDiscourse as Cultural Struggle
Xu Shi
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• Author(s): Xu Shi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesDiscourse as Cultural Struggle challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues fo...
View full detailsTransatlantic Caribbean
Ingrid Kummels
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• Author(s): Ingrid Kummels • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTransatlantic Caribbean expands research on the region by focusing on its transatlantic...
View full detailsGermany 1916-23
Klaus Weinhauer
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• Author(s): Klaus Weinhauer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyScholars have paid little attention to the last four decades of the German Revolution. This volume offers ...
View full detailsLand Administration and Practice in Hong
Roger Nissim
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• Author(s): Roger Nissim • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book tells about the pivotal role of land in Hong Kong is always a vital resource in a dynamic economy.
After the Storm
Evangelia Kindinger
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• Author(s): Evangelia Kindinger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General»After the Storm« traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Immediately after Katrina, ...
View full detailsGrinding California
Konstantin Butz
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• Author(s): Konstantin Butz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular CultureGrinding California provides the first academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk at book-length. It...
View full detailsEileen Chang - Romancing Languages, Cult
Kam Louie
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• Author(s): Kam Louie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseEileen Chang (19201995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the ...
View full detailsHong Kong's Health System - Reflections,
Gabriel M. Leung
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• Author(s): Gabriel M. Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care IssuesHaving experienced benign neglect and inertia since the last major set of reforms when all public and s...
View full detailsHong Kong Land for Hong Kong People - Fi
Yue Chim Richard Wong
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• Author(s): Yue Chim Richard Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralHong Kong is one of the worlds most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values, and housing prov...
View full detailsThe Six - Day War of 1899 - Hong Kong in t
Patrick H. Hase
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• Author(s): Patrick H. Hase • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to est...
View full detailsPicasso Ceramics - Objects from the Nina
Florian Knothe
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• Author(s): Florian Knothe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Pottery & CeramicsThis catalogue accompanies the University Museum and Art Gallery's exhibition of "Picasso Ceramics" f...
View full detailsY. K. Pao - My Father 2e
Anna Pao Sohmen
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• Author(s): Anna Pao Sohmen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalSir Y. K. Pao (Pao Yue-kong, 19181991), rose from modest origins to become, by late 1979, the worlds largest pr...
View full detailsTalk Radio, the Mainstream Press, and Pu
Francis L. F. Lee
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• 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 ...
View full detailsColony, Nation, and Globalisation - Not
Eddie Tay
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• Author(s): Eddie Tay • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaThe literature of Malaysia and Singapore, the multicultural epicenter of Asia, offers a rich body of source...
View full detailsService - Learning in Asia - Curricular Mo
Jun Xing
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• Author(s): Jun Xing • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Experimental MethodsService-learning is a form of experiential education that combines academic study with community service. Lea...
View full detailsEmpires of Panic
Robert Peckham
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• Author(s): Robert Peckham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralEmpires of Panic is the first book to explore how panics have been historically produced, defined, and m...
View full detailsAsian Diasporas - Cultures, Indentity, R
Robbie B. H. Goh
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• Author(s): Robbie B. H. Goh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaAsian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation, where the foc...
View full detailsA History of the Grant Schools Council
Patricia P. K. Chiu
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• Author(s): Patricia P. K. Chiu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe Grant Schools Council, representing twenty-two mission and denominational grant schools, was Hong Kong's fi...
View full detailsMeeting Place
Elizabeth Sinn
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Sinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMeeting Place Encounters across Cultures in Hong Kong, 18411984 presents detailed empirical studies of day-to-...
View full detailsJudaism, Christianity, and Islam - Colla
Sander L. Gilman
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• Author(s): Sander L. Gilman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative ReligionIslam, Christianity, and Judaism share several common features, including their historical origins in...
View full detailsReduced to a Symbolical Scale
Tony Banham
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• Author(s): Tony Banham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Australia & New Zealand - GeneralIn July 1940, the wives and children of British families in Hong Kong, military and civil...
View full detailsCigarettes
Harry Mathews
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• Author(s): Harry Mathews • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralCigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930...
View full detailsEnglish as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN
Andy Kirkpatrick
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• 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...
View full detailsThe Chinese Literati on Painting - Su Sh
Susan Bush
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• Author(s): Susan Bush • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralThis classic work, first published in 1971, explores the transition in painting styles from the late Sung peri...
View full detailsTV Drama in China
Ying Zhu
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• 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....
View full detailsClassic Furniture
Florian Knothe
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• Author(s): Florian Knothe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: FurnitureThis publication presents a selection of essays on Chinese and European furniture making, stylistic influences and...
View full detailsFactory Towns of South China - An Illust
Stefan Al
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• Author(s): Stefan Al • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralMost consumer products come primarily from the Pearl River Delta, the “factory of the world” with the largest...
View full detailsElderly Chinese in Pacific Rim Countries
Iris Chi
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• Author(s): Iris Chi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWith longer life expectancy, most countries are now experiencing rapid ageing among their populations. Ethnic Chinese popu...
View full detailsDigby - A Remarkable Life
Julia L. Y. Chan
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• Author(s): Julia L. Y. Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Medical - GeneralThis monograph chronicles the life of an eminent pioneer of surgery, K.H. Digby, the important milestone...
View full detailsHistoricising the Uses of the Past
Helle Bjerg
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• Author(s): Helle Bjerg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralThis book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holo...
View full detailsIsland on the Edge - Taiwan New Cinema a
Chris Berry
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• Author(s): Chris Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an e...
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