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• Author(s): Pui-Tak Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis comprehensive book provides a multi-dimensional analysis of Hong Kong’s development, and he...

• Author(s): Doreen D. Wu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe essays in Discourses of Cultural China in the Globalizing Age examine the discourses of Cultural China from a gloc...

• 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): Heiner Fangerau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health PolicyIntracerebral interventions raise particular ethical issues. For instance, attempts at replacing lost or alte...

• Author(s): S. W. Poon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - GeneralHong Kong had a very bad record in construction safety in the 1980s and before. Since the early 1990s, a...

• Author(s): Sigrid Baringhorst • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipDrawing upon a common conceptual framework of political webcampaigning the book offers theoreti...

• Author(s): Frances Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalIn this first-hand account of an early returnee’s life in communist China, Frances Wong relates her personal experie...

• Author(s): Vera Nünning • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralRitual and narrative are pivotal means of human meaning-making and of ordering experience, but the c...

• Author(s): Ling Hin Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanBy focusing on a particular sector of China’s economy — urban land — this study discusses the unique merger o...

• Author(s): Christian Lassen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBTCamp Comforts investigates the wide-ranging impact of camp on AIDS literature and places this impact within two diffe...

• Author(s): Julia Ramírez Blanco • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesDigital Culture & Society is a refereed international journal fostering discussion about the ways in...

• Author(s): Mark Hulsether • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAnyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must g...

• Author(s): Arno Schmidt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)Gathered here are all of the short stories that Arno Schmidt wished to preserve.

• Author(s): Mao-Sheng Ran • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Mental HealthWithout a comprehensive system of mental health care, the Chinese government and mental health care professiona...

• Author(s): Andrew Hock Soon Ng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralReligion has featured in Anglophone literature in Malaysia from colonial times to the present. In Intim...

• Author(s): Isaac Yue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the languag...

• 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): Yoshiko Nakano • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the im...

• Author(s): James Hayes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralIn this classic study (1977), James Hayes examines local leadership in six villages and townships in Hong Kong’s...

• Author(s): András Gero • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: RoyaltyThis book examines the evolution of relations between the Habsburg ruler of Hungary and his subjects from the crushing ...

• 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): Lozang Jamspal • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - Sacred Writings

• Author(s): Siu Lam Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningThis is a text book as well as a reference book for decision making in construction. The book is...

• 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): Gregory P. Fairbrother • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HigherThis book considers, in the context of political education in China and colonial Hong Kong, the effects of cr...

• Author(s): Bell Yung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Personal MemoirsIn this biography of Tsar Teh-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher, and qin master, Professor Bell Yung tells the...

• Author(s): Annabel Jackson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Regional & Ethnic - AsianOver 450 years ago, the Portuguese landed in what was to be the first European colony in Asia...

• Author(s): James Wicks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTransnational Representations focuses on a neglected period in Taiwan film scholarship the golde...

• 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): Gabriele Klein • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Dance - General This book relates to the scientific lecture program held at Dance Congress 2009 and approaches the plural, ...

• Author(s): Xi Xu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralInterruptions is rooted in the tradition of contemporary ekphrastic writing, where an author creat...

• Author(s): Rob Mcinnes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe Action/Adventure Films Classroom Resources features a combination of teacher's notes, classroom worksheets, ...

• Author(s): Bao Hui Zhang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaBy comparing peasant revolutions in Hunan and Jiangxi between 1926 and 1934, Revolutions as Organizational Chang...

• Author(s): Yin-Wong Cheung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe tremendous success of China’s program of economic reform and the rapid integration of China into the global eco...

• Author(s): Flora L. F. Kan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaHong Kong’s Chinese History Curriculum from 1945 Politics and Identity investigates the ways in which Chinese his...

• Author(s): K M 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 people of Do...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Sinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThrough the history of a charitable institution, the Tung Wah Hospital, Elizabeth Sinn ...

• Author(s): Frank Eckardt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment...

• Author(s): Gisela Parak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CriticismSince well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bring...

• Author(s): Kenneth Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe dramatic surge of Chinese visibility in Hollywood has been spurred by Sino-chic talents such as directors A...

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

• Author(s): Richard J. Meyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralJin Yan The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai tells the remarkable story of the ...

• 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): Gary Ka-Wai Cheung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong’s Watershed The 1967 Riots is the first English book that provides an account and critical analys...

• Author(s): Julia Straub • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralAuthenticity is one of the most crucial, but also most contested concepts in literary and cultural studies. ...

• Author(s): Peter Ninnes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformGlobalization is a multifaceted phenomenon, and one of its major components is the internation...

• Author(s): Rui Zhang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralBeginning first as a case study of Feng Xiaogang, this book explores Chinese film history since the early 1990s in...

• Author(s): Sarah Schlachetzki • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Electronics - GeneralWhy do Japanese artists team up with engineers in order to create so-called Device Art? What is a ...

• Author(s): Wolfgang Funk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Aesthetics As a concept that increasingly gains importance in contemporary cultural discourse, authenticity emerges as a sit...

• Author(s): Ulla Kriebernegg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Disease & Health IssuesThe binary construction of "young" and "old," which is based on a biogerontological model of a...

• Author(s): The University Of C Resource" • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHow is ethnicity viewed by scholars of different academic disciplines? C...

• Author(s): Carl Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralEvery so often a work of history appears that radically changes our understanding of people, pl...

• Author(s): Gary Soo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsConstruction Contract Essentials in Hong Kong is written with construction professionals in mind. By incorporating infor...

• Author(s): Eric Kit-Wai Ma • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaDesiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China is a study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in H...

• Author(s): Carmen Amado Mendes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaOn 20 December 1999 the city of Macau became a Special Administrative Region of China after nearly 450 yea...

• 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...