General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Ka-Ho Mok • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administration - GeneralGlobalization has brought dramatic changes to the character and functions of education in most countries...

• Author(s): Julia Mahler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryIn contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-...

• Author(s): Sean Redmond • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralRequired reading for all those studying contemporary World Cinema or Asian Studies, Studying Chungking Express ...

• Author(s): Peter Hodge • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareIn this volume of collected studies, social workers in Hong Kong and Singapore te...

• Author(s): Dezso Bozóky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe University Museum and Art Gallery at the University of Hong Kong collaborates with the Ferenc Hopp Museum o...

• Author(s): Francis Wing-Lin Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe younger generation—those under the age of 25—accounts for more than a quarter of Hong Kong’s populati...

• Author(s): S. K. Stanley Kwan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Dragon and the Crown is the unforgettable memoirs of Stanley Kwan, the creator of the Hang Seng Index. ...

• Author(s): Richard J. Meyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWang Renmei was on a fast track to become one of China’s leading film stars in the 1930s. H...

• Author(s): Whitney Crothers Dilley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe first full-length study of its kind, the book investigates recurring themes and ...

• Author(s): Adelyn Lim • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Feminism & Feminist TheoryThis study demonstrates that recognizing the differences of the women activists promoting dispara...

• Author(s): Paolo Cherchi Usai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWhat are the major issues and challenges film archives, cinémathèques, and film museums a...

• Author(s): Shiona Airlie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalColonial civil servant, Confucian scholar, and collector of Chinese art, Sir James Stewart Lockhart spent more than...

• 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): Dean Aszkielowicz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanPrevious scholarship on trials of war criminals focused on the legal proceedings with only tacit acknowledge...

• Author(s): Paul S. F. Yip • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralOver one million people worldwide commit suicide every year, and more than 60% of suicide deaths occur in Asia. Howe...

• 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): 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): Tanja Zimmermann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThis book gives an insight into the media constructions of historical remembrance reflecting transnational...

• 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): Betty Yung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book examines housing policy in Hong Kong using a new and unique interdisciplinary approach – combining the philoso...

• Author(s): Lok-Sang Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformThis book investigates and analyses critical issues in education reform and discusses possible ...

• Author(s): Maria N. Ng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThese rich and lucidly composed personal essays on the author’s early life journeys in Portuguese Macau and British Hon...

• Author(s): Paul A. Bové • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralPoetry against Torture sets out the clear conflict between two competing conceptions of society and civilizati...

• Author(s): Peter Mortenbock • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe rapid changes currently taking place in our urban, political and institutional environments have shifted spati...

• Author(s): M. Y. Angel Lin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Bilingual EducationQuestions regarding whether a first or a second/foreign language should be used as a medium of instruct...

• Author(s): Oliver Kozlarek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralOctavio Paz is one of the most recognized Latin American writers. His essays offer a sophisticated crit...

• 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): Perry Lam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn Once a Hero, his latest collection of essays, Lam describes the decline of Hong Kong cinema sin...

• Author(s): Ruth Hayhoe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EducatorsFull Circle is the story of a life transformed by long exposure to the people and culture of China and East Asia. The...

• Author(s): Wimal Dissanayake • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAshes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered...

• Author(s): Gerhold K. Becker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Business EthicsBiotechnology marks a new scientific revolution. It holds the promise of generating resources to meet our...

• Author(s): Douglas Kerr • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWritings of travelers have shaped ideas about an evolving China, while preconceived ideas about China also shaped the ...

• Author(s): Mark S. Gaylord • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralAn essential text for anyone interested in crime, law and justice in Hong Kong, this book offers the...

• Author(s): Dirk Schulz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Gay Studies"To define is to limit", Lord Henry states, and Mrs. Dalloway "would not say of anyone [...] that th...

• Author(s): Patrick J. Cummings • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis book is the first dictionary of Hong Kong English and one of the few non-native variety dict...

• Author(s): C. S. David Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe main objective of Chinese-English Contrastive Grammar An Introduction is to familiarize the reader...

• 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): 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): Patrick Shuk-Siu Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street, Patrick Yu takes up his story as he returns to Hong Kong to become the fi...

• Author(s): Pattie Y. Y. Luk-Fong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Counseling - GeneralThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to school guidance and counselling services in H...

• Author(s): Tony Latter • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralIs Hong Kong’s approach to economic policy really as ‘hands off’ as we are led to believe? How are economic...

• Author(s): Neferti Xina M. Tadiar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaTaking an innovative, postcolonial, feminist perspective on transformations in the Philippine ...

• Author(s): Peter Morris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis collection of 97 Cantonese love songs aims to give a wider audience the opportunity of reading thes...

• Author(s): Elspeth Stevenson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe TV crime drama is so familiar, its conventions so widely understood. But as an audience, we clearly love them...

• Author(s): Christopher Prendergast • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralTo Be Unfree is a collection of essays investigating how political unfreedom has bee...

• Author(s): Hans Peter Hahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralUrban agglomerations host the most vital and creative societies. This applies particularly to Afri...

• Author(s): Edward Denison • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralThe first half of the twentieth century was fraught with global tensions and political machinations. Howev...

• Author(s): Andrew Yanne • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn the street names of Hong Kong, a rich history of the city can be found. The authors, in this illustrated book, expl...

• Author(s): Rob Mcinnes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism"What an impressive pack! This Teacher's Guide is comprehensive, rigorously underpinned with the...

• Author(s): Elaine Scarratt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - General"Science Fiction Film: A Teacher's Guide to the Genre and Classroom Resources provides complete scheme of wo...

• Author(s): Viktor Shklovsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & Theory"Theory of Prose" is one of the twentieth century's most important works of literary theory. It not...

• Author(s): Linda Cooley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Writing - GeneralThis book is designed to raise students’ awareness of the linguistic features of a postgraduate dissertation...

• 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...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Knörr • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThis volume explores the question of how children themselves experience and manage migration and by wha...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Charlotte Misselwitz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralHow do young Israelis and Germans communicate about National Socialism and the Holocaust? In this collection o...

• Author(s): Barbara Korte • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralOne tends to associate history with serious modes of presentation rather than with humorous ones. Y...