General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• 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): Rob Mcinnes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralTeen movies' have been massively popular with their target audience for half a century yet they remain among the...

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

• Author(s): Gina Marchetti • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismInfernal Affairs has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous ...

• Author(s): Yoshiharu Tezuka • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismJapan’s film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international...

• Author(s): Waltraud Kokot • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn the past decades, international port cities have been strongly affected by global transformation processes, drama...

• Author(s): Mark Hulsether • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateAnyone who seeks to understand the dynamics of culture and politics in the United States must...

• Author(s): Tina Yee-Wan Pang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThe University Museum and Art Gallery of HKU presents an exhibition featurin...

• Author(s): Christine Loh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American Government - General“The ultimate aim is the selection of the Chief Executive by universal suffrage.” Article 45 of...

• Author(s): Yuk-Wai Yung Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaAmong the extremely limited English language literature on the Chinese resistance movement in the Phi...

• Author(s): Louise Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralLouise Ho is a Chinese poet from Hong Kong who finds her feet in English. Since her first publications more than ...

• Author(s): Günther Friesinger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesReverse Engineering is a term that comes originally from the field of mechanical engineering. Reverse Engi...

• Author(s): Manuel Puig • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryFinally available again after many years, one of the most compelling novels from Argentina's great novelists.

• Author(s): Elena Cheung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThis book is published to coincide with the exhibition Rising Above The Kinsey Af...

• 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): 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): Dave Harrison • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicGaming is now an important media studies issue, yet there has to date been very little material availa...

• Author(s): S Martin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General

• 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): Keith Withall • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralIn his Teachers Guide to Early and Silent Cinema, Keith Withall provides both a comprehensive chronology of th...

• Author(s): Jo Cassey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismJo Cassey advises instructors on how to build a curriculum on the popular press, a medium that is very much a part of ...

• 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): 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...

• Author(s): Valeria Sterzi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThis book explores the complexity of the dialectic relationship between ritual-like activities and social str...

• Author(s): Petra Eckhard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralUsing the theoretical frameworks of Freud, Todorov, and Bahktin, this book explores how American writers o...

• Author(s): Esther M. K. Cheung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis tragic coming-of-age story follows three disillusioned local youths struggling t...

• Author(s): G.B. Endacott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralThe biographical essays in this book – first published in 1962 – give a sharp and fascinating picture of...

• Author(s): David Faure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryThis book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It ...

• Author(s): Siu Lam Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civil - GeneralThis book examines the various quality management systems applied to the construction industry in Hong Kong an...

• 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): Austin Coates • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThe story of the British acquisition of Hong Kong is intricately related to that of the Portug...

• Author(s): Monica Hill • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Bilingual EducationMany Chinese learners find it difficult to learn English words they are difficult to spell and say, change ...

• Author(s): Wendy Helsby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralDistinct from "magazines," children's comics are a discreet and fascinating medium, superficially familiar to us all, ...

• Author(s): Jeremy Points • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA guide to the stylish and spectacularly successful film. It considers: cinematography, narrat...

• Author(s): Peter Swirski • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAll Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in Am...

• Author(s): Anna Dawson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismUnquestionably the first cinematic phenomenon of the twenty-first century, Peter Jackson's trilo...

• Author(s): D. C. Lau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)The revolutionary writer and literary critic Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren, 1881-1936) is celebrate...

• Author(s): Huimin Jin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - General Despite a number of retrospective works on cultural studies, to date no other book dedicates i...

• Author(s): Rosemarie Garland Thomson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralInaugurates a new field of disability studies by framing disability as a minority discourse rather than a...

• Author(s): Nathalie Sarraute • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryA young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characte...

• 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): P. J. B. Scott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralThe world economy is facing unprecedented challenges brought by the still unfolding global...

• Author(s): Aidan Higgins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryAn eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealt...

• Author(s): Steven Cahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyIn the views of most believers and critics, religion is essentially connected to the existence of a supernatural dei...

• Author(s): Barbara Korte • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismWar correspondents are prominent actors in the media world. They took hold in the cultural imaginary soon after th...

• Author(s): Kenneth Nicolson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong’s oldest Western cemetery garden is located in Happy Valley. This history and tour highlights the n...

• Author(s): Leo F. 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 th...

• Author(s): Eddie Tay • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book explores colonial and postcolonial literatures of Singapore and Malaysia. It traces in them a history o...

• Author(s): Harold Traver • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralThis book contains nine essays written by distinguished scholars from North America. Europe, and Asia,...

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

• Author(s): Henrique De Senna Fernandes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThe novel is a fascinating look into the inner world of the Eurasian inhabitants of the city, and thei...

• Author(s): Lynne Hibberd • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism"This guide scores well on all points―well-prepared and helpful."―In the PictureA British cine...

• Author(s): Sarah Perks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralAuteur's Alternatives to Hollywood: A Teacher's Guide is aimed explicitly at those requiring a short, sharp expo...

• Author(s): Bart Penders • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - NutritionComplex problems and ambitious goals are often thought to become easier by enlarging and dive...

• 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): Henry Green • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWritten almost completely in dialogue, Henry Green's final novel is a biting comedy of manners that exposes the decepti...

• 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): Unknown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Interest - Hikes & WalksExtending from the city limits to Victoria Peak, Lung Fu Shan Country Park is one of Hong Kong...

• Author(s): Edward Zhou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThis catalogue is published to coincide with the UMAG exhibition Mexican Modernity...