General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Terri Murray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book is aimed at helping media and film studies teachers introduce the basics of feminist film theory, a c...

• 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): Stephen Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis is one in a series of books providing readers with an overview of the more frequently encountered legal princ...

• Author(s): Christine Bischoff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIllegalised immigration is a highly iconic topic. The public perception of the current regime for mobility is pr...

• Author(s): Neil Coombs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPan's Labyrinth, Stranger Than Fiction, The Science of Sleep ... Surreal and fantastic cinema is...

• Author(s): Yan Yan Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseUniversity Putonghua is a two-volume textbook specially written for college and university learners. Focusing on stren...

• 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): Yan Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General2011 New Plays Selection 2011, commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival Pretense -- Yan Yu An older man from Hong Kong be...

• Author(s): Peter Falvey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThis useful sourcebook contains 12 chapters written by experienced classroom practitioners in Hon...

• Author(s): Viktor Shklovsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhile living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. H...

• Author(s): Richard Rottenburg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book is about the making and unmaking of socio-cultural differences, seen from...

• Author(s): Ann Quin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General"A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...."So begins Ann Qu...

• Author(s): Lisa Odham Stokes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis comedy confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexuality and the limits ...

• Author(s): Steven Cahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Careers - GeneralSteven M. Cahn's advice on the professorial life covers an extensive range of critical issues: how to plan, c...

• Author(s): Rongjun Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralInspired by Gustave Le Bon's prophetic 1894 study of crowd psychology The Crowd: A Study of Popular Mind and H...

• Author(s): Danny Powell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA groundbreaking piece of cinema? A cult classic? An over-hyped teen movie? Opinions on Donnie ...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalWith offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, Ishmael Reed presents in The Terrible Threes a vision of America ...

• Author(s): Manuel Puig • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralFinally back in print, Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political"The Terrible Twos" is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing...

• 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): Kenneth Nicolson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralHong Kong’s approach to heritage conservation has focused mainly on saving an old building here and ther...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralWhen Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berke...

• Author(s): Eleanor Rehahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralIn Narrative in Film and TV: A Teacher's Guide, Eleanor Rehahn explores the variations in narrative structure...

• Author(s): Eileen Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe Book of Change was written in English, like its prequel, The Fall of the Pagoda, depicting Chang’s childho...

• Author(s): Mette Hjort • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCenter Stage is widely recognized as a classic of the New Hong Kong cinema. The film’s status ha...

• Author(s): Diana Yeh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Literary“Try Something Different. Something Really Chinese” The Happy Hsiungs recovers the lost histories of Shih-I and Dymia Hs...

• Author(s): Sasha Vojkovic • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionYuen Woo Ping's kung fu comedy based on the legendary female character Wing Chun is a land...

• Author(s): Stacilee Ford • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis study of An Autumn’s Tale argues that Hong Kong films are a window into understanding the shared pasts an...

• Author(s): Brian Dunbar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralComedy Films: A Teacher's Guide offers the ideal introduction for teachers of GCSE and AS/A level Film and Medi...

• Author(s): Xi Xu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralAn unusual book of quirky essays, some deeply personal. Xu Xi writes from within, of Hong Kong’s vanishing culture and sensib...

• Author(s): Alicia M. Kershaw • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - SoutheastAbove the City Hiking Hong Kong Island is a unique comprehensive guide to walks and hikes on Hong Kong I...

• Author(s): Keith Mcdonald • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFilm and TV Textual Analysis provides the film, media studies and English teacher with a comp...

• Author(s): Francis Wing-Lin Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkAccording to the statistics from the Hong Kong Police, around 6000 juveniles (aged 7 to 15) were arrested ...

• Author(s): Michael Fisher • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsThis book presents an introduction to contract principles. Contracts affect everyone, from simple daily activities...

• Author(s): Deborah Levy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister...

• Author(s): Donald Barthelme • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Fantasy - HistoricalIn The King, a retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur, Donald Barthelme moves the chivalrous Knights of the R...

• Author(s): Stephen D. Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis is one in a series of introductory books providing readers with an overvie...

• Author(s): Raymond Queneau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryPierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age ...

• Author(s): Audrey Yue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis book examines "Song of the Exile" as diasporic cinema. As text, its practices of diaspori...

• Author(s): Carolin Overhoff Ferreira • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismOn December 8, 2008, the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira will celebrate hi...

• 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): Stephen D. Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsThis is one in a series of introductory books providing readers with an overview of the most frequently encountere...

• Author(s): Jeremy Tambling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralMadmen and Other Survivors Reading Lu Xun’s Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writ...

• Author(s): Jeremy Tambling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWong Kar-wai’s controversial film, Happy Together, was released in Hong Kong just before the...

• Author(s): Tony Williams • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThough underappreciated in contemporary film criticism, Bullet in the Head is a landmark in Jo...

• Author(s): Michael Ingham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralPTU is an underappreciated noir masterpiece by one of Hong Kong’s most prolific and commercially successful d...

• Author(s): Wendy Gan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book examines how Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian sensitively portrays the unsettling seismic shif...

• Author(s): Kenneth E. Hall • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA classic tale of loyalty and bloody betrayal, John Woo’s The Killer (1989) was centrally important to the g...

• Author(s): Anna Dawson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - General"Anna Dawson feels that The Matrix is far more substantial than it first looks and her enthusiasm for the film i...

• Author(s): Ping-Kwan Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this kaleidoscope of stories, translated from the Chinese, P.K. Leung, one of Hong Kong’s most celebrated litera...

• Author(s): Eleanor Rehahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralIn Narrative in Film and TV: A Teacher's Guide, Eleanor Rehahn explores the variations in narrative structure...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalIshmael Reed's electrifying first novel zooms readers off to the crazy, ominous kingdom of HARRY SAM a miserable and...

• Author(s): David Albahari • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Russian & Former Soviet UnionA Jewish schoolteacher tells the story of Wilhelm G tz and Erwin Meyer in the process of r...

• Author(s): Austin Coates • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMacao, 40 miles west of Hong Kong, became a place of Portuguese residence between 1555–57. In this short, lively...

• Author(s): Kate Domaille • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis Teacher's Guide offers a clear solution about how the horror film is theorized and taught through a case ...

• Author(s): Simon Haoran Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralRelentless urbanization and the outrageous disparity between rich and poor have confined three lonely m...

• 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...