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Wendy Helsby
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• Author(s): Wendy Helsby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryReality TV has emerged as a significant category of television production, fueled by new technologies t...
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John Atkinson
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• Author(s): John Atkinson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralSplice bridges the gap between contemporary cinema and intelligent discourse. It is a serial publication that ...
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John Atkinson
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• Author(s): John Atkinson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralSplice bridges the gap between contemporary cinema and intelligent discourse. It is a serial publication that ...
View full detailsStudying British Cinema: The 1970s
Danny Powell
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• Author(s): Danny Powell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralDanny Powell encourages readers to reevaluate the 1970s through the medium of film. Combining cultural and soci...
View full detailsForms Come Alive
Kohei Sugiura
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• Author(s): Kohei Sugiura • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKohei Sugiura explores the history of a variety of Japanese and Asian forms from cloth patterns to Buddha’s h...
View full detailsInequality in Education - Comparative an
Donald B. Holsinger
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• Author(s): Donald B. Holsinger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentInequality in Education Comparative and International Perspectives is a compilation ...
View full detailsArt History and Fetishism Abroad
Gabriele Genge
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• Author(s): Gabriele Genge • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralBy focusing on the various modes and media of the fetishised object, this anthology shifts the debates on ...
View full detailsHong Kong x 24 x 365 - A Year in the Lif
David Clarke
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• Author(s): David Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Photoessays & DocumentariesAFTER ... the colonial era ... the return to Chinese sovereignty ... the Asian economic crisis...
View full detailsPacific Crossing - Californian Gold, Chi
Elizabeth Sinn
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Sinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaDuring the nineteenth century tens of thousands of Chinese men and women crossed the Pacific to work, trade, an...
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Nicolaj Van Der Meulen
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• Author(s): Nicolaj Van Der Meulen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralKitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stan...
View full detailsCandide. Journal of Architectural Knowle
Axel Sowa
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• Author(s): Axel Sowa • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - General"Candide: Journal for Architectural Knowledge" is an international, scholarly forum for all architects, pl...
View full detailsThe Intelligible Metropolis
Nora Pleßke
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• Author(s): Nora Pleßke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshWritings on the metropolis generally foreground illimitability, stressing thereby that the urba...
View full detailsA Practical Approach to Conditions of Co
David Y. K. Leung
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• Author(s): David Y. K. Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civil - GeneralThis book provides a comprehensive commentary and guidance to readers on the current edition (1999 Editio...
View full detailsShipping and Logistics Law
W. H. Felix Chan
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• Author(s): W. H. Felix Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Commercial - GeneralThis book provides a general introduction to the basic principles of shipping and logistics law in Ho...
View full detailsInternational Film Guide 2009
Ian Smith
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• Author(s): Ian Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsFirst published in 1963, the International Film Guide enjoys an unrivalled reputation as the most aut...
View full detailsChinese Language and Culture
Weijia Huang
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• Author(s): Weijia Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThis is a reader written especially for learners of intermediate level Chinese and above. It contains forty art...
View full detailsPower and Identity in the Chinese World
Billy K. L. So
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• Author(s): Billy K. L. So • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralWang Gungwu is one of the most influential historians of his generation. Initially renowned for his pion...
View full detailsShowstoppers - Busby Berkeley & the Trad
Martin Rubin
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• Author(s): Martin Rubin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe first major analyses of Busby Berkeley's career on stage and screen. Showstoppers emphas...
View full detailsThe Defences of Macau - Forts, Ships, an
Richard J. Garrett
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• Author(s): Richard J. Garrett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe forts built from the early seventeenth century onwards, the ships that defended Macaus waters, the wea...
View full detailsInternational Film Guide 2011
Ian Smith
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• Author(s): Ian Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsFirst published in 1963, The International Film Guide enjoys an unrivalled reputation as the most aut...
View full detailsLetters of William Gaddis
William Gaddis
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• Author(s): William Gaddis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralNow recognized as one of the giants of postwar American fiction, William Gaddis (1922-98), author of The Recognition...
View full detailsLight Before Dawn - Unofficial Chinese A
Kuiyi Shen
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• Author(s): Kuiyi Shen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe catalogue documents the stories of twenty-two artists from the Wuming, Xingxing and Caocao art groups presen...
View full detailsRethinking Visual Narratives from Asia -
Alexandra Green
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• Author(s): Alexandra Green • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralRethinking Visual Narratives covers topics from the first millennium BCE through the present day, testify...
View full detailsArt Totems Bridging East & West
Eddie Lui
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• Author(s): Eddie Lui • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralThe University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG), The University of Hong Kong, is delighted to present A...
View full detailsHuangdi Neijing
Y. Kong
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• Author(s): Y. Kong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseHuangdi Neijing is a classic medical text of ancient China. Composed of two sections, Suwen and Lingshu, the book i...
View full detailsLegal Research - A Guide for Hong Kong S
Jill Cottrell
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• Author(s): Jill Cottrell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ResearchThis book is designed especially for use in Hong Kong to teach the basic skills of finding legal materials, both pri...
View full detailsColours of Money, Shades of Pride - Hist
Fred Y. L. Chiu
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• Author(s): Fred Y. L. Chiu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryIn June 1986, a Japanese watch factory in Hong Kong tried to fire 36 of its women workers. This provoked a...
View full detailsHong Kong's Health System - Reflections,
Gabriel Leung
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• Author(s): Gabriel Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care IssuesThis book provides a significant contribution to the discussions about the future of the system.The eviden...
View full detailsHungary and International Politics in 18
Domokos Kosary
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• Author(s): Domokos Kosary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryThe Hungarian Revolution of 1848-1849 abolished feudal government and society and laid the fo...
View full detailsHistory Without Borders - The Making of
Geoffrey C. Gunn
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• Author(s): Geoffrey C. Gunn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAstride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, premodern East and Southeast Asia can be ...
View full detailsWalking Macao, Reading the Baroque
Jeremy Tambling
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• Author(s): Jeremy Tambling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralWalking Macao, Reading the Baroque is a guide-book with a difference. It brings to the reader the art and...
View full detailsRace Panic and the Memory of Migration
Meaghan Morris
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• Author(s): Meaghan Morris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThe second volume of the Traces series, Race Panic and the Memory of Migration, explores complex ...
View full detailsNational Security and Fundamental Freedo
Hualing Fu
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• Author(s): Hualing Fu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civil RightsThere has been intense interest in the proposals to implement Article 23, both in Hong Kong and abroad. This book w...
View full detailsThe Cakrasamvara Tantra - The Discourse
David Gray
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• Author(s): David Gray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThis is the first complete, critical English translation of the Cakrasamvara Tantra, also known as the Sriher...
View full detailsQian Qianyi's Reflections on Yellow Moun
Stephen Mcdowall
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• Author(s): Stephen Mcdowall • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Essays & TraveloguesQian Qianyi’s Reflections on Yellow Mountain is a close examination of the practice of travel wri...
View full detailsThe Quest of Noel Croucher - Hong Kong's
Vaudine England
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• Author(s): Vaudine England • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Rich & FamousNoel Croucher was a legend in his own time a raconteur, yet a recluse, conventional yet eccentric, extr...
View full detailsTelecommunications Development in Asia
John Ure
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• Author(s): John Ure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralNo industry has expanded faster than telecommunications, gained so many new users, added so much value, spread so rapidly ...
View full detailsChinese Archery
Stephen Selby
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• Author(s): Stephen Selby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ArcheryChinese Archery is a broad view of traditional archery in China as seen through the eyes of historians, philosophers,...
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Robert Nield
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• Author(s): Robert Nield • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaDuring the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the United States, ...
View full detailsMerchants of Canton and Macao
Paul A. Van Dyke
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• Author(s): Paul A. Van Dyke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMerchants were central to the huge growth in China’s foreign trade and contributed to the development of worl...
View full detailsExploring the Media - Text, Audience, an
Barbara Connell
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• Author(s): Barbara Connell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesFeaturing the input of highly experienced instructors, this exciting textbook explroes key concepts and devel...
View full detailsAsian Ethnic Groups in New York - A Comp A Comparative Analysis
Pyong Gap Min
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• Author(s): Pyong Gap Min • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - General
World Englishes in Asian Contexts
Yamuna Kachru
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• Author(s): Yamuna Kachru • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - SociolinguisticsThis book is the first comprehensive treatment of the spread, acculturation, functions and evo...
View full detailsArt and Place - Essays on Art From a Hon
David Clarke
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• Author(s): David Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe book brings together a series of essays about art in Hong Kong written over the last ten years, with the intention...
View full detailsHong Kong Legal Principles 2e - Importan
Stephen D. Mau
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• Author(s): Stephen D. Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: InternationalProviding a modern-day guide to Hong Kongs general principles of law, this volume makes an ideal companion fo...
View full detailsSurveying Natural Populations - Quantita
Lee-Ann Hayek
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• Author(s): Lee-Ann Hayek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyA user-friendly primer to the essential techniques of quantitative field ecology, or paleoecology, in...
View full detailsThe Golden Ghetto - The American Commerc
Jacques M. Downs
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• Author(s): Jacques M. Downs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - EconomicsBefore the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where fore...
View full detailsTracing China
F. Helen Siu
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• Author(s): F. Helen Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTracing Chinas journey began from exploring rural revolution and reconstitutions of comm...
View full detailsSouthern District Officer Reports - Isla
John Strickland
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• Author(s): John Strickland • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not ...
View full detailsPopular Receptions of Archaeology
Susanne Duesterberg
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• Author(s): Susanne Duesterberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social HistoryPopular archaeology is a heterogeneous phenomenon. By focusing on the German archaeologist Heinrich Schl...
View full detailsConsciousness, Knowledge, and Ignorance
Bina Gupta
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• Author(s): Bina Gupta • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HinduThe first English translation of the "First Section" (Prathama Varnakam)-the "Section on Inquiry" (Jijnasadhikaranam)-of t...
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M. A. Aldrich
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• Author(s): M. A. Aldrich • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Search for a Vanishing Beijing weaves the genres of travel essays and travel guides into a comprehensive nar...
View full detailsFunctional Constituencies - A Unique Fea
Christine Loh
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• Author(s): Christine Loh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralFUNCTIONAL CONSTITUENCIES A Unique Feature of the Hong Kong Legislative Council provides detailed information...
View full detailsBeyond the Screen
Jörgen Schäfer
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• Author(s): Jörgen Schäfer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Mixed MediaWhile literature in computer-based and networked media has so far been experienced by looking at the computer sc...
View full detailsThe Last Half Century of Chinese Oversea
Elizabeth Sinn
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Sinn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe papers collected in this anthology look at Chinese overseas, residing in five continents in the half centur...
View full detailsDeveloping a Competitive Pearl River Del
Anthony G. O. Yeh
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• Author(s): Anthony G. O. Yeh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Regional PlanningThe Greater Pearl River Delta in south China with a population of 47 million is one of ...
View full detailsRuan Yuan, 1764 - 1849 - The Life and Work
Betty Peh-T'I Wei
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• Author(s): Betty Peh-T'I Wei • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EducatorsThis study explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (Juan Yuan 1764-1849), a scholar-official in 19th century Ch...
View full detailsHigher Education in Post - Mao China
Michael Agelasto
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• Author(s): Michael Agelasto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformSince the death of Chairman Mao in 1976, China has embarked upon the Four Modernizations r...
View full detailsFriendship in Art
Claire Roberts
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• Author(s): Claire Roberts • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book documents in letters, photos, and paintings a special friendship between two highly creative indiv...
View full detailsCity Voices - Hong Kong Writing in Engli
Xi Xu
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• Author(s): Xi Xu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralHong Kong has a soul and this anthology proves it. City Voices has poignant, gorgeous, stunning, disturbing, exhil...
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