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Hong Kong Mobile - Making a Global Popul
F. Helen Siu
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• Author(s): F. Helen Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Regional StudiesIn this interdisciplinary study, the authors argue that Hong Kong must develop and strengthen the mobility, b...
View full detailsChinese Art and Its Encounter with the W
David Clarke
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• Author(s): David Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralThe book offers a bridge into the critical understanding of modern Chinese art through its encounter with th...
View full detailsTsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden
David Gray
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• Author(s): David Gray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThis is the first in a two-volume annotated translation of Tsong Khapa's Illumination of the Hidden Meaning (sbas ...
View full detailsPiecing Together Sha Po
Mick Atha
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• Author(s): Mick Atha • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ArchaeologyHong Kong boasts a number of rich archaeological sites behind sandy bays. Among these backbeaches is Sha Po on Lamma ...
View full detailsUnderground Front - The Chinese Communis
Christine Loh
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• Author(s): Christine Loh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismUnderground Front is a pioneering examination of the role th...
View full detailsGems from the South - Traditional Crafts
Susan Lam
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• Author(s): Susan Lam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralThis volume documents an exhibition at the University of Hong Kong presenting 94 repr...
View full detailsMerchants' Daughters - Women, Commerce,
F. Helen Siu
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• Author(s): F. Helen Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHistorians and anthropologists have long been interested in South China where powerful lineages and gendered hier...
View full detailsLearning Diversity in the Chinese Classr
Shane N. Phillipson
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• Author(s): Shane N. Phillipson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralA unique feature of Learning Diversity in the Chinese Classroom is its Chinese context for ...
View full detailsMiss Macintosh, My Darling, Vol. 1
Marguerite Young
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• Author(s): Marguerite Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralMiss MacIntosh, My Darling is written with oceanic music moving at many levels of consciousness and perception; bu...
View full detailsJ R
William Gaddis
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• Author(s): William Gaddis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ClassicsWinner of the 1976 National Book Award, J R is a biting satire about the many ways in which capitalism twists the A...
View full detailsVotes Without Power - The Hong Kong Legi
Rowena Y. F. Kwok
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• Author(s): Rowena Y. F. Kwok • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationThis book attempts to answer the questions related to the important election on the b...
View full detailsPax Sinica - Geopolitics and Economics o
Y. Y. Kueh
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• Author(s): Y. Y. Kueh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe book confronts the popular conjecture of a Pax Sinica emerging to replace Pax Americana in...
View full detailsWild Flowers of South China and Hong Kon
B. M. Walden
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• Author(s): B. M. Walden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Plants - FlowersThe distinguished botanist S. Y. Hu and watercolorist B. M. Walden present in this book beautiful and accurat...
View full detailsAsian Englishes Beyond the Canon
Braj B. Kachru
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• Author(s): Braj B. Kachru • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaThis book provides crucial reading for students and researchers of world Englishes. It is an insightful ...
View full detailsPhilippine Gay Culture
J. Neil C. Garcia
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• Author(s): J. Neil C. Garcia • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Gay StudiesPhillipine Gay Culture is a descriptive survey of popular and academic writings on and by Fili...
View full detailsNagarjuna's Reason Sixy (Yuktisastika) w
Joseph Loizzo
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• Author(s): Joseph Loizzo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThe Reason Sixty is the most concise philosophical work by the second-century Indian Buddhist philosopher ...
View full detailsHong Kong Media Law - A Guide for Journa
Doreen Weisenhaus
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• Author(s): Doreen Weisenhaus • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media & the LawThis expanded second edition of Hong Kong Media Law aims to help anyone who uses any publishing devic...
View full detailsThe Soul of Beijing Opera - Theatrical C
Ruru Li
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• Author(s): Ruru Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - History & CriticismAny traditional theatre has to engage the changing world to avoid becoming a living fossil. How h...
View full detailsHong Kong, China, and 1997 - Essays in L
Raymond Wacks
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• Author(s): Raymond Wacks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThe 12 essays in this volume, written from different theoretical standpoints, de...
View full detailsChina's Legal Awakening - Legal Theory a
Carlos Wing-Hung Lo
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• Author(s): Carlos Wing-Hung Lo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralAfter decades of nihilistic rule under Mao Zedong, can legal order be restored in China? How suc...
View full detailsThe Kalacakratantra - The Chapter on the
Vesna Wallace
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• Author(s): Vesna Wallace • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThis is the first complete English translation of the second chapter of the esoteric Buddhist Kalacakratan...
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 detailsApproaches to Pop Music - Classroom and
Cath Davies
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• Author(s): Cath Davies • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - Pop VocalApproaches to Pop Music is designed to make teaching the different concepts, issues and aspects...
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 detailsMiss Macintosh, My Darling, Vol. 2
Marguerite Young
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• Author(s): Marguerite Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralOne of the most ambitious and remarkable literary achievements of the twentieth century, "Miss Macintosh, My Darli...
View full detailsUniversal Vehicle Discourse Literature (
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• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - GeneralThe Universal Vehicle Discourse Literature (Mahayanasutralamkara) was transmitted from the bodhisattva Maitreyan...
View full detailsKalacakra and the Tibetan Calendar
Edward Henning
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• Author(s): Edward Henning • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - TibetanKalacakra and the Tibetan Calender describes the contents of current Tibetan almanacs, from basic mathmat...
View full detailsSituating Sexualities - Queer Representa
Fran Martin
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• Author(s): Fran Martin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThis is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality ...
View full detailsFLYING CARPET
Diana Yue
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• Author(s): Diana Yue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralFrom the pen of one of Hong Kongs leading writers, Xi Xi (1938 - ), Flying Carpet mirrors the past and present of Fertil...
View full detailsImperial Masquerade - The Legend of Prin
Grant Hayter-Menzies
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• Author(s): Grant Hayter-Menzies • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: WomenDaughter of a Manchu aristocrat, granddaughter of a Boston merchant, educated like a boy in the Confucian classi...
View full detailsThe Empress and Mrs. Conger - The Uncomm
Grant Hayter-Menzies
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• Author(s): Grant Hayter-Menzies • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralThe story of two women from worlds that could not seem farther apartimperial China and the Ameri...
View full detailsIntroduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law
Danny Gittings
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• Author(s): Danny Gittings • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionsThe Hong Kong Basic Law is the constitutional document which sets out the general policies and system of gover...
View full detailsOnce in a Life
Dominique Chan
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• Author(s): Dominique Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralYoshitomo Nara is recognized as one of the most influential artists of the day....
View full detailsOpulence of the Jao's Lotus
Thomas Wai Hung Tang
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• Author(s): Thomas Wai Hung Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book is published in three editions (Chinese, Japanese, and English with different contents) Sinc...
View full detailsCity Stage - Hong Kong Playwriting in En
Michael Ingham
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• Author(s): Michael Ingham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)City Stage is an anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama written for Hong Kong p...
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...
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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 detailsLanguage in Hong Kong at Century's End
Martha C. Pennington
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• Author(s): Martha C. Pennington • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis volume offers a view of the linguistic situation in Hong Kong in the final years of the twe...
View full detailsBeware of the Other Side(s)
Heike Schwarz
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• Author(s): Heike Schwarz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralThis interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric dia...
View full detailsChinese Ideas About Nature and Society -
Charles Le Blanc
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• Author(s): Charles Le Blanc • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternThe universe, in Chinese eyes, is a harmonious organism; its pattern of movement is inherent and not imposed from ...
View full detailsHong Kong, China, and 1997 - Essays in L
Raymond Wacks
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• Author(s): Raymond Wacks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThe 12 essays in this volume, written from different theoretical standpoints, de...
View full detailsStepping Forth Into the World - The Chin
Edward J. M. Rhoads
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• Author(s): Edward J. M. Rhoads • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Chinese Educational Mission was the earliest effort at educational modernization in China. As part of ...
View full detailsComparative Education Research - Approac
Mark Bray
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• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeApproaches and methods in comparative education are of obvious importance, but do not always receive adequate attenti...
View full detailsIntroduction to the Hong Kong Basic Law
Danny Gittings
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• Author(s): Danny Gittings • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civics & CitizenshipEffective since China's resumption of sovereignty on July 1, 1997, the Hong Kong Basic Law lays dow...
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 Macau’s waters, the wea...
View full detailsSmall God, Big City - Earth God Shrines
Michael Wolf
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• Author(s): Michael Wolf • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralFollowing the success of Hong Kong Corner Houses (2011), German photographer Mich...
View full detailsLiu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenge
Jean-Philippe Béja
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• Author(s): Jean-Philippe Béja • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human RightsIn December 2008 some 350 Chinese intellectuals published a manifesto calling for reform of the Chinese con...
View full detailsEnriching Lives - A History of Insurance
Bang-Yan Feng
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• Author(s): Bang-Yan Feng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaInsurance is one of Hong Kongs oldest industries. In the nineteenth century the lucrative trade between China a...
View full detailsImages of the Canton Factories 1760 - 1822
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 - ChinaHundreds of Chinese export paintings of Canton trading houses and shopping streets are in museums and private...
View full detailsReclaimed Land - Hong Kong in Transition
David Clarke
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• Author(s): David Clarke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Travel - GeneralBetween the end of 1994 and the beginning of 2000 - the last five years of the previo...
View full detailsOrganizational Structures of Political P
Katarzyna Sobolewska-Myslik
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• Author(s): Katarzyna Sobolewska-Myslik • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThis book attempts to paint the widest possible picture of the organizational structures o...
View full detailsEssays on Aviation and Travel Law in Hon
Gary N. Heilbronn
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• Author(s): Gary N. Heilbronn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Air & SpaceA collection of essays by legal professionals on various topics relating to aviation and travel law in Ho...
View full detailsUniversities in Translation - The Mental
Brett De Bary
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• Author(s): Brett De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HigherIn the world of English-language academic publishing, the future of the university has increasingly attracted the atte...
View full detailsPhilippine English - Linguistic and Lite
Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista
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• Author(s): Ma. Lourdes S. Bautista • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralAn overview and analysis of the role of English in the Philippines, the factors that led to its spread and ...
View full detailsThe Social Work Interview - A Guide for
Alfred Kadushin
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• Author(s): Alfred Kadushin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkFor twenty-five years, The Social Work Interview has been the textbook of choice in social work and other human...
View full detailsTsong Khapa's Great Treatise on the Stag
Thomas Yarnall
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• Author(s): Thomas Yarnall • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - TibetanTsong Khapa's Great Treatise on the Stages of Mantra (Sngags rim chen mo)-considered by the present Dalai...
View full detailsNight Passages Philosophy, Literature, and Film
Elisabeth Bronfen
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• Author(s): Elisabeth Bronfen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult LiteratureIn the beginning was the night. All light, shapes, language, and subjective consc...
View full detailsTo Serve and to Lead - A History of the
Yee Wang Fung
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• Author(s): Yee Wang Fung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe history of the Diocesan Boys' School (DBS) — in 1869 — dates back to the very early days of Hong Kong. DBS's...
View full detailsLearning Diversity in the Chinese Classr
Shane N. Phillipson
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• Author(s): Shane N. Phillipson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralA unique feature of Learning Diversity in the Chinese Classroom is its Chinese context for ...
View full detailsWe Shall Suffer There - Hong Kong's Defe
Tony Banham
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• Author(s): Tony Banham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIWe Shall Suffer There is the first work that documents the experiences of Hong Kongs prisoners of war ...
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