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Wing On Lee
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• Author(s): Wing On Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ResearchCitizenship education calls for the education of knowledge, skills and values that help the young to become informed a...
View full detailsReading Moving Letters
Roberto Simanowski
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• Author(s): Roberto Simanowski • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralDigital media is increasingly finding its way into the discussions of the humanities classroom. This book presen...
View full detailsVoluntary Organizations in the Chinese D
Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce
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• Author(s): Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Volunteer WorkDo Chinese voluntary organizations continue to have a role in modern societies enmeshed in a globalizin...
View full detailsColonial Hong Kong and Modern China - In
Pui-Tak Lee
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• Author(s): Pui-Tak Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe evolution of Hong Kong, as a British colony and now a Special Administrative Region at Chinas door step, has ...
View full detailsGovernors, Politics, and the Colonial Of
Gavin Ure
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• Author(s): Gavin Ure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book fleshes out the impact of political figures and how their actions, and inactions, affect various imperial ...
View full detailsLife's Journey - An Autobiography
Eugene Bak
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• Author(s): Eugene Bak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe author chronicles the experiences of his family in pre-war and wartime Poland, the Soviet Union, Ir...
View full detailsThe First Chinese American - The Remarka
Scott D. Seligman
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• Author(s): Scott D. Seligman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Historical - GeneralChinese in America endured abuse and discrimination in the late nineteenth century, but they had a l...
View full detailsThe New Chinese Documentary Film Movemen
Chris Berry
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• Author(s): Chris Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is the first English-language book on Chinese document...
View full detailsThe Fall of the Pagoda
Eileen Chang
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• Author(s): Eileen Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe Fall of the Pagoda, the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally by Eileen Chang in En...
View full detailsDoing Comparative Education - Three Deca
Harold J. Noah
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• Author(s): Harold J. Noah • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryThe writings of Harold J. Noah and Max A. Eckstein are well known in the field of comparative education. For over th...
View full detailsThe Sources of Hong Kong Law
Peter Wesley-Smith
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• Author(s): Peter Wesley-Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralHong Kong has a curious mixture of laws old and new, written and unwritten, home-grown and import...
View full detailsHumour in Chinese Life and Letters - Mod
Jessica Milner Davis
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• Author(s): Jessica Milner Davis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - Historical & ComparativeThis volume covers modern and contemporary forms of humour in Chinas publi...
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 detailsChina Abroad - Travels, Subjects, Spaces
Yee Lin Elaine Ho
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• Author(s): Yee Lin Elaine Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialChina Abroad Travels, Subjects, Spaces is a pioneering work which brings together ac...
View full detailsART POLITICS COMMERCE CHINESE CINEMA
Ying Zhu
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• Author(s): Ying Zhu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralArt, politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate, and elem...
View full detailsReforming Law Reform - Perspectives from
Michael Tilbury
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• Author(s): Michael Tilbury • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeAs a special administrative region of China, Hong Kong has its own legal syste...
View full detailsMaintaining Control - Autonomy and Langu
Richard Pemberton
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• Author(s): Richard Pemberton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhereas in previous decades autonomous, self-directed or independent learning may have been assum...
View full detailsCases on International Business and Fina
Mitsura Misawa
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• Author(s): Mitsura Misawa • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhile Japan’s export-oriented economy has been advancing with astounding speed, significant differences remain betwe...
View full detailsReluctant Heroes - Rickshaw Pullers in H
Chi Ming Fung
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• Author(s): Chi Ming Fung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThrough the history of rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, Reluctant Heroes provides a rich portrait of th...
View full detailsContours of Culture - Space and Social D
Robbie B. H. Goh
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• Author(s): Robbie B. H. Goh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis volume discusses the urban history and cultural landscape of Singapore in relati...
View full detailsReal Wars on Virtual Battlefields
Stefan Werning
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• Author(s): Stefan Werning • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe book analyzes the multifarious exchange of algorithmic technologies and concepts between the military and the me...
View full detailsBrushing History Against the Grain - Rea
Qingxin Lin
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• Author(s): Qingxin Lin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis is the first book-length study of the Chinese new historical fiction (NHF), whose rise marks the birth of ...
View full detailsRacial Disproportionality in Child Welfa
Marian Harris
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• Author(s): Marian Harris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThe number of children of color entering the child welfare system in the United States is disproportionate...
View full detailsGlobalization and the Humanities
David Leiwei Li
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• Author(s): David Leiwei Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralThis is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary hum...
View full detailsNo Man an Island
James Udden
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• Author(s): James Udden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis is a book-length study of Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan's famous director of movies such as 'T...
View full detailsHuai - nan Tzu - Philosophical Synthesis i
Charles Le Blanc
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• Author(s): Charles Le Blanc • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalHuai-nan Tzu (139BC) was viewed, for its great diversity of subject-matter...
View full detailse - Learning Initiatives in China - Pedago
Helen Spencer-Oatey
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• Author(s): Helen Spencer-Oatey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Computers & Technologye-Learning Initiatives in China provides research and application insights into e-learning i...
View full detailsAs Normal as Possible
Ching Yau
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• Author(s): Ching Yau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - China"This is the first sustained collection of writings by established and young scholars on how sexualities are negotia...
View full detailsStreets - Exploring Hong Kong Island
Jason Wordie
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• Author(s): Jason Wordie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaJason Wordie has established an enviable reputation as a historian of Hong Kong who can communicate to a general ...
View full detailsJames Benning
Barbara Pinchler
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• Author(s): Barbara Pinchler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismJames Benning's films are among the most fascinating works in American cinema. He explores ...
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 detailsThe Fragile Scholar - Power and Masculin
Geng Song
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• Author(s): Geng Song • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThe Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the frag...
View full detailsQueer Bangkok - 21st Century Markets, Me
Peter Jackson
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• Author(s): Peter Jackson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country’s gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. Th...
View full detailsVectors, Matrices, and Geometry
K. T. Leung
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• Author(s): K. T. Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Geometry - AlgebraicThis book introduces the important concepts of finite-dimensional vector spaces through the careful study ...
View full detailsThe Poetics of Difference and Displaceme
Min Tian
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• Author(s): Min Tian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Poetics of Difference and Displacement is the first book in English that systematically investigates the twentieth-cen...
View full detailsThe Range of the Bodhisattva, A Mahayana
Lozang Jamspal
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• Author(s): Lozang Jamspal • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis is a study and the first complete English translation of the Mahayana Sutra, the Bodhi-sattva-gocara, w...
View full detailsCurriculum, Schooling, and Society in Ho
Paul Morris
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• Author(s): Paul Morris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaHong Kong is a fascinating place for the study of curriculum. Its schooling system is influenced by the legacies of a...
View full detailsForeigners Under Mao
Beverley Hooper
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• Author(s): Beverley Hooper • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaForeigners under Mao Western Lives in China, 19491976 is a pioneering study of the Western community during t...
View full detailsTalk Radio, the Mainstream Press, and Pu
Francis L. F. Lee
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• Author(s): Francis L. F. Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesPhone-in programs on public and commercial radio channels have been a staple of popular Hong Kong politics ...
View full detailsRoma of Hungary
István Kemény
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• Author(s): István Kemény • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFeaturing essays by leading Hungarian scholars, this collection systematically studies the Roma popu...
View full detailsAnarchism in Hungary - Theory, History,
Andras Bozoki
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• Author(s): Andras Bozoki • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryThe authors examine the various currents of anarchism in fin-de-siecle Hungary. They stress th...
View full detailsHong Kong Screenscapes - From the New Wa
Esther M. K. Cheung
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• Author(s): Esther M. K. Cheung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismGlobal connections and screen innovations converge in Hong Kong cinema. Energized by tra...
View full detailsHumour in Chinese Life and Letters - Cla
Jocelyn Chey
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• Author(s): Jocelyn Chey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseHow do Chinese societies approach humour in personal life and in the public sphere? This book addresses the et...
View full detailsEastern Fortress - A Military History of
Chi Man Kwong
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• Author(s): Chi Man Kwong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaCelebrated as a trading port, Hong Kong was also Britain’s “eastern fortress”. Likened by many to Gibraltar and ...
View full detailsHumour in Chinese Life and Letters - Cla
Jocelyn Chey
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• Author(s): Jocelyn Chey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseHow do Chinese societies approach humour in personal life and in the public sphere? This book addresses the et...
View full detailsGeography and the Environment in Southea
R. D. Hill
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• Author(s): R. D. Hill • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Geography
Education and Society in Hong Kong and M
Mark Bray
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• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralCERC Studies in Comparative Education No.7 Hong Kong and Macao have much in common. The dominant populations in both terr...
View full detailsYoung Rebels in Contemporary Chinese Cin
Xuelin Zhou
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• Author(s): Xuelin Zhou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralHas China in the 1980s gone through a phase of “youth rebellion” comparable with that represented in films such ...
View full detailsEnclave to Urbanity
Johnathan Andrew Farris
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• Author(s): Johnathan Andrew Farris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralCross-cultural relations are spatial relations. Enclave to Urbanity is the first book in English ...
View full detailsPublic Success, Private Sorrow - The Lif
Isidore Cyril Cannon
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• Author(s): Isidore Cyril Cannon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Non-ClassifiableThe story of an Englishman who lived through the last years of the Qing dynasty, was trapped in the B...
View full detailsMy First Trip to China
Kin-Ming Liu
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• Author(s): Kin-Ming Liu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThirty leading China experts, including Perry Link (Princeton Univeristy), Andrew Nathan (Columbia University), Jonath...
View full detailsThe Body at Stake
Jörg Huber
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• Author(s): Jörg Huber • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThis publication enquires into the role and treatment of the body in the visual culture of contemporary C...
View full detailsSchool Knowledge in Comparative and Hist
Aaron Benavot
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• Author(s): Aaron Benavot • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaSchool curricula are established not only to prepare young people for a real world, but also to beckon an imagined ...
View full detailsChange in Use of Land
Wai Chung Lawrence Lai
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• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningChange in Use of Land A Practical Guide to Development in Hong Kong is a guide for pro...
View full detailsA Seventh Child and the Law
Patrick Shuk-Siu Yu
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• Author(s): Patrick Shuk-Siu Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe author comes from a distinguished family in Hong Kong. His father, Yu Wan, was an eminent figure in educati...
View full detailsTV Drama in China
Ying Zhu
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• Author(s): Ying Zhu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThis collection of essays brings together the first comprehensive study of TV drama in China....
View full detailsUniversity Autonomy, the State, and Soci
Su-Yan Pan
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• Author(s): Su-Yan Pan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book explores the role of universities in responding to ongoing changes in China, and in shaping the relations betw...
View full detailsHong Kong's Young Children - Their Early
Sylvia Opper
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• Author(s): Sylvia Opper • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWritten for local students of early childhood education, kindergarten teachers and child care workers, this book prese...
View full detailsTown Planning Practice - Context, Proced
Wai Chung Lawrence Lai
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• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EnvironmentalThis book is the first systematic attempt to introduce the current practice and statistics of town pla...
View full detailsThe Making of Women Entrepreneurs in Hon
Priscilla Pue Ho Chu
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• Author(s): Priscilla Pue Ho Chu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women in BusinessThis book provides a detailed account of Chinese industrial entrepreneurs, and describes and explain...
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