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Contact Moments - The Politics of Interc
Katsuhiko Suganuma
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• Author(s): Katsuhiko Suganuma • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book sheds light on contact moments between Japanese male-queer culture and that of the West in the postw...
View full detailsPoseidon - China's Secret Salvage of Bri
Steven R. Schwankert
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• Author(s): Steven R. Schwankert • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - NavalRoyal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a freighter during routine exercises in 1931...
View full detailsRoman Catholicism in America
Chester Gillis
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• Author(s): Chester Gillis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralWho are American Catholics and what do they believe and practice? What is distinctive about...
View full detailsHong Kong Cantopop
Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu
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• Author(s): Stephen Yiu-Wai Chu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Criticism - GeneralCantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world...
View full detailsIllustrious Illuminations
Florian Knothe
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• Author(s): Florian Knothe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EuropeanIllustrious Illuminations presents a selection of illuminated Christian Manuscripts from the McCarthy Collection. R...
View full detailsAmericans and Macao - Trade, Smuggling,
Paul A. Van Dyke
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• Author(s): Paul A. Van Dyke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics, and cultu...
View full detailsUnderstanding South Asian Minorities in
John Nguyet Erni
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• Author(s): John Nguyet Erni • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralPeople of South Asian descent are a large, varied and increasingly visible part of Hong Kongs populat...
View full detailsEnglish as a Lingua Franca in Asean - A
Andy Kirkpatrick
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• Author(s): Andy Kirkpatrick • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has im...
View full detailsRebuilding the Ancestral Village
Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce
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• Author(s): Khun Eng Kuah-Pearce • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis work illustrates the relationship between one group of Singaporean Chinese a...
View full detailsThe Lone Flag - Memoir of the British Co
John Pownall Reeves
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• Author(s): John Pownall Reeves • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaWhen Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941, Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on th...
View full detailsMelancholy Drift - Marking Time in Chine
Jean Ma
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• 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...
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: BiographicalThe Fall of the Pagoda, the first of two semi-autobiographical novels written originally by Eileen Chang in Engli...
View full detailsChina - A Religious State
John Lagerwey
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• Author(s): John Lagerwey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateOver the last forty years, our vision of Chinese culture and history has been transformed by t...
View full detailsMessy Urbanism
Manish Chalana
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• Author(s): Manish Chalana • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningSeemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order ...
View full detailsRemembering China from Taiwan - Divided
Mahlon Meyer
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• Author(s): Mahlon Meyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAt the close of the Chinese Civil War, two million Chinese fled from the victorious communist army under Mao Zedo...
View full detailsEconomic Development in Chinese Societie
Y. C. Jao
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• Author(s): Y. C. Jao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - General
Masculinities and Hong Kong Cinema
Pang Laikwan
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• Author(s): Pang Laikwan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis collection of exciting essays explores how the representations and the ideologies of masculinities can be ...
View full detailsThe Practical Prophet
Moira Chan-Yeung
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• Author(s): Moira Chan-Yeung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ReligiousAs the longest serving and the most influential bishop of Hong Kong during one of the most tumultuous periods in...
View full detailsQueer Politics and Sexual Modernity in T
Hans Tao-Ming Huang
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• Author(s): Hans Tao-Ming Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesExamining the deployments of gender and sexuality over the past five decades in Taiwan, this book chroni...
View full detailsEconomic Sanctions Reconsidered 3e
Gary Clyde Hufbauer
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• Author(s): Gary Clyde Hufbauer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralEconomic sanctions continue to play an important role in the response to terrorism, n...
View full detailsConditional Spaces - Hong Kong Lesbian D
Denise Tse-Shang Tang
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• Author(s): Denise Tse-Shang Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Lesbian Studies
Legal Discourse Across Cultures and Syst
Vijay K. Bhatia
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• Author(s): Vijay K. Bhatia • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralWhat exactly is legal about legal language? What happens to legal language when it is used across lin...
View full detailsChristian Encounters with Chinese Cultur
Philip L. Wickeri
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• Author(s): Philip L. Wickeri • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - AnglicanWritten by a team of internationally recognized scholars, Christian Encounters with Chinese Cultu...
View full detailsNotions of Time in Chinese Historical Th
Chun-Chieh Huang
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• Author(s): Chun-Chieh Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralGives readers a better understanding of Chinese notions of time in the tradition of Chinese historical thinking. T...
View full detailsContract Law in Hong Kong
Neil H. Andrews
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• Author(s): Neil H. Andrews • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsContract Law in Hong Kong A Comparative Analysis provides readers with a clear understanding of contract law in H...
View full detailsZoning and Property Rights - A Hong Kong
Wai Chung Lawrence Lai
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• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentThe author combines the unique multidisciplinary backgrounds of an academic, a po...
View full detailsThe Policy Test
Phil Hutchinson
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• Author(s): Phil Hutchinson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralOn what basis do we make policy decisions? And how should we assess the ones that have been made? I...
View full detailsThe Sinking of the Lisbon Maru
Tony Banham
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• Author(s): Tony Banham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIAlthough never previously studied in any depth, the sinking of the Lisbon Maru was the most costly Amer...
View full detailsHong Kong Taxation
Ayesha Macpherson Lau
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• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Taxation - GeneralThe book will continue to cover the major areas of Hong Kong taxation―Profits Tax, Salaries Tax, P...
View full detailsAmerican Trade Politics
I. M. Destler
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• Author(s): I. M. Destler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - General"American Trade Politics" is the most influential and widely read analysis of the US trade ...
View full detailsAmbient Screens and Transnational Public
Nikos Papastergiadis
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• Author(s): Nikos Papastergiadis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesLarge public screens have now become a ubiquitous part of the contemporary cityscape. Far from being sim...
View full detailsCultural Studies and Cultural Industries
Chris Berry
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• Author(s): Chris Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhat difference does a region make? Are the new regional cultures of Northeast Asia the product of individuals fighting...
View full detailsRemade in Hollywood - The Global Chinese
Kenneth Chan
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• Author(s): Kenneth Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe dramatic surge of Chinese visibility in Hollywood has been spurred by Sino-chic talents ...
View full detailsStudies of Chinese Linguistics - Functio
Zhiqun Janet Xing
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• Author(s): Zhiqun Janet Xing • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe nine essays in this volume present the most recent developments in the study of Chinese linguistic research u...
View full detailsInternational Education and the Chinese
Janette Ryan
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• Author(s): Janette Ryan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeInternational Education and the Chinese Learner is one of the first full-length studies in the relatively new fiel...
View full detailsCinema at the City's Edge - Film and Urb
Yomi Braester
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• 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...
View full detailsVisions of the Apocalypse Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema
Wheeler Winston Dixon
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• Author(s): Wheeler Winston Dixon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismVisions of the Apocalypse examines the cinema's fascination with the prospect of nucle...
View full detailsThe Story of a Stele - China's Nestorian
Michael Keevak
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• Author(s): Michael Keevak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe thesis of this book is that when Westerners discussed the Nestorian monument they were not really talking about ...
View full detailsEastern Figures - Orient and Empire in B
Douglas Kerr
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• Author(s): Douglas Kerr • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis title is a literary history with a difference. It examines British writing about the East centered on India but r...
View full detailsTrauma and Cinema - Cross - Cultural Explo
E. Ann Kaplan
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• Author(s): E. Ann Kaplan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume addresses the relation of trauma to transnational modern mass media. The first of ...
View full detailsChanging Rice Bowl - Economic Developmen
Elizabeth J. Leppman
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• Author(s): Elizabeth J. Leppman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe book deals with a topic of perennial interest to Chinese and non-Chinese alik...
View full detailsInk Dances in Limbo - Gao Xingjian's Wri
Jessica Yeung
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• Author(s): Jessica Yeung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIn this pioneering study of the entire written works of Gao Xingjian (???), Chinas first winner of the Nobel...
View full detailsSocial Work Values and Ethics 4e
Frederic G. Reamer
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• Author(s): Frederic G. Reamer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkFor more than a decade, teachers and practitioners have turned to Frederic G. Reamer's Social Work Values an...
View full detailsA Social History of the Chinese Book - B
Joe P. Mcdermott
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• Author(s): Joe P. Mcdermott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this learned, yet readable, book, Joseph McDermott introduces the history of the book in China in the late...
View full detailsRubble, Ruins, and Romanticism
Martina Moeller
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• Author(s): Martina Moeller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film & VideoTraditional criticism on German post-war cinema tends to define rubble films as simplistic texts of low ar...
View full detailsShakespeare & The Jews (Paper)
James Shapiro
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• Author(s): James Shapiro • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Discrimination & RacismGoing against the grain of the dominant scholarship on the period, which generally ignores the im...
View full detailsProblem-Based Medical Case Management
Kathryn Tan
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• Author(s): Kathryn Tan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Education & TrainingMedicine is an ever-changing science. Since this book was first published in 2006, there have been maj...
View full detailsMoving Millions - The Commercial Success
Rikkie Yeung
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• Author(s): Rikkie Yeung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWith the “merger” of the MTRC and the KCRC in 2007, the history of Hong Kong’s railways turned a new page. The two gov...
View full detailsFrames of Anime - Culture and Image - Buil
Tze-Yue Hu
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• Author(s): Tze-Yue Hu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book is an inter-disciplinary study of the subject of anime, a popular form of Japanese animation. Using a v...
View full detailsThe Kite Family
Lai-Chu Hon
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• Author(s): Lai-Chu Hon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralA patient escapes from an asylum, to spend his life as the perfect mannequin in a department store display; when living...
View full detailsEthics in Early China - An Anthology
Chris Fraser
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• Author(s): Chris Fraser • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyEarly Chinese ethics has attracted increasing scholarly and social attention in recent years, as...
View full detailsNarratives of Free Trade - The Commercia
Kendall Johnson
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• Author(s): Kendall Johnson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis collection of essays discusses the first commercial encounters between a China on the verge of social tra...
View full detailsCompanies in Peace Processes
Ulrike Joras
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• Author(s): Ulrike Joras • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralThe role of private companies in violent conflicts has gained increasingly more attention in recent ye...
View full detailsMerchants of War and Peace
Song-Chuan Chen
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• Author(s): Song-Chuan Chen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMerchants of War and Peace challenges conventional arguments that the major driving forces of the First Opium ...
View full detailsHarbin to Hanoi - The Colonial Built Env
Laura Victoir
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• Author(s): Laura Victoir • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralColonial powers in China and northern Vietnam employed the built environment for many purposes as an expres...
View full detailsCorporate Governance and Financial Refor
Jing Leng
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• Author(s): Jing Leng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralThe world economy is facing unprecedented challenges brought by the still unfolding global financial crisis....
View full detailsPost - Classical Cinema
Eleftheria Thanouli
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• Author(s): Eleftheria Thanouli • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralDoes the term 'post-classical' have any relevance in current debates on contemporary cinema? This book ...
View full detailsEast River Column - Hong Kong Guerrillas
Sui-Jeung Chan
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• Author(s): Sui-Jeung Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Military - World War IIHong Kong’s story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forc...
View full detailsStudies in Chinese-Western Comparative D
Yun-Tong Luk
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• Author(s): Yun-Tong Luk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - General
Studies on the Iranian World
Anna Krasnowolska
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• Author(s): Anna Krasnowolska • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - IranToday, the Iranian world, which encompasses the whole Persian-speaking and culturally "Persianate" reg...
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