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• Author(s): Bruce Morrison • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralIndependent learning is not a new concept for language educators but while teachers, curriculum design...

• Author(s): Jiang Yang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe characters in this vivid, witty, and engrossing novel, set in a Beijing literary institute right after the revolutio...

• Author(s): Beng Huat Chua • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismThe international group of contributors of this volume provides, collectively, a multi-...

• Author(s): Maria N. Ng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cultur...

• Author(s): Jiang Jiehong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe Cultural Revolution in China (1966–1976) has often been regarded as a period of disruptive turbulence and...

• Author(s): Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe book is concerned with the effects of globalization on living space (I.e. the space of everyd...

• Author(s): Mascha Brichta • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralPopular newspapers like the British "The Sun" and the German "Bild" regularly invite contro...

• Author(s): Robert Bickers • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors of May Days in Hon...

• Author(s): Katherine P. H. Young • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - Marriage & FamilyAlthough the ideal of companionate marriage has gradually been established in Hong ...

• Author(s): David Bandurski • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismDespite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism ha...

• Author(s): Elsie Tu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralElsie Tu is well known as a social activist and crusader against injustice and corruption in Hong Kong. In this powerful p...

• Author(s): Stephen Teo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe book provides a comprehensive overview of To's career as a director of action films.

• Author(s): Mario D'Amato • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe Madhyantavibhaga is classified by later Indian, Chinese, and Tibetan traditions as belonging to the Yogac...

• Author(s): Eva Gerharz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Globalization Do the current changes of both geographical and symbolic boundaries lead to the emergence of a world society? Ho...

• Author(s): Graham Russell Gao Hodges • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - GeneralAnna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Ho...

• Author(s): Robert Peckham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralImperial Contagions complicates common historical narratives portraying a straightforward shift from older, e...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Charles Emerson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong Internment, 1942–1945 Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley tells the story of the ...

• Author(s): Beng Huat Chua • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular Culture - GeneralEast Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Jap...

• Author(s): Richard L. Davis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaMingzong (r. 926–933) was the most illustrious emperor of the Five Dynasties, and one of the most admired of ...

• Author(s): Paul French • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its bes...

• Author(s): Luxian Jin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ReligiousJin Luxian is considered by many to be one of China’s most controversial religious figures. Educated by the Jesuits, h...

• Author(s): Ronald C. Ko • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ParasitologyThere are twelve chapters in this book. The subjects discussed include the mechanisms of eosinophilia in parasiti...

• Author(s): Yue Chim Richard Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LaborWhen discussing inequality and poverty in Hong Kong, scholars and politicians often focus on the failures of go...

• Author(s): Michael Keane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesChallenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalisation and combining cultural theory with med...

• Author(s): Maria Slowinska • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThis book compellingly argues how and why art and marketing often look alike today. Combining the histo...

• Author(s): Q. S. Tong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesDespite globalizing forces, whether economic, political, or cultural, there remain conspicuous differences...

• Author(s): Jing Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: WomenJumping Through Hoops is a collection of nine intense and dramatic stories that sheds new light on the experiences of Chine...

• Author(s): Siu-Kit Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe earliest book-length treatise in Chinese literary criticism, the Wenxin diaolong is of central importance ...

• Author(s): Lawrence Mills • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - GeneralProtecting Free Trade is the story of a paradox that both limited and stimulated Hong Kong’s post-wa...

• Author(s): Freddie Gaffney • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - ScreenwritingWriters have been publishing screenwriting books for over half a century now, full of "inside tips" on...

• 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...

• Author(s): Kin Yuen Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Science Fiction & FantasyWorld Weavers is the first ever study on the relationship between globalization and science fic...

• Author(s): Shing-Yip Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThis volume comprises original research papers reporting findings collected by participants of the In...

• Author(s): Anita Wohlmann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWhen Toula's father in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" says to his daughter (age 30) "you look so old" or when...

• Author(s): Janelle Blankenship • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film & VideoThis volume examines the challenges cinemas in small European countries have faced since 1989. It expl...

• Author(s): Sin-Wai Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis book is a bilingual glossary of translation terms which appear frequently in literature on trans...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Doery • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: WomenThis is an autobiography by Elizabeth Doery, a granddaughter of Sir Robert Ho Tung and daughter of Jean Gittins, one ...

• Author(s): Theodore Huters • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Seventies is a remarkable compendium of essays recollecting the decade that is now mostly thought of as an...

• Author(s): Beatrice Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Religion, Politics & StateThe book gave detailed account of Hong Kong's church-state relationship in metamorphosis. It ...

• Author(s): Olivia Khoo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Chinese Exotic examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging f...

• Author(s): Gordon E. Slethaug • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Multicultural EducationTeaching Abroad addresses the question of moving abroad to teach in a cross-cultural university ...

• Author(s): Johannes Suitner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentMedia and public discourses often consider Vienna as a »cultural cit...

• Author(s): Pui-Yin Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Government & BusinessIn 2002, prior to the restructuring on July 1, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative ...

• Author(s): Howard Irving • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Civil LawIt is important to understand that when a marriage is over, it is not the time for retribution and revenge, but rat...

• Author(s): Bruno Arich-Gerz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: United States - GeneralIn 1945, U.S. Americans liberated the Nazi concentration camp complex of Mittelbau-Dora, and retri...

• Author(s): Thomas Lamarre • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialImpacts of Modernities, the third volume of the Traces series, explores the problem of ...

• Author(s): David Grossman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CurriculaBased on case studies of 11 societies in the world's most dynamic region, this book signals a new direction of stu...

• Author(s): Katharina Thurnheer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAt the heart of this in-depth ethnographic study lie the daily life situations of ...

• Author(s): Xu Shi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesDiscourse as Cultural Struggle challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues fo...

• Author(s): Ingrid Kummels • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialTransatlantic Caribbean expands research on the region by focusing on its transatlantic...

• Author(s): Klaus Weinhauer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyScholars have paid little attention to the last four decades of the German Revolution. This volume offers ...

• Author(s): Roger Nissim • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book tells about the pivotal role of land in Hong Kong is always a vital resource in a dynamic economy.

• Author(s): Evangelia Kindinger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General»After the Storm« traces the cultural and political responses to Hurricane Katrina. Immediately after Katrina, ...

• Author(s): Konstantin Butz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Popular CultureGrinding California provides the first academic analysis of the subculture of skate punk at book-length. It...

• Author(s): Kam Louie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseEileen Chang (1920–1995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the ...

• Author(s): Gabriel M. Leung • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care IssuesHaving experienced benign neglect and inertia since the last major set of reforms when all public and s...

• Author(s): Yue Chim Richard Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralHong Kong is one of the world’s most densely populated cities. Land supply, property values, and housing prov...

• Author(s): Patrick H. Hase • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn 1899, a year after the Convention of Peking leased the New Territories to Britain, the British moved to est...

• Author(s): Florian Knothe • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Pottery & CeramicsThis catalogue accompanies the University Museum and Art Gallery's exhibition of "Picasso Ceramics" f...

• Author(s): Anna Pao Sohmen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalSir Y. K. Pao (Pao Yue-kong, 1918–1991), rose from modest origins to become, by late 1979, the world’s largest pr...