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Sex, Culture and Moderni...
With the disintegration of Confucian cosmology after the fall of the imperial system in China, medical science was introduced as an epistemological foundation for social order. The construction of sexuality as a dangerous drive which was thought to form the very core of the in...
(2010)
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Tales from No.9 Ice Hous...
In Tales from No. 9 Ice House Street, Patrick Yu takes up his story as he returns to Hong Kong to become the first Chinese Crown Counsel. Thereafter he tells of the years in which he established himself as a most successful advocate in private practice. His story is enriched w...
(2010)
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Telecommunications in Asia
Policy, Planning and Development
The Asian region is seeing the largest expansion of telecommunications in history. From rural communications to information superhighways, the demand for equipment and services is the fastest growing in the world. What is driving it? How is it to be financed? Where will the eq...
(2010)
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Toward Critical Patriotism
Student Resistance to Political Education in Hong Kong and China
This book considers, in the context of political education in China and colonial Hong Kong, the effects of critical thinking on university students' attitudes toward the nation. Its objective is to understand how students' attitudes toward patriotism diverge from those held by...
(2010)
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Town Planning Practice
Context, Procedures and Statistics for Hong Kong
This book is the first systematic attempt to introduce the current practice and statistics of town planning in Hong Kong. Part I gives an analytical account of the practical and ideological context, discusses design principles and describes procedures of town planning with par...
(2010)
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Trauma and Cinema
Cross-Cultural Explorations
This volume addresses the relation of trauma to transnational modern mass media. The first of its kind, Trauma and Cinema: Cross-Cultural Explorations provides ten essays which explore the ways trauma works itself out as media — in images in (and as) film, photography, and vid...
(2010)
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Understanding Marriage
A Hong Kong Case Study
Based on a marital study in Hong Kong, this book examines changes that occur in the marital relationship today. The author concludes that as 'affective individualism' is used to characterize modern marriages in the West, 'affective familism' is a more appropriate character of ...
(2010)
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Unity and Diversity
Local Cultures and Identities in China
This book examines the evolution of the local identity in China from historical times to the present day. It traces the expression of local identity in religion and myth, in the construction of the provincial character, in the growth of cities, in literature, in economic devel...
(2010)
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The Voices of Macao Stones
The stones, statues and memorials found all over Macao trace the story from the days of the first Portuguese navigators to reach China in the sixteenth century to the events of more recent times. Hidden away in odd corners or standing incongruously surrounded by modern buildi...
(2010)
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Walking Between Slums an...
Illusions of Open Space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai
The book is concerned with the effects of globalization on living space (I.e. the space of everyday life), focusing specifically on East Asian metropolises, such as Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai. Globalization has given rise to accessible catch-phrases such as the "global vil...
(2010)
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Whose Business Values?
Some Asian and Cross-Cultural Perspectives
This book is about the ethical issues arising in the course of business, especially those affecting people working in Asia. Each chapter offers a different perspective and the positions taken vary greatly from one writer to another. This book has been produced under the auspic...
(2010)
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Zoning and Property Rights
Chinese Agriculture
The author combines the unique multidisciplinary backgrounds of an academic, a political scientist, a lawyer and an urban planner to provide the reader with a novel and challenging discussion about the economic nature of land use zoning. Besides establishing a coherent framewo...
(2010)
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Streets
Exploring Hong Kong Island
In this book, the author takes the reader on fifty tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island ranging from Central through Wan Chai, to Shau Kei Wan then to Shek O, along the south coast from Stanley to Aberdeen, completing a circuit of the Island through ...
(2010)
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Lessons in Being Chinese
Minority Education and Ethnic Identity in Southwest China
Two very different ethnic minority communities - the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunnan's border with Burma and Laos - are featured in this comparative study of the implementation and reception of state ...
(2010)
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Disease, Colonialism, an...
Malaria in Modern East Asian History
Studying malaria in modern East Asia in the context of the global history of the disease, this book fills an important gap in our understanding of the cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions of the relationship between malaria and human socie
(2010)
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Jin Yan
The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai
Jin Yan: The Rudolph Valentino of Shanghai tells the remarkable story of the "Emperor of Film," who dominated the golden age of Chinese silent movies. Jin Yan (金錎) achieved his greatest stardom in the 1930s, when women literally threw themselves at his feet. Married first to t...
(2010)
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Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of ...
Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different ki...
(2010)
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Wong Kar-wai's Happy Tog...
Wong Kar-wai's controversial film, Happy Together, was released in Hong Kong just before the handover of power in 1997. The film shows two Chinese gay men in Buenos Aires and reflects on Hong Kong's past and future by probing masculinity, aggression, identity, and homosexualit...
(2010)
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Tsui Hark's Zu
Warriors from the Magic Mountain
Hong Kong cinema exploded into world culture during the 1990s, driven by its linkage with Hollywood's dynamic new digital special effects technologies. This book provides essential historical background to that remarkable set of events by analyzing the culture, political and t...
(2010)
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John Woo's A Better Tomo...
A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominen...
(2010)
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