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Sustainable Management o...
Research from Africa and India
by Libor Jansky, Martin J. Haigh, and Haushila Prasad
Headwaters are the source of freshwater resources, the margins of drainage basins, and the first and zero order basins that surround every catchment. The challenge is to define appropriate, self-sustainable, management strategies and structures for these lands which meet the n...
(2005)
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Perspectives on Growth a...
by Rolph van de... and Anthony Shor...
The relationship between growth and poverty lies at the heart of development economics. While many see aggregate growth as both necessary and sufficient for reducing poverty, and consequently focus their efforts on achieving the desired macroeconomic outcomes, others stress th...
(2003)
1 Read
Democracy in Latin America
(Re)Constructing Political Society
by Manuel Anton... and Edward Newman
(Re)democratization in much of Latin America has had to confront a legacy of civil war or political repression, as well as the social dilemmas inherent in the integration of the region into the global market-based economy. Moreover, (re)democratization has encountered a deep r...
(2001)
6 Reads
Entrepreneurs and Enterp...
A Study of Industrial Development
by V.F.S. Sit, R. Cremer, and S.L. Wong
This book provides an investigation of Macau's industrial fabric as well as its framework of economy. Particular attention has been given to the form and function of the small and medium industries in Macau's economy.
(2010)
1 Read
A Documentary History of...
Government and Politics
This volume analyses the evolution of a unique brand of politics in Hong Kong. It examines how a Crown Colony system responded to the demands made of it by its Chinese and British residents in the shadow of the often volatile politics of modern China. It covers a wide range of...
(2010)
8 Reads
Globalization and the Hu...
This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance. Against the tyranny of the worldwide free market that naturalizes the aggregation of powe...
(2010)
16 Reads
One Country, Two Interna...
The Case of Hong Kong
The transition from British to Chinese rule, although widely anticipated, is shaping up as one of the most challenging events in Hong Kong's history. It also constitutes a highly complex exercise in social, political, economic and legal engineering from an international perspe...
(2010)
2 Reads
The Peach Bloosom Fan
The story is set in the last days of the Ming Dynasty, when the Manchu invaders were already in close proximity to the capital. Instead of fighting the enemy, the great officials of state devoted themselves to intrigues, corruption and self-aggrandizement. A few concerned indi...
(2010)
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A Handbook of Practical ...
by William I. Wei, Stephen W.K...., and Anthony Ng
A classic tale of loyalty and bloody betrayal, John Woo's The Killer (1989) was centrally important to the growth of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. It helped launch the international stardom of Woo and lead actor Chow Yun-fat, who plays a disllusioned hitman taking h...
(2010)
2 Reads
Eastern Figures
Orient and Empire in British Writing
by Douglas Kerr
James Stewart Lockhart called it "the great difference". Returned from an inspection tour of the newly leased extension to Hong Kong territory in August 1898, Lockhart, a senior Hong Kong colonial official, had used this phrase to describe the gulf between the New Territories ...
(2010)
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John Woo's The Killer
Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong on 26 January 1841. The man responsible – Britain's Plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot – was recalled by his government in disgrace and has also been vilif...
(2008)
1 Read
China
A Religious State
本書乃一實用指南。它能幫助香港市民更有效地參與公共事務。本書所提出的一些建議可以讓市民與市民之間，以及市民與政府間，共同作出決定和採取行動。這本書是基於一個信念，即市民和政府可以在有效的公共對話中獲益。本書提供實質的資料，教人如何逐步推動一個想法或意念，並會解釋如何使用這些資料去影響政府部門和私人機構。本手冊並會講解如何撰寫新聞稿、組織運動及籌款，並列出個別政府部門、政府官員及傳媒的聯絡方法，還提供籌款計劃書和新聞稿範本以及其他有用的資料。思匯政策研究所相信市民和政府可以共同就社會事務，作出公開及具創意的決定。決策過程中要讓相關人士可以充分參與的成...
(2007)
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The Great Difference
Hong Kong's New Territories and Its People 1898-2004
by James Hayes
The nine essays in this volume present the most recent developments in the study of Chinese linguistic research using functional approaches. Topics discussed in the volume include Chinese typology, word order variation, word formation, semantic change, cognition, discourse ana...
(2009)
1 Read
Through the Looking Glass
China's Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao
by Paul French
The Cultural Revolution in China (1966–1976) has often been regarded as a period of disruptive turbulence and frenzied savagery. Its legacy to artistic growth and expression amounts to nothing except a burden of haunting traumas. Or does it amount to more than that?The seven a...
(2009)
2 Reads
Hong Kong Media Law
A Guide for Journalists and Media Professionals
by Doreen Weise..., Jill Cottrell, and Mei Ning Yan
Poetry against Torture sets out the clear conflict between two competing conceptions of society and civilization. Poetry represents one: the fundamental human capacity to make itself and its societies in ways that will produce the most nearly perfect form of the species. Tortu...
(2007)
1 Read
For Gods, Ghosts and Anc...
The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings
中華崛起了嗎？ 從硬實力來看，中國、台灣、香港的崛起已是有目共睹。然而要成為全球化世界的領袖，仍需民主、法治、公義、文化等軟實力的支撐。此外，能在台海兩岸和平共生，是中華民族在世界上持續崛起的一重要條件。作者指出全球化世界的三個要素：民主化、技術化、國際化，及其對中華民族的影響。他分析軟實力的中國文化源頭，突現先賢老子、孔子、孟子對軟實力的主張，指出誠信及民本是他們對政治的共同理念。作者分析台灣過去在全球化中的技術經濟及社會發展，是以中華傳統軟實力為基礎。他檢討香港在回歸中國主權後的內部演變，指出對領導軟實力的憂慮。作者觀察中國大陸硬實力的迅速崛起...
(2007)
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Uneasy Partners
The Conflict Between Public Interest and Private Profit in Hong Kong
Infernal Affairs has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous critical attention. In this book, Gina Marchetti explores the way this example of Hong Kong's cinematic eclecticism has crossed borders as a story, a commercial product and a work of a...
(2007)
1 Read
China and Capitalism
A History of Business Enterprise in Modern China
by David Faure
Shashibiya is an intriguing discussion of the levels of 'filtering' that any Shakespeare performance in China undergoes, and a close examination of how these filters reflect the continually-changing political, social and cultural practices. The study traces the history of Shak...
(2005)
1 Read
City Stage
Hong Kong Playwriting in English
by Mike Ingham and Xu Xi
The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume...
(2005)
4 Reads
Cyber-Crime
The Challenge in Asia
by Rod Broadhurst and Peter Grabosky
The Chinese Educational Mission was the earliest effort at educational modernization in China. As part of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the Qing government sent 120 young boys to New England to live and study for a decade, before abruptly summoning them home to China in 188...
(2005)
5 Reads
