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It Was Like This

March 25, 2015

Book by Redwood, Mabel Winifred Sale Price:$29.99 0753198096
A Borrowed Place: The History of Hong Kong

March 25, 2015

A sweeping history of Hong Kong, Britain’s last colony, documents court intrigues of London and Peking, the heyday of the British Empire, economic development, its role as a refuge from mainland Chinese communism, and the 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Sale Price:$7.99 1568360029
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action Cinema

March 22, 2015

Since the 1960s, Hong Kong cinema has helped to shape one of the world’s most popular cultural genres: action cinema. Hong Kong action films have proved popular over the decades with audiences worldwide, and they have seized the imaginations of filmmakers working in many different cultural traditions and styles. How do we account for this […]
Stanley Kwan’s Center Stage (The New Hong Kong Cinema)

March 22, 2015

Hjort argues that Stanley Kwan’s contribution in Center Stage is to develop an approach to nonfiction filmmaking that is realist without being naïve. The value of the film’s reflexive dimension, Hjort shows, has nothing to do with poststructuralist skepticism but with the compelling manifestation of a communicative model that serves as an alternative to hierarchical […]
Engendering Hong Kong Society: A Gender Perspective of Women’s Status

March 22, 2015

This book provides a scholarly overview of women’s status in Hong Kong from a gender perspective. The contributors are associated with the Gender Research Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The chapters offer substantive analyses on the indicators of women’s status, including education, work, division of domestic labor, gender roles, women’s movement, and […]
Imperial China: Photographs 1850-1912

March 22, 2015

The Orient has always fascinated the West. Part of China’s mysterious allure has stemmed from the fact that it remained virtually invisible to all but a handful of Europeans until the mid-19th century. Fortunately, the advent of photography coincided with the opening of China to the West and provided us with an historic legacy of […]
A Modern History of Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

From a little-known fishing community at the periphery of China, Hong Kong developed into one of the world’s most spectacular and cosmopolitan metropoles after a century and a half of British imperial rule. This history of Hong Kong — from its occupation by the British in 1841 to its return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997 […]
King Hu’s A Touch of Zen (The New Hong Kong Cinema)

March 22, 2015

King Hu’s A Touch of Zen is the first book-length study of a classic martial arts film from 1971- the first Chinese-language film to gain recognition in an international film festival (it won a major prize at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival) and which provided the generic mould for the latter “crossover” success of Ang […]
Reorganising Power in Indonesia: The Politics of Oligarchy in an Age of Markets (Routledge/City University of Hong Kong Southeast Asia Series)

March 22, 2015

Reorganising Power in Indonesia is a new and distinctive analysis of the dramatic fall of Soeharto, the last of the great Cold War capitalist dictators, and of the struggles that reshape power and wealth in Indonesia. The dramatic events of the past two decades are understood essentially in terms of the rise of a complex […]
A Biographical Sketch-Book of Early Hong Kong (Echoes: Classics of Hong Kong Culture and History)

March 22, 2015

The biographical essays in this book – first published in 1962 – give a sharp and fascinating picture of some of the Europeans who helped establish the colony of Hong Kong and lived through its early years. Sale Price:$25.24 9622097421

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