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Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City (Asia’s Transformations/Asia’s Great Cities)

March 22, 2015

Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an ‘economic powerhouse’ Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial […]
Hong Kong, China: Learning to belong to a nation (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

March 22, 2015

The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to “belong to a nation” is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong […]
The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community. Volumes 1,2,3

March 22, 2015

1st edition, 1st printing HCDJ, 3 volumes in slipcase. Books are FINE/FINE/FINE; DJs are spine-faded, vol. 1’s has three tiny closed edge tears and is price-clipped, the other two are otherwise FINE; slipcase very lightly rubbed. 361 Sale Price:$67.48 0816504180
The Private Life of Old Hong Kong: Western Women in the British Colony, 1841-1941

March 22, 2015

Modern histories rarely mention the myriad of western women who lived in Hong Kong and the Canton Delta during the British colonial years. This is their untold story, and represents an historical reconstruction of women’s lives from all levels of society–from the wives of governors and Taipans, to missionaries, doctors, shopkeepers, and prostitutes. It is […]
The Fall of Hong Kong: Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation

March 22, 2015

An account of the wartime history of Hong Kong. On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years. The Japanese occupation was a turning point in the slow historical process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from […]
Global Media Spectacle: News War Over Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

of contestation and alliance, themes and variations, and convergence and divergence between and within various blocs of nations. Sale Price:$16.09 079145472X
Government and People in Hong Kong 1841-1962: A Constitutional History

March 22, 2015

No description available. Sale Price:$101.05 0313235953
Andrew Lau and Alan Mak’s Infernal Affairs – The Trilogy (The New Hong Kong Cinema)

March 22, 2015

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 art; and has had an undeniable impact on current Hong Kong cinema. Sale Price:$14.00 9622098010
Keeping Democracy at Bay: Hong Kong and the Challenge of Chinese Political Reform

March 22, 2015

This thoroughly researched study provides an invaluable account of Hong Kong’s political evolution from its founding as a British colony to the present. Exploring the interplay between colonial, capitalist, communist, and democratic forces in shaping Hong Kong’s political institutions and culture, Suzanne Pepper offers a fresh perspective on the territory’s development and a gripping account […]
Speaking in Images: Interviews with Contemporary Chinese Filmmakers (Global Chinese Culture)

March 22, 2015

“I always compare filmmaking to cooking. Shooting is like buying the groceries. You buy all kinds of ingredients and the better ingredients you get, the better chance you have of making the movie you want.”—Ang Lee, from Speaking in Images Speaking in Images offers an engaging and rare collection of interviews with the directors who […]

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