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Corporate Governance and Financial Reform in China’s Transition Economy (Hong Kong University Press Law Series)

March 22, 2015

This book provides a comprehensive and up to date review and critique of corporate governance reforms and related financial reforms in China during the country’s transition to a market economy, involving its enterprise, banking and capital markets sectors. Sale Price:$20.85 9622099319
Discovering Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage: Hong Kong island and Kowloon

March 22, 2015

This companion to Discovering Hong Kong’s Cultural Heritage: The New Territories takes the armchair traveler on an exploration of Hong Kong Islan and the Kowloon peninsula, where generations of urban Hong Kong culture have been preservedin the religious beliefs, festivals, social customs, and folk superstitions of its people as well as in its specialist shops, […]
Between Shanghai and Hong Kong: The Politics of Chinese Cinemas

March 22, 2015

Based on meticulous archival research and a repetorary of rarefilms, most of which were believed lost, this book is a pioneering critical study of the Chinese cinemas in Hong Kong and Shanghai and their complex interconnections. The years 1935-50 were a period of ceaseless violence in China, of war, occupation, civil war, and colonialism, leading […]
Cantonese as Written Language: The Growth of a Written Chinese Vernacular

March 22, 2015

This book examines this development in the broader context of diglossia, and also of the patterns by which spoken vernaculars have developed written forms in other societies. Sale Price:$199.46 962209709X
Where There Are Asians, There Are Rice Cookers: How "National" Went Global via Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker’s globalization aims to move away from Japan-centric perspectives on how “Made in Japan” products made it big in the global marketplace, instead choosing to […]
Hong Kong Cinema Since 1997: The Post-Nostalgic Imagination

March 22, 2015

Taking as its point of departure the three recurrent themes of nostalgia, memory and local histories, this book is an attempt to map out a new poetics — the post-nostalgic imagination — in Hong Kong cinema in the first decade of Chinese rule. Sale Price:$87.61 0230221432
The Other Hong Kong Report 1998

March 22, 2015

Published annually since 1989, “The Other Hong Kong Report” is a review of the various aspects of development in Hong Kong in the past year by scholars and experts, who are not government officials, and is intended to offer an alternative view to that portrayed in government publications. Sale Price:$5.99 9622018297
Comparative Education: Continuing Traditions, New Challenges, and New Paradigms

March 22, 2015

This book presents perspectives on the changes that have taken place within the field of comparative education, while noting various continuing traditions. Its contributors come from a wide range of countries and contexts, and present their work within a framework set by the 11th congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies (WCCES). The […]
Critical Discourse Analysis in Historiography

March 22, 2015

John Flowerdew shows how the critical analysis of the evolving discourse employed during a political process spanning more than a decade can provide both insights for discourse analysis and understanding of a real world political process, thereby demonstrating the potential role for critical discourse analysis in historiography, the writing of history. The political process in […]
Hong Kong: The Last Prize of Empire

March 22, 2015

Last Prize documents the values of Hong Kong’s colonial past and reflects them with striking images of Hong Kong today as it shapes its future as part of the China of tomorrow. The colonial island of Hong Kong began its dramatic transformation as one of the spoils of the notorious Opium Wars, but its dubious […]

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