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Southern District Officer Reports: Islands and Villages in Rural Hong Kong, 1910-60 (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies Series)

March 25, 2015

This is a collection of administrative dispatches from the 1910s through the early 1960s which illuminate not only rural life in Hong Kong but also Hong Kong government policies during the post-World War II period. The authors of the reports include such notable figures as Eric Hamilton, Walter Schofield, S. H. Peplow, Paul Tsui, Austin […]
Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan’s Democratization

March 25, 2015

Taiwan’s first presidential election, in 1996, sparked a Sino-U.S. military showdown that resulted in the biggest show of U.S. naval force in East Asia since the Vietnam War. This book is the first to explore the origins and triangular dynamics of that historic confrontation. Analyzing the key decisions and misperceptions that led to the Taiwan […]
It Was Like This

March 25, 2015

Book by Redwood, Mabel Winifred Sale Price:$29.99 0753198096
Discipline and Development: Middle Classes and Prosperity in East Asia and Latin America

March 25, 2015

Revealing that the key to successful economic development in late industrializers rests in the state’s capacity to discipline capitalists, this study sheds light on why certain countries (South Korea and Taiwan) have the capacity to discipline capitalists, while others (Mexico and Argentina) find themselves at the receiving end of industrialists’ political and economic power. Closer […]
Healthy Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan And South Korea

March 25, 2015

Do the pressures of economic globalization undermine the welfare state? Contrary to the expectations of many analysts, Taiwan and South Korea have embarked on a new trajectory, toward a strengthened welfare state and universal inclusion. In Healthy Democracies, Joseph Wong offers a political explanation for health care reform in these two countries. He focuses specifically […]
Taiwan’s Democracy: Economic and Political Challenges (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)

March 25, 2015

Taiwan’s rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the next decade Taiwan’s “political miracle” matched its earlier “economic miracle” creating a vibrant liberal democracy complete with freedom of speech, association and assembly, rule of […]
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 […]
Kinkaseki : One Day at a Time

March 22, 2015

Arthur Thitherington has led the fight for justice for the treatment the POWs received at the hands of the Japanese. For more than 50 years he has battled to gain a meaningful apology from the Japanese Government and for compensation for what he and his comrades suffered. In “Kinkaseki: One Day at a Time,” he […]

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