China | Asian History Books

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 […]
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century

March 22, 2015

This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth century to the present. The contributors consider the science and politics of public health policymaking and implementation in Taiwan, Manchuria, Hong Kong, and the […]
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 […]
AIR OPERATIONS 1958: Lebanon and Taiwan

March 22, 2015

More than fifty years have passed since the twin crises of Lebanon and Taiwan dominated the news. These two events have faded into history and are often regarded as being, at best, footnotes in the histories of the Cold War. The world in which they took place seems to have passed away a long, long […]
Island on the Edge: Taiwan New Cinema and After

March 22, 2015

This is the first English-language anthology on the Taiwan New Cinema and its legacy. It is an exciting collection which covers all the major filmmakers from Hou Hsiao Hsien and Edward Yang to Ang Lee and more. The volume gatehrs a range of essays that analyze individual films produced since the advent of the Taiwan […]
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 […]
Memories of the Future: National Identity Issues and the Search for a New Taiwan (Taiwan in the Modern World)

March 22, 2015

The product of five years of North American Taiwan Studies Conferences, this book carefully analyzes the emergence of national feelings in Taiwan, its historical roots and its contemporary manifestations. It addresses questions central to the looming international issue of Taiwan/China. Part one considers the historical events that help to explain the emergence and development of […]
The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan: Adapting to a Changing Religious Economy

March 22, 2015

The most influential sect in the Chinese mainland in the 1940s, Yiguan Dao was largely destroyed in mainland China in 1953. Yiguan Dao not only survived, however, but developed into the largest sect in Taiwan, despite its suppression by the Kuomintang state. In 1987, through relentless efforts, the sect finally gained legal status in Taiwan. […]
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 […]

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