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Taiwan Cinema: A Contested Nation on Screen

March 22, 2015

***Listed in THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION’s Weekly Book List, April 4, 2011***Interview with the author: http://dgeneratefilms.com/critical-essays/cinematalk-a-conversation-with-professor-guo-juin-hong-on-taiwan-cinema-1949-and-documentaries/A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this is the first English language book that covers its entire history. Hong revises how Taiwan cinema is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, […]
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
Long Night’s Journey into Day: Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945

March 22, 2015

Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and […]
BATTLE FOR HONG KONG 1941-1945: Hostage to Fortune

March 22, 2015

Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of liberation of Hong Kong and VJ Day, this is the authoritative account of how the British, Canadian, Indian and Chinese defenders surrendered Hong Kong to the Japanese after 18 days of intense fighting, on Christmas Day, 1941. It is thoroughly researched with exceptional access to war diaries […]
Eurasian: Mixed Identities in the United States, China, and Hong Kong, 1842-1943

March 22, 2015

In the second half of the nineteenth century, global labor migration, trade, and overseas study brought China and the United States into close contact, leading to new cross-cultural encounters that brought mixed-race families into being. Yet the stories of these families remain largely unknown. How did interracial families negotiate their identities within these societies when […]
Historical Dictionary of Taiwan Cinema (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)

March 22, 2015

Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia during the 1960s and 1970s. Though only a small island with a limited population, in its heyday, Taiwan was among the top-10 film producing countries/areas in the world, turning out hundreds […]
The Maryknoll Sisters in Hong Kong, 1921-1969: In Love with the Chinese

March 22, 2015

The Maryknoll Sisters were the first American Catholic community of women founded for overseas missionary work, and were the first American Sisters in Hong Kong. Chu argues that the mission provided Maryknollers what they had long desired–equal employment opportunities–which were only later emphasized in the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s. Sale Price:$30.47 0230602312
An Adventurous Woman Abroad: The Selected Lantern Slides of Mary T.S. Schaffer (The Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Presents)

March 22, 2015

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, travelling within North American borders or beyond to exotic locations was difficult at best and disastrous at worst. Mary Schaffer, born into a Pennsylvania-based Quaker family in 1861, not only conquered international travel but also excelled as an explorer, surveyor and photographer in the backcountry of Canadas […]
Cold War Island: Quemoy on the Front Line

March 22, 2015

During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s the small island of Quemoy in the Taiwan Strait was the front line in the military standoff between Chiang Kai-shek’s Republic of China and Mao Zedong’s People’s Republic. Local society and culture were dramatically transformed. Michael Szonyi uses oral history, official documents, and dissident writings […]
The Business Environment in Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Since its first publication in 1980, this book has become the standard introductory text describing the environment for business and investment in Hong Kong. Sale Price:$39.95 0195905660

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