China | Asian History Books

Beatles Tapes IV: Hong Kong 1964 (Beatles)

March 22, 2015

Fresh from their release of “A Hard Day’s Night,” The Beatles answer questions from the reporters during the 1964 Hong Kong Press Conference. Sale Price:$10.95 1885959478
Hong Kong Today and Since the Handover of 1997 (China in the 21st Century)

March 22, 2015

This book explores Hong Kong today and since the People’s Republic of China (China) resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, an event frequently referred to as the “Handover”. Discussed are the prospects for democracy in Hong Kong and the 2012 election reforms; the political and economic climates; the civil liberties of the […]
P.O.W. in the Pacific: Memoirs of an American Doctor in World War II (Urban Life and Urban Landscape)

March 22, 2015

This is the story of William N. Donovan, a U.S. Army medical officer in the Philippines who, as a prisoner of war, faced unspeakable conditions and abuse in Japanese camps during World War II. Through his own words we learn of the brutality, starvation, and disease that he and other men endured at the hands […]
Situating Sexualities: Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture

March 22, 2015

This book is in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Sale Price:$999.11 9622096190
Strait Talk: United States-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China

March 22, 2015

Relations among the United States, Taiwan, and China challenge policymakers, international relations specialists, and a concerned public to examine their assumptions about security, sovereignty, and peace. Only a Taiwan Straits conflict could plunge Americans into war with a nuclear-armed great power. In a timely and deeply informed book, Nancy Bernkopf Tucker traces the thorny relationship […]
The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan

March 22, 2015

The political transformation of Taiwan from an authoritarian regime into a democracy is one of the great political sagas of the 20th century. Defeated on the China mainland, the Kuomintang established a new polity on Taiwan that allowed for four remarkable patterns of political development. These patterns reflect a complex political process of behavioral and […]
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 […]
City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong

March 22, 2015

Hong Kong is perched on the fault line between China and the West, a Special Administrative Region of the PRC. Leo Ou-fan Lee offers an insider’s view of Hong Kong, capturing the history and culture that make his densely packed home city so different from its generic neighbors. The search for an indigenous Hong Kong […]
Hong Kong: A Cultural History (Cityscapes)

March 22, 2015

Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia’s World Cities, taking in its stride the territory’s 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the […]
Urban Gardening: A Hong Kong Gardener’s Journal

March 22, 2015

Living in a crowded city need not mean uprooting one’s connection with the earth. City gardens are proliferating at a healthy rate, and plants can be enjoyed on a rooftop, balcony, terrace, or a simple window sill. There are, of course, special difficulties to gardening in cities: special solutions are needed to solve these problems. […]

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