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Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West (East Gate Books)

March 22, 2015

For centuries the island of Taiwan, 100 miles off the Asian mainland, has been a crossroads for traders and settlers, pirates and military schemers from around the world. Unlike China, with its long tradition of keeping foreigners out, Taiwan has a long history of interaction, both hostile and friendly, with other seafaring nations near and […]
Assessing the Threat: The Chinese Military and Taiwan’s Security (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

March 22, 2015

Since at least the early 1950s, the entire Asia-Pacific region has struggled with the complicated and complex relationship between China and Taiwan —today the Taiwan question is considered a potential flashpoint for a much larger international conflict. Bringing together experts from the United States and Taiwan, Assessing the Threat provides a comprehensive look at the […]
Language Choice and Identity Politics in Taiwan

March 22, 2015

Jennifer M. Wei argues that construction and perceptions of language and identity parallel socio-political transformations, and that language and identity crises arise during power transitions. Under these premises, language and identity are never well-defined or well-bounded. Instead, they are best viewed as political symbols subject to manipulation and exploitation during socio-historical upheavals. A choice of […]
A Business in Risk: Jardine Matheson and the Hong Kong Trading Industry

March 22, 2015

Jardine Matheson & Company is perhaps best known through James Clavell’s Taipan. The firm played an important role in the founding of Hong Kong, but its growth in the 20th century, through acquisition and divestiture, has never been adequately explored until now. This is not only the first study of Jardine Matheson to systematically uncover […]
The Dragon and the Crown: Hong Kong Memoirs (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies)

March 22, 2015

While Hong Kong’s spectacular economic growth and political development have been well documented, the social and cultural lives of the ordinary people swept up in the changes have not found a significant voice. Through the personal experiences of Stanley Kwan and those around him, this book gives such a voice to people whose lives have […]
Water Margin: Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea

March 22, 2015

Water Margin: Hong Kong’s Link to the Sea is an enchanting exploration of the human and natural geography of Hong Kong’s coastline and waters. The volume opens with Hong Kong’s early history as a wild coastal frontier ( haijiang) of imperial China and follows the social and cultural development of its maritime border zone. During […]
A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895 (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

March 22, 2015

In an absorbing account of a frontier family’s rise to local eminence, from pioneer hardship to gentry affluence, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China. The narrative centers on a half dozen major figures whose fame or infamy shaped family fortunes and is interwoven with an […]
Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City (Asia’s Transformations/Asia’s Great Cities)

March 22, 2015

Hong Kong is a small city with a big reputation. As mainland China has become an ‘economic powerhouse’ Hong Kong has taken a route of development of its own, flourishing as an entrepot and a centre of commerce and finance for Chinese business, then as an industrial city and subsequently a regional and international financial […]
Hong Kong, China: Learning to belong to a nation (Routledge Contemporary China Series)

March 22, 2015

The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to “belong to a nation” is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong […]
The Chinese: A Study of a Hong Kong Community. Volumes 1,2,3

March 22, 2015

1st edition, 1st printing HCDJ, 3 volumes in slipcase. Books are FINE/FINE/FINE; DJs are spine-faded, vol. 1’s has three tiny closed edge tears and is price-clipped, the other two are otherwise FINE; slipcase very lightly rubbed. 361 Sale Price:$67.48 0816504180

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