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This book is a sequel to Education in Hong Kong, Pre-1841 to 1941: Fact and Opinion (Hong Kong University Press, 1990).It provides comprehensive coverage of developments in formal and informal educati

This is a fully revised and substantially expanded edition of Peter Jackson’s highly regarded pioneering study of an Asian gay culture, Male Homosexuality in Thailand (1989). The hero of Jackson’s fas

This is the first comprehensive study in English of the cultural and religious history of tea in China. The work traces the development of tea drinking from its mythical origins to the nineteenth cent

Sent alone to China by the London Missionary Society in 1807, Robert Morrison (1782--1834), was one of the earliest Protestant missionaries in East Asia. During some twenty-seven years in China and Ma

The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country's gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and ha

The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country's gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest in Southeast Asia, and indeed in the world, and ha

""In these lectures, Paul Bove mounts a persuasive and moving defense of historical humanism against the pressures of authoritarian politics and their unwitting allies in academia on both left and rig

Readings in Modern Marketing is a collection of Professor Quelch’s highly-praised scholarly articles previously published in leading business journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Managemen

Readings in Modern Marketing is a collection of Professor Quelch’s highly-praised scholarly articles previously published in leading business journals, such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Managemen

Professor Metzger's third seminal book, A Cloud Across the Pacific uncovers the basic contradictions between contemporary China's complex ideological marketplace and Western liberalism. It describes a

For customers outside our market right areas, please go to http://www.ubcpress.ca for details.In the mid-1910s, what historians call the "Golden Age of Chinese Capitalism" began, accompanied by a tech

This book explores literary representations of cultural hybridity spanning nearly half a century, a period marked by major shifts in Franco-Vietnamese relations.How can identity be thought and represe

The Canons and other later writings of the school of Mo-tzu, dating from about 300 B.C., contain nearly all that survives of the logic of ancient China, and its optics and mechanics, the only organize

This volume describes the history of the development of the Medical School of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Merchants were central to the huge growth in China’s foreign trade and contributed to the development of world markets and networks. Merchants of Canton and Macao: Success and Failure in Eighteenth-Ce

The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics, and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The essay

This landmark study of Canton and Macao merchants advances our understanding of the rise and development of international commercial networks. The eighteenth century was a transitional period in world

Around 1145 the Southern Song dynasty official Lou Shu inaugurated a genre known as pictures of tilling and weaving through the creation of a pair of paintings that depicted farming families cultivati

This study utilizes a wide range of new source materials to reconstruct the day-to-day operations of the port of Canton during the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Using a bottom

這是一本新清史的經典之作，開創了清帝國邊疆研究的先河。清帝國是中國歷史上疆域最遼闊的國家，本書聚焦於十九世紀的嘉峪關，以及嘉峪關西邊更廣袤的新征服之地─「新疆」，這塊土地佔了今日中國國土面積的六分之一。通過考察清政府在新疆實行的財政和民族政策，尤其是其對穆斯林人口最多的南疆的商業活動以及不同民族出身的商人所採取的管理和控制，作者試圖回答一個更深遠的問題，即清帝國如何向中國民族國家過渡這一歷史難題。

Over the years auditing has developed into a specialised function with complex ethical, legal and economic implications. The role of auditors in providing credibility is even more important in a socie

"The Chess Master" is a captivating tale of the dramatic transformation of the protagonist Wang Yisheng from an obsessive chess player into an enlightened chess master who understnads the Tao of life.

It is not often recognized that China was one of the few places in the early modern world where all merchants had equal access to the market. This study shows that private traders, regardless of the v

The book brings studies of modern Thai history and culture into dialogue with debates in comparative intellectual history, Asian cultural studies, and postcolonial studies. It takes Thai Studies in new directions through case studies of the cultural hybridity and ambivalences that have emerged from the manifold interactions between Siam/Thailand and the West from 1850 to the present day. Central aims of The Ambiguous Allure of the West are to critique notions of Thai "uniqueness" or "exceptionalism" and locate Thai Studies in a broader, comparative perspective by arguing that modern Siam/Thailand needs to be understood as a semicolonial society. In contrast to conservative nationalist and royalist accounts of Thai history and culture, which resist comparing the country to its once-colonized Asian neighbours, this book's contributors highlight the value of postcolonial analysis in understanding the complexly ambiguous, interstitial, liminal and hybrid character of Thai/Western cultural

Yo-Yo Ma is an internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso. This book is the compelling story of his early life from the cradle to his entering Harvard University at the age of seventeen. It is told by h

Sex and Desire in Hong Kong provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors' studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged

The anthology provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors' studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong

This book examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems and individual institutions across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments i

It provides an up-to-date account of current research trends and advances in mushroom biology and mushroom products, and highlight some of the problem areas which remain to be resolved.

Revised and Updated Edition Since its first publication in French in 1977, Chinese Poetic Writing has been considered by many to be the most innovative study of Chinese poetry ever written, as we

Lo Jung-pang argues that during each of the three periods when imperial China embarked on maritime enterprises (the Qin and Han dynasties, the Sui and early Tang dynasties, and the Song, Yuan, and ear

Before the opening of the treaty ports in the 1840s, Canton was the only Chinese port where foreign merchants were allowed to trade. The Golden Ghetto takes us into the world of one of this city's mos