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The volumes in this series set out to provide a contemporary record of the spread and development of the English language in South, Southeast, and East Asia from both a linguistic and literary perspec

The Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the fragile scholar (caizi) in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. The book is an origina

What was really happening as Hong Kong struggled with SARS? In At the Epicentre, the story of those extraordinary weeks unfolds with all its drama - personal, national and international, political, me

What was really happening as Hong Kong struggled with SARS? In At the Epicentre, the story of those extraordinary weeks unfolds with all its drama - personal, national and international, political, me

This book is about children and advertising in China, the country with the largest children population in the world. As China rapidly becomes a market-driven economy, and it's one-child-per-family pol

This book is about children and advertising in China, the country with the largest children population in the world. As China rapidly becomes a market-driven economy, and it's one-child-per-family pol

The Cultural Revolution, which occurred between 1966 and 1976, was a major unforgettable event in modern Chinese history. For more than thirty years, the prevalent view of the Cultural Revolution in t

Through the history of a charitable institution, the Tung Wah Hospital, Elizabeth Sinn reshapes and greatly deepens our understanding of the evolving interactions between the Chinese community in Hong Kong and the colonial rulers. She traces the rise to power of the Chinese merchants who organized and operated the Hospital and the complex relationships that the Hospital developed with the colonial regime, Mainland Chinese officials and the Chinese people of Hong Kong.As the first organized merchant elite recognized by the colonial government, the Tung Wah Hospital Committee played a crucial political role in nineteenth-century Hong Kong, mediating between ordinary Chinese and the colonial administration. Elizabeth Sinn’s classic and pioneering study shows the great extent to which the Hospital’s history is the history of Hong Kong itself.The author highlights the problems encountered by the Hong Kong government in managing a foreign population and the role of the Chinese local elite in

Snow in August is based on the life of Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. Packed with the myriad sights and sounds of both the Eastern and Western theatri

Snow in August is based on the life of Huineng (AD 633-713), the Sixth Patriarch of Zen Buddhism in Tang Dynasty China. Packed with the myriad sights and sounds of both the Eastern and Western theatri

The tremendous success of China's economic reform, in contrast with the vast difficulties encountered by the former Soviet Union and Eastern European countries in their transition, has attracted world

This book is a standard reference on Sonq dynasty music, and a model of meticulous scholarship. In the book Professor Pian surveys the theoretical and practical treatises on music, the historical and

This CD set contains the audio version of the main texts, readings and vocabularies of the twenty-two lessons in Chinese Language and Culture: An Intermediate Reader.

This book is a standard reference on Sonq dynasty music, and a model of meticulous scholarship. In the book Professor Pian surveys the theoretical and practical treatises on music, the historical and

This volume of essays honors William R. Schultz, a leading figure in Chinese studies and a revered teacher. For many years Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona, Schultz is an a

Teachers are usually trained only to teach but not on education management. Many of them end up in the management role because of opportunities, necessity and personal preference. Oftentimes, they hav

In the new millennium, we are confronted with rapid changes in the social welfare field, including the changing subvention mode, greater emphasis on service quality and accountability, and the rising

The Zhujiang Delta region is the natural hinterland of Hong Kong. It has experienced astonishing growth since 1978 after the introduction of economic reforms and the open policy in China. Its subseque

Building in China is about striking an architectural balance between the pull of monumental tradition and the push of technological novelty. Centering on the dynamic period of post-imperial and pre-Co

This book examines Chinese food and the culture of food consumption in East and Southeast Asia. Through the lens of food, the authors address recent theories in social science concerning cultural iden

Hong Kong is a cosmopolitan city where international communication is a fact of everyday life. Translation has thus always been essential in bridging the social and cultural gap between Chinese and We

This work is the result of a co-operation between a social anthropologist and a social historian and is focused on the social evolution of Southern China. Based on a longitudinal fieldwork study in th

How China was governed in her long historic past, and how the emperor and the court functioned has aroused considerable interest to historians and social scientists in modern times.Nobody is more qual

The British rule in Hong Kong ended in 1997 and it is now both timely and intellectually inspiring to look back at the last twenty-five years of the British rule, when Hong Kong was transformed from a

This book addresses various aspects of Macau’s population and presents the cause-and-effect relationships. The topics include the demographic characteristics of the squatter population in the 1980s, i

How do judges judge the lawyers? How well do barristers and solicitors perform in court? Before, during, and after court sessions, what can lawyers do in order to serve their clients really well?This

In Hong Kong the responsibility for building and operating hospitals was used to be shared between the Government of Hong Kong and a number of charities, including religious orders, some with traditio

Democracy literally means "rule by the people" in ancient Greek. The modern concept of democratic government sprang from ideas and institutions in medieval Europe as related to divine and natural righ

The book begins with the basics of communication and sentence structure in English, and leads the reader step by step through to the formal report writing and public speaking, with the aim of improvin

The Guangdong Development Model and Its Challenges, Hong Kong: City University Press, pp. 43-80. ... 中國社會發展 -- 香港學者的分析》 Zhongguo Shehui Fazhan: Xinggang Xuezhe de Fengxi (Social Development in China:

The MacLehose Trail is a 100-kilometer walk—starting in Sai Kung and finishing up in Tuen Mun—across some of Hong Kong's most spectacular countryside. This publication captures the spirit of the trail

A baby girl, a family of sugar workers, a disabled man, a student, a well-meaning banker, a village woman and a boy with leprosy. Nobody rich or famous. Just faces in the crowd. Yet each with a remark

This book examines the relationship between work and family in small family business in Hong Kong, based on data obtained from in-depth interviews on married couples running small retail shops. It was

Deng Xiaoping's death marked the end of an era in contemporary Chinese politics. The first generation revolutionary leaders have gone, and the third generation leaders are genuinely in power. At the s

Until recently, few case books have been written about human resources management in Hong Kong. Most previous publications in the field have drawn their material from North America and Europe. There a

This book deals with topics that bankers must know and lawyers should know. As a comprehensive guide to the laws and regulations on banking services in Hong Kong, the book examines various interesting

There are already many books on Hong Kong's future. But this volume has a distinct contribution to make by offering an analysis of the evolving political order in Hong Kong and its international role.

The aim of this volume is to integrate the most recent research in the cognitive processing of Chinese and related Asian languages (i.e. Japanese and Korean) into a single academic reference. Because

Until recently, few case books have been written about information systems management in Hong Kong. Most previous publications in the field have drawn their material from North America and Europe. The

This book is a study of the Chinese experience with racial discrimination in Montreal, Canada. It begins with the arrival of the first batch of Cantonese, in the 1850s, in Victoria, British Columbia a