Resultaten gefilterd op "Hong Kong University Press"

Tuberculosis Control and Institutional Change in Shanghai, 1911-2011

Rachel S Core

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume is the first book-length monograph on the most widespread and deadly infectious disease in China, both historically and today: tuberculosi... Lees meer

Queer Bangkok

Peter Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Thai capital Bangkok is the unrivalled centre of the country's gay, lesbian, and transgender communities. These communities are among the largest ... Lees meer

Obsession

Wenqing Kang

• Paperback | Engels | Queer Asia
• This is the most serious study to date on the topic of male same-sex relations in China during the early twentieth century, illuminating male same-sex... Lees meer

Understanding Chinese Company Law

Minkang Gu

• Paperback | Engels | Law
• In this new edition, besides offering a systemic discussion of the nature of companies, the constitution of companies, the establishment of various co... Lees meer

Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China

• Hardcover | Engels
• In December 2008 some 350 Chinese intellectuals published a manifesto calling for reform of the Chinese constitution and an end to one-party rule. Kno... Lees meer

Japanese Cinema Goes Global

Yoshiharu Tezuka

• Hardcover | Engels
• Japan's film industry has gone through dramatic changes in recent decades, as international consumer forces and transnational talent have brought unpr... Lees meer

Kunqu

Joseph S C Lam

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China , Joseph S. C. Lam offers a holistic and interdisciplinary view on kunqu, a 600-year-old gen... Lees meer

The First British Trade Expedition to China

Nicholas D Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels
• In The First British Trade Expedition to China , Nicholas D. Jackson explores the pioneering British trade expedition to China launched in the late Mi... Lees meer

Floating on a Malayan Breeze

Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

• Paperback | Engels
• What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along ... Lees meer

Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History

• Hardcover | Engels
• An extensive history of Chinese dialects. Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History presents cutting-edge research into issues regarding prestige ... Lees meer

Independent Language Learning

Bruce Morrisons

• Hardcover | Engels
• Independent learning is not a new concept for language educators but while teachers, curriculum designers and policy makers have embraced it as underp... Lees meer

Ways to Urbanisation

Pui-Yin Ho

• Paperback | Engels
• This book focuses on a crucial internal problem Hong Kong's post-war road development from 1946 to present. Lees meer

A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng

Ann L Silverberg

• Hardcover | Engels
• A Contemporary History of the Chinese Zheng traces the twentieth- and twenty-first-century development of an important Chinese musical instrument in g... Lees meer

Picturing Cathay

Hong Kong University Museum and Art Gallery

• Paperback | Engels
• Features China trade paintings and export art works dating from the late 18th and 19th centuries. It focuses on the importance of maritime trade in en... Lees meer

Political Development in Hong Kong

Ma Ngok, Ngok Ma

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book reviews the political development of Hong Kong before and after 1997, in particular the evolution of state-society relations in the last two... Lees meer

English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN

Andy Kirkpatrick

• Hardcover | Engels
• The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy and langu... Lees meer

Celebrity in China

Louise Edwards, Elaine Jeffreys

• Paperback | Engels
• Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. While there is now a substantial body of literature on celeb... Lees meer

Universities in Translation

Brett de Bary

• Paperback | Engels | Traces: A Multilingual Series of Cultural Theory and Translation
• In the world of English-language academic publishing, the future of the university has increasingly attracted the attention of critical theorists in t... Lees meer

Wild Flowers of South China and Hong Kong, Part 1

B M Walden, S Y Hu

• Paperback | Engels
• The distinguished botanist S. Y. Hu and watercolorist B. M. Walden present in this book beautiful and accurate illustrations of the commoner flowers o... Lees meer

Rosie Young

Moira M W Chan-Yeung

• Hardcover | Engels
• Chronicles the life of a professor who dedicated her career to improving medical education and healthcare in Hong Kong. In Rosie Young: A Lifetime of ... Lees meer

China and Capitalism

David Faure

• Hardcover | Engels | Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture
• This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It poses poignant questions in simple langu... Lees meer

China in Revolution

Heung Shing Liu

• Hardcover | Engels
• The 1911 Revolution ended dynastic rule in China and paved the way for the founding of Asia's first republic. Triggered by an accidental bomb explosio... Lees meer

Queer Politics and Sexual Modernity in Taiwan

Hans Tao-Ming, Hans Huang

• Hardcover | Engels | Queer Asia
• This book delineates the history and politics of gender and sexuality since postwar Taiwan. Tracking the interface between queerness and national cult... Lees meer

The Dragon and the Crown

S K Stanley Kwan, Nicole Kwan

• Hardcover | Engels | Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies
• The Dragon and the Crown is the unforgettable memoirs of Stanley Kwan, the creator of the Hang Seng Index. Wedged between the East and the West--the D... Lees meer