"In recent years, the city many hoped would help democratize China has instead become a research setting in which to study China's increasing intolerance of dissent. Since Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China's treatment of Hong Kong could be divided into thr…
"As a broad category of identity, "transgender" has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to limit its cross-cultural scope. Howard Chiang proposes a new paradigm for doing transgender history in whic…
"Uses a cross-national comparison of three metropolitan areas - Los Angeles, New Delhi and Hong Kong - to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism"--.
Provides a review of 50 selected cases decided by the Hong Kong Town Planning Appeal Board between 1991 and 1997.
This book explores the interaction between religion and nationalism in the Chinese societies of mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Cheng-tian Kuo analyses the dominant religions, including Chinese Buddhism, Tibetan Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity, Islam, and folk religions, b…
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.
"For decades, Hong Kong has maintained precarious freedom at the edge of competing world powers. In City on the Edge, Ho-fung Hung offers a timely and engaging account of Hong Kong's development from precolonial times to the present, with particular focus on the post 1997 handov…
Introduction : revisiting the field of Chinese ecocinema / Haomin Gong -- Mapping Taiwanese ecodocumentary landscape : politics of aesthetics and environmental ethics in Taiwanese ecodocumentaries / Kuei-fen Chiu -- Nature in the city : a study of Hong Kong Independent Eco-Cinem…
by Zhang, Yingjin, Farquhar, Mary Ann
fromRoutledge contemporary China series
by Zhang, Yingjin, Farquhar, Mary Ann
fromRoutledge contemporary China series
This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period to the era of globalization. Whereas studies of stars and stardom have developed …
Openings -- Heidegger and Nietzsche -- Statues : Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1963) -- Judging Occupied Streets, Hong Kong (2014-2018) -- Representation in 'Captured' Japanese Hong Kong (1941-1945) -- Dasein of the Chrysanthemum Collaborators, Hong Kong (1941-1944) -- Fading Validity…
