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Contains essays focusing on Hong Kong's vanishing culture and sensibility. This study discusses about films, pop stars, public transportation, and politics. It is useful for the general reader resident in the city, the traveler in Asia, as well as suitable as a text for literary, cultural or social studies.

Set against the dogmas of state regimes that torture, against the misapplications of technology to the destruction of human subjectivities, and against the use of spiritual traditions to suppress human poesis, this book speaks for poetry as the highest form of human consciousness, self-making, and imaginative possibility.

Macao's Ruins of St Paul, whose correct name is the Church of Madre de Deus, is the only example of Baroque art and architecture in China. This book explores a vanished but once renowned Church, as well as the Jesuit university college of which it was part. It provides a critical appraisal of the Church and College.

Examines British writing about the East - centred on India but radiating as far as Egypt and the Pacific - in the colonial and postcolonial period. This book is suitable for those interested in the literary and cultural history of the empire and its aftermath.

Offers the biography of Tsar Teh-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher and qin master. This title tells the story of a life steeped in the refined arts faithful to the traditional way of the Chinese literati. Set in the two cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, it recounts the experiences of an individual who lived through war and displacement.

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Offers a comprehensive analysis of the policies adopted throughout the region that have led to the explosive growth of the telecommunications sector. This book reviews global best practices across a range of key issues facing the telecommunications industry.

Set against the dogmas of state regimes that torture, against the misapplications of technology to the destruction of human subjectivities, and against the use of spiritual traditions to suppress human poesis, this book speaks for poetry as the highest form of human consciousness, self-making, and imaginative possibility.

Argues that Hong Kong should strengthen the mobility of its population. This book shows that a porous border in fact has been maintained in the post-war years.

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Examines various topics and contexts of travel writings on China, Japan and South East Asia. This book offers a kaleidoscopic glimpse of the various cultures in the eyes of their beholders coupled with understanding of the various politics and relationships that are involved. It is also useful to scholars and students of Asian studies.

Examines the discourses of Cultural China from a globalization perspective, and thereby attempts to understand contemporary Cultural China. This book also analyses how the interpretation of China is connected with the country's past and how the discourses are reconstructed with other cultures in the age of accelerated globalization.