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Analyses "language-medium" of Anime and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference. Rooted in archival investigations, interviews with animators and producers in Japan as well as other Asian animation studios, and interd

A selection of interdisciplinary essays that investigates film practices and technologies, offering a timely look at the ever-shifting cities in East Asia and their portrayal in cinema. Contributors include a number of leading voices on contemporary Asian

Provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Chinese cinema, surveying the evolution of film production and consumption in mainland China as a product of shifting relations between art, politics, and commerce. Within these arenas, each of the twelve chapters t

The book turns conventional scholarship on its head by asking whether lineages, Confucian morality, and the cultural orientation of merchant families might have provided an unusual space for women's action in South China from the late Qing to the present.

This volume brings together the related disciplines of neuroscience, cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics to explain some of the complex issues in understanding the processing of the Chinese language.

This wonderful collection of poems by 160 children who took part in poetry writing workshops led by a group of Hong Kong's foremost poets shed an intriguing light on life in Hong Kong as seen by a new generation. Accompanying essays provide a source of ideas for teachers interested in exploring creative writing.

Historian Jason Wordie takes the reader on 50 tours through the urban and historic places of Hong Kong Island. Outstanding photographs by three of Hong Kong's most notable photographers help make this a book to revisit many times as a handsome contemporary record of this ever-changing city.

This visionary novel by an anonymous author has been forgotten for a hundred years. Yet when published as "The Back Door" during the negotiations between Imperial China and Great Britain over the lease of the New Territories, the story aroused serious British fears about the possibility of defending Hong Kong against attack.

This reference tool covers basic information, such as film titles and actors, as well as a variety of topics in film studies, based on monographs published in ten different languages. It is in English and Chinese.

Ashes of Time", directed by the internationally-acclaimed Wong Kar-Wai, is one of the most distinguished films made in Hong Kong. This book analyses the nature and significance of the film.

Wong Kar-wai's controversial film, "Happy Together", shows two gay Chinese men in Buenos Aires and probes masculinity, aggression, identity and homosexuality. This text examines this memorable film, placing it within the context of other films by Wong Kar-wai and other Hong Kong directors.

This volume brings together some of the best and most knowledgeable writers on consumption and cultural theory to chart the under-explored field of intra-regional cultural flows and consumption in Asia, and the importance of these in constituting contemporary Asian national identities.

Examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation building in postcolonial Malaysia and Singapore. The study examines the role of creative writing and the act of performance as actual political acts and as interventions in national self-constructions.

The Nanjing Massacre, which took place after the Japanese attacked and captured Nanjing in December 1937, shocked the world with its magnitude and atrocities. With newly uncovered eye-witness material left behind by the American and British journalists, missionaries, and diplomats, They Were In Nanjing takes the readers back in time to revisit the event and live through those horror-filled days. The first-hand accounts range from English media...

Describing the phenomena of women entrepreneurship in Hong Kong, this study addresses the characteristics of Chinese entrepreneurship and women entrepreneurs and the factors that constitute the making of Chinese women entrepreneurs in Hong Kong.

Analysing the rise of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s, this volume approaches the queer sexualities represented in Taiwanese fiction, film and public culture as dynamic formations that combine local knowledge with globalizing discourses on gay and lesbian identity.

Wong Kar-wai's controversial film, "Happy Together", shows two gay Chinese men in Buenos Aires and probes masculinity, aggression, identity and homosexuality. This text examines this memorable film, placing it within the context of other films by Wong Kar-wai and other Hong Kong directors.

Asian Diasporas' examines a wide range of cultural documents which play a role in constructing diasporic identities.

This collection offers an insight into how women thought and lived their lives during the Second World War. The narratives reveal the writer's personal struggles during the years of turmoil between the Republican and Communist eras.