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This book examines the extent, diffusion, and characteristics of piracy and smuggling in the Greater China Seas over the past six centuries. The chapters in this book argue that violence and clandestine trade played significant roles in the development of modern Asian societies.

Crossing Borders in East Asian Higher Education examines issues that have emerged as higher education systems across East Asia confront and adapt to the changing economic, social, and educational environments in which they now operate.

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Casts a critical eye on the internationalization of higher education. This book peels back taken-for-granted practices and beliefs, explores the gaps and silences in pedagogy and practices, and addresses the ambiguities, tensions and contradictions in internationalization.

Hong Kong Internment tells the story of the more than three thousand non-Chinese civilians: British, American, Dutch and others, who were trapped in the British colony and interned behind barbed wire in Stanley Internment Camp from 1942 to 1945. From 1970 to 1972, while researching for his MA thesis, the author interviewed twenty-three former Stanley internees.

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Chinese Art History

This book follows the development of the Communist Party and of Marxism in China from the early years, including such themes as Mao's own history, the rise and fall of Lin Biao, the battle between Mao and Zhou Enlai, the Cultural Revolution, the defeat of the Gang of Four, and Deng Xiaoping consolidation of power.

Argues that the Government's response to Shek Kip Mei fire was grudging and incremental and that the security and stability of Hong Kong weighed as heavily, possibly more so, in the decisions than the predicament of the fire victims. This book aims to make a contrarian contribution to the postwar history of Hong Kong.

This book based on valuable historical texts and photographs, describes the characteristics of Hong Kong's climate and the natural disasters that struck in the past. And it details the establishment and development of the Hong Kong Observatory and analyses society's gradual adoption of Western sciences and research attitude.

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This book aims to achieve a breakthrough in relating the development of Hong Kong politics to the future of mainland China and Taiwan, it is for students, researchers, scholars, diplomats and lay people.

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This monograph examines colonial Hong Kong from the early 1800s to 1941 as a political and cultural encounter between a declining Chinese empire and the ascendant British Empire.

Hong Kong is the epitome of the modern city and a crossroads between Eastern and Western cultures. Today the city is most famously characterized by its breathtaking skyscraper skyline, dominating its so-called "fragrant" harbour.

Explores celebrity in the People's Republic of China, examining how international norms of celebrity production interact with those operating in China. The book comprises case studies from popular culture, official culture and business celebrities, provid

At the core of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation is a fascinating paradox the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong's modern urban-industrial society. This important and popular genre, Man-Fung Yip argues, articulates the experiential qualities, the competing social subjectivities and gend...

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Fixing Inequality in Hong Kong argues that universal retirement support, minimum wage, and standard hours of work are of limited effect in alleviating inequality. Comparing Hong Kong with Singapore, Richard Wong shows that Hong Kong needs a new long-term strategy, recommending more investment in education and immigration policy reforms.