הוצאת Hong Kong University Press
הספרים של הוצאת Hong Kong University Press
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Explains how the Portuguese came to the Far East and how they settled in Macao. This book presents the story of the Portuguese colony up until the refusal of the Chinese to accept its return in the mid-1970s....
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The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses, only to leave them abandoned and their children bastards. Matha Merop and her English lover are unique in this period. He, so...
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Solomon Bard's life has been an extraordinary story of a peripatetic youth, of incident and adventure, and of varied enthusiasms pursued with great energy to a very high level. Illustrated with a large number of photos, some remarkable survivals, this collection of autobiographical essays tells of D...
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East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After (Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong Studies)
מאת S. J. Chan
Hong Kong's story in the Second World War has been predominantly told as a story of the British forces and their defeat on Christmas Day 1941. But there is another story: the Chinese guerrilla forces who harassed the Japanese throughout the occupation played a crucial part in the escapes from Hong...
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University Autonomy, the State, and Social Change in China (Education China Reform and Diversity)
מאת Su-yan Pan
This book explores the role of universities in responding to ongoing changes in China, and in shaping the relations between the university and the state during periods of social change. Tsinghua University is selected as a case study to inform this important issue. By tracing the changes and continu...
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Peter Ho-sun Chan's He's a Woman, She's a Man (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series)
מאת Lisa Odham Stokes
This raucous, gender-stretching comedy follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an "ordinary" fan's noisy arrival in their lives. With great comic story development, the film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homose...
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In this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors of May Days in Hong Kong shed new light on their causes, their impact on future government policy and on Sino-British relations, and their legacy for Hong Kong society and governance, and the people o...
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Phillipine Gay Culture is a descriptive survey of popular and academic writings on and by Filipino male homosexuals, as well as a genealogy of discourses of male homosexuality and the bakla and/or gay identities that emerged in urban Philippines from the 1960s to the present. This conceptua...
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Charles Barman was a Quartermaster Sergeant in the Royal Artillery during the battle for Hong Kong in December 1941. His job was to keep the artillery supplied and so he crisscrossed Hong Kong Island during the fighting getting a broader view of what was going on than most participants. Fortunately ...
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Anglo-China: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880 (Schoes: Hong Kong Culture and History)
מאת Christopher Munn
"Anglo-China" is a study of the troubled process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong. It focuses on the reception of British rule by people in the region and on the efforts by the colonial government to build prosperity and maintain order during a time of war, scandal, and rampant crime. T...
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This tragic coming-of-age story follows three disillusioned local youths struggling to navigate Hong Kong public housing projects and late adolescence amid violent crime, gang pressure, and broken homes. Their personal friendships and family lives intersect with a mysterious fourth protagonist, a ...
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"We Shall Suffer There" is the first work that documents the experiences of Hong Kong's prisoners of war and civilian internees from their capture by the Japanese in December 1941, to liberation, rescue, and repatriation. While the prisoner-of-war main camps in Hong Kong itself have been mentioned i...
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This book describes how notions of Chinese identity, culture, and popular film genres have been reinvented and repackaged by major U.S. studios, spurring a surge in Chinese visibility in Hollywood....
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A classic tale of loyalty and bloody betrayal, John Woo's "The Killer" (1989) was centrally important to the growth of Hong Kong cinema in the 1980s and 1990s. It helped launch the international stardom of Woo and lead actor Chow Yun-fat, who plays a disllusioned hitman taking his fatal final assign...
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Following on the substantial collection of photos published in Hedda Morrison's Hong Kong and accompanied in that book by a major text in both English and Chinese, Edward Stokes has, in Hong Kong As It Was, selected the very best of Hedda Morrison's images and correspondingly shorten...
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The volumes in the series set out to provide contextualized reflections on issues that most teachers come accross. Each volume will delve into discussions that will enhance and improve teaching skills. The series covers a wide range of topics including curriculum and assessment, understanding and ma...
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