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Book cover of Knowledge Is Pleasure
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

‘The Sensuous Realist’ Florence Ayscough—poet, translator, Sinologist, Shanghailander, avid collector, pioneering photographer and early feminist champion of women’s rights in China. Ayscough’s modernist translations of the classical poets still command respect, her ethnographic studies...
Book cover of The Great Difference
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In 1898 Great Britain added to its colony at Hong Kong a 368-square-mile expanse of mountainous countryside and islands, leased from China for a term of 99 years, which became known as the New Territories. The colonial official, James Stewart Lockhart, after an inspection of the newly acquired extension,...
Book cover of Profits, Politics and Panics
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Between 1935 and 1985, Hong Kong’s growth seemed unstoppable. The economy flourished despite wars, revolution and Western protectionism to emerge as a world-class manufacturing exporter and an international financial centre. Yet, for bankers, these were troubled years, with bank runs, corporate...
Book cover of English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The lingua franca role of English, coupled with its status as the official language of ASEAN, has important implications for language policy and language education. These include the relationship between English, the respective national languages of ASEAN and thousands of local languages. How can...
Book cover of English in Singapore
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

English in Singapore provides an up-to-date, detailed and comprehensive investigation into the various issues surrounding the sociolinguistics of English in Singapore. Rather than attempting to cover the usual topics in an overview of a variety of English in a particular country, the essays in this...
Book cover of Reduced to a Symbolical Scale
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In July 1940, the wives and children of British families in Hong Kong, military and civilian, were compulsorily evacuated, following a plan created by the Hong Kong government in 1939. That plan focused exclusively on the process of evacuation itself, but issues concerning how the women and children...
Book cover of Computational Fluid Dynamics

Computational Fluid Dynamics

A Practical Approach

by Jiyuan Tu, Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics, Royal Institute of Technology
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018

Computational Fluid Dynamics: A Practical Approach, Third Edition, is an introduction to CFD fundamentals and commercial CFD software to solve engineering problems. The book is designed for a wide variety of engineering students new to CFD, and for practicing engineers learning CFD for the first time....
Book cover of Poseidon
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Royal Navy submarine HMS Poseidon sank in collision with a freighter during routine exercises in 1931 off the Chinese coast. Thirty of its fifty-six-man crew scrambled out of the hatches as it went down. Of the twenty-six who remained inside, eight attempted to surface using an early form of diving...
Book cover of Sex and Desire in Hong Kong
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The anthology provides an exemplary methodological model of community-based research through the authors’ studies on sexual and erotic attitudes and practices of gay men and middle-aged women in Hong Kong over the last fifteen years. This collection focuses on issues that have major scholastic contribution...
Book cover of Islam in Hong Kong
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

More than a quarter of a million Muslims live and work in Hong Kong. Among them are descendants of families who have been in the city for generations, recent immigrants from around the world, and growing numbers of migrant workers. Islam in Hong Kong explores the lives of Muslims as ethnic and religious...
Book cover of The Chinese Exotic
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Chinese Exotic examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging from Asia Pacific modernities since the late twentieth century. Through an analysis of cultural artefacts such as films, popular fiction, food and fashion cultures, the book challenges the dominant tendency in...
Book cover of Liu Xiaobo, Charter 08 and the Challenges of Political Reform in China
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

In December 2008 some 350 Chinese intellectuals published a manifesto calling for reform of the Chinese constitution and an end to one-party rule. Known as “Charter 08,” the manifesto has since been signed by more than 10,000 people. One of its authors, Liu Xiaobo, was awarded the Nobel Peace...
Book cover of Repositioning the Hong Kong Government
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The relationship between government and society in Hong Kong has become an intensely debated topic as the complexities of governance grow and the old strategies of consensus building without genuine public participation fail to satisfy. Lacking democratic credentials, the Hong Kong SAR government...
Book cover of Celebrity in China
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. While there is now a substantial body of literature on celebrity culture in Australia, Europe and the Americas, this is the first book-length exploration of celebrity in China. It examines how international norms...
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