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Book cover of East Asian Pop Culture
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The international group of contributors of this volume provides, collectively, a multi-layered analysis of the emerging East Asian media culture, using the Korean TV drama as its analytic vehicle. By closely examining the political economy of TV industry, audiences of the regional media flows in terms...
Book cover of Europe and China
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Casting new light on Sino-European relations, this volume challenges the official rhetoric of “constructive engagement” and “strategic partnership” between Europe and China, by revealing the internal and external limitations and constraints of their interaction. The contributions illustrate...
Book cover of When True Love Came to China
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to justify its underlying assumption that all cultures mean the same thing by the word ‘love’ regardless...
Book cover of Enchanted by Lohans
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Finnish-Swedish art historian Osvald Sirén (18791966) was one of the pioneers of Chinese art scholarship in the West. This biography focuses on his four major voyages to East Asia: 1918, 192123, 192930 and 1935. This was a pivotal period in Chinese archaeology, art studies and formation of Western...
Book cover of Surviving Nirvana
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The Buddha’s nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning of Buddhism as a world religion. Surviving Nirvana is the first book in the English language to examine how this historic moment was represented and received in the visual culture of China. It is also a...
Book cover of Mu Shiying
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Shanghai’s “Literary Comet” When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of the city’s Jazz-Age nightlife. Mu’s highly original stream-of-consciousness approach to short...
Book cover of John Woo's The Killer
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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 assignment...
Book cover of Anna May Wong
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Anna May Wong was the best known Chinese American actress during Hollywood’s golden age, a free spirit and embodiment of the flapper era much like Louise Brooks. She starred in over fifty movies between 1919 and 1960, sharing the screen with such luminaries as Douglas Fairbanks Sr. and Marlene Dietrich....
Book cover of Cinema at the City's Edge
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This anthology presents a number of leading voices on contemporary Asian cinema studies, including Ackbar Abbas, Chris Berry, Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis, Dudley Andrew, Yomi Braester, Susie Jie Young Kim, Akira Mizuta Lippit, James Tweedie, Yiman Wang and Zhang Zhen. Through a range...
Book cover of China's Pan-Pearl River Delta
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Cities and regions in Asia are facing problems that cannot be adequately managed by traditional urban planning. Competition and local protectionism have often hindered infrastructural development and regional integration. In southern China, an area embracing one-fifth of China and one-third of its...
Book cover of Conditional Spaces
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Dense living conditions in Hong Kong do not provide much privacy for lesbians and other sexual minorities living with their families. As a result, lesbians often locate alternative spaces to develop support networks with other women. Others reject the notion of lesbian spaces and instead assert their...
Book cover of As Normal as Possible
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Drawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies, this volume poses new and exciting challenges to queer studies and demonstrates the study of Chinese sexuality as an emergent field currently emanating from multiple disciplines. The...
Book cover of Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Chinese-speaking popular cultures have never been so queer in this digital, globalist age. The title of this pioneering volume, Boys’ Love, Cosplay, and Androgynous Idols: Queer Fan Cultures in Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan already gives an idea of the colorful, multifaceted realms the fans...
Book cover of Globalization and America

Globalization and America

Race, Human Rights, and Inequality

by Amy E. Ansell, Cynthia Bejarano, Judith R. Blau
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2008

As globalization expands, more than goods and information are traded between the countries of the world. Hattery, Embrick, and Smith present a collection of essays that explore the ways in which issues of human rights and social inequality are shared globally. The editors focus on the United States'...
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