University: 748 books

Book cover of Eileen Chang
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Eileen Chang (19201995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the most popular writers in 1940s Shanghai, but her insistence on writing about individual human relationships and mundane matters rather than revolutionary and political movements meant that...
Book cover of Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Infernal Affairs has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous critical attention. In this book, Gina Marchetti explores the way this example of Hong Kong’s cinematic eclecticism has crossed borders as a story, a commercial product and a work of art; and has had an...
Book cover of John Woo's A Better Tomorrow
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

A Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describes the different responses to the movie in Hong Kong and later in its reception worldwide, which paved the way for the promotion of John Woo and Chow Yun-fat to their current prominence in Hollywood. Fang...
Book cover of No Man an Island
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This pioneering study of Hou Hsiao-hsien illuminates the many distinctive achievements of Taiwan’s famous director. His body of work in films such as The Puppetmaster, City of Sadness, and Flowers of Shanghai reflects a powerfully unique style characterized by intricate lighting, improvisational...
Book cover of Postcolonialism, Diaspora, and Alternative Histories
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of the cinema of Evans Chan, a New Yorkbased playwright, author, and filmmaker whose acclaimed films include To Liv(e), The Map of Sex and Love, and Datong. In this collection of essays on Chan’s documentary and feature films seven experts on cultural...
Book cover of Fruit Chan's Made in Hong Kong
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

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...
Book cover of Collaborative Colonial Power
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Law Wing Sang provides an alternative lens for looking into Hong Kong’s history by breaking away for the usual colonial and nationalist interpretations. Drawing on both English and Chinese sources, he argues that, from the early colonial era, colonial power has been extensively shared between colonizers...
Book cover of The Antipodean Philosopher

The Antipodean Philosopher

Public Lectures on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand

by Graham Oppy, John Bigelow, Raymond D. Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2011

Philosophy in both Australia and New Zealand has been has been experiencing, for some time now, something of a 'golden age', exercising an influence in the global arena that is disproportionate to the population of the two countries. To capture the distinctive and internationally recognised contributions...
Book cover of Structure, Audience and Soft Power in East Asian Pop Culture
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

East Asian pop culture can be seen as an integrated cultural economy emerging from the rise of Japanese and Korean pop culture as an influential force in the distribution and reception networks of Chinese language pop culture embedded in the ethnic Chinese diaspora. Taking Singapore as a locus of...
Book cover of The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement is a groundbreaking project unveiling recent documentary film work that has transformed visual culture in China, and brought new immediacy along with a broader base of participation to Chinese media. As a foundational text, this volume provides a much-needed...
Book cover of Art, Politics, and Commerce in Chinese Cinema
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Art, politics, and commerce are intertwined everywhere, but in China the interplay is explicit, intimate, and elemental, and nowhere more so than in the film industry. Understanding this interplay in the era of market reform and globalization is essential to understanding mainland Chinese cinema....
Book cover of The Contemporary Congress
by Wendy J. Schiller, Professor, Brown University
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018

In an era of heightened partisanship and increased polarization, The Contemporary Congress offers a clear and concise introduction to legislative processes. Perfect as a brief core or supplementary text for undergraduate courses, Loomis and Schiller construct a comprehensive portrait of the U.S. Congress,...
Book cover of Hong Kong's Watershed
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Hong Kong’s Watershed: The 1967 Riots is the first English book that provides an account and critical analysis of the disturbances based on declassified files from the British government and recollection by key players during the events. The interviews with the participants, including Jack Cater,...
Book cover of Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students
by Howard D. Curtis, Ph.D., Purdue University
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013

Written by Howard Curtis, Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Embry-Riddle University, Orbital Mechanics for Engineering Students is a crucial text for students of aerospace engineering. Now in its 3e, the book has been brought up-to-date with new topics, key terms, homework exercises, and fully...
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