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Hong Kong University Press, HKU

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  • Underground Frontby Christine Loh

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010; US$ 35.00

    Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong public's attitude towards the CCP. more...

  • The University of Hong Kongby Bernard Mellor

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 1981; US$ 38.00

    The University of Hong Kong is one of Hong Kong’s largest single community enterprises. First incorporated as a self-governing body of scholars by the University Ordinance of 1911 its first faculties were formed from the Hong Kong College of Medicine founded in 1887. The growth and development of the University to its present internationally-recognized... more...

  • A Lifetime in Academiaby Rayson Huang

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2011; US$ 40.00

    Rayson Huang began his studies at the University of Hong Kong in 1938. Thirty-four years later, in 1972, he became the University’s first Chinese Vice-Chancellor and served in that position until 1986. He sat on the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and on the Drafting Committee that formulated China’s Basic Law for Hong Kong after its return... more...

  • Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singaporeby Marjorie Topley; Jean DeBernardi

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2011; US$ 60.00

    The volume collects the published articles of Dr Marjorie Topley, who was a pioneer in the field of social anthropology in the postwar period and also the first president of the revived Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. more...

  • China's Pan-Pearl River Deltaby Anthony G. O. Yeh; Jiang Xu

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010; US$ 35.00

    The book examines and discusses issues related to Pan-Pearl River Delta cooperation and development, the largest regional cooperation attempt in China which covers one-fifth of its territory, one-third of its population, 40 per cent of its GDP, and 58 per cent of its FDI. more...

  • Colony, Nation, and Globalisationby Eddie Tay

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010; US$ 45.00

    This book explores colonial and postcolonial literatures of Singapore and Malaysia. It traces in them a history of anxiety that attends to the notion of home. The premise is that home is a physical space as well as a symbolic terrain invested with social, political and cultural meanings. more...

  • Dialogueby Lu Xiao

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010; US$ 30.00

    This is an unusual memoir of a contemporary Chinese artist who played a conspicuous role in the avant-garde cultural scene during the tumultuous early months of 1989. more...

  • Early China Coast Meteorologyby P. Kevin MacKeown

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2011; US$ 40.00

    This book provides valuable and informative insights into the controversies involving appropriate responses to the protection of life and property in any community when it comes to that ever contentious topic — the weather. more...

  • The Empress and Mrs. Congerby Grant Hayter-Menzies

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2011; US$ 35.00

    In winter 1902, in the ruins of post-Boxer Uprising Beijing, two women from two different worlds joined hands in friendship—the former concubine and legendary tyrant Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Midwest-born, devoutly Christian diplomat’s wife Sarah Pike Conger. Together, they made history. more...

  • English as a Lingua Franca in ASEANby Andy Kirkpatrick

    Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010; US$ 50.00

    The role of English as a lingua franca in Asia is increasing exponentially. This book considers the pedagogical and language policy implications of this role of English as a lingua franca throughout ASEAN. A linguistic description of this ASEAN ELF is provided along with a description of the communicative strategies of its users. more...