Hong Kong Cantopop

Yiu-Wai Chu

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Cantopop was once the leading pop genre of pan-Chinese popular music around the world. In this pioneering study of Cantopop in English, Yiu-Wai Chu shows how the rise of Cantopop is related to the

Ultra-Modernism

Edward Denison

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The first half of the twentieth century was fraught with global tensions and political machinations. However, for all the destruction in that period, these geopolitical conditions in Manchuria

English Exposed

Steve Hart

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Having analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers, Steve Hart has written an essential, practical gui

Lao She in London

Anne Witchard

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'London is blacker than lacquer'. Lao She remains revered as one of China great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four

Merchants of Canton and Macao

Paul A. Van Dyke

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This landmark study of Canton and Macao merchants advances our understanding of the rise and development of international commercial networks. The eighteenth century was a transitional period in wo

China

John Lagerwey

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Over the last forty years, our vision of Chinese culture and history has been transformed by the discovery of the role of religion in Chinese state-making and in local society. The Daoist religion,

Chinese Ecocinema

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Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting's An Autumn's Tale

Staci Ford

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"This monograph is a meticulous, in-depth study of an important film by a leading woman director of the Hong Kong New Wave. It is rich in historical contextualization and astute in critical engagem

The Story of a Stele

Michael Keevak

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Western readers have yet to come to terms with the fact that during much of our history very little was ever "known" about China. There was never any lack of information from missionaries and trave

Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (The New Hong Kong Cinema Series)

Mette Hjort

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Center Stage is widely recognized as a classic of the New Hong Kong cinema, with its fascinating reconstruction of Ruan Lingyu's tragic life as a Chinese film star combined with sequences documenti

Fruit Chan's Durian Durian

Wendy Gan

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Wendy Gan is an Assistant Professor in the English department of the University of Hong Kong where she divides her research time between her avid interest in Hong Kong film and British women's

Being Eurasian

Vicky Lee

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What was it like being a Eurasian in colonial Hong Kong? How is the notion of Eurasianness remembered in some Hong Kong memoirs? Being Eurasian is a description and analysis of the lives of three f

Cross-Dressing in Chinese Opera

Siu Leung Li

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The enchantment of the figure of the "male dan"--female impersonator--remains a residual element in the cultural imagination of many contemporary Chinese societies. To discuss "mistaken identity" a

Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time

Wimal Dissanayake

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Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renow

Sound and Symbol in Chinese

Bernhard Karlgren

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Chinese Ideas About Nature and Society

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Chinese-English Contrastive Grammar

David C. S. Li

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The main objective of Chinese-English Contrastive Grammar: An Introduction is to familiarize the reader with a subset of the learning difficulties and common errors in ESL/EFL pronunciation and lex

Queer TV China

Jamie Zhao

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Since the 2010s, Chinese television has seen an explosion in popularity in dramas featuring same-sex intimacies, LGBTQIA-identified celebrities, and explicitly homoerotic storylines, even as state