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Rehabilitation Â€“ A Life'S Work

de Harry Sinyang Fang e Lawrence Jeffery

20,28€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is the autobiography of Sir Harry Fang, a world-renowned pioneer in the development of rehabilitation medicine. It tells the story of his emergence as an expert in medical practice and the emergence of a whole new branch of that practice as well as Hong Kong's coming of age.
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Profits, Politics, And Panics - Hong Kong`S Banks And The Making Of A Miracle Economy, 1935-1985 - Hong Kong'S Banks And The Making Of A Miracle Economy, 1935-1985

de Leo Goodstadt

47,32€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Recounts the rise and fall of local Hong Kong banks, their disastrous funding of property and share 'bubbles' in the 1960s and their links to gold and drug smuggling. This book reveals details of the financial relationship with China. It reassesses the British record and highlights the struggle for autonomy from London's interference.
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Globalization And The Humanities

de David Leiwei Li

25,75€

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 <p>This is the most comprehensive collection to date on how economic globalization transforms contemporary humanistic inquiries on matters of fundamental cultural and political significance.
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Baptism - An English Translation Of Xizao

de Yang Jiang

38,63€

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 Set in a Beijing literary institute right after the revolution, this novel contains characters, which are a group of intellectuals from the old society adjusting to a new reality. It offers a love story, intrigue, back-biting, and deception, familiar circumstances of academic life.
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The Canton Trade - Life And Enterprise On The China Coast, 1700-1845 - Trade, Smuggling, And Diplomacy On The South China Coast

de Paul Van Dyke

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 New in PaperbackThis is an impressive piece of scholarship, rich in new data and filled with new insights. Its publication will prove important to scholars of late imperial China and economic history. The former will learn a revisionist perspective on the Canton system that shows how the court largely adapted to the evolving conditions in Canton in the eighteenth century. The latter will learn much about the mechanics of international trade in an era preceding European dominance. -R. Bin Wong, University of California, Los Angele
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Madmen And Other Survivors Â€“ Reading Lu Xun'S Fiction

de Jeremy Tambling

42,49€

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 Puts the short stories written between 1918 and 1926 into a context of Modernism. This book makes use of critical and cultural theory to consider these short stories in the context of not only Chinese fiction, but in terms of the art of the short story, and in relation to literary modernism.
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The Economic Integration Of Greater China - Real And Financial Linkages And The Prospects For Currency Union - Real And Financial Linkages And The Prospects For Currency Union

de Eiji Fujii, Menzie Chinn e Yin-Wong Cheung

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 Studies the economic and financial integration between China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan - a grouping referred to as Greater China. This volume offers an analysis of the state of economic integration of Greater China, which can help gauge the potential role of China on the global economy.
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New Television, Globalisation, And The East Asian Cultural Imagination

de Albert Moran, Anthony Y. H. Fung e Michael Keane

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 Challenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalization and combining cultural theory with media industry analysis, this title offers an account of the evolution of television in the post-broadcasting era, and how programming ideas are creatively franchised in East Asia. It deals with the history of the TV format trade.
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Hong Kong X 24 X 365 - A Year In The Life Of A City

de David Clarke

38,63€

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 After History with a capital 'H' visited Hong Kong for the 1997 handover, and stayed for the Asian economic slump and the great democracy demonstrations, had moved its spotlight somewhere else, the city was in an in-between phase. Featuring colour photographs, this title presents a year in the life of this city.
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King Hu'S A Touch Of Zen

de Stephen Teo

25,75€

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 "A Touch of Zen" is one of the first Chinese-language films to gain recognition in an international film festival (the Grand Prix in the 1975 Cannes Film Festival). This book offers a study of the classic martial arts film, and explores its multi-leveled dimensions and mysteries.
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Plague, Sars, And The Story Of Medicine In Hong Kong

de Hong Kong Museum Of Medical Sciences Society

32,19€

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 Published to mark the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences and the centenary of the Old Bacteriological Institute building that houses the museum. This volume covers Hong Kong's medical development in the period from 1841 to early 2005, including the history of hospitals and of medical education.
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Andrew Lau And Alan Mak'S "Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy"

de Gina Marchetti

25,75€

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 "Infernal Affairs" has received journalistic, popular and corporate notice but little vigorous critical attention. This book explores the way this example of Hong Kong's cinematic eclecticism have crossed borders as a story, a commercial product and a work of art; and has had an undeniable impact on Hong Kong cinema.
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The Shek Kip Mei Myth - Squatters, Fires And Colonial Rule In Hong Kong, 1950-1963

de Alan Smart

26,78€

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 Argues that the Government's response to Shek Kip Mei fire was grudging and incremental and that the security and stability of Hong Kong weighed as heavily, possibly more so, in the decisions than the predicament of the fire victims. This book aims to make a contrarian contribution to the postwar history of Hong Kong.
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Stanley Kwan'S "Center Stage"

de Mette Hjort

25,75€

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 "Center Stage" is widely recognized as a classic of the New Hong Kong cinema. This book argues that Kwan's film is ultimately a condemnation of the kind of authoritarian and hierarchical modes of social organization that fuel mean-spirited gossip and the scapegoating that it entails.
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City Stage - Hong Kong Playwriting In English

de Michael Ingham e Xi Xu

25,75€

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 An anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama which epitomizes the increasing interconnectedness of previously segregated facets of Hong Kong culture. It contains the complete texts of the shorter plays and strategically selected excerpts from the longer plays.
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City Stage Â€“ Hong Kong Playwriting In English

de Michael Ingham e Xi Xu

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 An anthology of recent Hong Kong English-language drama which epitomizes the increasing interconnectedness of previously segregated facets of Hong Kong culture. It contains the complete texts of the shorter plays and strategically selected excerpts from the longer plays.
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Construction Quality Management

de Raymond Aoieong, S. L. Tang, S. W. Poon e Syed Ahmed

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 Examines the various quality management systems applied to the construction industry in Hong Kong and other parts of the world. This book traces the change from quality control (QC) practice in the 1970s, to the quality assurance (QA) concept in the 1980s, and finally to the total quality management (TQM) philosophy in the 1990s.
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Education Reform And The Quest For Excellence Â€“ The Hong Kong Story

de Lokâ€“Sang Ho, Paul Morris e Yueâ€“Ping Chung

25,75€

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 Investigates critical issues in education reform and discusses possible pitfalls in the global drive to promote excellence. Offering directions for education reformers, this book sets out to be prescriptive rather than descriptive. The cases covered focus on Hong Kong, and they throw light upon the direction of education reform all over the world.
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Building A Revolution Â€“ Chinese Architecture Since 1980

de Charles Xue

38,63€

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 Presents a picture of Chinese architecture in transition, as the entire economy shifted from being planned and state-controlled to being market-led. Both celebrated and young Chinese architects are portrayed in this book, and the notable buildings in the prosperous coastal cities are also highlighted.
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Fruit Chan'S Durian Durian

de Wendy Gan

25,75€

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 Examines how Fruit Chan's "Durian Durian" sensitively portrays the unsettling seismic shifts affecting the inhabitants of both China and Hong Kong in a post-1997 context. The film is an exploration in political, spatial and affective terms. Its study will interest those concerned with post-1997 realities in Hong Kong and China.
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Introduction To Crime, Law And Justice In Hong Kong

de Danny Gittings, Harold Traver e Mark Gaylord

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 Compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures. This book includes essays that highlight common themes including technology, digital media, and adolescent audience sensibilities in many Asian horror films.
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Horror To The Extreme - Changing Boundaries In Asian Cinema - Changing Boundaries In Asian Cinema

de Jinhee Choi e Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano

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 <p>This book compares production and consumption of Asian horror cinemas in different national contexts and their multidirectional dialogues with Hollywood and neighboring Asian cultures.
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Peter Ho-Sun Chan'S "He'S A Woman, She'S A Man"

de Lisa Odham Stokes

25,75€

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 Follows the disruptions of a glamorous Hong Kong music couple's tumultuous romance by an 'ordinary' fan's noisy arrival in their lives. This film confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexuality, and the limits of male femininity.
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Asian Englishes Beyond The Canon

de Braj Kachru

27,04€

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 Providing useful reading for students and researchers of world Englishes in the Asian context, this study of the users and uses of English in Asia, its acculturation, nativization and innovative dimension of Asian creativity contextualizes a variety of theoretical, applied and ideological issues with refreshing interpretations and re-evaluations.
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