Asian Godfathers: Money and Power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, Paperback

Reducere. Hong Kong and Southeast Asia are home to five hundred million people, yet their economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests rang...

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This Element is for practitioners, policy-makers and researchers interested in the rights-culture-politics nexus in Southeast Asia. It investigates...

By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial pro...

Reducere. Wild Food Plants of the South Pacific and Southeast Asia is an introduction to the wide variety of edible food plants available on the islands of th...

Offers a look at how nature has been culturally constructed in South and Southeast Asia. This book looks at how social and natural landscapes are c...

This publication provides updates on recent developments in the bond market in Hong Kong, China and highlights developments connected to the bond m...

Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

DescriptionChinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with "Western" biomedicine. Legitimization o...

Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between th...

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The key question at the heart of this book is to what extent political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong have made progress in thei...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of Southeast Asia, then keep reading...Five captivating manuscripts in one book: History of Southea...

Reducere. How can one of the world's most free-wheeling cities transition from a vibrant global center of culture and finance into a subject of authoritarian...

Sovereignty is a foundational idea upon which regional organisation of nations is built, yet its demise has often been predicted. Regionalism, whic...

Reducere. Like the postcolonial world more generally, Southeast Asia exhibits tremendous variation in state capacity and authoritarian durability. Ordering P...

Reducere. Performing Power illuminates how colonial dominance in Indonesia was legitimized, maintained, negotiated, and contested through the everyday stagin...

This book focuses on some central questions in the continuing debate about success factors in corruption prevention and the efficacy and value of a...

Reducere. The Masters golf tournament weaves a hypnotic spell. It is the toughest ticket in sports, with black-market tickets selling for $10, 000 and more. ...

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DescriptionA penetrating look into the unrecognized and unregulated links between autocratic regimes in Central Asia and centers of power and wealt...

Publisher: Text PublishingAuthor(s): Louisa LimNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 234 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Reducere. Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receiv...

Reducere. Do you and your partner fight about sex and money?Are you sexually or financially disempowered?Do you undervalue yourself or overvalue your partner...

Admire the Tian Tan Big Buddha, feast on seafood at the Temple Street Night Market or go dolphin spotting informed by this comprehensive and depend...

Reducere. Following the success of his New York Times bestseller, CUBA, Stephen Coonts once again combines masterful storytelling with a frighteningly plausi...

Using the insurrection by the Malayan Communist Party (1948-1960) as an example, this book argues that resorting to violence sped up the decolonisa...

This textbook offers a reader-friendly overview of Hong Kong's legal system, covering both the origins in British law and the application of the Ba...

DescriptionPlanning a visit to Hong Kong and Macau? Choose the MICHELIN Guide Hong Kong Macau 2020, celebrating its tenth anniversary, for carefull...

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This is the first book to offer a detailed account of the relationship between patents and innovation in the unique political context of mainland C...

This Element examines gender in Southeast Asia by focusing on two main themes: hegemonic cultural constructions of gender and the way hegemonic ide...

Reducere. About the AuthorLeo F. Goodstadt is an honorary fellow of the University of Hong Kong. He was head of the Hong Kong government's Central Policy Uni...

Lauren Steimer examines how Hong Kong-influenced action movie aesthetics and stunt techniques have been taken up, imitated, and reinvented in other...

This Element conceptually disaggregates ethnicity into multiple constituent markers: language, religion, and phenotype. It focuses on the interacti...

A dive into the tumultuous protests in Hong Kong that are forming the identity of a generation

This collection of essays addresses the interplay of democratic norms and cultural identity within Asia. The overall question for the volume is how...

Reducere. The Chinese system is like no other known to man, now or in history. This book explains how the system works and where it may be moving. Drawing on...

Dan and the Hong Kong Mystery - Richard MacAndrew

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A first-of-its-kind essay anthology that showcases the brightest East and Southeast Asian voices in Britain today, on a broad range of subjects, ed...

A collection presenting cutting edge research from music, dance, performance art, fashion and visual arts, written by scholar-practitioners working...

A charming look at felines in a range of quirky and atmospheric shops in Hong Kong.Illustrations: 90 Illustrations, color